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> 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?

And then the rest of the article about what they went on to use the data for.. Shocking. This is a clear indicator members of the general public aren't viewed as human beings; the national political parties view us as sheep and pawns.



Cell carriers sell location data.


None of this shocks me




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