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[gixajo]

Those were the 2 "experiments".

http://https://elpais.com/economia/2...45_307680.html

https://elpais.com/economia/2020-04-...ronavirus.html


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[Aldaris]

A "conspiranoid" question: have massive mobile phone geolocation/tracking tests been done in your countries?

Because just before some months before startingall this coronaviruscrisis, in Spain, the government announced that for two days, two separate times(2 working days+2 holidays days), two experiments of this type would be carried out, and that the data would be used for a study on traffic and internal movements of the population.

One of the massive tracking experiments was done when we were already with the coronavirus, and they warned that although we were all confined (I don´t remember exactly the confinament level just in that moment), the experiment would be carried out, although the objective would serve other different statistical purposes, and that it would not be used as evidence even though some could be shown to break established confinement rules by moving outside their permitted zones.

They also said that only mobile phones with geolocation activated would be tracked, and that if one voluntarily decided to cancel that option, he was free to do so.

At least a disturbing matter, however, it was noticed with short news in the press and the media, there was an appearance of some member of the government to explain the matter, and the results of the study have never been seen.

Yeah, this is a standard thing. My friend was working on an algorithm which is meant to recognize patterns of people in shops. You know, analyzing how much time they spend in a certain location, what they are actually end up buying and all the statistical mess related to it. There was no Bilderberg 1984 system behind it though, just a grant from a supermarket chain which wanted more people to buy more of their stuff. I grant you guys one thing - most of the population is kinda naive when they think that the rest of the society cares about them first and foremost and doesn't see them as mere stats and a profit potential. But you tend to take it too far.