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.

  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    Ah yes, democracy is a healthy and fully functioning institution.

    You just got confused who’s sponsoring it, that’s understandable.

      • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Throw it down and bring real democracy like in Switzerland

        Or throw it down and bring anarchism

        None of these are realistic, so…