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CDC Used Cell Phone Data to Track Americans During Lockdowns and COVID Vaccination Campaigns

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The cell phones of tens of millions of Americans were tracked by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials, who used location data to ensure compliance with COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccination campaigns according to Vice, which was able to obtain internal documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).1

The CDC used the cell phone data to determine whether lockdown quarantine curfews and travel restrictions were complied with, to track people entering K-12 public schools, and to monitor the effectiveness of COVID response policies, particularly within the Navajo Nation.2

The cell phone data was given to the CDC by the databroker, SafeGraph, at first for no cost.  Starting in 2021, the CDC paid the company $420,000 to continue to receive cell phone data. SafeGraph is backed by billionaire and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel3 and ex-Saudi intelligence chief Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, among other investors.4

 CDC’s Cell Phone Tracking Raises Privacy Concerns

Safegraph defends its action by claiming that the data they sold to the CDC is representative of large groups of people rather than individual people, which prevents any issues with user privacy. However, after privacy concerns were raised, Google banned all of its app developers from working with SafeGraph last year.5

The location data provided to the CDC was aggregated location data designed to show movement trends among a group of people such as where they live, work and where they go. However, there is concern that the data can be used to track a specific person by deanonymizing the data.6 Supporting the concern that aggregate data could be used to track individuals, SafeGuard has said that they will no longer sell location data belonging to people who went to health clinics that provide abortion services.7

CDC’S Cell Phone Tracking Data Also Used for Non-COVID Purposes

Using the COVID pandemic as the primary reason for purchasing the data on an urgent, emergency-use basis, the CDC conceded that the data was intended to be used for other non-pandemic response purposes, as well.

The CDC said:

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 green spaces, 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.8

Cyber security researcher Zach Edwards said:

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.’… In my opinion the SafeGraph data is way beyond any safe thresholds [around anonymity].9

Internal documents obtained under FOIA revealed the CDC has at least 21 intended uses for the cellular data pertaining to COVID related matters, such as “implementation and cancelation of community mitigation measures and its impact on case and fatality rates;” analysis of bar and restaurant closing as compared to COVID cases and deaths; detecting hot spot locations; monitoring quarantine compliance; monitoring COVID and influenza vaccination rates and mask compliance; monitoring “points of interest,” such as pharmacies or vaccine distribution centers. However, the CDC apparently also wants to track cell phones for non-COVID uses, such as “research points of interest for physical activity and chronic disease prevention visits to parks, gyms or weight management businesses,” and exposure to violence in urban areas, among other uses.10

The CDC also bought cellular data from a Cubeiq on an emergency basis, reportedly because of COVID, but documents showed the federal health agency planned on using the data for non-COVID related purposes, as well.11


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34 Responses

  1. Thank you for making me aware of the problem. Can someone with extensive tech background post the available solutions?

    Can we engineer/program the cell phone in some way that will always block the location or better yet– show a different location?

    There has to be some smart young kid that can add a program to confuse the spies…..Imagine a world where everyone can use a program for privacy and can fool the agencies that are spying on us…I am sure the FBI has the technology to change the locations and the names of the people using a cell phone….If the FBI has the technology to do it, maybe someone with tech expertise can also do it for us at a price?

  2. No wonder so many people mistrust the government when we are deceived in this manner … we need trustworthy politicians instead of all the corrupt ones that are in office like President Biden and the deep state who really are running the nation !!!!!!!!!! Our country is going down because of their greed!

    1. Trustworthy politicians?!? Now there’s an oxymoron.
      Electronic voting machines can not be trusted.
      Our country is going down because of economic fascism.
      See this:
      https://mises.org/wire/rise-economic-fascism-america
      The Rise of Economic Fascism in America
      09/03/2021
      Thomas J. DiLorenzo

      Also due to things that happened in 1913:
      the Federal Reserve Act
      the 16th Amendment
      the 17th Amendment
      See this:
      https://freemansperspective.com/1913-america/
      The Blow That Killed America 100 Years Ago
      August 13, 2013
      Paul Rosenberg

      The rot goes deep, and began L-O-N-G before Biden administration OR the Obama administration.

  3. I just contacted Apple support and they do not allow the CDC to automatically track anyone. Not they I trust them implicitly, but hopefully helpful.

    1. The tracker was added to all cell phones without our knowledge. I learned about this early on and was able to take it off my families phones.

