Category: cellphone data

How CDC Secretly Tracked Americans’ Lockdown Compliance Through Their Phone Data | Facts Matter

According to government contracts obtained by The Epoch Times, it turns out that the CDC has been using taxpayer money to purchase the cell phone tracking data of millions of Americans—in order to monitor how compliant they were with government lockdowns. According to these documents, the CDC paid over $600,000 to two separate companies in order…


Emergency Order Sought for Ohio Juror’s Cellphone Data

A battle over the cellphone data of “Juror X,” who repeatedly posted on Facebook about her involvement in a high-profile Ohio case, has intensified. In a recently released order, Judge Douglas Cole allowed prosecutors and defense lawyers to question two more jurors about possible improper influences during the trial of P.G. Sittenfeld, a former Cincinnati…


Feds Declined Offer From Privacy Commissioner for Advice on Collection of Phone Data

OTTAWA—The federal privacy commissioner says his offer to advise the government on the implications of collecting data from millions of mobile phones during the COVID-19 pandemic was rebuffed. Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee this week that he offered to review how the data was being anonymized, but the government consulted its own…


Commons Calls for Halt to Collection of COVID 19 Phone Data Over Privacy Concerns

OTTAWA—The House of Commons called on the government Tuesday to suspend plans by the Public Health Agency of Canada to collect data from millions of mobile phones to help understand travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. MPs passed a motion urging the government to suspend a plan to extend the collection of cellphone location data…


Commons Ethics Committee Wants Cellphone Data Collection Halted Over Privacy Concerns

OTTAWA—The House of Commons ethics committee has called for a halt to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s plans to collect data from millions of mobile phones as a way to understand travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. The committee passed a motion Monday calling on the federal government to suspend plans to extend the…