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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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tower dats i guess is harder to get as it requires a warrant?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Unless you become a phone company or use a StingRay

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or you just have some money to buy the data from a data broker that phone company sell your data to already.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well i meant why wouldn't telco sell or provide it to the feds?

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

If they get a warrant, sure. Sell it I dunno. There's more legal cases about cell tower data simply because it's some form of technology courts have at least made an effort to understand at some point.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well we know telco sells your traffic data as ISP as "anonymized" i dont see how they are not doing this with tower data but i am not familair with case law on the issue.

So maybe there is some legal bar to that...

Amazing how warrant got turned into a joke in modern age tho all within last 30 years.