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I want to see where lawmakers are spending their time (especially in their off hours). There's probably plenty of fun stuff to discover in the data.
by mLuby 8y ago
I want to see where lawmakers are spending their time (especially in their off hours). There's probably plenty of fun stuff to discover in the data.
- the_seraphim 8y agoYep, mostly FBI agents waiting to arrest you for felony wiretapping charges
- mcrady 8y agoAre you implying it's illegal to do that? It seems like the whole point of the article is that this is entirely legal. It sounds like congressmen and senators explicitly voted to prevent the FCC from making things like this illegal.
- travmatt 8y agoThat doesn’t mean they won’t carve out exceptions for themselves though. Congress passed laws to allow them to trade on inside information, for example.
- mehrdadn 8y agoThose were repealed, right? https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...
- rgbrenner 8y agohere are a few updates after that (in order by date): https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-investigated-insider-trading/ https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-inv... https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/congress-stock-trading-conflict-of-interest-rules-238033 https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/congress-stock-tra... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-truth-about-congress-and-financial-conflicts/2017/10/19/8ea8afd6-b382-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.ce8b2ce870cd https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-truth-about-cong...
- mehrdadn 8y agoWow thank you! :)
- the_seraphim 8y agoI'm implying that the FBI won't give a fuck if its legal or illegal and the onus is on you to prove that you are not a terrorist, which considering you have been monitoring high level government officials on a real time location basis... Good luck.
- sametmax 8y agoI think as a geek your life changes once you learn being right means nothing outside of your field of expertise. And being a smartass means nothing outside of your social circle.
- joe_g_young 8y agoWhat other companies purchase phone geo tracking that provide it online. Would polling congressmen's public assessible location be ok if provided online?
- coldtea 8y ago>is that this is entirely legal For corporations and the government to be doing it. Not for activists to do it. Activists can be jailed for doing even actually obviously legal things...
- hedora 8y agoHonestly, a publically available real time map of the location of all lawmakers that haven’t pledged to fix this is probably the only way to fix it. If that’s not enough, some simple data mining to list all their known associates, mistresses (etc), would probably get it fixed. Sadly, they’d probably just make it illegal to publish data about the ruling class and not the rest of us.
- whatshisface 8y ago>Sadly, they’d probably just make it illegal to publish data about the ruling class and not the rest of us. It might already be illegal, it sounds a little like blackmail.
- landryraccoon 8y ago> Honestly, a publically available real time map of the location of all lawmakers that haven’t pledged to fix this is probably the only way to fix it. Restricting this to certain lawmakers based on political affiliation on positions is not the right way to go. If one party is more affected than another, they will turn it into a purely tribal issue. (Democrats are lawbreakers who are endangering Republican politicians by releasing sensitive location data! This shows that Democrats cannot be trusted! Why wasn't Clinton's location data released too? Fake liberal news, etc.. etc..) This is easy to spin, and will turn their base against reform. If you do this, you have to include all lawmakers. This is actually more fair because regardless of who is paying lip service to privacy, the legislature collectively has failed to do anything about it. How do you know those who claim to support privacy really do at all behind closed doors?
- hutzlibu 8y agoYes. Thats still my main problem with this whole post privacy thing - the big players know allmost everything about us, but we only know redegated informations about them. I just heard (so no sure if true, but likely) Mark Zuckerberg bought all of the surrounding houses of his home to protect his privacy...
- mygo 8y agoIt’s true. happened years ago. he also bought 700 acres in Hawaiʻi.
- mtgx 8y agoHe also wanted a private meeting with the European Parliament...
- incongruity 8y agoInformation asymmetry - it’s always been a powerful tool in business, marketing, politics, etc. While the internet and mobile devices have given the masses much more information, they have given those in positions of power even more.
- rasz 8y agoTalk to your friendly local Repo men, they can track every bit of asset, and all they need is owners name. That includes tracking personal and car embedded cellphones, digging thru social media for close friends and family, scanning ANPR databases etc.
- tunap 8y ago1000%! My repo buddy knows everywhere anyone goes anytime. Very scary stuff. Luckily(sic), he had a crappy childhood & came into maturity as a highly principaled individual(0 drink, 0 drugs). I suspect he is the exception to the norm in that space. *He was in from out of town & borrowed another friend's workstation to run a trace a couple month's back. That mutual friend was agog at how much micro location data was pulled up. Frankly, I was, too.