CDC spent taxpayer dollars to buy cellphone location data to track Americans during COVID pandemic
- by: Chris Enloe
- 2022-05-04
- Source:
The Blaze
- 05/05/2022
Colorful double exposure of US Coronavirus COVID-19 cases (March 18, 2020). by Brian McGowan is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
Shocking documents reveal the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention purchased cellphone data on millions of Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure they were complying with pandemic-related restrictions.
What are the details?
Motherboard, a technology news website, reported Tuesday that CDC documents show the agency spent $420,000 last year to purchase cellphone location data harvested from tens of million of Americans.
The news website obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Source:
The Blaze
Colorful double exposure of US Coronavirus COVID-19 cases (March 18, 2020). by Brian McGowan is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
