Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
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Re: Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
#2"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time."
Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA... (but anyway, I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS, and we're all better off not reading TFA in any case)
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Re: Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
#4"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time." Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA... (but anyway, I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS, and we're all better off not reading TFA in any case)
No, it looks like a 2 years location dragnet warrant issued against someone for merely being around someone experiencing an overdose. IMO, this should be completely unconstitutional.
Re: Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
#5"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time." Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA... (but anyway, I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS, and we're all better off not reading TFA in any case)
> Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA...
Actually Virginia has its own data privacy law now, modelled on CCPA.
Re: Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
#6Chesterfield County, Va. can be generally understood as one of the most, if not the most, pro-cop (densely populated) counties in the whole country. You don’t want to be arrested there
Edit: not sure the reason for the downvotes, this fact is useful context and first-hand
Re: Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
#7"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time." Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA... (but anyway, I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS, and we're all better off not reading TFA in any case)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220416175850/https://www.insid...
> I'm sure the 'secret GPS pings' are just plain-old stealth SMS
Worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991641 (depending on the carrier)
And look who takes the cake again this time: "Sprint offered the cheapest prices to report locations back to law enforcement, charging a flat fee of $100 per month."
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#8T-Mobile is charging police $900/customer/month to track us? I want a rebate on my cellphone plan.
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Re: Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
#10Chesterfield County, Va. can be generally understood as one of the most, if not the most, pro-cop (densely populated) counties in the whole country. You don’t want to be arrested there Edit: not sure the reason for the downvotes, this fact is useful context and first-hand
Virginia as a whole has some pretty absurdly pro police laws, at least re: driving.
The lesser of either 20 over the speed limit or any speed over ~80~ 85 miles an hour (thanks jmisavage) in Virginia is a misdemeanor, and at least one auto journalist has been jailed in Virginia. https://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my...
It's also the only state to prohibit radar detectors.