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.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    In the US, yes. But this is mainstream in countries with democracies.

    Anyway, of course. Stein or West or youre voting for climate catastrophe, privacy erosion, and genocide.

    • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The opposite, actually, they’re the only candidates, assuming you meant Stein and Claudia, that do not have any of that in their policies.