Posted on 10/17/2022 9:13:23 AM PDT by devane617
Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective way to engage in warrantless surveillance of individuals, groups and places: a pay-for-access web tool called Fog Reveal.
The tool enables law enforcement officers to see “patterns of life” – where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit. The tool’s maker, Fog Data Science, claims to have billions of data points from over 250 million U.S. mobile devices.
Fog Reveal came to light when the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit that advocates for online civil liberties, was investigating location data brokers and uncovered the program through a Freedom of Information Act request. EFF’s investigation found that Fog Reveal enables law enforcement and private companies to identify and track people and monitor specific places and events, like rallies, protests, places of worship and health care clinics. The Associated Press found that nearly two dozen government agencies across the country have contracted with Fog Data Science to use the tool.
Government use of Fog Reveal highlights a problematic difference between data privacy law and electronic surveillance law in the U.S. It is a difference that creates a sort of loophole, permitting enormous quantities of personal data to be collected, aggregated and used in ways that are not transparent to most persons. That difference is far more important in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which revoked the constitutional right to an abortion. Dobbs puts the privacy of reproductive health information and related data points, including relevant location data, in significant jeopardy.
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Europe is far ahead of of the U.S. when it comes to regulating data bases and personal privacy rights. In the U.S., people have no privacy. Big Tech is the government’s spy, and combined they are Big Brother.
“The Associated Press found that nearly two dozen government agencies across the country have contracted with Fog Data Science to use the tool.”
Names please. (Not you; addressing the AP).
Start with surveillance.
Then move on to “disappearing” people.
The Nazi program was Nacht und Nebel — “Night and Fog”.
The price of owning a cel phone
Just to repeat, your cell phone will ping nearby towers even when turned off (it’s never totally ‘off’). The only way to shut down your cell phone is to remove the battery. You can also put it in a special metal foil lined pouch (Faraday cage) that will prevent it from sending and receiving.
The cell phone is a classic example of a potentially wonderful technology that has turned into a nightmare.
Dystopian nightmare toolset now complete. They don’t need no stinking constitutional restrictions anymore. If you don’t agree with their agenda, do the “wrong thing” or fail to comply with “administrative orders”, then they’ll take you, and do what they want to you.
Sounds like a giant class action lawsuit on the horizon
F these bastards
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit that advocates for online civil liberties
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I’ve donated to them many years back, in the early 2000s. They appeared to be doing good work for little people when attacked by large corps or government. Good to see they may not yet have gone the way of the ACLU and been infiltrated by leftists and wokesters.
My mother told me about two, old, Christian widows that refused to have a TV or watch one when they came out because they thought the TV’s were watching THEM. My mom thought they were paranoid. As a kid, I knew they’d nailed it, and that was before Star Trek was released. Both my mother and father were HAMs so it was surprising. I imagine she updated her perspective eventually. Maybe by the time she got her extra class or got her captain’s license from the Merchant Marines. LOL.
A Faraday pouch will keep you from being tracked, but don’t buy one online, or you’ll have a target on your back. Make your own - or use a metal box.
Warning!!!
If you read the post you would see that it, Fog Reveal, is being used to monitor pro life people.
The terms, “constitutional right to abortion,” and “privacy of reproduction health information,” are telling.
The fight is on to keep murdering babies is on and must be stopped.
Gun shows and going to a firing range are being tracked illegally.
The real attack is on our Constitution.
Ignore it at your own risk.
Thanks.
BKMK
Memo: don’t bring your cell phone to political events.
I think we need to reenact the end of the movie ‘Fight Club.’
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