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 know they all must have their Obamaphones.
Or do you think they'll just cherry pick who they investigate?
Obama phones don’t have tracking. That’s how they get away with looting, burning down buildings, and destroying property.
Note to conservatives: We can, and will find you.
I am stunned that anyone of any political persuasion would expect any privacy in this post-Snowden era.
Folks just need to get a _lot_ smarter!
Well, us Trump people never claimed to be brain surgeons. But still, it should have occurred to more than a few of them that carrying phones when ‘storming the capitol’ wasn’t too brilliant...after using their GPS-enabled cars to drive to the protest.
LOL!
Hope they checked Antifa and BLM members as aggressively as the MAGAs. I’m sure they would (sarcasm)
I wonder if they tracked that guy who walked away with the podium.
“At least five people died because of the riot at the Capitol”
They are never going to stop telling that lie.
Can we also follow and see the phones of the FBI ‘plants’ on scene, the police that opened the up doors to rally attendees on the Capitol Hill, etc.?
“...on January 6, as Donald Trump’s political rally turned into a violent insurrection”
Kind of overdoing it a bit there. From what I can tell, all this ‘violent insurrection’ accomplished was a bunch of selfies in the Capitol Building and some clown wearing horns who managed to put a painting of a nude black guy on a wall there.
######Can we use any date from last summer so see who burned down half the country?######
Oh, yeah! Let’s hope so!! Full speed ahead and Oshkalaboom ;-)
Why would the Slimes stop lying? They don’t get punished for it.
“A source.” In other words, someone who works at a telephone company, or in law enforcement who had access to this information at work, and illegally and unethically copied the data and gave it to the biggest hate-America organization in this country.
It will be used to purge Trump supporters. Expect people to be fired, outed, arrested, banned and ostracized.
Notice that NOTHING was done to get the ones who destroyed seattle/portland/minneapolis/kenosha?
In the soviet union you were “disappeared” or sent to a gulag. It’s slower here, but the end result is the same.
Not if we don’t play their game.
There are a very few ways.
“A source”
Now who might have access to millions of people’s cell phone location data, hmm?
If it’s supposedly sold anonymously then it shouldnt be some marketing guy at a Verizon customer. Sooooo....who did it?
Arrest that person.
TRUE from what i can tell
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