The cellphones are spying devices.

They haven’t used them for many purposes that we’ve seen yet, but presumably they are planning to.

January 6 was a big deal on this front, as we learned that it was possible and apparently legal for the government to demand location data and identify people as being in a place based on that location data.

Honestly… there’s not really even a reason to have a phone.

Reuters:

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.

In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones.

Senator Ron Wyden

In a statement, Apple said that Wyden’s letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications.

“In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” the company said in a statement. “Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”

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Wyden’s letter cited a “tip” as the source of the information about the surveillance. His staff did not elaborate on the tip, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.

The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States.

Yeah, that would be Germany. And whoever else. But definitely Germany.

Germany isn’t really an “ally” of the United States, so much as a US colony. It’s under US military occupation and the German government can only operate with the blessing of the United States. They are prevented from making independent decisions about foreign policy, and largely prevented from formulating their own domestic policy.

People should learn about parallel construction, probably. Intelligence agencies can use the cellphone data to identify you and something you did, and then find a different explanation for how they identified you.

This has happened a lot with doxings of anon right-wingers. The explanations given for the doxing were obviously statistically impossible, or at least so improbable that they were not believable. So in reality, they were identified using ostensibly illegal spying methods, and then a different explanation was given.

CNN has done this multiple times, where it was just obvious that they were collaborating with US intelligence to dox a right-wing activist or shitposter.

The CATO Institute is a libertarian group. Clearly, there are many things that the Daily Stormer would disagree with them about.

However, the work they do with polling – asking people crazy questions that no other group that commissions serious polls would ever ask – is God’s work.

These numbers probably are not surprising, but they are nonetheless shocking.

Campus Reform:

Nearly 3 in 10 young Americans support the government being able to put cameras in your home to surveil you, according to a new survey.

The survey from the libertarian CATO Institute found that Americans under the age of 30 support the government installing cameras in private homes with the intended purpose of stopping crime and abuse. The survey comes days after the reports that Amazon will pay over $30 million in settlements to the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations, including a revelation that Ring camera devices were being used to illegally spy on individuals in their homes.

It was just a big mix-up.

Although we have to ask what kind of retard installs Amazon devices in their home, especially when there are all these news articles about how they admit to recording everything you do and accessing that information.

The survey asked respondents: “Would you favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity?” Just 14% of Americans said they would be in favor, including just 6% who were strongly in favor; fully three-quarters of Americans were opposed to the idea, including 68% who were strongly opposed.

But young Americans were twice as likely than the rest of the population to support the idea, the survey found. Nearly 3 in 10 people in the 18-29 age group, 29%, said they supported the idea, including 14% who were strongly in favor. Still, more than half of the age group, 53%, were opposed, including 44% who were strongly opposed. Support for the idea dwindled as respondents got older: 20% of respondents age 30-44 supported cameras in homes; just 6% of 45-54 year-olds and 55-64 year-olds supported it; just 5% of 65+ year-olds were in favor.

A $5.8 million settlement from Amazon will address a lawsuit from the FTC claiming that Amazon-owned home security company Ring allowed security failures that led to privacy invasions of multiple Ring users. According to a press release from the FTC, Ring deceived its customers by allowing employees unrestricted access to customers’ videos from their home security cameras. In one instance, a Ring employee illicitly watched thousands of videos of female Ring customers in their bedrooms and bathrooms.

Ring also failed to protect its customers from hackers, the FTC alleged. Ring’s lax security measures enabled hackers to view videos from thousands of customers, and in some cases harass and even proposition some customers by hacking into the two-way communication function.

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Furthermore, former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warned this week that the government can and will use new technology to spy on Americans. “If we think about what we saw in 2013 and the capabilities of governments today, 2013 seems like child’s play,” Snowden told The Guardian.

“We trusted the government not to screw us,” he added. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”

Well, it’s the nature of Jewish power.

I don’t think we can assume that non-Jews, in a society not controlled by the Jews, would behave this way.

If we decide that no one in society can have any power, we’re going to have a lot of complications in managing the society.

It seems like we should just try to have better people in power.

