A particularly harrowing revelation shows that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spied on the cell phones of tens of thousands of Americans in order to enforce its COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.
They even spent taxpayers’ money on it.
COVID-19 Totalitarian Dystopia Gets Quite Real
In 2021, the CDC paid a good $420,000 to be able to use cell phone location data of millions of American citizens to track whether the public was complying, a report by Vice News revealed on Tuesday.
The CDC used the money of the American taxpayers in order to purchase from SafeGraph, a data brokerage of data harvested from the cell phones of the American population, as evidenced by documents obtained by the outlet.
The cell phone data in question was aggregated, which means it most likely didn’t track the movement of each specific cell phone user; instead, it was supposed to “show general trends.”
However, the clearly unabashedly dystopian actions of the federal health agency raise alarm, as they show the level of totalitarian control the federal government is prepared to resort to for their own benefit.
The efforts in question included “hourly activity monitoring” in curfew areas, as well as “detailed counts” of how many people visited pharmacies participating in vaccine monitoring schemes.
REPORT: CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.. -Vice
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) May 4, 2022
CDC is not interested in tracking adverse vaxx events (incl. death). CDC does want to track you using latest/greatest tech. Vice’s FOIA request uncovered the CDC paid controversial data broker SafeGraph $420k (2021) for access to Americans’ “anonymized” cell phone location data.
— Essie Kays (@KaysEssie) May 4, 2022
Vice’s FOIA request uncovered that the CDC paid controversial data broker SafeGraph $420,000 last year for access to a year of Americans’ “anonymized” cell phone location data. https://t.co/GeYFxrcwfW
— MC (@MariaCo11521461) May 4, 2022
According to Vice, the documents show that the CDC planned to use the data to analyze compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, churches, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation. https://t.co/zTx9fh0ZcT
— atasteofcreole (@atasteofcreole) May 4, 2022
CDC Got Hooked and Had Even ‘Bigger’ Plans
To make the revelation even more outrageous, cybersecurity researcher Zach Edwards, is quoted in the report as saying the documents conveyed that the Center for Disease Control “had broader ambitions” with cell phone location data.
Those weren’t limited to “pandemic response tracking.”
The analyst said the federal government “purposefully created” a long list of “open-ended” uses, such as the monitoring and tracking of visits between neighbors, visits to schools and churches, and an analysis of the respective data which was “focused on violence.”
The “shrewd” dystopian approach of the CDC began with the temporary use of free data.
In the spring of 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, SafeGraph even published a blog post, revealing the way CDC was already using its “free data” to “understand better” where COVID could spread.
By 2021, however, SafeGraph seems to have started to charge money for the cell phone data in question, and, having gotten hooked on it, the CDC has started to pay for it with taxpayer money in order to be able to spy on the very same taxpayers.
To top it all off, SafeGraph has as an investor: the ex-chief of the Saudi intelligence agency, while pro-Trump Big Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is also an investor there.
Last June, Google forbade SafeGraph from its Android app store, which shows that the company managed to collect data through codes that are embedded in other applications.
1/a few CDC Surveilling you. CDC paid data broker SafeGraph $420k for access to Americans’ “anonymized” cell phone location data. CDC used COVID-19 as reason to buy access to data, it intended to use it for more general CDC purposes.”
— Essie Kays (@KaysEssie) May 4, 2022
CDC contracted with SafeGraph, a company backed by Peter Thiel and Saudi intelligence, to track millions of people's every move. Wide range of use cases include tracking everything from "student mobility" to "exposure to violence" to the Navajo nation. https://t.co/AKG76zmrI2 pic.twitter.com/rZy7JWxOPN
— 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 (@gumby4christ) May 3, 2022
Vice can't say "the conspiracy theorists we're right," so they do this contortion where the CDC shouldn't have done this bc it inflames the crazies screaming about surveillance by giving them a "data point" that proved they were 100% right to be screaming about surveillance. pic.twitter.com/33tFgwFnft
— 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 (@gumby4christ) May 3, 2022
I am now going to a yoga class. You can find a full list of @SafeGraph investors here. 👇🏼https://t.co/587Oo4uHPR pic.twitter.com/n3QsPWyj7n
— Nandini Jammi is on vacation 🏖🍹🌴 (@nandoodles) May 3, 2022