Recently seized documents reveal that the Georgia National Guard plans to use individual’s smart phone location tracking to recruit high school kids at 67 schools across the state.
The Intercept was able to analyze federal contracts and plans by the Georgia Army National Guard to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state, by targeting phones found within a one-mile boundary of their campuses with recruiting advertisements “with the intent of generating qualified leads of potential applicants for enlistment while also raising awareness of the Georgia Army National Guard.”
Geofencing means creating a virtual perimeter in the real-world most often used in surveillance and tracking for law enforcement and intelligence. The Department of Defense (DoD) predicts that ‘interested vendors to deliver a minimum of 3.5 million ad views and 250,000 clicks, according to the contract paperwork.’
The Intercept wrote: ‘The ad campaign will make use of a variety of surveillance advertising techniques, including capturing the unique device IDs of student phones, tracking pixels, and IP address tracking. It will also plaster recruiting solicitations across Instagram, Snapchat, streaming television, and music apps. The documents note that “TikTok is banned for official DOD use (to include advertising),” owing to allegations that the app is a manipulative, dangerous conduit for hypothetical Chinese government propaganda.’…
