Saturday, August 22, 2020
Sturgis, the Results Start Coming In
It's only been a week since the 80th annual Sturgis motorcycle rally wrapped up and, as expected, the Covid-19 pandemic results are beginning to flow in.
So far Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota are reporting in.
A company, Tectronix, has prepared a map of the revelers from their cellphone tracking.
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Sorry, I got totally sidelined by the tracking technology. Who gave Tectronix the right to track all those people? I'm a bit unsympathetic with people who can't turn their phones off but I still think that one should be able to move around without government or corporations tracking. The Stasi would have loved this. People might as well have transmitters implanted in their skulls.
Yes, the bikers were going to spread Covid; that was a given.
I don't think there's a permission issue, Toby. You may remember that a Toronto company, BlueDot, mapped the spread of Covid-19 out of Wuhan within 24 hours of word getting out. They used cellphone data from the airlines that let them track passengers to their destinations and so they knew, for example, there would be an early outbreak in California and some parts of Europe.
I suppose you could always have an iPhone implanted in your skull. People don't care. Privacy has lost its currency, especially since the rise of social media.
Is anyone surprised?
I can't imagine why anyone should be, Owen
This does not help!
https://flightaware.com/
Go to flight tracker.
TB
.. Toby might take issue with Canadian Political Parties that have gathered unknown amounts of his private personal data.. inc his voting record and are immune to inspection or revelation of where and from whom its been acquired, or lent / sold to.. even the RCMP aint privy.. We track bird migration, track storms these days.. and pollsters tell us what we think or should do.. Its such an f'n relief to not have to think, Mound.. its all done by proxy now.. dontcha know !
If the 'govinmint' can do the dirty.. why can't others.. ? I want to listen in to the Caucus morning meetings.. and get transcripts lickedy split.. all Parties. They're 'Public Servants' right ? On our dime ?
Sturgis is a case study from hell n gone.. When I see photos of people stacked upon each other on a beach.. I think the same thing.. Is this 'Fun' ??but It don't hit me as 'fun' .. Maybe I'm strange.. but I don't travel cross country to infect people randomly.. Yes its OK with Donald Trump having a 'rally' for money.. or whatever.. but I prefer to be basically broke.. doin no harm
TB, flight tracker has been available as a cheap app for computers and smartphones for years. Most people just wind up bored with it but I have wondered if it couldn't be useful to bad guys seeking to target a particular incoming jetliner.
Hi, Sal
When BlueDot got word of the Wuhan virus it cut deals with the airlines that allowed it to track outgoing passengers' phones. It received target data without any personal identifying information - name, gender, address, etc.
Remember when the Cheney cabal wanted to set up a new intelligence agency under Admiral John Poindexter to be called the Office of Total Information Awareness? It was intended to intercept, log, analyze and digest everything it could access, domestic and foreign. Anything conveyed online, including email. Every telephone call. Every voicemail. Every credit card bill. Every receipt - all your meds, your purchases, your shopping and buying habits. The lot. Before Congress nixed the idea the big challenge they were working on was how to effectively sift through such a massive volume of data.
The Office of Total Information Awareness was thwarted but it didn't stop. It merely continued on, in parcels, that were doled out across America's myriad national security agencies and offices. In other words TIA is still there, hiding in plain sight.
Then we had Cambridge Analytica, Brexit and the 2016 election. Cambridge boasted that, by running a person's FaceBook "likes" through their algorithms they could know that person better than their spouse, even better than the person know him/herself.
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