CDC Tracked Cell Phones During COVID
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CDC Tracked Cell Phone Locations
New documents, obtained by Vice Motherboard through a Freedom of Information Act request and published May 3, 2022, show that the CDC bought access to location data from millions of U.S. phones to track curfew compliance, visits to pharmacies in a "vaccine distribution plan," and mobility patterns involving schools, "places of worship," and more.
CDC Potential Use Cases for Data
The CDC paid $420,000 to controversial data broker, SafeGraph, to monitor location-tracking on tens of millions of U.S. phones during the pandemic. For a full list of their goals, see original reporting by Vice or download the "CDC Potential Use Cases for Data" screenshot (obtained via Vice's FOIA request; also linked below).
✏️ References
Cox, J. (3 May 2022). "CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed COVID lockdown orders." VICE.
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