cm0002@toast.ooo to Privacy@programming.dev · 8 days agoHow commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)lemmy.mlimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up187arrow-down1imageHow commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)lemmy.mlcm0002@toast.ooo to Privacy@programming.dev · 8 days agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
via this 404 media article: https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/ paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260108141914/https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
minus-squarezout@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoSince it’s commercially available, could it be used to pinpoint/identify the phones of ICE or other law enforcement?
minus-squarejasory@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoIt’s also pretty poor quality data. Open-source journalists use it alot and make erroneous claims. Ryan MacBeth tried to do this to show a person hadn’t left the US, when a third-party had actually recorded them in Palestine.
minus-squarearin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoTheir phones can be in lockerroom hq while they use military comms on terrorism duty. But tbh most do bring it
Since it’s commercially available, could it be used to pinpoint/identify the phones of ICE or other law enforcement?
It’s also pretty poor quality data. Open-source journalists use it alot and make erroneous claims.
Ryan MacBeth tried to do this to show a person hadn’t left the US, when a third-party had actually recorded them in Palestine.
Their phones can be in lockerroom hq while they use military comms on terrorism duty. But tbh most do bring it