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.

  • @LunarVoyagerEnglish
    9•1 hour ago

    Your survival kit:

    Empty GrapheneOS Pixel 6a bought with cash that isn’t your daily driver (last Pixel with snapdragon chip that allows IMEI changes)

    JMP.chat

    Silent.link

    Sensors off (developer options)

    Bluetooth/WiFi/NFC off

    Offline maps/airplane mode when navigating/at destination

    Infrared AND polarized license plate covers. Remove any and all bumper stickers and other accessories that can be fingerprinted

    IR blocking lens sunglasses for facial recognition

    And of course, it wouldn’t be complete without the tor browser over a trustworthy VPN

    So yeah fuck the police

      • @LunarVoyagerEnglish
        1•2 hours ago

        I may be wrong, but I don’t think root is required. Most of the methods in this article use the AT command.