Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, arrive to participate in the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Disclosed documents show the agency tracked Americans using an easily de-anonymized data broker
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bought access to tens of millions of Americans’ cell phone location data under the guise of tracking compliance with Covid-19 control measures, but ultimately used the information to conduct much more complex and sweeping surveillance, according to documents obtained through a FOIA request by Motherboard, which published its findings on Tuesday.
Documents show that while the agency used the looming specter of the Covid-19 pandemic to justify rapidly acquiring comprehensive cell phone location data on tens of millions of people, the information was ultimately used for much more than simply monitoring compliance with curfews and social distancing measures. Americans’ visits to schools and places of worship were measured on a granular level, while another program focused on surveilling the effectiveness of policy interventions inside the Navajo nation and another concentrated on “exposure to certain building types, urban areas and violence.”
While the CDC’s data was aggregated – apparently aimed at tracking larger trends among populations – studies have repeatedly shown that such supposedly anonymous information can be de-anonymized to the point of pinpointing individuals. Worse, the company the CDC used to obtain its data, SafeGraph, is backed by Peter Thiel, whose company Palantir was deeply involved in the UK’s own ultra-intrusive Covid-19 tracking efforts.
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