anonymized cellphone data

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I was reading an article about COVID and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally when something caught my eye "anonymized cellphone data"

First covid-19 death linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally reported in Minnesota
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/first ... cid=msnews

"An analysis of anonymized cellphone data, conducted by a firm called Camber Systems, found that 61 percent of all U.S. counties had been visited by a rallygoer.

Found another report that company's are using the "anonymized cellphone data" to data mine or flat out track cell phone users"

Black Lives Matter: U.S. Protesters Tracked By Secretive Phone Location Technology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman ... 7218b44a1e

"Following Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the U.S., a marketing company that uses AI to categorize phone users by race, gender and even religion, has now published a report using phone location data secretly collected during those protests. In a presentation titled “George Floyd Protester Demographics: Insights Across Four Major U.S. Cities,” consumer insight firm Mobilewalla says it has published its report “out of a sense of social responsibility.”

Mobilewalla buys mobile phone data from aggregators that, in turn, buy their data from the operators behind the apps we install on our phones. The company says that it has 80-90% device coverage in the U.S., fairly evenly split between iOS and Android. It also says that at any given event, it can usually poll devices from somewhere between 30% and 60% of those present."


Cant help but feel that we are all under surveillance 24/7 -