Exclusive: Credit card provider Discover told @Reuters it will allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers in April, making it the first among peers to move ahead with the initiative aimed at helping authorities probe gun-related crimes https://t.co/VZDeBky7WI pic.twitter.com/5C8o9oYU5G

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 17, 2023

Private companies are allowed to do whatever they want to anyone – including surveilling them on behalf of the US government as part of a global Jewish agenda.

Reuters:

Discover Financial Services, a provider of credit cards, told Reuters it will allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers come April, making it the first among its peers to move ahead with the initiative aimed at helping authorities probe gun-related crimes.

The decision came after the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which decides on the classification of merchant categories used by payment cards, approved in September the launch of a dedicated code for gun retailers.

Proponents of the move, including gun control activists and Democratic politicians, say it will allow financial institutions to better assist authorities in investigating crimes involving gun violence in the United States.

There has been uncertainty around the implementation, with Visa Inc, Mastercard Inc and American Express Co yet to disclose a timetable for adopting the change. Although the codes will not show specific items purchased, some Republican politicians have spoken out against the move, arguing it could violate the privacy of U.S. citizens lawfully buying guns.

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A Visa representative declined to comment on its schedule for the new code. Mastercard and American Express representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment on their plans. Last fall, the companies said they would work to implement the code while respecting privacy rights.

How is this legal? Well, because everything is legal now!

Or everything is illegal!

There’s no law!

🛰️ 18 European nations including the UK have agreed to explore and develop a framework for improved surveillance from space.

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The agreement will launch the Allied Persistent Surveillance from Space Initiative.

👉 https://t.co/3mvurK83TS pic.twitter.com/n69FvrteTE

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) February 16, 2023

Spying on the entire earth from space is not really a new thing.

Presumably, they’re announcing it to attempt to further agitate the Chinese.

Most of what NATO does now, outside of their little project in the Ukraine, is about agitating China (which is weird, because Tucker Carlson told me the United States is controlled by the Chinese).

RT:

NATO has announced a new space project that aims to create a fleet of spy satellites. The initiative, which includes NATO applicants Sweden and Finland, involves not only national but commercial assets.

The project, which is called ‘Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space’ (APSS), was unveiled on Wednesday, with a total of 16 current member states expected to chip in. According to a statement published on NATO’s website, the project will “help streamline data collection, sharing and analysis among NATO Allies and with the NATO command structure.”

Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in May of 2022, though their bids have yet to be approved by Hungary and Türkiye. However, despite not being formally admitted into the military bloc, both Stockholm and Helsinki are already participating in joint projects.

APSS will entail the creation of a “constellation,” named ‘Aquila’, of national as well as commercial satellites. It is expected to “provide essential support to NATO’s military missions and operations.”

The military bloc explained that APSS comes as part of NATO’s Overarching Space Policy adopted back in 2019.

At a meeting in London that same year, member states declared space a fifth operational domain, alongside air, land, maritime, and cyberspace.

We are already in “Cold War logic,” where these people can justify to the public projects that would normally be considered immoral or beyond the pale with the reasoning that “we have to do it because the enemy is going to do it.”

In general, people don’t like the idea of every inch of the earth being constantly surveilled by satellites. But what choice do we have, what with these balloons coming at us?

It sure is convenient that global governments are using coronavirus spying mechanisms for regular spying!

No one could have predicted this. If someone did predict it, they were a white supremacist fascist, so their opinion means nothing.

AP:

Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone.

“You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it read in Arabic. “We will hold you accountable.”

Ramlawi, then 19, was among hundreds of people who civil rights attorneys estimate got the text last year, at the height of one of the most turbulent recent periods in the Holy Land. Many, including Ramlawi, say they only lived or worked in the neighborhood, and had nothing to do with the unrest. What he didn’t know was that the feared internal security agency, the Shin Bet, was using mass surveillance technology mobilized for coronavirus contact tracing, against Israeli residents and citizens for purposes entirely unrelated to COVID-19.

A worshipper shows a threatening message signed ”Israeli intelligence,” that reads: “Hello! You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we will hold you accountable.”

In the pandemic’s bewildering early days, millions worldwide believed government officials who said they needed confidential data for new tech tools that could help stop coronavirus’ spread. In return, governments got a firehose of individuals’ private health details, photographs that captured their facial measurements and their home addresses.

