Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.

Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

  • @PriorityMotifEnglish
    6•1 month ago

    Run a headless browser that does random searches at random times across different social media and search engines and have it click random ads.

    • @GlitterbombEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      This was part of the fictional operating system in the book Little Brother. I think it inspired similar features in a particular real life Linux build too