The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy people’s data from third party companies – SafeGraph and Cuebiq – who are in the business of tracking physical locations.
The CDC did this in a bid to check how citizens were complying with lockdown and other Covid restrictions, reports The Epoch Times, which has had access to the contracts between the parties.
One of these companies received $420,000, while the other deal was worth $208,000. The CDC was allowed to buy this data thanks to emergency rules enacted because of the pandemic.
The CDC purchased private location data on over 55 million Americans to monitor lockdown compliance
- by: Didi Rankovic
- 2023-03-17
- Source:
Reclaim the Net
- 03/20/2023
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Source:
Reclaim the Net
red white and black textile by Martin Sanchez is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
