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.

  • @MattMattEnglish
    6•1 month ago

    Meanwhile when I turn off Bluetooth on my iPhone it says “for the next y hours” and there’s no option to turn it off permanently.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 month ago

      and there’s no option to turn it off permanently.

      Did you actually try looking this up. Turn it off in settings and it’s off forever until you turn it back on.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 month ago

      Yeah, IOS and stock android are not acceptable if you care about this stuff

      On graphene my bluetooth and wifi turn themselves OFF if I haven’t been connected for a few minutes