Now, from Beijing to Jerusalem to Hyderabad, India, and Perth, Australia, The Associated Press has found that authorities used these technologies and data to halt travel for activists and ordinary people, harass marginalized communities and link people’s health information to other surveillance and law enforcement tools. In some cases, data was shared with spy agencies. The issue has taken on fresh urgency almost three years into the pandemic as China’s ultra-strict zero-COVID policies recently ignited the sharpest public rebuke of the country’s authoritarian leadership since the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

For more than a year, AP journalists interviewed sources and pored over thousands of documents to trace how technologies marketed to “flatten the curve” were put to other uses. Just as the balance between privacy and national security shifted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, COVID-19 has given officials justification to embed tracking tools in society that have lasted long after lockdowns.

“Any intervention that increases state power to monitor individuals has a long tail and is a ratcheting system,” said John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Toronto-based internet watchdog Citizen Lab. “Once you get it, is very unlikely it will ever go away.”

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In Jerusalem’s Old City, tourists sipping fresh pomegranate juice, worshippers and locals taking a shortcut home are all monitored by Israeli security forces holding automatic weapons. The labyrinth of cavernous pathways is also lined with CCTV cameras and what authorities have described as “advanced technologies.”

After clashes in May 2021 at the Al-Aqsa Mosque helped trigger an 11-day war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, Israel experienced some of the worst violence in years. Police lobbed stun grenades into the disputed compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount, home to Al-Aqsa, Islam’s third-holiest site, as Palestinian crowds holed up inside hurling stones and firebombs at them.

By that time, Israelis had become accustomed to police showing up outside their homes to say they weren’t observing quarantine and knew that Israel’s Shin Bet security agency was repurposing phone surveillance technology it had previously used to monitor militants inside Palestinian territories. The practice made headlines at the start of the pandemic when the Israeli government said it would be deployed for COVID-19 contact tracing.

A year later, the Shin Bet quietly began using the same technology to send threatening messages to Israel’s Arab citizens and residents whom the agency suspected of participating in violent clashes with police. Some of the recipients, however, simply lived or worked in the area, or were mere passers-by.

Ramlawi’s coffeeshop sits in the ornate Cotton Merchant’s Market outside the mosque compound, an area lined with police and security cameras that likely would have identified the barista had he participated in violence.

Although Ramlawi deleted the message and hasn’t received a similar one since, he said the thought of his phone being used as a monitoring tool still haunts him.

“It’s like the government is in your bag,” said Ramlawi, who worries that surveillance enabled to stop COVID-19 poses a lasting menace for east Jerusalem residents. “When you move, the government is with you with this phone.”

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‘360 DEGREE SURVEILLANCE’

Technologies designed to combat COVID-19 were redirected by law enforcement and intelligence services in other democracies as governments expanded their digital arsenals amid the pandemic.

In India, facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology exploded after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party swept into power in 2014, becoming a tool for police to monitor mass gatherings. The country is seeking to build what will be among the world’s largest facial recognition networks.

As the pandemic took hold in early 2020, state and central governments tasked local police with enforcing mask mandates. Fines of up to $25, as much as 12 days’ pay for some laborers and unaffordable for the nearly 230 million people estimated to be living in poverty in India, were introduced in some places.

In the south-central city of Hyderabad, police started taking pictures of people flaunting the mask mandate or simply wearing masks haphazardly.

Police Commissioner C.V. Anand said the city has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years on patrol vehicles, CCTV cameras, facial recognition and geo-tracking applications and several hundred facial recognition cameras, among other technologies powered by algorithms or machine learning. Inside Hyderabad’s Command and Control Center, officers showed an AP reporter how they run CCTV camera footage through facial recognition software that scans images against a database of offenders.

“When (companies) decide to invest in a city, they first look at the law-and-order situation,” Anand said, defending the use of such tools as absolutely necessary. “People here are aware of what the technologies can do, and there is wholesome support for it.”

By May 2020, the police chief of Telangana state tweeted about his department rolling out AI-based software using CCTV to zero-in on people not wearing masks. The tweet included photos of the software overlaying colored rectangles on the maskless faces of unsuspecting locals.

