The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms.<\/p>\n
The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users.<\/p>\n
The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC \u201cwith the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions elated to evaluating the impact of visits to key points of interest, stay at home orders, closures, re-openings and other public heath communications related to mask mandate, and other merging research areas on community transmission of SARS-CoV-2,\u201d the contracts, obtained by The Epoch Times, state.<\/p>\n
The CDC said it would be using the tracking data to \u201cassess home-by-hour behaviors (i.e. curfew analysis) by exploring the percentage of mobile devices at home during specific period of time.\u201d The data could also be integrated with other information \u201cto provide a comprehensive picture of movement\/travel of persons during the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand mandatory stay-at-home orders, business closure, school re-openings, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in states and cities.\u201d<\/p>\n
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