GPS—54,234 mobile devices at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Using the previous Trump rally overlay, it appears 19,788 are first time Trump Rally attendees in 2024.

X ^ | 10/4/24 | Tony Seruga

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6,834 of the devices today, were also present at the July 13, 2024 rally.

71.375% of the devices appear to be based in the following areas:

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Incredible numbers!

[SharpRightTurn]

“Incredible numbers!”

Agreed. It sounds great.

[Jane Long]

BUMP!!

[FreedomPoster]

Just a reminder - that is a tracking device you carry with you everywhere . . .

[House Atreides]

Doesn’t include those choosing to carry their cellular phone in a faraday “bag”.

[God luvs America]

that was my first thought reading the headline.

[Libloather]

Trump jokes he will start speech with ‘As I was saying…’ as he returns to site where an assassin tried to gun him down

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13928447/Trump-jokes-site-assassination-Butler.html

[Libloather]

Secret Service strained, stretched to ‘breaking point’ as 2024 presidential campaign enters final month: officials

https://nypost.com/2024/10/05/us-news/secret-service-strained-stretched-to-breaking-point-as-2024-presidential-campaign-enters-final-month-officials/

[SACK UP]

Cell phones are dangerous. Is there anyway to mitigate this? Burner phone i guess?

[ConservativeMind]

How do they know this?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Doesn’t include those choosing to carry their cellular phone in a faraday “bag”.

Or just turn the damned thing off. If you do that (either one) no one can call you. Once you power on or take it out of the bag, you will establish contact with the tower.

[rktman]

Except the tracking all those phones part. Especially when they can tell you those devices had not before been detected at a Trump rally. They may get cell tower pings but I keep my locate n turned off. Sure sounds big brother-ish to me.

[KarlInOhio]

Yes. GPS is a satellite transmitted, passive ground reception system. I can get a latitude, longitude, altitude and time from the multiple transmitters without any need to tell anyone. If I want to get a live map I do have to provide that info to the mapping server. Lots of programs want that info primarily to advertise to me, but I turn off location services unless I am actively using it.

Even with that turned off, the phone system itself can ID your phone and triangulate between multiple antennas although it won't be as accurate as GPS with a couple meter accuracy. It might not be able to tell where you are in the crowd, but it will tell you are at or near the Trump rally. But to get the locations and origin that means multiple phone company are aggregating the info and passing it on.

[princess leah]

After seeing the pagers go off with the terrorists, I would rather they check ALL electronics at the door!

[roving]

You are tracked regardless if you have a cell phone or not.

[SharpRightTurn]

“I keep my locate n turned off. Sure sounds big brother-ish to me.”

I agree.

[Widget Jr]

Nice numbers, one problem, the source: Tony Seruga.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

That’s why my cell phone spends about 99% of its time sitting in a drawer, turned off. I don’t carry it around routinely.

[rktman]

Or leave it home inside a faraday cage. Or in the truck with one. 🤔😁👍

[FreedomPoster]

Faraday bag when you’re not using your phone.