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Wait until I tell you how anyone can buy cell phone data... I really dislike the "conservative group" in the title there. Particularly, as everyone's buying / c
by lettergram 4y ago
Wait until I tell you how anyone can buy cell phone data... I really dislike the "conservative group" in the title there. Particularly, as everyone's buying / collecting the data.
For years, there are companies that sell your GPS coordinates. Search "2000 mules" they (group interested in proving the 2020 election was "stolen") used GPS coordinates combined with video to find who were "mules" collecting ballots and dropping them off ballots in multiple drop boxes (legal in many states btw).
Those same "mules" likely work for NGOs who buy GPS coordinates, web history / social media data / voter records to see areas who haven't visited a drop box, so they know tho to visit.
Everyone's buying the data. Everything is tracking you if it can.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoEveryone is buying the data sure. But not everyone is buying the data about a specific vulnerable and demonized group and that does make it a different thing. The fact that a right wing organization is doing it is relevant in this specific case. The wider case you can make about the dangers of data collection and selling is certainly valid. But there are specifics here that should not be ignored.