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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
submitted 19 hours ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[โ€“] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I could, but it's a perfectly valid line of conversation to critique a post's title.

I don't think laziness is a valid line of criticism. I also find it strange to critique a title separate from its intended context.

we have the saying, "Always judge a book by its cover, and judge a response by it's grammar"

I don't think that's a very common idiom. It seems to imply that pedantry is more important than substance.

[โ€“] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 hours ago

It seems to imply that pedantry is more important than substance.

It's certainly more common; I mean, we're on a social media platform that incentivises it.

For the vast majority of people DooM scrolling these days, they want a quick dopamine hit. And influencers want those upvotes in quantity, not quality.

Knowing that the defacto message of a given post is its headline, we need to have a conversation about proper standards and dark patterns.

Click baiting isn't the kind of baiting for which I came to the internet, and it doesn't keep me coming again, so why put up with it?