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.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
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    30 days ago

    this combined with the whole “your pager/phone is now a bomb” texture that the IDF decided to add into the mix should make for interesting times.

    soon you will be the drone.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      29 days ago

      That required special assembly. It was not a hack blowing up commercial batteries. That’s not a possible thing. They gave Hezbollah pagers and radios with explosives built in.