Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Santa and Cuebiq Know if You've Been Naughty or Nice

After Memorial Day, as the United States began to reopen, coronavirus cases began to rise...

For the Fourth of July weekend, a new analysis of cell phone data suggests even more people hit the road among 10 coronavirus hotspots, despite warnings from health experts.

The analysis comes from data shared with CNN by Cuebiq, one of the private companies that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses to track general movement in the United States. 

Cuebiq gets its data when people download apps on their phones and opt into anonymous location data tracking. The company's full data set includes 15 million phones nationwide. more