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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] 43 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How is this not a warrantless search?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is, but the USA hasn't cared since Snowden.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

UNDERTALE???!?!?!??11

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's the issue with the patriot act, they've been allowed to do warrantless searches for a long time now.

FISA court if they run into any friction

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because a carrier's data on you is not your person or belongings. The companies holding this data are selling access to it, so it's not being searched, it's being offered.

In other words, the same reason as why they don't need a search warrant if there's a breaking and the business across the street volunteers their security camera footage, even if you're on that footage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Courts have actually said that looking back at someone's location data counts as a search and requires a warrant. There's currently a lawsuit recently filed by the institute for justice aledging that the use of flock safety license plate readers is unconstitutional because it's a warrantless search.