CDC tracked 20+ million US phones to monitor COVID lockdown compliance

Many people suspected the NSA would spy on Americans but who would have guessed we needed to fear the CDC’s collection of metadata? CDC tracked 20+ million US phones to monitor COVID lockdown compliance says new report | American Military News https://t.co/m11O6eUyCY

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American Military News reports, “The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased access to a vast trove of data collected from the phones of millions of Americans, to monitor overall compliance with COVID-19 lockdown orders throughout the country.

VICE first reported on the CDC’s actions after obtaining internal agency documents through a freedom of information act (FOIA) request. The CDC documents state the database is ‘derived from at least 20 million active cellphone users per day across the United States’ to provide a geographically representative sample to study lockdown compliance.”

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