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Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Use FOSS as much as possible, pressure your gov to implement laws against tracking (against what Snowden showed us).

There is no need to know the location and history, and the communication of everyone everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I hope Google gets split up, that'll probably be the beginning of the end for targeted ads (I would hope)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I wouldn't think thats how they are splitting it up ... Basically just affecting market shares of some markets (targeted ads being one of them + the ecosystem pushing you into it).