Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.

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.

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Or just hit airplane mode / power off. Or just leave the phone at home, the procedure takes only 5-10 minutes.

      People are way to attached to their phones. The world will not collapse in that hour, it is a survivable event, or so I hear from reputable sources.