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Re:US citizens were given secret Covid “decree violation” sc... by metadat on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:39PM (#33336522)
> 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.”

How did they acquire this data? At what point did 10 million Americans consent or opt-in to sharing this information with PredictWise?

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Re:US citizens were given secret Covid “decree violation” sc... by carrotcarrot on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:56PM (#33336681)
None of this shocks me
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Re:US citizens were given secret Covid “decree violation” sc... by WhiskeyChicken on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:05PM (#33336757)
Cell carriers sell location data.
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