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.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    1 day ago

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

      • pingveno@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        57 minutes 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.

    • wrekone@lemmyf.ukEnglish
      92·
      1 day ago

      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

      • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        12 hours ago

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

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