Posted on 07/11/2022 8:08:48 AM PDT by bitt
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Don’t carry a cell phone. I value being unreachable.
“Private Brokers”? What are their names these “private” brokers. Who are such entities?
Finally- is APPLE doing this with their phone location data? And, without a warrant for doing so.
eliminate locations on phones for the time being. So, can’t use the bells and whistles— so what? Try reading a real map, with landmarks.
How 1984 of them.
Where’s the warrant? This is completely unconstitutional and another waste of money. Just another reason a vast majority of government needs to be dismantled. They don’t protect our rights, they abuse them.
bombshell is where I stop reading
if they want boring home, dialysis, home, thats all i have!
Turn off your phones when they are not in use. Or go dark and start using burner phones.
The Feds could never, repeat never NOT obtain it if it were available.
Not surprised by this are you?
Geodata is very useful whether ones purpose is nobel, commercial, or sinister. Can be used to solve murders. Can be used to identify where one shops to target advertising. Can be used to identify what political events one attends to target political enemies.
LOL
Then they know it really works!
And the stories are TRUE!
That’s funny.
I wonder why they haven’t released a single one of these identities?
If the GOP captures the House of Representatives, and are serious about restoring liberty, they need to go through the budget line by line and strike the funding of activities such as this as well as the billions being funneled to social activist groups aligned with the Democrat party. All appropriations must be approved by the House of Representatives. A Speaker McCarthy and GOP House majority can make a huge difference if they use the power of the purse when producing spending bills. The question is, do they have the desire and backbone to eliminate the wasteful spending and funding of oppression?
“Private Brokers”
It’s a whole industry, evolved from the “marketing data” industry. Remember those survey cards that would come with every appliance, electronics, etc. purchase. They gave a very poor picture of consumer markets. Most of the time people (like me!) wouldn’t bother to send them in. Think that on super-duper steroids thanks to the Internet. The Internet has made what once was voluntary mandatory. You get on the Internet; your interests are revealed! More is collected by the Tech Giants then the government could ever hope to do! The government could close down much of their SIGINT and just buy it from the Tech Giants. For the most part this is the only way these Internet Tech Giants can make money. They sell the collected “interests” of their users.
Also, anyone who can hand them a check can buy it. Corporations looking to develop and market a product, companies planning maintenance agreements, etc. Couple all that “data” with AI Deep Learning algorithms and huge accurate picture of YOU is constructed. So far there’s nothing illegal about it, it’s just another form of “Marketing Research”. Note Insurance Companies are deeply interested in this data. That includes business, auto, & home. Your behavior and interest factor into their risk assessments. You’re “collected” against in ways you can’t imagine and IT’S NOT THE GOVERNMENT! it’s just companies trying to separate you from your cash. (Don’t you feel comforted that is just Good Ole Capitalism!) It will only get worse as the Internet of Things becomes more ubiquitous.
When I say anyone can buy it, I mean anyone!
For example, I am sure China collects it, they’d be foolish not to! They’ve made huge investments in Deep Learning, both internally and through their friends at for example “Google”. Couple that in with their DNA collection through the genealogy companies and they have a picture of you down to your molecules!
Just as it is illegal for the government to build a huge database on all of us, it’s illegal for the government to do it by proxy, pretending that a private company is doing it.
Yeah— isnt that something. Back in the real days— if they wanted to tap a phone they got a warrant and it was then LEGAL. Now they just drive around and “poll” cellular dragon towers for digital identifiers from locators. This is wrong.
There needs to be a defense from people who should not have to fear for their legitimate privacy. Criminals— with warrants- got no problem on them being tracked.
The entire Jan 6 arrestees were based on a lot of phone data— many were there to support Trump, and they definitely did not violently insurrect. No matter to the current Clouseaus.
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