ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data

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I personally don’t have an issue with the government using commercially available data.

I do have issues with certain data being commercially available.

But if the data can be bought for money legally, the government investigative and intelligence agencies should have access to it.

If we don’t like this, we should address how this data is collected and sold, not try to limit government access to it.

I would agree in theory, but you forget: private companies exploiting this data don't use it to engage in parallel construction and violate human rights to privacy. Law enforcement organizations can and will do this.

The same data, in different hands, causes much different scales of damage to people.

The argument is that even if private companies aren't committing atrocities, they still should not be able to own this data to begin with.

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-paul-...

I'm glad I have hardware kill switches on my phone, so I'm not tracked when I need it.

What kind of phone do you have

Not OP, but the only phone with hardware kill switches that I know of is the Librem 5.

There is also Pinephone, with inconvenient and tiny switches, and I have both.

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