“SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence among its investors.”
The CDC used COVID to rush the purchase, then planned to use the data agency-wide for non-COVID work. Its list of 21 use cases covers curfew zones, school visits and places of worship. The data is called aggregated, which researchers keep showing means very little. A federal agency doesn’t need a warrant when it can just buy your location from a broker.