#AI based #FaceMaskViolationEnforcement is being rolled out by TS police.
Leveraging ComputerVision & #DeepLearningTechnique being implemented on surveillance CCTVs across the cities is #FirstOfItsKind in INDIA.
Shall be enabled shortly across the 3Commissionerates
*Hyd,Cyb&Rck. pic.twitter.com/hGwvq9cvsE

— DGP TELANGANA POLICE (@TelanganaDGP) May 8, 2020

More than a year later, police tweeted images of themselves using hand-held tablets to scan people’s faces using facial recognition software, according to a post from the official Twitter handle of the station house officer in the Amberpet neighborhood.

Police said the tablets, which can take ordinary photographs or link them to a facial recognition database of criminals, were a useful way for officers to catch and fine mask offenders.

“When they see someone not wearing a mask, they go up to them, take a photo on their tablet, take down their details like phone number and name,” said B Guru Naidu, an inspector in Hyderabad’s South Zone.

Officers decide who they deem suspicious, stoking fears among privacy advocates, some Muslims and members of Hyderabad’s lower-caste communities.

“If the patrolling officers suspect any person, they take their fingerprints or scan their face – the app on the tablet will then check these for any past criminal antecedents,” Naidu said.

S Q Masood, a social activist who has led government transparency campaigns in Hyderabad, sees more at stake. Masood and his father-in-law were seemingly stopped at random by police in Shahran market, a predominantly Muslim area, during a COVID-19 surge last year. Masood said officers told him to remove his mask so they could photograph him with a tablet.

“I told them I won’t remove my mask. They then asked me why not, and I told them I will not remove my mask.” He said they photographed him with it in place. Back home, Masood went from bewildered to anxious: Where and how was this photo to be used? Would it be added to the police’s facial recognition database?

Now he’s suing in the Telangana High Court to find out why his photo was taken and to limit the widespread use of facial recognition. His case could set the tone for India’s growing ambition to combine emerging technology with law enforcement in the world’s largest democracy, experts said.

India lacks a data protection law and even existing proposals won’t regulate surveillance technologies if they become law, said Apar Gupta, executive director of the New Delhi-based Internet Freedom Foundation, which is helping to represent Masood.

Police responded to Masood’s lawsuit and denied using facial recognition in his case, saying that his photograph was not scanned against any database and that facial recognition is only used during the investigation of a crime or suspected crime, when it can be run against CCTV footage.

In two separate AP interviews, local police demonstrated both how the TSCOP app carried by police on the street can compare a person’s photograph to a facial recognition database of criminals, and how from the Command and Control Center police can use facial recognition analysis to compare stored mugshots of criminals to video gathered from CCTV cameras.

Masood’s lawyers are working on a response and awaiting a hearing date.

Privacy advocates in India believe that such stepped-up actions under the pandemic could enable what they call 360 degree surveillance, under which things like housing, welfare, health and other kinds of data are all linked together to create a profile.

“Surveillance today is being posed as a technological panacea to large social problems in India, which has brought us very close to China,” Gupta said. “There is no law. There are no safeguards. And this is general purpose deployment of mass surveillance.”

‘THE NEW NORMAL’

What use will ultimately be made of the data collected and tools developed during the height of the pandemic remains an open question. But recent uses in Australia and the United States may offer a glimpse.

During two years of strict border controls, Australia’s conservative former Prime Minister Scott Morrison took the extraordinary step of appointing himself minister of five departments, including the Department of Health. Authorities introduced both national and state-level apps to notify people when they had been in the vicinity of someone who tested positive for the virus.

But the apps were also used in other ways. Australia’s intelligence agencies were caught “incidentally” collecting data from the national COVIDSafe app. News of the breach surfaced in a November 2020 report by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, which said there was no evidence that the data was decrypted, accessed or used. The national app was canceled in August by a new administration as a waste of money: it had identified only two positive COVID-19 cases that wouldn’t have been found otherwise.

At the local level, people used apps to tap their phones against a site’s QR code, logging their individual ID so that if a COVID-19 outbreak occurred, they could be contacted. The data sometimes was used for other purposes. Australian law enforcement co-opted the state-level QR check-in data as a sort of electronic dragnet to investigate crimes.

