REVEALED: CDC bought cell phone location data to track COVID-19 public health order compliance

The CDC said the data "has been critical for ongoing response efforts, such as hourly monitoring of activity in curfew zones or detailed counts of visits to participating pharmacies for vaccine monitoring."

-- The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial), --May 4, 2022

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Documents from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have revealed that the government agency bought access to cell phone location data to analyze a wide variety of issues, but most notably, compliance with public health orders issued during the pandemic. In CDC documents obtained by Motherboard, it outlines 21 "potential CDC use cases for data."-- More...

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