*CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID
Lockdown Orders*
/Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location
data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for
many non-COVID-19 purposes, too./
by Joseph Cox
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to
location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United
States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of
people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness
of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC documents obtained by
Motherboard. The documents also show that although the CDC used COVID-19
as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use
it for more-general CDC purposes.
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continua qui:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vymn/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews
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