CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
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Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#2See the issue here is that this data exists at all and it’s purchasable by any group. I feel like the CDC are the least scary people buying this data. And from the looks of it they used it for medical research, which if similar in style to other medical research is bound by boards and ethics committees.
What we aren’t writing about in this article are the groups using this data Cambridge Analytica style to sway political opinion, and other less than stellar purposes.
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#3See the issue here is that this data exists at all and it’s purchasable by any group. I feel like the CDC are the least scary people buying this data. And from the looks of it they used it for medical research, which if similar in style to other medical research is bound by boards and ethics committees. What we aren’t writing about in this article are the groups using this data Cambridge Analytica style to sway polit…
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Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#4Headline feels a little misleading, they didn’t track phones per se, they bought data from one of the dozens of cellphone data-brokers that continue to operate despite legislation and congressional action/in-action.
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#5Location tracking is a huge business and honestly CDC is probably the actor we should be least concerned about in that marketplace. I think the real story is the commodification of our physical presence and the resulting surveillance capitalism models it further enables and normalizes.
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#6It would be interesting to see the breakdown of how much of the location data SafeGraph/Veraset gets is from "free" apps that commoditize developers when they integrate various advertising APIs.
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#7this only works when people take thier phones everywhere they go
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#8Google had a creepy Covid functionality that automatically downloaded without my consent to my phone.
Big tech is just chomping at the bit for the government to give them the go ahead to track everyone and enforce a 'papers please' society.
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#9Time to go back to leaving the phone at home, like when it was wired to the house
Re: CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed lockdown orders
#10I got free academic access to this dataset. The data is anonymized and aggregated to the census block level (500 people). It does not allow for the kind of tracking that the article is fear mongering about.