Submitted by aka.attrition
Source: https://reclaimthenet.org/us-analytics-firm-covid-19-decree-violation-scores/
Abstract: Voter analytics firm PredictWise harvested location data from tens of millions of US cellphones during the initial Covid lockdown months and used this data to assign a “Covid-19 decree violation” score to the people associated with the phones. PredictWise says its data “tracks the opinions, attitudes, and behaviors” of over 260 million Americans – a figure that represents 78% of the entire US population of 333 million.
Full Article: Voter analytics firm PredictWise harvested location data from tens of millions of US cellphones during the initial Covid lockdown months and used this data to assign a “Covid-19 decree violation” score to the people associated with the phones.
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.” People who were “on the go more often than their neighbors” were given a high Covid-19 decree violation score while those who mostly or always stayed at home were given a low Covid-19 decree violation score.
Not only did PredictWise use this highly sensitive location data to monitor millions of Americans’ compliance with Covid lockdown decrees but it also combined this data with follow-up surveys to assign “Covid concern” scores to the people who were being surveilled. PredictWise then used this data to help Democrats in several swing states to target more than 350,000 “Covid concerned” Republicans with Covid-related campaign ads.
In its white paper, PredictWise claims that Democrats were able to “deploy this real-time location model to open up just over 40,000 persuasion targets that normally would have fallen off” for Mark Kelly who was running for Senate at the time and has now been elected.
“PredictWise understood that there were potential pockets of voters to target with Covid-19 messaging and turned high-dimensional data covering over 100 million Americans into measures of adherence to Covid-19 restrictions during deep lockdown,” the company states in the white paper.
PredictWise doesn’t provide the exact dates when this location data was collected but its white paper does note that the data was collected during Covid lockdowns and used during Senator Kelly’s 2020 election campaign. State-level US lockdowns began on March 15, 2020 and Kelly was elected on November 4, 2020 so the data appears to have been collected during the first few months of this 11 month period.
Location data and survey data are just two of the many types of data PredictWise claims to have access to. According to its white paper, PredictWise also tracks “telemetry data” (which is “passively sourced cell-phone data”), media consumption data, and unregistered voter data (which contains verified data on over 50 million unregistered voters that’s updated daily and sourced from credit files and portal registration data). Additionally, PredictWise claims that “Crate&Barrel” (which seems to be a reference to the online furniture and home decor shopping portal Crate & Barrel) is one of the portal registration data sources it has access to.
In total, PredictWise says its data “tracks the opinions, attitudes, and behaviors” of over 260 million Americans – a figure that represents 78% of the entire US population of 333 million.
PredictWise uses the data it collects to create scores on 13 issue preference clusters and 7 value-frame, or psychometric clusters. These clusters use more than 30 million behavioral data points. PredictWise also claims to be able to use this data to predict the party of unregistered voters.
This mass surveillance of location data and lockdown compliance is just one of the many examples of the large-scale data harvesting that occurred during the pandemic. Private companies tracked the everyday activities of citizens, pushed remote learning surveillance technologies, increased surveillance in the workplace, and more. Meanwhile, governments ushered in numerous forms of surveillance such as forcing citizens to wear ankle bracelet trackers, secretly surveilling vaccine recipients via their phones, and combining vaccine passports with digital IDs.
Nah. That can’t be true. Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
If you’re not doing anything wrong, what are you afraid of?
Amirite?
Who decides what’s wrong?
I don’t care my phone never travels with me .I never take it with me Never.
Likewise. I also quit using my fitbit. I dreamt the other night that there were radio wires in my Credit card. I think there are a million ways they track us. Don’t be paranoid. But do not comply .
Be paranoid.
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
I need one of those faraday bags, I do need periodic access to the phone.
Too right, Otto.
Whenever I’m in my vehicle, I ALWAYS have my phone
with me………..turned off, in a Faraday bag in the glove compartment.
If I don’t need it, fine. It stays right where it is.
But if I do NEED it, I’ve got it.
Do the bags work?
“Do the bags work?”
You could ask algores invention? Believe what You will.
One hoopee test.
Put Your phone in whatever You think will ‘Work’.
Call said device.
OR you could ask algores invention
Who the fuck paid attention to “lockdowns”?? Not here in my area in the dirty south.
I recall standing in line outside as head counts were being taken for entry into the local Wal Mart’s with 15 at a time , the limit when the “pandemic” gathered steam with Warp Speed even in this redneck “don’t tell me what the hell to do!!!!” area of Texas no less. Certainly were plenty of those “don’t tell me what the hell to do!!!!” types that DID comply with the jab! Hum…scratching my head.
About the time or a short time before Warp Speed the local Wally was updating it’s store and all of a sudden I noticed my mug on the screen at the self check aisles. I asked an attendant “what’s up with this?”. No reply. That’s when I started studying The Art of Disguises.
Surveillance cameras all over Wal Mart’s of course. Your mug in the self check screens. Yes, surveillance on steroids. The mug shot entertainment ceased some time ago but to think as you are checking out there is not some tiny eye watching your every move anyway through that screen , I won’t say there is not. People in this country are eaten up with Patriot Act lunacy. And I never heard Trump speak out against atrocities surrounding attempts and in fact occurrences dismantling the 4th Amendment to COTUS. Never did I hear or read any outcry from him.