Posted on 07/19/2022 10:46:04 AM PDT by JV3MRC
A new data release by the liberal American Civil Liberties Union appears to expose nefarious Big Government data-mining happening right under your nose.
The ACLU issued a report July 18 headlined, “New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data.” The report linked to records obtained from different agencies within the Department of Homeland Security that show “the millions of taxpayer dollars DHS used to buy access to cell phone location information.” Two “shadowy data brokers,” Venntel and Babel Street, sold the information to DHS, according to the records. ACLU said it reviewed 6,168 pages of location records containing roughly 336,000 “location points obtained from people’s phones.”
During one three-day span in 2018, ACLU said, “the records contain around 113,654 location points — more than 26 location points per minute.” Adding another layer of concern, those records allegedly came “from just one area in the Southwestern United States, meaning it is just a small subset of the total volume of people’s location information available to the agency.”
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So, the same data used by “2000 Mules”
People, just remember: unless the battery is dead or removed or you have your phone in a Faraday cage (microwave oven works but don’t turn the oven on LOL), it’s trivial to locate your phone (even if GPS is so-called “off”) and to listen to your phone (whether or not you’re on a call).
And by listen I mean remotely listen without you knowing. Oh yeah and also to pretty much any browsing, app use, etc. Note: they are ways to make it tougher.
Yep, my first thought. And the insane libs argue “2000 Mules” could not have happened, the data wasn’t accurate or available, can’t track individuals, etc, etc.
They were tracking the illegals. They gave them phones. /s
I would like to know where this traitor asshole was when Seth Rich was shot.
2018? Maybe the Trump administration trying to find illegal aliens.
Yes. The data is available to anyone with cash who can pay for it.
The Biden Administration signaled some time back that they were going to use data like this...no doubt to bypass Constitutional safeguards to prevent government spying.
But still, will use taxpayer money to do it.
I’ll bet every FReeper is being tracked.
Interesting that the ACLU is doing something other than supporting the bad actors.
ok, so they get me going to treatment and back, or to the laundry room, or the mailbox.
no big threat there
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But one of those places you frequent is within a few hundred feet of an abortion clinic where an insulting anti-abortion graffiti was found. The FIB will be in touch soon.
I have little doubt that you are right, not to mention being on a "domestic terrorist" list.
A pretty safe bet.
And safe to assume that every FReeper who has ever posted has been identified by name and residence address.
Such things are well within reach of small organizations or even extremely skilled individuals using current techniques. Consider it is probably a training exercise for multiple agencies these days. You have got to spend that budget allotment before year end. Maybe you can hire a contractor outfit to sweep that blog and update the list of names. Don't you have a friend who runs a company like that? Maybe you can put out a no-bid purchase order. It is scut-work anyway, and your analysts really don't want to bother with it.
The problem is that people move, get married get divorced, change their names, or just pass away. The quality control of those lists might be assumed to be terrible, with at least a 25% error rate in the identifications. And the length of the lists is too long to do much of anything useful with them. There are a hell of lot of posters out there and so many blogs.
The agencies have plenty of analysts but are short-staffed when it comes down to investigators. Or black bag people. That is probably a good thing.
But a longer list means they must be doing something. Next year's budget justification is not going to write itself.
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1 out of 1,000 people. And doubting the ability of the ACLU to ask the right questions, I expect the number is higher.
I was there. 
That's people with phones. Many people obviously
didn't have a phone and is provable once you see how
packed the crowd was and the areas with no signal.
I don't care if I'm being tracked. 
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