      1. It was added to an update, but I believe you have to allow tracking and/or notification; I have it toggled “off”. I could be wrong though…

        1. You don’t get the comment CAWS? A software update. That’s how. It’s called a back ground process, probably an auto update of some pre loaded application or function. The question you’re looking for is prove the data packet transmission. We may not know exactly how, but we know it’s there. Many a tech nerd has proved it. Cellular signal is a hard data type of data. It is not subjective, can be measured, having various levels of fixed states.

          I’m still waiting on Snowdens proposal of an oscilliscope item which attaches to your phone, operates independently of your phone, and can inform the phone users of every single ongoing process as well as any even minor elevations of power consumption.

          People are generally unaware of how sophisticated the technology they’re holding in their hands really is. Rather they are at first bedazzled by function, then confused by the application of functional deficiency which is imposed by the ‘insecurity industry’. Important concepts to be aware of. Here, read this. The irony is the NSA has more data than the documentary acquired, yet does nothing about it.

          https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/features/story/when-edward-snowden-gets-a-new-phone-to-protect-his-privacy-this-is-what-he-does-1834292-2021-07-29

          https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/23/16812834/edward-snowden-haven-guardian-project-laptop-phone

      2. How? It’s imbedded into the iOS system and all android devices as well. They can turn on your cameras and microphones as well even when the settings show them disabled.

    2. We’ve got the pro cellular industry trolls here, I suspect.

      Every single cell phone on the planet is constantly monitored and triangulated for an exacting position, simply for that phone to function. There are a myriad of companies whom support the cell phone industry, whom consumers are not well aware of their function name or even their presence. This is what the cell phone industry capitalizes on, consumer ignorance.

      Having reposited memory for every single action a cell phone performs in every single location it performs the action, is simply inescapable, because without that capability, there would be no cell phone technology. Ping back, CQ, do you hear me now? Handshake confirmed, packet transmission in delta two niner. And GO!

      LOL, you contacted apple support for validation of your hopeful idea you can trust these companies. You asked a low paid front line customer service representative whom could lose their job if they in any way tarnish the brand of their employer, you asked a corrupted company whom pushes privacy violating policies on a governmental level, to ask them if they were trust worthy? Why yes mam, we are, may I recommend a few additional services today?

      They sold it. You bought it.

      Troll logic fail. That’s all it takes, a logic test. Please do not feed the trolls. Screw your cell phone! As if the incredible biological hazards of all the phones and cell phone towers was not enough… Jean, I want you to buy a few extra cell phones, and hold them close at all times. The more phones you have, the safer you’ll be, and the more privacy protections you’ll enjoy.

  4. This should not surprise anyone, since the CDC sponsored the horrendous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on Black Americans.

    “You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”
    — William Wilberforce

  5. Remember, your smart phone is not really OFF when you turn it off. My level of EMF sensitivity has perceived this for years. I have known people arrested and released shortly thereafter with zero charges made, for no reason known to them. How could police have known where they were unless their cell phones were being tracked?
    Find yourself a 4G phone that is not a smart phone, and keep it off and in a metal container unless you need to make an emergency call. Get a VOIP phone for your home (and wire your internet) and save the cell phones for real problems like calling a tow truck or for a medical or crime emergency.

  6. What a bunch of nosy people. If they are going into the tracking business, why don`t they use this for the greater good, like help people when we are in trouble like a car accident, getting mugged, raped, instead of watching what we are doing.

  7. Privacy concerns? Are you nutz? That is why they sell these phones so that you will never have any privacy. They are purely spy machines. 100% of the time, even when turned off because they never fully shut down. I will be leaving my phone at home if this crappola comes around again and go where I please, when I please. The CDC can go to the devil and take the FDA and AMA with them for company.

    1. Tom, you said; “I will be leaving MY CELL PHONE at home; ”

      I have identified your primary concern.

      They sold it. You bought it.

      No one to blame but yourself.

  8. This is absolutely true, when I flew across country during Covid summer of 2020, I received recorded calls on my cell phone with a woman’s voice saying “stay safe, stay home” coming from the area code I visited. It was very disturbing.

  9. In March of 2020, Erie County (NY) Executive Mark Poloncarz held a press conference to discuss how the county was handling the newly developing pandemic. He specifically stated outright, in answer to one question, that the government has been tracking cell phone owners ever since the phones came into use and that the tracking would be ramped up to make sure people weren’t traveling from store to store to stock up on things they could hoard, among other uses. I thought I must have misunderstood him or imagined the comment, but my sister-in-law told me the next day that she too had heard the statement. I immediately bought a Faraday bag in which to carry my phone.

  10. The CDC had no right to track anyone without their permission! It’s an invasion of privacy no matter how you look at it. Is America turning into a communist country? The American people have been duped by the CDC, Fauci, Wuhan Labs and our own government. Trust has been broken.

