32 sats \ 3 replies \ @03365d6a53 23 Jun 2023 \ parent \ on: Graphene Fixes This tech
Your location data could be investigated by anybody, not just LE
Triangulation is less likely to happen as it's slow/expensive, but the process is becoming easier, faster, and cheaper - and the data, more available
There just needs to be a reason, any reason, for someone to bother to look at you
This article is 4 years old already: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
Every day I learn more about the USA's unrestricted market for personal data. The fact the USA's business market is just so open about this is crazy to me. Great read.
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Fortunately I don't live in the USA
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Not being in the USA doesn't mean this could not happen either in a more closed environment, in the UK this type of stuff isn't permissible but in the past Police and the press were often getting into the bedsheets with private investigators who would then buy information to sell news stories. Such as tapping the cellphone of a murdered child to get voicemails - this is the one that broke the camel's back.
I'm a national and there is so many investigations/backgrounds to it that I still do not have a full scope of the events myself.
Here is a good background on that, even for how much it is - it is out of date: https://brown-moses.blogspot.com/2012/06/hackgate-for-beginners-whos-who-key.html
Edit: Wrong link, this is the REAL index: https://brown-moses.blogspot.com/2012/05/hackgate-for-beginner-index.html
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