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Its a danger to anyone who values its own privacy.

• superkuh 4y ago
  Yep. It's been nice to see a new subset of the population realize the dangers of pervasive surveillance and object to those they can live without. But what about the real dangers people don't want to think about because they're so useful? It's pretty likely you carry a cell phone everywhere you go and it's always by you. They are literally tracking devices. It doesn't matter what software you run on the userspace computer on your phone. The cell modem you don't legally control will always be broadcasting beacons and the basestations with their shared accurate clocks are going to be multi-laterating your position down <100m. In the USA they're keeping this data for 2-5 years. And they're going to continue "anonymizing" this data that shows you going to work and home over and over for years by removing names and then selling the raw location data to companies which then sell it to government and special interest groups which de-anonymize it easily. The only real privacy is turning off your cell phone radio.
• devmunchies 4y ago
  right, either you (1) value privacy and don't believe readers are ethical, or (2) you think a loss of some freedom to curb criminal activity is permissible. The way the title uses "danger" frames criminal activity as a good thing as long as it's an activity you agree with. It should instead be a general call for privacy protections, not a selective call.