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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] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (1 children)

Your survival kit:

Empty GrapheneOS Pixel 6a bought with cash that isn't your daily driver (last Pixel with snapdragon chip that allows IMEI changes)

JMP.chat

Silent.link

Sensors off (developer options)

Bluetooth/WiFi/NFC off

Offline maps/airplane mode when navigating/at destination

Infrared AND polarized license plate covers. Remove any and all bumper stickers and other accessories that can be fingerprinted

IR blocking lens sunglasses for facial recognition

And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the tor browser over a trustworthy VPN

So yeah fuck the police

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

how does one change your imei number using a pixel 6a, with a rooted phone with magisk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

I may be wrong, but I don't think root is required. Most of the methods in this article use the AT command.

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

privacy is important, kids

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

This is not new and it has previously been used against anti-abortion activists, tracking locations and even being used to record religious confessions. People on both sides of the abortion issue can oppose this type of monitoring.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

How is this not a warrantless search?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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] 26 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours 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] 3 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

Time for an alternative means of communication

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Holy shit.

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