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New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking

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Re: New documents reveal scale of US Government’s cell phone location data tracking

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Post by 616c »

nr2x wrote: post #196
jdp23 wrote: post #153

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Agreed that this has been going on for years and Congress has done nothing to date. But ... The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, sponsored by Senators Wyden and Paul, has a hearing tomorrow morning -- and may actually have decent chance to pass Congress this session. If you're in the US, EFF's "Tell Congress: The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale" page has a web form to encourage your representatives to support t…

I’ve just given up on the federal government. It stopped working for common people in any meaningful way a long time ago. State and local, sure, but federal? Why bother.

It is what you put into it? I won't get into detail but it is hard and thankless. Writing off all the public sector in the US is writing off the private sector BC of bad actors like the data marketers. Should we write them off entirely?

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Post by smt88 »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #253
whyagain1885 wrote: post #215

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I always get annoyed how these programmers can have a good sleep at night given what they have done. Note that blaming it on the marketing VP is not fair. If even 50 % employees have a thought this tracking can be stopped.

Listen to Jordan Peterson - especially Maps of Meaning lectures and/or book.

Jordan Peterson is indeed a good person to help answer, "Why do they do it?" Because the answer is always money, and Peterson is willing to be repeatedly make a fool of himself and compromise his supposed morals to pander to people who give him money and attention.

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Post by pnutjam »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #253
whyagain1885 wrote: post #215

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I always get annoyed how these programmers can have a good sleep at night given what they have done. Note that blaming it on the marketing VP is not fair. If even 50 % employees have a thought this tracking can be stopped.

Listen to Jordan Peterson - especially Maps of Meaning lectures and/or book.

Don't fall down that rabbit hole.

https://www.unikumnett.no/2019/10/12-reasons-why-no-one-shou...

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fsflover wrote: post #257
b112 wrote: post #248

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The future of never happen. The worlds worst privacy offenders make/sell phones. Google. Samsung. Apple. Google, no need to explain. Samsung? All their apps, their keyboard, collect, collect collect. Apple? Walled garden of share data with Apple. And beyond this, for example on Samsung builds, the GPS daemon calls home(Qualcomm? looked into it a year ago...) to update agps data, but also... provide tracking info. Non…

Which is why we should support the ones I listed.

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Post by SamuelAdams »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #69
flerchin wrote: post #48

If I have no choice about the ubiquitous surveillance, I'd at least like some positives like stopping the school shootings. As it is, they're watching, but clearly not doing anything useful.

Let's avoid giving them an acceptable reason to lock up anyone they want because they claim they're going to commit a crime.

Minority Report was supposed to be fictional, not a documentary.

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Post by thrownblown »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #253
whyagain1885 wrote: post #215

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I always get annoyed how these programmers can have a good sleep at night given what they have done. Note that blaming it on the marketing VP is not fair. If even 50 % employees have a thought this tracking can be stopped.

Listen to Jordan Peterson - especially Maps of Meaning lectures and/or book.

Then i start having dreams that my dad is giving me a lecture but my dad is also kermit the frog

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Post by krsrhe »

ccvannorman wrote: post #103
kelnos wrote: post #80

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I'm surprised no one has bought location data for prominent Congresspersons and used it to embarrass them into writing up laws around this.

They have. John Oliver did it this year, and it was f*king great! https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/last-we...

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