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.

  • @trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 months ago

    Ah yes, democracy is a healthy and fully functioning institution.

    You just got confused who’s sponsoring it, that’s understandable.

    • @wrekone@lemmyf.ukEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      I see your point. I have no illusions that democracy is healthy in modern times. Perhaps not ever? We don’t even live in a democracy any more, we live in a corporatocracy.

      But doing nothing will solve nothing.

      edited to add: In fact, it’s our complacency that our corporate masters depend on. Corporate news is designed to overwhelm you. Advertising is designed to lull you to sleep. Together, they make it seem like there’s nothing you can do. But that’s not true. You can do something. Maybe not the things I suggested, but something. It will make a difference, even if it only makes a small difference for a few people. Isn’t that better than nothing?

      • @trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0•2 months ago

        Throw it down and bring real democracy like in Switzerland

        Or throw it down and bring anarchism

        None of these are realistic, so…