Denver, CO – Yesterday, we asked our readers if they opposed the government using location data to track the movement of citizens?
Governor Jared Polis recently admitted in a press conference that Colorado is using metadata from cell phones to track the location of citizens.
Question 1: Regardless of whether personal information is included or not, do you oppose the government using location data to track the movement of citizens?
Results: YES (120) – NO (10)
Commenters on social media were also strongly opposed to the idea of the government accessing this location data.
What is interesting about these results is that over 92% of those polled oppose cell phone tracking by the government regardless of whether personal information is included or not.
That would indicate that readers who participated do not believe the government tracking citizens through cell phone metadata is a good thing, period.
Let us know what you think in the comments on our website and on social media.
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Tracking United States citizens by any part of any government, by any means, is just WRONG!! Feels like what the Chinese, Cubans, Russans and any other communists regime would do.
Government has no business tracking citizens. Simple remedy for that? When you go out, leave your phone at home. TALK to your neighbors and those you may meet on your walk. Let the trackers think you’re still at home.
Well, there is no help for the ignorant. If you have a mobile device, you are being tracked.
If you are not happy with that, you better stop keeping that mobile device running.
Or at the very least, take control of it and get an RF shield bag.
Oh government, please save me from this technology which I willingly purchased, continue to pay for, and have been told for the past 20 years is likely dangerous to my health and is proven without a doubt to violate my 4th amendment to privacy. Oh please save me from myself dear government.