'A Terrifying Precedent': Calvary Chapel Sues CA County for Tracking Attendance of Churchgoers (Geofencing)

CBN ^ | 24 Aug 23 | Steve Warren

[xzins]

***In the lawsuit, Calvary alleges, "This type of expansive geofencing operation is not only an invasion of privacy but represents a terrifying precedent if allowed to go unaddressed. As it stands, Defendants assert that, as long as they call it research, any level of government can target and spy on any individual or group at any time for any duration. The government can then wield any collected data against said individuals or groups who oppose their orders."***

[Lurker]

The time for lawsuits is just about over.

L

[I want the USA back]

The left has scheduled Christians for elimination. This is one step on the way.

[Made In The USA]

Orwell…

[uranium penguin]

there is NO religous freedom.
there is NO freedom of speach
There is NO Right to assemble.

If the Gov says so.. or ‘Cuz Covid.

You can have these “rights” when and for as long as we say it’s ok. Then you just can’t.

[gitmo]

I keep my phone on a VPN. It looks like I’m on the other side of the country.

[L,TOWM]

When another 100MM of us agree with you and me, we might have something...

[xzins]

It makes an end-time persecution scenario plausible and foreseeable. Not that we hadn’t already been warned by Jesus, John, and the other prophets.

[jettester]

Cell phones are the new “pacifiers” for the masses...

[xzins]

How does a VPN work? Cost?

[xzins]

Thoughtful post.

[Fish Speaker]

Don’t take your cell phones to church?

[Grampa Dave]

Last April, a county judge ordered the church to pay $1.2 million in fines for the period from November 2020 to June 2021 when the church was not following the county’s mask policy, according to Mercury News.

Makes one wonder how many other California Churches & across America got fined with this B$/Totally non scientific B$?

[xzins]

I’m guessing a lot. Only large churches are able to handle the legal expense, so churches like ours met in an alternative location.

[uranium penguin]

“Don’t take your cell phones to church?”

Yes..

But, missing the point.

If they don’t do this the “easy” way. They will just station somebody to sit out side, take pics of every person going in/ coming. ID them through facial recognition.

Or possibly send in uniformed LEOs to break up a “banned” event.

And then, fine/ penalize the churches, church goers etc.

Either way, The RIGHTs to Worship, Speak and Assemble are being limited, infringed, curtailed, intimidated by the STATE.

Any RIGHT that you need to get permission for is NOT a RIGHT.

[xzins]

Most in our church turn them off or leave them in the cars so they’re not a distraction.

[gitmo]

VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network”. It’s often described as a tunnel that your data flows through. What it really does is it encrypts your information and omits anything in the encrypted packages that identifies your IP address. That way, if anyone somehow decrypted the data, they still wouldn’t know where it came from. The VPN provider knows who you are, but it’s not in the data flowing out.

Your data flows through a server somewhere (mine is in Bolivia) and then goes to the destination you sent it. So the FR server thinks this information is coming from Bolivia.

Prices range from $75 to $150 a year. ExpressVPN is about $100 a year.

Note: if you turn on location services on your phone, then your location is transmitted outside the VPN.

[Fai Mao]

The geographer would also pr9bably track the GPS in the car.

[xzins]

New stuff to me. Is it bought from alternative companies, or would Verizon or some other regular carrier sell it?