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Then you weren't paying attention enough, and just because you don't recall doesn't mean it didn't happen, which it did:

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-...

Know where I recalled I read this? Here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23783503

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Your linked article is about a company data-mining Twitter. TFA we are discussing is about the FBI getting location data from phones. These are two very different things...

Your point was clearly the broader law-enforcement tracking, you sought to draw a comparison between the two events to ask why one had been an infosec focus of law enforcement.

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