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IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database over 10k Times
- sneak 6y agoThese sorts of tracking SDKs are endemic in apps; it's impossible to give, say, a delivery app your location permission without also giving it to all of the advertiser/analytics SDKs embedded in that app. The app developer may not even be fully aware of the data the embedded SDK collects. Some are distributed (to app developers) as compiled binaries. Any app with a facebook login button, for example, is transmitting some of your activity data (with coarse geolocation from your IP) to facebook, even if you don't use the facebook login button. Google and Apple could ban this sort of stealth location tracking (via the widespread practice of ad company SDK embedding) in the mobile app stores, but they don't.
- coding123 6y agoThe title of the article feels like it has the wrong "tense".
- notananthem 6y agoThe real villain in this story is CBP, not sure why the focus is on the IRS. The IRS is investigating fraudulent taxes, whereas the CBP is documented raping, torturing, sterilizing both citizens and asylum-seekers, and separating children at the border.
- justinzollars 6y agoIf it wasn't CBP it would be another player. The problem is the IRS should not have this power.
- haram_masala 6y agoThe CBP has not been documented sterilizing anyone.
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoMy nagging dedication to a crappy flip-phone is rewarded once again!