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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 otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes Boomer

I'm almost 50 myself, come on

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Millennial, actually

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Press X to doubt

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org -1 points 3 weeks ago

A millennial not having a cell phone is such an unimaginable concept?

For whatever it's worth, I do use SIP software telephony in order to make calls and receive texts, so in that way I do technically have a "phone". But what I'm fundamentally rejecting here is the notion that I must be compelled to carry around a device in my pocket infested with proprietary malware.