Monday, May 18, 2020

Cellphone Data.....

You know that "anonymized cellphone data tracking" is being sold to retailer/advertisers with the idea that they can more easily target advertising if they know where people go, right?

Well, it has other purposes.

Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.

The data, provided to the Guardian by the progressive campaign group the Committee to Protect Medicare,...
Not to worry.  It's "anonymized" so "progressive campaign groups" won't know too much.

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