  11. This is a gross invasion of every American citizen’s privacy. But there is one thing that I can do or not do. And that is to not carry my cell phone around with me. I am reading about so many intrusive measures the government is trying to impose on us aside from Covid-19 «safety precautions » But many of them are dependent on our cell phones. I am considered to be a « senior citizen ». But I remember when we only had the black téléphones that plugged into the phone outlet. So it’s easier for me to just leave my home and leave the cell in my house. I am not sure some of these younger people would be able to handle being away from their cells for more than 2 hours. And Apple is coming out with all of these great devices like the « smart watch »
    which is a monitoring device.
    It’s really none of the government’s business where I am at any given moment. I see people in town yackety
    Yacking on blue tooth and cell phones. I don’t see what they are finding to talk about 6 to 8 hours a day. Maybe they just don’t want to think because if they bothered to stay informed and really thought about the information which is out there. You have to dig a little, but it’s out there for anyone to read, who can read. ( And that’s what’s coming next. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if public schools stop teaching kids to read and write.) People in the grocery store walking around and staring at their phones. I don’t see how they can do it! I cannot walk and stare at my phone at the same time! And cell phones are very bad for your health. Some people believe Covid 19 is a cover for 5G which will have disastrous health consequences for people. We need to be protecting ourselves from EMF’s far more than we do from Covid-19. For more info on 5G, contact SYB.com (ShieldYourBody.com)
    and EnvironmentalTrust.org. Thanks for this article. I will be even more cautious in the future about where I go with my cell phone.

    1. As people continue to build up the supposedly objectionable technology, they pay their own hard earned money to subscribe to.

      Having a hard time getting your mind around the addiction? Unable to let go? If you’re not going to use it, or like the guy before stated; is going to keep it in an rfid sleeve bag, have you people bothered to ask yourself; why are you paying for this product and do you want to continue paying for it?

      They sold it. You bought it.

      Your rfid sleeves are worthless by the way. Most are false advertising and may only block weak signals, and will still let strong signals through, or even will block wifi not bluetooth or vice versa. And when they don’t, your phone emitts an even more dangerous more powerful field as it seeks to attain optimal connections. Plug it in and the frequency is even greater because it has unlimited power draw capability. For those sleeves to be true faraday cages they’d 1; need to be grounded & 2; would need multiple layers to block the multiple high frequency wavelengths. And the moment you take it out of the bag, game over anyways. Instant triangulation and all logged activity data transfer with the initial locational handshake. Here try this effective method that has gone viral on the internet; Toss it in a foil chip bag and heat seal it every time, then try to operate it from within the bag of chips! It’s called the cell phone foil chip bag challenge. This is what happens when we allow people whom do not understand technology, access to more technology than they are capable of understanding and utilizing in a safe manner.

      When you guys do use those phones you love so much, and pay so much for, be sure to hold them very close to your ear for long periods. This builds up your resistance to high resonance frequencies and helps your dna strands adapt to healing more often, as they’re being broken more often. Pay no attention to the malformed cancerous cells which will inevitably develop. They’re good for your health! You’ll be wanting the cell phone one day to call your ambulance ride. Don’t miss out on your ticket to the big fancy new medical center, buy now! Repeat after me until you too believe the slogan of the corporate party; Safe AND effective.

    2. As people continue to build up the supposedly objectionable technology, they pay their own hard earned money to subscribe to.

      Having a hard time getting your mind around the addiction? Unable to let go? If you’re not going to use it, or like the guy before stated; is going to keep it in an rfid sleeve bag, have you people bothered to ask yourself; why are you paying for this product and do you want to continue paying for it?

      They sold it. You bought it.

      Your rfid sleeves are worthless by the way. Most are false advertising and may only block weak signals, and will still let strong signals through, or even will block wifi not bluetooth or vice versa. And when they don’t, your phone emitts an even more dangerous more powerful field as it seeks to attain optimal connections. Plug it in and the frequency is even greater because it has unlimited power draw capability. For those sleeves to be true faraday cages they’d 1; need to be grounded & 2; would need multiple layers to block the multiple high frequency wavelengths. And the moment you take it out of the bag, game over anyways. Instant triangulation and all logged activity data transfer with the initial locational handshake. Here try this effective method that has gone viral on the internet; Toss it in a foil chip bag and heat seal it every time, then try to operate it from within the bag of chips! It’s called the cell phone foil chip bag challenge. This is what happens when we allow people whom do not understand technology, access to more technology than they are capable of understanding and utilizing in a safe manner.

