CDC Tracked Phones of Navajo Nation To Monitor Compliance To Covid Lockdowns

The CDC spied on everyone even including the Navajo Nation.

New documents have revealed that the CDC tracked millions of people’s phones to see if Americans obeyed lockdown orders.

How did they do it?

Well they bought data from Apps and in doing so they were able to locate people’s geolocation.

Jornalist Jack Posobiec had more details on the story:

BREAKING: CDC caught tracking the phones of the Navajo Nation to monitor their compliance with lockdownspic.twitter.com/u6b5f0CCJ6

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 5, 2022

Vice had this to share:

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.

Location data is information on a device’s location sourced from the phone, which can then show where a person lives, works, and where they went. The sort of data the CDC bought was aggregated—meaning it was designed to follow trends that emerge from the movements of groups of people—but researchers have repeatedly raised concerns with how location data can be deanonymized and used to track specific people.

The documents reveal the expansive plan the CDC had last year to use location data from a highly controversial data broker. SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence among its investors. Google banned the company from the Play Store in June.

REPORT: CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.. -Vice

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) May 4, 2022

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

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 3, 2022

American Military News chipped in too:

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.

According to VICE, the documents specifically show the CDC used the data to monitor curfew compliance. A 2021 document states the data “has been critical for ongoing response efforts, such as hourly monitoring of activity in curfew zones or detailed counts of visits to participating pharmacies for vaccine monitoring.”

The CDC reportedly purchased the commercially available data from a company called SafeGraph. The company gave the CDC access to one year of data for $420,000.