The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used phone location data to track millions Americans in 2021. The CDC monitored curfew zones, churches, schools, neighbor-to-neighbor visits and trips to pharmacies through SafeGraph, a controversial data broker. The CDC purchased the phone data and used Covid-19 as an excuse to buy the data more quickly and…
How many other parts of government are spying on your everyday life and how many ways are they doing it?
> not keeping phone off in a faraday cage
not sure if society’s gonna make it
Another reason for using a degoogled phone running something like GrapheneOS and being very careful about the app you install.
That is one of the reasons I like this Lemmy system. Runs really well as a web App, no tracking, etc.