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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If you don't want to be tracked illegally, don't bring your phone.

If you don't want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Also just write your Supreme Court and ask them how this isn’t a flagrant violation of the intent of the fourth amendment. Seriously the founding fathers would be asking what the fuck about this. They weren’t good people but they would’ve been privacy nuts.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

if you're talking about the supreme court, as in the SCOTUS, they're long past pretending they give the slightest fuck about the bill of rights.

[–] winterayars 3 points 2 months ago

"The fourth amendment means what we say it means" -- SCOTUS, probably.

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