Chance (27 Nov 2022)
"Massachusetts Health Department Covertly Installed Spyware on Android Phones"


 
Hello John and Doves,
 
The Massachusetts Health Department was caught after installing spyware on Android phones.
 
Seems that the spyware app, MassNotify, was secretly installed on Android devices 'as a measure to fight Covid.'
 
"The lawsuit alleges the Massachusetts Public Health Department worked with Google, staring in June 2021, to install the software surreptitiously on over one million Android phones.  MassNortify can only be found through the devices' "settings" function and then navigating to "view all apps" and is not readily visible on the screen."
 
"According to the class-action law suit, the software was installed without search warrants and the Massachusetts Public Health Department would reinstall it if a user found it and deleted it."
 
"The website scribes the app's use "when two people using MassNotify are near each other, their phones exchange random codes using Bluetooth.  "If you test positive for Covid in Massachusetts your information gets fed into the system and when you walk around everyone around gets notified on their phones that you're infected."
 
Massachusetts Public Health Department said that MassNotify needs to be turned on before it can be enabled and one can opt out.  BUT it was "secretly" installed on the phones.  And maybe the owner of the phone didn't know what the app could do...and opted in.  Even if the owner doesn't 'opt in' the phones are communicating via Bluetooth with each other.
 
"The Post Millennial reported in 2020 about Google and Apple adding coronavirus tracking systems to their Android and iOS systems.  The technology developed in 2020 resembles MassNotify's description as the systems used short-range Bluetooth communications that began a network of contact-tracing.  It stored data on phones that come in close contact with the phone of an infected person."
 
So Android phones and Apple phones can be used for contact-tracing and so much more.
 
This lawsuit states, "Conspiring with a private company to hijack residents' smartphones without the owners' knowledge or consent is not a tool that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) may lawfully employ in its efforts to combat Covid-19.  Such brazen disregard for civil liberties violates both the United States and Massachusetts Constitutions, and it must stop now."
 
"Even if a user does not opt into the notification system, DPH's Contact Tracing App still causes the mobile device to broadcast and receive Bluetooth signals. This results in nearby devices exchanging Rolling Proximity Identifiers which are randomly generated by the App and can be traced to each device owned with a "Key" generated by the App and help by DPH.  The exchange of data also includes device identifiers known as media access control addresses, which can be associated with specific device owners or locations.  The exchanged data, both random and non-random, are time-stamped and stored in each device alongside other personal identifiers, including the device owner's MAC address, wireless network IP addresses, phone numbers and personal emails. When this stored data is written onto mobile devices' system logs, it becomes available to DPH, Google, application developers, device manufacturers, network providers, and other third parties with access to the logs.  DPH and third parties can use the MAC address of a device owner and other personal identifiers to trace the logged data back to determine the individual identify of the owners.  Those with access to the system logs can also use time-stamped data regarding MAC addresses of other devices and location with which the device connected to determine the owner's past contacts, locations, and movement."
 
"In sum, DPH installed spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners' permission and awareness."
Complaint_Wright-with-Exhibit.pdf
 
Other states' public health agencies "released their own contact-tracing apps using the Google API for installation on Android devices."  These states are:  Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C. Guam, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming, Washington, and Wisconsin.
 
This contact tracing involves the use of Bluetooth. Which one can shut off.  However, "...this functionality can be turned on by the government or your cellphone company without your knowledge or consent.  And remember, that fact that you do not see the Bluetooth icon or notification does not mean that it is not operative, it only means that you are not being informed if it is operative.  Normally the lack of such an icon means that it is not operative, but with a small change to the code in the programming of your phone, this can be switched to act to deceive rather than inform you."
The Google App & Contact Tracing on Android phones | From Rome
 
Sneaky.  And if Massachusetts PHD can do this....and Bluetooth can be turned on and off without any notification to the phone owner....those with Android, Apple, etc phones beware - your federal government, state government, etc can spy on you.  (And a week or so ago I wrote about the TikTok app - it can turn your microphone on/off without you knowing it - spying on your conversations).
 
Today I was talking with my neighbor.  Her husband has spent quite a bit of time in China over the last few years due to his business....one of his Chinese friends told him that everyone in China is tracked.  Mainly through cell phones.  And if you don't have a cell phone, the CCP has another way to track those people.  He said they are always watched.
 
That's what the Biden administration wants for us - to track and control everything we do.
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
 
Maranatha!
 
Chance