{"id":1466557,"date":"2022-05-06T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466557"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T16:45:51","slug":"senator-johnson-demands-cdc-explain-why-it-tracked-movements-of-americans-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-johnson-demands-cdc-explain-why-it-tracked-movements-of-americans-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Johnson Demands CDC Explain Why It Tracked Movements Of Americans During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenator-johnson-demands-cdc-explain-why-it-tracked-movements-of-americans-during-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466557&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-06-at-11.56.05-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address why it tracked Americans throughout the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 and what other departments may have tracked the movements of United States citizens as well.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"a\">It remains unclear why the CDC tracked millions of Americans during the pandemic and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">whether it continues to do s<span class=\"l6\">o,\u201d Johnson told the CDC in a Thursday letter first obtained by The Daily Wire. \u201cIn response to COVID-19, the CDC should have been prioritizing\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">the development of treatments, effective testing, and vaccine safety rather than tracking\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">Americans\u2019 daily lives.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Johnson called on the CDC to explain if its use of location data was \u201cthe only mechanism it employed to monitor Americans during the pandemic,\u201d which official or officials at the CDC approved the \u201cuse and subsequent purchase of location data,\u201d what companies supplied the CDC with this data, and whether the CDC shared this location data with any other federal, state, or local agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf so, provide what entities received the data and explain why,\u201d Johnson told the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u2019s letter builds off internal documents from the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/m7vymn\/cdc-tracked-phones-location-data-curfews\">obtained by Vice<\/a> showing that the department used the data of millions of Americans to track their compliance with government coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>This included tracking people who visited grade schools and high schools, specifically the Navajo Nation, places of worship, and more, the publication reported.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a\">\u201cA recent report revealed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">at least $420,000 to purchase location data from \u2018at least 20 million active cellphone users per <\/span><span class=\"a\">day\u2019 in an effort to\u00a0assist the agency in monitoring Americans during the pandemic,\u201d Johnson wrote in his letter to the CDC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a\">\u201cAccording\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">to that report, the CDC obtained location data from at least one company, SafeGraph, to examine\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">activities in schools, places of worship, parks, grocery stores, and\u00a0public transit stations, among\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">others,\u201d he continued. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"a\">CDC reportedly wrote in a docum<span class=\"l6\">ent, \u2018the mobility data obtained in this\u00a0<span class=\"l7\">contract will be\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">available for CDC agency-wide use\u00a0and will support numerous CDC priorities.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location data is sourced from an individual\u2019s phone and shows where the device\u2019s location is, revealing where the person goes during their day, as well as where they live and where they work. The CDC bought aggregated data, Vice reported, which means that the data was intended to follow trends of groups of people.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers have warned that this type of data can also be used to track individuals, according to Vice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Republican Wisconsin Sen. 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