After biker gang boss Nick Martin was shot and killed at a speedway in Perth, police accessed QR code check-in data from the health apps of 2,439 drag racing fans who attended the December 2020 race. It included names, phone numbers and arrival times.

Police accessed the information despite Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan’s promise on Facebook that the COVID-related data would only be accessible to contact-tracing personnel at the Department of Health. The murder was eventually solved using entirely traditional policing tactics, including footprint matching, cellphone tracking and ultimately a confession.

Western Australia police didn’t respond to requests for comment. Queensland and Victoria law enforcement also sought the public’s QR check-in data in connection with investigations. Police in both states did not address AP questions regarding why they sought the data, and lawmakers in Queensland and Victoria have since tightened the rules on police access to QR check-in information.

In the U.S., which relied on a hodge-podge of state and local quarantine orders to ensure compliance with COVID rules, the federal government took the opportunity to build out its surveillance toolkit, including two contracts in 2020 worth $24.9 million to the data mining and surveillance company Palantir Technologies Inc. to support the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ pandemic response. Documents obtained by the immigrant rights group Just Futures Law under the Freedom of Information Act and shared with AP showed that federal officials contemplated how to share data that went far beyond COVID-19.

The possibilities included integrating “identifiable patient data,” such as mental health, substance use and behavioral health information from group homes, shelters, jails, detox facilities and schools. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control does not use any of that individual-level information in the platform CDC now manages, said Kevin Griffis, a department spokesman. Griffis said he could not comment on discussions that occurred under the previous administration.

The protocols appeared to lack information safeguards or usage restrictions, said Paromita Shah, Just Futures Law’s executive director.

“What the pandemic did was blow up an industry of mass collection of biometric and biographical data,” Shah said. “So, few things were off the table.”

Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control purchased detailed cellphone location data revealing people’s daily whereabouts, nationwide. “Mobility insights” data from at least 20 million devices could be used to “project how much worse things would have been without the bans,” such as stay-at-home orders and business closures, according to a July 2021 contract obtained by the nonprofit group Tech Inquiry and shared with AP.

The contract shows data broker Cuebiq provided a “device ID,” which typically ties information to individual cell phones. The CDC also could use the information to examine the effect of closing borders, an emergency measure ordered by the Trump administration and continued by President Joe Biden, despite top scientists’ objections that there was no evidence the action would slow the coronavirus.

CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said the agency acquired aggregated, anonymous data with extensive privacy protections for public health research, but did not address questions about whether the agency was still using the data. Cuebiq did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

For Scott-Railton, that sets a dangerous precedent.

“What COVID did was accelerate state use of these tools and that data and normalize it, so it fit a narrative about there being a public benefit,” he said. “Now the question is, are we going to be capable of having a reckoning around the use of this data, or is this the new normal?”

Of course it’s the “new normal.”

None of these attacks on freedom are ever rolled back.

We’re still living under the Patriot Act, despite the fact that it’s now effectively illegal to talk about Moslems being terrorists.

They could admit the coronavirus never even existed, and they would never roll back these new spying measures.

The good news is: this can only go so far. Eventually, this system is going to be so monstrous and unnatural that it will have to collapse.

Everyone must get vaccinated so we can stop wearing the masks that stop facial recognition from actually working, but vaccinated people should still wear a mask anyways.

Please get vaccinated. Please wear a mask. Lives are at stake. #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/eN0l7mv88O

— Nancy Sinatra (@NancySinatra) August 23, 2021

If this doesn’t make sense to you, you better start following The Science or you’re gonna end up dead.

Washington Post:

The federal government plans to expand its use of facial recognition to pursue criminals and scan for threats, an internal survey has found, even as concerns grow about the technology’s potential for contributing to improper surveillance and false arrests.

Ten federal agencies — the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Interior, Justice, State, Treasury and Veterans Affairs — told the Government Accountability Office they intend to grow their facial recognition capabilities by 2023, the GAO said in a report posted to its website Tuesday.

Most of the agencies use face-scanning technology so employees can unlock their phones and laptops or access buildings, though a growing number said they are using the software to track people and investigate crime. The Department of Agriculture, for instance, said it wants to use it to monitor live surveillance feeds at its facilities and send an alert if it spots any faces also found on a watch list.

