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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having just done that for the first time I feel confident in saying anyone who's still using facebook or Xitter or tiktok or whatever - is not going to do that. I wish they would but that's an order of magnitude more technical than where they are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint - the only reason I didn't degoogle earlier was because my phone simply didn't support Lineage or Divest. Chances are that whatever budget Chinaphone you have would be in the same situation. Now I bought a Pixel specifically with the intent of installing a privacy-preserving OS, but for a while most I could do was ADB-disabling Google services.

Unlike installing Linux, chances are high that a degoogled OS wouldn't work on the hardware you already have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Oh it took me a solid month of trial and error, scrolling through xda and other forums reading every how-to and watching plenty of vids and I finally got it to work. But it was not even fun. Yes starting with a Pixel is better, but f* teh googlez.