Tony Bark@pawb.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Daywww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square173linkfedilinkarrow-up1813arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squareThe_Decryptor@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·12 days agoAnything that polls location data can record it and sell it, probably more apps that sell it than don’t.
minus-squarejve@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·12 days agoYup. There are dozens of these contractors in our modern surveillance state, and it’s all bought up en masse by the government (and others!) for all sorts of purposes. Here’s a pretty good book on the subject https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-control-by-byron-tau/
Anything that polls location data can record it and sell it, probably more apps that sell it than don’t.
Yup. There are dozens of these contractors in our modern surveillance state, and it’s all bought up en masse by the government (and others!) for all sorts of purposes.
Here’s a pretty good book on the subject
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706321/means-of-control-by-byron-tau/