The government’s expansion comes as major tech companies have pushed to stall law enforcement’s adoption of the software. Amazon said in May that it had stopped selling its facial recognition software Rekognition to U.S. police, citing the lack of federal laws governing how the software should be used. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

Three states — Virginia, Massachusetts and Maine — and more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Portland and San Francisco, have banned or restricted the technology’s use by public officials or police.

Representatives from both parties voiced concerns about the technology during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month. And Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in April introduced a bill that would ban the government from using facial recognition systems that relied on data that had been “illegitimately obtained.”

Federal agencies need stricter limits on facial recognition to protect privacy, says government watchdogProponents say the software’s accuracy is improving and that it has played a critical role in helping track and identify major criminals. But the technology’s accuracy has been shown in research to vary wildly depending on the skin color of the person being surveilled. Facial recognition searches have been cited in at least three wrongful arrests, all of which were of Black men, and in the identification of protesters accused of violence during demonstrations over the murder of George Floyd.

“Even with all the privacy issues and accuracy problems, the government is pretty much saying, ‘Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,’” said Jake Laperruque, a senior counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, an independent watchdog group in Washington.

Because of racist reasons, it’s pretty hard to apply the same algorithms to white people and black people.

Many have tried to figure out a way for black people to be correctly identified, but they all failed. Even Google failed.

The plan is to have an app, run by the government, where you have to scan a QR code every time you enter a building. The app then alerts you if there’s a coronavirus case in a place you visited.

They’ve written down this plan. They published it basically immediately after the alleged “pandemic” started.

But instead of just telling you that upfront, they’ve danced a jig.

Study Finds:

The world is waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to just be over already. The finish line appears to be in sight as COVID-19 vaccines roll out. Unfortunately, an ominous new report by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center contends that mass vaccinations alone won’t control or end the pandemic.

Instead, they say protecting against the spread of both symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 infections is the true key to ending the pandemic. Asymptomatic cases in particular continue to drive the pandemic forward, according to study authors. In other words, social distancing and masks aren’t going to be superfluous any time soon.

“Determining the true transmission capability of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic cases is inherently complex, but knowledge gaps should not detract from acknowledging their role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2,” researchers write in a university release.

“We can’t rely on vaccination alone to control the pandemic,” adds co-author Angela L. Rasmussen, PhD. “Vaccines are great for protecting people against disease, but we don’t yet know how well they work to protect against transmission.”

What?

“Asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission poses a unique challenge for public health and infection prevention mitigation efforts,” notes study co-author Saskia V. Popescu, PhD, MA. “Ultimately this is something we will need to continuously keep our eye on as we move into the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and a reduction of disease due to vaccinations.”

“Until there is widespread implementation of robust surveillance and epidemiological measures that allow us to put out these smokeless fires, the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be fully extinguished,” the team conclude.

Yep.

There it is.

They’re just spewing gibberish at you, then saying: “so this means we have to spy on you.”

There isn’t any pandemic. It’s the flu. The vaccines are a bizarre gene therapy treatment.

They are already tracking your movements with your phone, but they want to get you involved in the process, as part of a psychological conditioning scheme. They are progressively dehumanizing you, on purpose, in order to get you to accept ever more aggressive intrusions.

The people in control of this operation are all lunatic satanic cultists who are scheming to make themselves immortal using technology and then invade outer space for some reason.

This is all a surreal nightmare.

It’s hard to understand when it is playing out in real time in front of you, and you’re in the middle of it. But this really is something out of a science fiction novel. Not even a normal science fiction novel. A Philip K. Dick surrealist and psychedelic science fiction novel.

Remember when the American government accused Huawei of being a security risk? Now the government (full text of the bill can be found here) wants every company that makes encrypted devices and operating systems to give them the key to decrypt people’s data, effectively making these companies a security risk for their consumers.

Bitcoin.com:

US lawmakers have introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted information. This bill is “a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States,” one expert says. It requires manufacturers of encrypted devices and operating systems to have the ability to decrypt data upon request, creating a backdoor requirement.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and U.S. Senators Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act on Tuesday. The new bill “would bring an end to warrant-proof encryption in devices, platforms, and systems,” the committee’s announcement reads.

