US citizens were given secret Covid “decree violation” scores.
Mass surveillance during the first months of the US lockdowns.
Voter analytics firm PredictWise harvested location data from tens of millions of US cellphones during the initial Covid lockdown months and used this data to assign a “Covid-19 decree violation” score to the people associated with the phones.
These Covid-19 decree violation scores were calculated by analyzing nearly two billion global positioning system (GPS) pings to get “real-time, ultra-granular locations patterns.” People who were “on the go more often than their neighbors” were given a high Covid-19 decree violation score while those who mostly or always stayed at home were given a low Covid-19 decree violation score.
Not only did PredictWise use this highly sensitive location data to monitor millions of Americans’ compliance with Covid lockdown decrees but it also combined this data with follow-up surveys to assign “Covid concern” scores to the people who were being surveilled. PredictWise then used this data to help Democrats in several swing states to target more than 350,000 “Covid concerned” Republicans with Covid-related campaign ads.
In its white paper, PredictWise claims that Democrats were able to “deploy this real-time location model to open up just over 40,000 persuasion targets that normally would have fallen off” for Mark Kelly who was running for Senate at the time and has now been elected.
“PredictWise understood that there were potential pockets of voters to target with Covid-19 messaging and turned high-dimensional data covering over 100 million Americans into measures of adherence to Covid-19 restrictions during deep lockdown,” the company states in the white paper.
PredictWise doesn’t provide the exact dates when this location data was collected but its white paper does note that the data was collected during Covid lockdowns and used during Senator Kelly’s 2020 election campaign. State-level US lockdowns began on March 15, 2020 and Kelly was elected on November 4, 2020 so the data appears to have been collected during the first few months of this 11 month period.
Location data and survey data are just two of the many types of data PredictWise claims to have access to. According to its white paper, PredictWise also tracks “telemetry data” (which is “passively sourced cell-phone data”), media consumption data, and unregistered voter data (which contains verified data on over 50 million unregistered voters that’s updated daily and sourced from credit files and portal registration data). Additionally, PredictWise claims that “Crate&Barrel” (which seems to be a reference to the online furniture and home decor shopping portal Crate & Barrel) is one of the portal registration data sources it has access to.
In total, PredictWise says its data “tracks the opinions, attitudes, and behaviors” of over 260 million Americans – a figure that represents 78% of the entire US population of 333 million.
PredictWise uses the data it collects to create scores on 13 issue preference clusters and 7 value-frame, or psychometric clusters. These clusters use more than 30 million behavioral data points. PredictWise also claims to be able to use this data to predict the party of unregistered voters.
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This mass surveillance of location data and lockdown compliance is just one of the many examples of the large-scale data harvesting that occurred during the pandemic. Private companies tracked the everyday activities of citizens, pushed remote learning surveillance technologies, increased surveillance in the workplace, and more. Meanwhile, governments ushered in numerous forms of surveillance such as forcing citizens to wear ankle bracelet trackers, secretly surveilling vaccine recipients via their phones, and combining vaccine passports with digital IDs.
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Am I supposed to be scared? Surprised? Intimidated?
I am none of those. You derp state faggots have no power or control over me. Now or ever.
Exactly. Come at me, motherfuckers.
Come get you some.
^^^^ This.
Not only that, they don't have a way of getting out of attempting to use covid as a weapon to come after me. If you want to be Cobra Commander, make sure you can actually pull it off first. Some people got halfway into the plan and realized they couldn't finish it and are now fucked.
Do you pay taxes? Do you have a drivers license and permits and stuff?
Stop doing those things and violence will be used against you.
We're all intimidated at least a little because THEY DO have some control over us.
Reasonably explain why there shouldn't be a licensure system to operate motor vehicles? Do you seriously believe in the event the cabal is decimated that were gonna stop requiring training to operate motor vehicles? Not every aspect of our system is control for the sake thereof. America wasn't established to be a functional anarchy. Your freedom still ends where others begin and as a collective whole, I'm pretty sure 99% agree that motor vehicle licenses are a good idea. Maybe in need of a little tweaking, sure. As is, that system is actually pretty secure. The government can't just revoke your DL whenever it feels like it. Sure that's what they want, but there's too many checks and policies in place to prevent that, like making it a state jurisdiction for one...
As for taxes, there are ways out of those too, I got out of them, but ultimately there should be no tax on individuals regardless.
Interdasting, considering 2000 mules was using the same ping data too. Makes you wonder what else they use this for ... eh?
Perhaps 400,000+ Unsealed Indictments?
Frightening and dirty are just two adjectives that pop up
It's an uncomfortable reality to recognize that the love affair with ell phones has made us into the ear-tagged cattle of the Beast system. Now, they want all of the tracked to eat bugs.
I was going to downvote you but the words beast system tell me you know what's up.
I think the phones are a double edged sword but in the hands of patriots they are deadly weapons of truth. And in the hands of good people, they are lovely tools for both entertainment and education.
What would you think about me posting a privacy workshop? Not things normies will never do like lan wide proxy use or linux or going phoneless
But breaking down important settings, tweaks, etc that android users can use to still partake in tech but give them as little info as possible. Also explaining why outside of ipad or imac/macbook, apple products namely the iphone and homekit should be avoided (because even nest/Google home can be tweaked to keep secure)
"What would you think about me posting a privacy workshop? Not things normies will never do like lan wide proxy use or linux or going phoneless"
I think that would be excellent!
I'd be interested in that for real. I've done as much as my dumbass can think of but I'm not super trch savvy
Please do...
I may disagree or may not like the content of what is being said, but down-voting tends to remove dialogue and no minds are made for the better. So, your decision to instead engage in this polemic is very much appreciated. My personal policy is not to down-vote anyone.
