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.

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    363·
    1 day ago

    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?

    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      24 hours 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.worksEnglish
      51·
      22 hours 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.

    • IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      23 hours ago

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

    • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

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

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      22·
      24 hours 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.