“Terrorists and criminals routinely use technology, whether smartphones, apps, or other means, to coordinate and communicate their daily activities,” Senator Graham said. He claims that law enforcement could not access “vital information” in many recent “terrorism cases and serious criminal activity” even after a court order was issued. Senator Cotton elaborated, “Tech companies’ increasing reliance on encryption has turned their platforms into a new, lawless playground of criminal activity,” adding:

“This bill will ensure law enforcement can access encrypted material with a warrant based on probable cause and help put an end to the Wild West of crime on the internet.”

Terrorist and criminals routinely use the internet to communicate and organize, so we need to make sure that we can access the data of every internet-enabled device.

Also, the criminals communicate face to face too, so we need every citizen to carry at all times a microphone that will be sending real-time audio data to law enforcement in order to determine the lawfulness of their face-to-face communications.

It would be similar to how police officers have to carry their body cam around.

The bill also “allows the Attorney General to issue directives to service providers and device manufacturers to report on their ability to comply with court orders, including timelines for implementation,” the committee’s announcement reveals. “The Government would be responsible for compensating the recipient of a directive for reasonable costs incurred in complying with the directive.”

Furthermore, the committee noted that the bill “Promotes technical and lawful access training and provides real-time assistance” and “Directs the Attorney General to create a prize competition to award participants who create a lawful access solution in an encrypted environment, while maximizing privacy and security.”

Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, calls the bill “a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States.” She exclaimed:

“This bill is the encryption backdoor mandate we’ve been dreading was coming, but that nobody, during the past six years of the renewed crypto wars, had previously dared to introduce. Well, these three senators finally went there.”

Andi Wilson Thompson, senior policy analyst at New America’s Open Technology Institute, shares the sentiment, explaining: “This bill is just another attack on encryption, and trying to portray it as a ‘balanced solution’ that could protect privacy is just an attempt to distract from its true intent.” Thompson focuses on issues including digital security, vulnerabilities equities, encryption, and internet freedom.

The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act “is actually even more out of touch with reality than many other recent anti-encryption bills,” said Andrew Crocker, a senior staff attorney on the civil liberties team of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He added that the new bill is “even worse than EARN IT,” which he described as “a dangerous anti-speech and anti-security bill that would hand a government commission, led by the Attorney General, the power to determine ‘best practices’ online.”

The timing here is interesting, what with the WHO demanding aggressive tracking of people and people being distracted with Black Lives Matter protests or too fatigued to be paying attention due to the lockdown and coronavirus hoax.

Even if the bill is scrapped, they’ll try again later. They have a history of trying again and again until they get what they want.

This whole thing about needing to track people because of a virus that is no more threatening than the flu, talking about mass vaccinations, immunity certificates, and making sure that people respect the lockdown fits perfectly with their goal of having total access to people’s information.

No more rights and no more privacy. Those risk people’s lives. Safety is the only thing that matters, and the government knows exactly how to keep you safe.

The coronavirus hysteria allows governments to frame any opposition to policies alleged to be intended to fight the coronavirus as wanting to risk people’s lives.

If you oppose being tracked, you oppose saving lives.

Daily Mail:

A mobile coronavirus tracing app could help to significantly slow the rate of virus transmission if it is built and released quickly, scientists claim.

Researchers from Oxford University have been studying how COVID-19 is transmitted and whether mobile apps could help slow the spread.

In a report for NHSX and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the Oxford bioethicists say a rapidly built app could bring countries out of lockdown safely.

The UK government is working on its own mobile app that is expected to use bluetooth to identify who coronavirus patients have been in contact with to then trace them.

Ministers hope that it would stop the spread when lockdown is lifted and could avoid future restrictions being needed.

Oxford researchers haven’t built an app but say if they were to build one it would use the bluetooth technology being proposed by the NHS.

Researchers say time is of the essence when it comes to getting the most out of a virus tracing app and it should be launched quickly.

A bluetooth-based app would be enough to meet the requirements of slowing the spread and it wouldn’t need to store or track specific locations.

This technology is already being used by the Singapore government for their app.

The NHS app would require at least 50 per cent of the population to install it for it to work effectively as it relies on remembering who they have been in contact with.

The app would detect other phones in close vicinity using bluetooth signals then store a record of those contacts on the device.

