Posted on 02/06/2021 10:10:11 AM PST by bitt
Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data.
In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans.
It became clear that this data — collected by smartphone apps and then fed into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem — was a liability to national security, to free assembly and to citizens living mundane lives. It provided an intimate record of people whether they were visiting drug treatment centers, strip clubs, casinos, abortion clinics or places of worship.
Surrendering our privacy to the government would be foolish enough. But what is more insidious is the Faustian bargain made with the marketing industry, which turns every location ping into currency as it is bought and sold in the marketplace of surveillance advertising. Now, one year later, we’re in a very similar position. But it’s far worse.
A source has provided another data set, this time following the smartphones of thousands of Trump supporters, rioters and passers-by in Washington, D.C., on January 6, as Donald Trump’s political rally turned into a violent insurrection. At least five people died because of the riot at the Capitol. Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event’s digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing.
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I’m waiting for the knock at the door.
“Like it or not, privacy is GONE”
Yep. The martch of technology.
It’s not the phones it’s the apps on the phones.
Have you ever thought about how you can receive mobile calls if no one knows where your phone is?
A neighbor said the police also have automated license plate scanners that are constantly scanning for warrants, etc. I have no idea how true that is.
Ha!
We can't even find out...
That data can be used for the emergency (OnStar®) locator which uses the phone function.
Does the rest of the computer system in the car store all the location data? IDK, but the system CAN store data about speed, brakes applied, steering angle, airbag deployment; which can be accessed by those investigating accidents.
Can all this be accessed remotely?
IDK; but I would NOT put it past the ‘authorities’ to; ahem; require that ability from the manufacturers.
True; but using the triangulation capability of cell towers is way less accurate than the GPS; which can place you to about 30 feet!
But it’s enough to identify the people who went to the capitol.
Ecclesiastes 10:20 KJV
Curse not the king, no, not in thy thought;
and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber:
for the bird of the air will carry the voice, and that which hath wings will tell the matter.
Thank GOD! a law was passed!
At each stoplight; look for the cameras focused in the front window of your car.
If they know your face; they can track you this way.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/02/surveillance-watching-you/
And THIS was two years ago!!
Prosecutor: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. We will prove that this bonehead...
Defendant: I object!
Prosecutor: ...this mostly peaceful domestic terrorist...
Defendant: I object!!
Prosecutor: ...has been placed by phone...
Defendant: I object!!! I had no phone.
Prosecutor: ...picture on ANOTHER phone held by...
Defendant: CRAP!
Here; knock yourself out!
Thanks. Interesting.
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. |
Turn your phone off; travel 600 miles away
Have multiple folks call you while traveling.
ONly turn on phone when you get to your destination.
First thing the phone does, is to check for any messages.
"YooHoo!!! I'm over here in Denver; send me the data about missed calls."
There ya go.
yes Obama phones do track you. that is the real reason for the phones. before theses phones a lot of low level criminals were using throw away phones. now a lot of crimes are solved becouse theses phones are being carried around and the first thing that an investigator does is get a phone dump when some one is arrested.
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