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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Perhaps you misunderstood my point: For the cell phone to function - especially for you to receive calls - the network has to know where your phone is. Even if you have disabled tracking, it still has to know.
As you noted, whenever you activate your phone, the first thing it does is say, “Hello, I am here!” It keeps saying that, even when not being used, as long as it is active. In some cases, even turning the phone off does not de-activate the phone. That’s a fundamental part of the way that cell phones work.
Thanks Elsie. So for $700 a person could get their own (maybe with a forged police letterhead) and see who they are and where they live. (I have my registration and insurance card hidden in the vehicle. Have heard stories of breaking in, getting that info and then the thieves hit your home while you are gone.)
Yup cameras,cellphones,cars, your computer they all track you.😳
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.
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.
Yep. Perfect post. I have been thinking long and hard about something that can happen if they decide to come for me. I won't worry about it at all because it will already have been effected before they can get to me. Plan LONG term. Folks MUST think about such actions way ahead of time.
We are truly now in a massive chess game of life. Start using your minds, and keep your mouths shut.
Quite possibly!
Check this out, I found THIS: https://slate.com/technology/2013/07/nsa-can-reportedly-track-cellphones-even-when-they-re-turned-off.html#:~:text=In%20most%20cases%2C%20when%20you,when%20it%20was%20powered%20down.
When they come after me; or anyone; they seem to use up a LOT of manpower to do so.
Maybe the ruckus will alert others enough for them to MASS together and then...
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It will no longer post.
Every cell phone pings its ID to the network, even Obummer phones. But let ‘em think that.
SS1
BKMK thanks
Winston was lucky; his government couldn’t see in the dark.
I think the FBI Crossfire Hurricane gang just put that one to rest by altering/forging documents to trick a judge into giving them a FISA warrant on Carter Page.
Yeah; there’s that.
Be seeing you.
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