I got rid of my cell phone almost 4-years ago. I couldn't be any happier and free. There's been several studies showing families without television are happier, more cohesive families. IMHO, it doesn't take much of a leap to suggest smart phones are at least as bad.
"I think the phones are a double edged sword but in the hands of patriots they are deadly weapons of truth."
Of course smart phones are a double-edged sword. IMHO, many modern day technologies are the same way. Trading privacy for convenience is the biggest of all lies. When you say "in the hands of patriots they are deadly weapons", how is the cell phone a deadly weapon of truth? I get just as much truth, if not more talking to people like me, who got rid of their smart phones. They are very aware. What is important to people like me is not being tracked. I like as much privacy as possible. With the article posted above, I can assure you I was never part of the "COVID decree violation" score.
The entire concept of cell phones is a paradox to me. My observances is that people choose to text instead of speaking to the individual on the telephone or getting together face-to face. Indeed, we humans are social creatures and trust is built on using the 5-senses over a period of time. At least this is the way I view it. Rhetorically speaking, consider what really defines establishing a friend as opposed to a stranger.
I know someone who I've engaged with on-line for over 20 years. A part of me wants to say this individual is a friend, but I know better because I have never met this individual. In my view, this person is at best an acquaintance; a stranger. acquaintances are the vast majority of people we meet in our lives. It is everyone from the neighbors, classmates, to teachers, police, and the pastor. The importance of looking directly into the eye of the individual, recognizing the slightest facial expressions, listening to the slightest voice inflection, and observing their gesticulations either confirms or betrays their sincerity. This is the road traveled for establishing trust. This is lost with texting.
When I observe each morning school children all fixated into the smart phones and not conversing with each other, or to which many [of them] walk in the middle of the street unaware of any peril of on-coming vehicles, I can only shake my head with thoughts of how we have succeeded in developing stupid herd animals or zombies. For what I have been seeing since the 1990s when video games came roaring onto the scene, is an increasing society that has actually modeled itself after the movie - "Idiocracy". IMHO, cell phones have added another thick layer to this and the results may indicate why the millennials are so out-of-touch. Have you ever watched- "The Game" in Star Trek?
Even Elon Musk has stated cell phones in regards to tracking has become the ankle bracelets for every individual. All of this reminds me of Paul Harveys' great speech called- "If I were the Devil". Lucifer couldn't be doing a better job of hog tying every individual to the beast system we are witnessing.
IMHO, Truth comes without tracking. Individual truth come without being fettered. Being unfettered is being free and enjoying liberty.
It is reasons like this, that people at large need keep up in understanding with at least a fraction of what technology is capable of these days.
Stop carrying your phones when you can.
This is true.
I do this all the time.
does a pocket phone faraday cage work?
Awesome.
They know how often I go to the range.
I fart in their general direction.
Exacto. Fetcher la mache
Cool, now find and hang them
I’ve offered my services for free to help.
Well their data doesn't seem to that accurate as again I'm blocking Democrat texts addressed to the same incorrect name over and over on a phone number that I've had for 20 years.
So is it supposed to be big news that when everyone voluntarily carries a tracking device on them that they use this to track us like livestock?
Should we all be shocked and pretend that we haven’t been tracked and had our data sold for decades now? They’re just starting to get more granular and the opportunities are opening up for more companies, governments, entities, etc to better leverage its use to target us and predict our behaviors.
Hopefully when they turn on their trackers for me, it has a big red FU - IDGAF sticker displayed next to my GPS locator. Better yet a flashing warning of DO NOT APPROACH - THIS GUY WILL BE A FUCKING PROBLEM
we did have phone booths and a quarter in our pocket at all times. Hard to find a phone booth any more.
That is a good point as well.
I figured they were doing this while I didn’t stay home a single day
I want to know my score as I was working 5 days a week, 8 to 10 hours a day.
Same.
I was working six days a week.
If you have an iPhone, go to your Settings, Location Services and first turn off location services for everything that’s not required. The creepy one is hidden. Go to the Significant Locations one on the bottom. That’s the one the DS really likes. They make you passcode again to get into that one. Turn that shit off.
Turn off location services for everything on the bottom as well. It should only be on for apps that absolutely need it.
We can at least make it difficult for them, instead of just handing it over.
And for those of us who leave our phones at home? Lololol…
Everyone else has a phone should you need to make an emj call.
Same here. I want to see a leaderboard sticky like at a golf tourney
Pretty sure mine is 0. We have no debt, don't shop much and haven't used credit cards in over 25 years. Life is great when you're not worried about paying for all the unnecessary stuff bought on credit.
Hmm, seems that we should all individually also put out our own disinformation where our statements we spout span the gamut of all thought.
This was in the WSJ a few days ago but there wasn’t nearly this much detail, hmm
Well I bet they gave my husband a super high violation score if they tracked him. Being at that time he was on patrol (LE) for 12 hours a day, lol.
glad mine was off at all times
Hahaha they REALLY don’t like me! Drove over to my parents’ house almost daily to garden once weather permitted, took trips up north to the cabin & to Dallas & Chicago to see family in 2020…
We took 4 road trips through multiple states in 2020…never once caught Covid or got sick at all. That’s how I convinced my husband he didn’t need a vaccine in 2021 when he was close to caving. Simple logic.
Well for nothing they've dumped my credit score and the scores of millions of Americans so they can charge higher interest rates.
Paying off my vehicle loan 2 years early lowered my credit score by 70 pts. But I don't owe anything to anyone so they can kma!
The mass cancellations of credit cards just when "prison lockdowns" started to occur wasn't an accident.
Track me from my landline. I dare ya.
Geez. I think I got an F.
Just one more reason I barely use my cellphone, and keep it turned off unless I use it.