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I just get: "Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.wusa9.com/article/features/producers-picks/fbi-tracks-cell-phones-that-were-near-cap

• po1nter 6y ago
  Might be GDPR related if you are in Europe.
• jacquesm 6y ago
  Another company that doesn't understand the first principles about data privacy and the GDPR.
  • fennecfoxen 6y ago
    And another self-centered European who can't countenance that the rest of the world has neither incentive nor inclination to kowtow to Europe's whims, instead preferring to lecture us on our moral inferiority. But such things happen, and we should both get used to it.
    • ev1 6y ago
      I don't live in the EU currently but I don't think "no means no" and "informed consent is good" and "stop abusing and violating all of your users" is a bad thing. edit: This news article of several paragraphs is loading content from 11 domains directly. If you unblock a few of them, it loads JS that collects and sending your data and unique identifiers to dozens of domains. This one page of text makes over 1,000 requests, almost all of them for tracking/fingerprinting. According to devtools, the page itself is 900KB ungzipped. The ad XmlHttpRequest load is 37MB.
      • fennecfoxen 6y ago
        No one said pursuing these good things is a bad thing. But expecting everyone to do it for you, and then lecturing them on their inferiority when they find it easier or more profitable to block you than comply, is pretty lame. Europeans and their representatives have shut themselves off from this world of 1000 fingerprints; they should try owning the consequences of their actions.
      • im3w1l 6y ago
        Thing is that if you barely make any money from the EU, it's hard to justify the time and money spent just understanding the GDPR.
• lousken 6y ago
  https://archive.is/vOVNn https://archive.is/vOVNn
  • Zenst 6y ago
    Thank you
• eganist 6y ago
  Gonna guess it's a privacy law matter. WUSA9 is local to me in DC and I can open it just fine. Article body: ------------------------------------ WASHINGTON — If you were anywhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, you may be getting a knock on your door from the FBI. A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, telling them investigators were tracking people whose cell phones connected to wi-fi or pinged cell phone towers near the Capitol during the riots. "They don't call first, they just come to your house," Bree Stevens, a legal investigator who lives near Capitol Hill, said. Stevens said an FBI agent told her they were reaching out to every single person whose cell phone put them near the Capitol during the riots. She was out for a walk with a friend and his two young daughters on the afternoon of Jan. 6, but they were diverted by bomb scares until they ended up right next to the insurrection. Adults and kids were cordoned off and unable to get back to their apartments for four hours. "You don't want to be anywhere where they're going to go!" she said on a video she shot while police officers in riot gear quick-stepped toward the Capitol. Monday night, an investigator knocked on the door of her friend's apartment, who was "in house clothes" at the time. "His little girl had just painted his toenails, that was a little bit embarrassing," Stevens said. Stevens was out of town, so the agent called her on the phone number that the FBI had tracked. "Extremely creepy, because he explained that they have everyone’s phone number from pinging off the cell phone towers, and they know basically exactly where you were, within the vicinity of the Capitol," Stevens said. "And they can actually pinpoint on Google Maps exactly where you were standing. Like, he knew where I was standing on the sidewalk, like specifically, based on my cell phone ping." Stevens said the agent told her she wasn't a suspect, but said he wanted pictures of things she might have seen. Some civil rights advocates are concerned about the FBI's surveillance power. When contacted, the FBI declined to discuss its investigative methods.