Vice is reporting that the CDC purchased cellphone location data for a wide assortment of uses (under the umbrella of COVID-19). If true, this would be extremely disconcerting, as location data can often be correlated with extremely personal information, such as friendships, religious affiliations, political interests, and medical conditions (see [1-2]).
(Hat-tip CHD)
[1] T. Tiwari, A. Klausner, M. Andreev, A. Trachtenberg and A. Yerukhimovich, "Location Leakage from Network Access Patterns," 2019 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2019, pp. 214-222, doi: 10.1109/CNS.2019.8802847.
[2] Canetti, Ran, Ari Trachtenberg, and Mayank Varia. "Anonymous collocation discovery: Harnessing privacy to tame the coronavirus." arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13670(2020).
So, the report is that there has been (no surprise, but good to have evidence) the deliberate gathering - PURCHASING - of info CDC has no right to. Am I understanding right?
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So, the report is that there has been (no surprise, but good to have evidence) the deliberate gathering - PURCHASING - of info CDC has no right to. Am I understanding right?