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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)
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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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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Considering nearly everything requires a phone number and also rejects VoIP numbers? Yes. A phone is required now to participate in society.

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You and I must live in two different societies then. I work with at least two other individuals who also don't have a cell phone (not just smart phone, but any cellular device), one of whom is also a millennial. My SIP number has never had any issues with online service auth.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We absolutely do the society I live in even the homeless have cell phones and I haven't ran into anyone without one in decades

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 1 week ago

To be fair, I don't go around in public telling everyone "I don't have a cell phone btw". So I suppose we are easy to miss.