Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.

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.

  • Jtotheb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    You really think you came up with an airtight solution to device tracking that nobody in the industry has considered on a whim?

      • Jtotheb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        That was possible over a decade ago.

        Link Link Link Link

        Also to be clear, you suggested that you bring a burner phone and set up call forwarding. That implies a phone that’s on. If you’re carrying a burner phone that’s off, I do have a novel solution, just don’t bring it

        • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Hm. I said without power. Not switched off.

          Judging by the upvotes you’re far from the only one who forgot about simply removing the battery.

          I suggested no power but not for the entire trip. Put the battery in when you’re sufficiently far from your house so as not to be associated with it. Remove it again when you’re sufficiently close to your house.

          Use your imagination. It helps.

          • Jtotheb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 days ago

            You know, we can talk about how batteries aren’t removable in most phones anymore, about whether or not the act of suddenly buying prepaid phones isn’t itself incriminating, any number of factors, but I really only replied to you because you were rude, not because I wanted to talk about it.

            • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              7 days ago

              Strange. You wanna be done so suddenly after being shown how obvious the solution is.

              we can talk about how batteries aren’t removable in most phones anymore

              So don’t buy those. Buy one with a removable battery….

              whether or not the act of suddenly buying prepaid phones isn’t itself incriminating

              Go use cash, in person.

              Again, use your imagination. I refuse to believe I’m smarter than you or anyone else. These seem like obvious solutions.

              My incredulity that the person further up the thread couldn’t think of a simple solution to the issue they posed came across as rude. I’m not sorry about it. Think for a minute….

              I think everyone in the thread ultimately wants women to be able to get abortions without fear of prosecution.