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>> The location data comes from mobile phone apps that pass on GPS data for advertising purposes. Rather than get all angry about "national security", how abou

• janalsncm 2y ago
  There’s a couple of points here. One, it’s not likely that your location or my location are that important from a national security standpoint. We’re just not important enough. Politicians, judges and members of the military are different. Second, we are well past the point where we can just inconvenience ourselves into getting our privacy back, unless your advice is “don’t use a cell phone or car” and “don’t go out in public” (in which case it will be trivial to determine your location anyways). Data brokers are lifting your location from every ad in every app, GPS on or not. You have much less control over this than you think. Further, you will likely be identified via license plate readers (those solar powered towers at Home Depot for example) and even your tires report a unique identifier.
• CAPSLOCKSSTUCK 2y ago
  The tools are absolutely not there, and even if they were available you can't expect ordinary citizens to know they exist or how to use them. This is a legal and civil liberties problem more so than a technological one.
• cess11 2y ago
  Buy and use data on your local politicians as well. And when they want to make exemptions for themselves, make sure to scare them good so they won't.