Do you think you have been spied on? Well you just may be correct.
It seems that during the Covid-19 Pandemic a company that goes by the name of Predict-Wise has a data base that collect data on people movements. They have many different avenues of collecting this data on you.
The company uses cellphone data about the movements you make while traveling to different locations. One of the metrics they collect is whether or not you were on the movement more than your neighbors.
You may say so what does it matter, if they know where I am going I have nothing to hide. Hold on for one moment!
The Social Score
This information was used to create a social score that tell them how compliant you are to government edicts or mandates. It would compare you to others to determine your score. Still you might say so why do they want this information?
We should take a look at what they have been doing with this information. First some of the data collection points that they use: Facebook, Computers, Innovations Warrants Security, Federal Agencies, FBI stats many different sources of data. They collected 2billion GPS pings in real time for locations that people were traveling to.
Useful For Politicians
So who are the users of this information? The primary users of this data lately has been the Political Parties. They use the data to target individuals affiliations based on this data, as it reveals what venues you partake in, and how often and to what degree you are involved.
Privacy Issues
I do not know about you, but no one asked me if I wanted to be tracked, and my data to be sent to anyone period. To some companies this information is valuable. Millions of dollars are made selling this information to companies that want to sell you things. That being so, why didn’t they at least pay us something for that information which they are making millions on?
It seems to me that this goes contrary for a country that prides itself in freedoms, and individual privacy.
