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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 day 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] 96 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Start tracking politician phones. Oh look who paid a visit to the lobbyist house this week! That shit will get shut down real quick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I sure wouldn't vote for someone who met with lobbyists.

Do you?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

All politicians meet with lobbyists. It's hard to get a handle on the needs of the nation (or state, or so on), and lobbying is how people inform their representatives of that need. Now whether those lobbyists are scumbags or saints, that's a different question.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you don't want to be tracked illegally, don't bring your phone.

If you don't want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

edit: responded to the wrong comment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, democracy is a healthy and fully functioning institution.

You just got confused who's sponsoring it, that's understandable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What else would you suggest to do about it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Throw it down and bring real democracy like in Switzerland

Or throw it down and bring anarchism

None of these are realistic, so....