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Comment by mcrady | Hacker News Reader

Are you implying it's illegal to do that? It seems like the whole point of the article is that this is entirely legal.

It sounds like congressmen and senators explicitly voted to prevent the FCC from making things like this illegal.

I'm implying that the FBI won't give a fuck if its legal or illegal and the onus is on you to prove that you are not a terrorist, which considering you have been monitoring high level government officials on a real time location basis... Good luck.

I think as a geek your life changes once you learn being right means nothing outside of your field of expertise.

And being a smartass means nothing outside of your social circle.

That doesn’t mean they won’t carve out exceptions for themselves though. Congress passed laws to allow them to trade on inside information, for example.

Those were repealed, right? https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...

here are a few updates after that (in order by date):

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-inv...

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/congress-stock-tra...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-truth-about-cong...

Wow thank you! :)

>is that this is entirely legal

For corporations and the government to be doing it. Not for activists to do it.

Activists can be jailed for doing even actually obviously legal things...

What other companies purchase phone geo tracking that provide it online. Would polling congressmen's public assessible location be ok if provided online?

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