Vice’s Motherboard obtained these documents, revealing the purchased data was aggregated – data designed to monitor trends formed amongst communities. Motherboard said, ‘SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data to, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence among its investors. Google banned the company from the Play Store in June.’
The documents dated from 2021 were used to surveil curfew compliance, which have “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 seems to have purposefully created an open-ended list of use cases, which included monitoring curfews, neighbor to neighbor visits, visits to churches, schools and pharmacies, and also a variety of analysis with this data specifically focused on ‘violence.’
Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher, told Motherboard. (The document doesn’t stop at churches; it mentions “places of worship.”)
The documents also tracked and databased 21 different things, including:
- “Track patterns of those visiting K-12 schools by the school and compare to 2019; compare with epi metrics [Environmental Performance Index] if possible.”
- “Examination of the correlation of mobility patterns data and rise in COVID-19 cases […] Movement restrictions (Border closures, inter-regional and nigh curfews) to show compliance.”
- “Examination of the effectiveness of public policy on [the] Navajo Nation.”
CDC also plans to use mobility data and services acquired through this acquisition to support non-COVID-19 programmatic areas and public health priorities across the agency, including but not limited to travel to parks and greenspaces, physical activity and mode of travel, and population migration before, during, and after natural disasters. The mobility data obtained under this contract will be available for CDC agency-wide use and will support numerous CDC priorities.
The document reads
Moreover, the documents reveal that the CDC purchased “U.S. Core Place Data,” “Weekly Patterns Data,” and “Neighborhood Patterns Data. The last category includes data concerning specific times and locations where people congregating,
CDC has interest in continued access to this mobility data as the country opens back up. This data is used by several teams/groups in the response and have been resulting in deeper insights into the pandemic as it pertains to human behavior.
Another part of the document reads
Motherboard also noted in their report, ‘Against that inflamed backdrop, the use of cell phone location data for such a wide variety of tracking measures, even if effective for becoming better informed on the pandemic’s spread or for informing policy, is likely to be controversial. It’s also likely to give anti-vaccine groups a real-world data point on which to pin their darkest warnings.’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[12]The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
[13]The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.Proverbs 12:12-13
This has caused a ruckus amongst many, as mainstream and alternative media were quick to report on it. But this is being treated like some “smoking gun.”
Folks, as much as I hate all the draconiansim and Big Brother, the governments/militaries, big tech, etc.; have access to insane amounts of our personal information without our consent: and there is nothing we can do about it.
The media is only letting us in on small fractions of what they have been doing for quite some time. Don’t fret over this.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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all this, aims at human control
Psalm 143:9
Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
1. No cellphone (check)
2. No lost friends to hang out with (check)
3. No social media profile (check)
4. No credit card trail (check)
5. No doctor’s regular check ups (check)
6. No debt (check)
7. No online footprints (x)
We do what we can, but in this day and age, no one can completely disappear, only when the Lord hides us from our enemies.