If someone tests positive for COVID-19 they could share those contacts with the NHS and people could then be alerted to isolate.

People will be forced to go along with phone apps that track their every move, vaccines, social distancing and isolation practices, and to give up cash “to fight the virus.”

The government will have total control, total knowledge about individuals, and total access to personal information.

Opposing any of that will mean being charged with attempted murder or biological terrorism.

It raises ‘a key conflict between the need for mass surveillance on the spread of the virus and the issue privacy’, says Mark Skilton from Warwick Business School.

‘Using devices on our mobile phone to monitor certain data and send messages to change people’s behaviour may sound Orwellian, but with this pandemic turning into a long game, we may need to use all the digital tools at our disposal.’

The Oxford team say done properly an app could also reduce the serious, psychological and economic impacts caused by widespread lockdowns.

Critically, the researchers suggest a mobile app can help slow the spread of infection until vaccines and antiviral treatments become widely available.

From the levels of mass hysteria that we’re witnessing right now, it looks like vaccines, once available, will likely be mandatory.

You might even have to get a chip in your hand that shows you’ve gotten the vaccine. Or hey – maybe they’ll let you put it in your forehead.

This pandemic is the silver bullet that will be used to force people to comply with anything.

The true face of phones.

The ones in power can now use the excuse of fighting pandemics in order to further tighten the leash on their slaves, and the slaves aren’t likely to complain because they’ve been trained to enjoy being choked like sluts.

The Guardian:

The mobile phone industry has explored the creation of a global data-sharing system that could track individuals around the world, as part of an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19.

The Guardian has learned that a senior official at GSMA, an international standard-setting body for the mobile phone industry, held discussions with at least one company that is capable of tracking individuals globally through their mobile devices, and discussed the possible creation of a global data-sharing system.

If most people weren’t biological machines waiting to be imbued with a soul, the fact that there already are companies capable of tracking individuals globally through their mobile devices should spark a heated debate about whether or not that should be allowed, how did it end up happening, and how to prevent it.

But since most people are human husks, when presented with that information, they’ll just say “oh well” and sigh as they continue to scroll down their social media feed.

Any move to create such a global tracking system would represent a major escalation in efforts to use mobile phone location data to help stem the pandemic, and would be likely to raise concerns among privacy and security experts.

Until now the use of mobile phone tracking in the fight against Covid-19 has been restricted to national governments, which are either monitoring data within their borders or in discussions with mobile operators and technology companies about doing so.

They include the US, India, Iran, Poland, Singapore, Israel and South Korea. The British government is engaged in talks with BT, the owner of the UK mobile operator EE, about using phone location and usage data to determine the efficacy of isolation orders.

The concept of an international mobile tracing scheme would go further, enabling authorities to monitor movements and potentially track the spread of the disease across borders. The GSMA represents the interests of 750 mobile phone operators and vendors across the world and helps set international standards for companies.

A person familiar with its exploratory talks said they were at an early stage and that decisions had not yet been made about whether to move ahead with the plan. The aim of such a global network would be to enact “contact tracing”, enabling authorities to use mobile location data to track who a person infected with Covid-19 may have come in contact with.

A spokesperson for GSMA strenuously denied it was currently involved in any project to create a global tracking system. “We are not involved in a project of this nature,” the GSMA spokesperson said. However the GSMA also said it would not comment on discussions that had taken place or ideas that were being explored.

“In this emergency situation, the GSMA and its members are doing everything they can to help the global fight against Covid-19,” Mats Granryd, the director of the GSMA, said in a statement emailed to the Guardian. “We are engaging with operators, policymakers and international organisations around the world to explore viable mobile big data and AI solutions to fight this pandemic while adhering to principles of privacy and ethics.”

Advocates of using mobile phone technology in medical emergencies say accurate and up-to-date information can be a vital tool.

What if some people refuse to use a mobile phone? Will they not be allowed to go outside and travel?

What if enough people refuse? Will governments then propose injecting mandatory tracking chips under the skin?

Notice that what they’re exploring is the idea of using the mobile phone data that already exists and the capabilities of current phones for a wide open mass surveillance operation.

They’re not talking about making phones able to track individuals.

Phones are already able to track individuals.