Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location
data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for
many non-COVID-19 purposes, too.
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.
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