DHS bought “shocking amount” of warrantless phone-tracking data, ACLU says | Ars Technica
date linked: 19 July 2022
source: link to article, from arstechnica.com
Opting out of location sharing is a good and important step, but there are no tech solutions to this horror—only political ones. We need good legislation, and we need it now.
- geolocation
- location data
- no technical solutions
- data brokers
- Homeland Security
- mass surveillance
- surveillance
similar posts:
đź”— linkblog: How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
đź”— linkblog: Sweeping Legislation Aims to Ban the Sale of Location Data'
đź”— linkblog: just read 'Data Broker Veraset Gave Bulk Device-Level GPS Data to DC Government | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
The amount of data collected by TikTok is more concerning for the possibility that it could be fed to Chinese state officials, but it would be just as concerning if it could be fed to American state officials, and still pretty concerning if only fed to corporate officials.
đź”— linkblog: Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent'
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