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So the CDC got hold of our phone data to spy on our whereabouts during COVID lockdowns?
American Thinker ^ | 20 Mar, 2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 03/21/2023 5:17:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Big Brother is closer than you think.

According to this disturbing report in the Epoch Times:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms.

The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users.

The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC “with the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions related to evaluating the impact of visits to key points of interest, stay at home orders, closures, re-openings and other public heath communications related to mask mandate, and other merging research areas on community transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” the contracts, obtained by The Epoch Times, state.

The CDC said it would be using the tracking data to “assess home-by-hour behaviors (i.e. curfew analysis) by exploring the percentage of mobile devices at home during specific period of time.” The data could also be integrated with other information “to provide a comprehensive picture of movement/travel of persons during the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand mandatory stay-at-home orders, business closure, school re-openings, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in states and cities.”

Ah, that vague purpose once again, but nothing malign.

We've seen this picture show before, in all the blather about the objective and claimed free-speech-guarding intentions of the Disinformation Governance Board, the FBI censorship recommendations to Twitter, the teachers' unions commanding the CDC what to "think" on school openings, the demonization of parents at school board meetings, the Obama-era "nudge" activity for our own good, the IRS obstruction of tea party groups, the Obama-era "unmaskings" of Americans in intelligence reports, and in all the COVID origin denials.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: behavior; cdc; covid; covid19; lockdowns; orwell; privacy; spy; spying; surveillance

1 posted on 03/21/2023 5:17:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

But 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.


2 posted on 03/21/2023 5:17:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Sounds like the biden crime family learned well from their owners.


3 posted on 03/21/2023 5:18:39 AM PDT by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: MtnClimber

Why I left my phone at home during the lockdown.

I still do most of the time.


4 posted on 03/21/2023 5:20:32 AM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: MtnClimber

So the CDC bought the very same data that the leftists said could not have possibly worked as depicted in “2000 Mules.”

I didn’t watch “2000 Mules,” but it sure died a quick death.


5 posted on 03/21/2023 5:22:09 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The government's lying liars love to lie)
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To: MtnClimber
Even if the CDC’s intentions were nefarious, there was nothing wrong with the CDC’s methods.

The dirty little secret here is that you don’t own your mobile phone location data, and the government doesn’t even need a warrant to get it.

Wireless phone service providers own this data, and they make money by selling it. You can look it up. It’s in the fine print of your phone contract.

6 posted on 03/21/2023 5:34:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: MtnClimber

Very Chinese commie-like.

The Republic is long gone. Now the leftists are tightening the noose on basic freedoms.


7 posted on 03/21/2023 5:41:58 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Alberta's Child

I am well aware that a cell phone position data belongs to the cell service provider. Most people are not aware that cell phones are in regular communication with cell towers over a “Control Channel”. This is how the cell network knows which cell tower to route to when there is a call to your phone. As you move with your phone, the phone gets handed to new cell towers when needed. Your cell phone information communicated to the cell tower on the control channel included the GPS location of the phone. Many people think that the cell system only knows your location when you make a phone call, but that is not true. The cell system is receiving your GPS location on the Control Channel often enough that it can be considered to be constantly tracking the location. And you are right that the location history is available for purchase by advertisers or by the government.


8 posted on 03/21/2023 5:52:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

bttt


9 posted on 03/21/2023 5:55:20 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peazceful slaveo in a\ new Socialist America)
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To: MtnClimber

Shocked,
SHOCKED I Tell You !


10 posted on 03/21/2023 6:04:20 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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Trick is on them- I don’t own a cell phone lol.


11 posted on 03/21/2023 6:10:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber
Less than 1 cent per phone number. What a deal!
12 posted on 03/21/2023 6:15:09 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is exactly why I got a Faraday bag and/or left my phone at home when I went about my business during the “lockdowns.”


13 posted on 03/21/2023 6:16:26 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: MtnClimber

Why I don’t have one. Well, there’s a simple Tracfone in the car for emergencies. In a Faraday pouch. But a GPS-enabled smartphone? Nope!


14 posted on 03/21/2023 6:37:56 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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We are still under emergency Covid Martial Law.


15 posted on 03/21/2023 6:42:20 AM PDT by bray (Order at TheRepublicofTexas.store)
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To: MtnClimber

THEY Want You...
They gonna Get Ya!


16 posted on 03/21/2023 7:04:39 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: MtnClimber

Phone Cops.


17 posted on 03/21/2023 7:05:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

And with 5G it tracks in 3D and within decimeters, even without the GPS component.


18 posted on 03/21/2023 8:27:49 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: occamrzr06
Why I left my phone at home during the lockdown.

I do the same unless I am traveling. I bought a new iPhone about a year ago to replace a flakey 4 year old iPhone that wasn't worth getting fixed. I was able to resurrect the old phone with a $10 wireless charger. The old phone works great for a golfing app as long as I enable location services and launch the course before I leave the house...

19 posted on 03/21/2023 9:05:22 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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