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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 month ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Or - OR, right, everyone can turn off location and WiFi on their phones.

It's true the cell ping is always going, but that's a different thing and definitely not what this tool is using to track people. Odds are good it's using facebook or some other cancer to perform this evil.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think cellular location would be excluded from such tracking tbh. I would rather not take my phone with me at all when visiting such a potentially sensitive place, or at the very least use a Faraday cage.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That would be a better approach, of course.

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