      When you guys do use those phones you love so much, and pay so much for, be sure to hold them very close to your ear for long periods. This builds up your resistance to high resonance frequencies and helps your dna strands adapt to healing more often, as they’re being broken more often. Pay no attention to the malformed cancerous cells which will inevitably develop. They’re good for your health! You’ll be wanting the cell phone one day to call your ambulance ride. Don’t miss out on your ticket to the big fancy new medical center, buy now! Repeat after me until you too believe the slogan of the corporate party; Safe AND effective.!!!

    1. Oh yeah! Great video. The SEL stuff was scary, wow.

      Here, look into this product. This is a product I can get behind and still want to buy all these years later. The inventor mysteriously met an untimely demise, go figure. We’ve seen a similar device but one made of metal slats, on military contractor vehicles in other countries. It’s a highly interesting detail they sometimes forget to airbrush or crop out. It’s a technology that is simple, effective, safe, and one which any American can make at home. Why is it this product which is in such high demand, is extra ordinarily simple to produce, is not available to the public? Loover, license plate shield. As seen on TV! The answer, is because this is the only one that actually works for cameras, that’s why you are not allowed to have it.
      http://theexpiredmeter.com/2009/01/defeating-red-light-cameras-plate-covers/comment-page-1/

  12. The Beast system is in progress,and its only going to get worse.
    This is ALL biblical people.
    Know your savior Jesus, He is the only one who can save you!

  13. I keep my cell phone at home we’re it won’t get lost or break.
    And don’t use a trackable payment.

    Keep your cellphone at home so the spy’s don’t know where you are.

  14. I’m curious as to how they “ensured compliance”? I carry a smartphone and don’t take steps to conceal my location. I NEVER complied with any lockdown (or masking) mandates, going about my daily routines as I always had, stores, entertainment, etc. Granted, I did have to travel a bit for some things as some places did comply by shutting down. Fortunately, we live on the Wisconsin border, which never got as utterly stupid as Illinois. All in all, though, I just continued to live my life as I always have. Never had the CDC knocking on my door.

    1. https://www.americansforresponsibletech.org/fdapetition
      Sign this petition against cellular systems abuse.

      Oh, they find ways to ensure compliance. People were getting notices they were within range of someone whom tested positive. It cost many people their jobs at worst, convenience at best. Some people volunteered to be victims of medical malpractice at dangerous hospitals because they were so hyped up by the fear. This is just a test run anyways. And why they continue to condition people to think they need phones on them everywhere for access. Wait till they actually try cashless, it’s going to be a total nightmare. Thank the internet hackers it has not happened already, they’ve destroyed the cashless idea because no cloud systems are reliable and digital fraud is on the exponential rise, so much so they just write off charges and don’t even bother pursuing most low level criminals whom engage in that activity.

  15. This is like the TRUE the VOTE tracking system used to prove ballot harvesting and ballot box stuffing in the 2020 election. The means to prove election fraud is out there but the government has no will to use it to make elections fair and honest

  16. Well! This Tracking system is the sword that they will fall on. This tracking system meant to control us will now implicate them in the coup of all coup’s in human history. The US stolen 2020 elections! Their own devices will cut them down to nothing as they will rot in jail for treason (tampering with a US Election is a treasonous act) Section 18 of the US Constitution. So DOWN THEY GO! CDC, FDA, CIA, FBI, DOH, NIH, FEMA, BLM, ANTIFA, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! You name it! Down they Go! Oh! And the minions who participated in the ballot tampering/harvesting as well! They have NO WHERE ON EARTH TO HIDE! So they had better store those firecrackers they intended to use for their so-called riots and make a rocket ship and fly to the moon!

    1. Keep dreaming with q’ster nonsense. There is no white hat group coming to save us from our own corrupted systems and our own corrupted government. It’s up to us and us alone. Anyone have a pitchfork I can borrow?

  17. Alex Jones told sometime ago the only reason these phone are invented is to track everything about us. Be careful about excepting ungrades, location , and those helpful quick fill info. They can collect all kinds of info on you . A try to not take in the washroom,they can see you.

  18. Thank you for making me aware of the problem. Can someone with extensive tech background post the available solutions?

    Can we engineer/program the cell phone in some way that will always block the location or better yet– show a different location?

    There has to be some smart young kid that can add a program to confuse the spies…..Imagine a world where everyone can use a program for privacy and can fool the agencies that are spying on us…I am sure the FBI has the technology to change the locations and the names of the people using a cell phone….If the FBI has the technology to do it, maybe someone with tech expertise can also do it for us at a price?

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