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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

As people get ready to vote here in the US, one issue I haven't even heard brought up is the lack of privacy regulations in the US. Do most people not care if the person they're voting for is fine with every corporation selling and sharing personal data?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Our electoral system results in a choice between two candidates, and both are fine with it.

[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And more over the electorate is calcified along party lines where the outcomes for either side is perceived as being stark and dire. I suspect this means concerns like these might get stifled even if it is held by both parties.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was just traveling in the UK and I had this discussion more than once having to explain why our options are always terrible and ignoring issues voters want addressed.

[–] orbital@infosec.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago

I definitely support federal Privacy legislation. Here's at least one take on the issue.

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Privacy regulations are to the left of the Overton window. The idea that corporations don't have some divinely ordained ownership of our personal data is unthinkably radical.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's such a non-problem to my family members that if I even suggest it is a problem, I get ignored.

No one cares. It's either nothing anyone values or they figured they never had any privacy to begin with.

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

You don’t hear about it because the two major parties both oppose them and have nothing to argue about

[–] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

improving the healthcare system is not even a topic of discussion this time around let alone something most people would see as abstract

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's not mentioned because only things rich people care about are mentioned on our rich people news programs

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 3 weeks ago

Omg there's soo many critically important issues that never even get brought up.

Like shutting down the nuclear arsenal, defunding the military and police, establishing a carbon tax, making carbon extraction illegal, establishing UBI. All of these basic policies never even get discussed on mainstream media and it drives me crazy.