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i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Por
by cyanydeez 1y ago
i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Portalnd.
- lagadu 1y agoThe fascist government won't need you to enable tracking, they can have the corporation that makes your OS silently gather it and give it to them, or simply have the phone carrier do it, again silently to the one carrying the device. We're already all carrying a tracking device with us, willingly.
- leptons 1y agoThe government can also just set up their own cell tracking towers, cut out the middleman.
- danudey 1y agoOr just mandate that the telcos do it and make it illegal to tell anyone about it.
- ruined 1y agowhy would they need to do that? that's just how cell towers work. the government can and does also buy the location data on the market like anyone else.
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- cyanydeez 1y agoyeah, the important part is that the government via third party surveillance gets much of the domestic spying they need without "technically" breaking the law, even though if they directly did any of the activities they would be breaking the law.
- leptons 1y agoAnd yet they do that all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_law_enforcement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_...
- david_shaw 1y ago> i mean this is cute in an isolated incident, until, you know, all the corporations sell that info to a fascist government who uses it to track dissidents in Portalnd. The phones (GPS) and cell networks (towers) have your location anyway. The article -- and what the parent comment was talking about -- is social location sharing. Although citizen tracking is a valid concern, turning on "Find my Friends" isn't going to make you any more vulnerable.
- Rebelgecko 1y agoIIRC some of the social location sharing options have sold data in the past, eg Life 360 (I think they still sell data but claim that they've started making it aggregated/anonymous)
- stavros 1y agoI have location services off, so at least my phone doesn't usually have my location, and neither does Google.
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