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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
submitted 3 weeks 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] 27 points 3 weeks ago (38 children)

Don't bring your phone.

Get a burner and set up call forwarding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

Then how you gonna take a selfie in the bed?

Seriously tho, people need phones for everything, including their calendar and map and communication with their partner.

Not bringing a phone isn't an option

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are alternatives to all of that. If you're going to do potentially illegal acts, and you don't want to rot in jail for the next however many decades until a scotus exists to set you free, take basic operational security into account and don't bring the corporate tracking device that cops can freely tap into.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. And we need laws that provide this protection to everyone by default.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's cute but to get those laws you have to vote third party and hope they don't get killed or bribed before passing said law. I don't see that happening until long after the US collapses, so in the meantime it makes more sense to understand how not to be a victim to a fascist government.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In the US, yes. But this is mainstream in countries with democracies.

Anyway, of course. Stein or West or youre voting for climate catastrophe, privacy erosion, and genocide.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago

The opposite, actually, they're the only candidates, assuming you meant Stein and Claudia, that do not have any of that in their policies.

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