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Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

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Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

#2
1. Why would I care? I actually like having more relevant ads.

2. Why should I care? If they're gonna have a border we should equip them to protect it.

3. Why should I care? I haven't done anything wrong.

4. No seriously, I swear I didn't do anything wrong. I never went to those Union meetings. You can check my track!

Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

#3
Today came the news that people who testified against the President are being fired: including Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland. This is an out-of-control administration. They may well use cellphone location data to track movements of political opponents as well. These are scary times.

Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

#4

1. Why would I care? I actually like having more relevant ads. 2. Why should I care? If they're gonna have a border we should equip them to protect it. 3. Why should I care? I haven't done anything wrong. 4. No seriously, I swear I didn't do anything wrong. I never went to those Union meetings. You can check my track!

I think the poison here is government, not the tool. It makes sense for a government to look for location data to persecute its declared enemies.

Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

#6

1. Why would I care? I actually like having more relevant ads. 2. Why should I care? If they're gonna have a border we should equip them to protect it. 3. Why should I care? I haven't done anything wrong. 4. No seriously, I swear I didn't do anything wrong. I never went to those Union meetings. You can check my track!

Please don't post generic ideological comments to HN. It leads to generic ideological discussion, which leads to repetitive flamewar, which is tedious, which is off topic here.

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Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

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Today came the news that people who testified against the President are being fired: including Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland. This is an out-of-control administration. They may well use cellphone location data to track movements of political opponents as well. These are scary times.

One more time for the people in the back: WE. HAVE. A. FASCIST. IN. THE. WHITE. HOUSE. I don't know how anyone sleeps soundly knowing an orange buffoon is tearing the country apart by the seams.

Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

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Today came the news that people who testified against the President are being fired: including Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland. This is an out-of-control administration. They may well use cellphone location data to track movements of political opponents as well. These are scary times.

Were they fired because they testified against the President? Do you have any source?

Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

#9

1. Why would I care? I actually like having more relevant ads. 2. Why should I care? If they're gonna have a border we should equip them to protect it. 3. Why should I care? I haven't done anything wrong. 4. No seriously, I swear I didn't do anything wrong. I never went to those Union meetings. You can check my track!

I think the poison here is government, not the tool. It makes sense for a government to look for location data to persecute its declared enemies.

Government is just doing what government inherently does - attempting to exert control over anything legible to it. The underlying problem is the longstanding insecurity of cell protocols that creates these irresistible databases of everyone's location in the first place.

Re: Federal agencies use cellphone location data for immigration enforcement

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post #6

1. Why would I care? I actually like having more relevant ads. 2. Why should I care? If they're gonna have a border we should equip them to protect it. 3. Why should I care? I haven't done anything wrong. 4. No seriously, I swear I didn't do anything wrong. I never went to those Union meetings. You can check my track!

Please don't post generic ideological comments to HN. It leads to generic ideological discussion, which leads to repetitive flamewar, which is tedious, which is off topic here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I don't see how this is ideological but the other top comment in this thread isn't. They both convey an emotional sentiment without any real information or substantive insights. Why do people who make blunt but direct posts get chastised while people who are parroting alarmist talking points without adding citations or evidence get a pass? It seems like an obvious enforcement bias.
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