Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP
This article was produced with support from the Capitol Forum. — On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe.
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Discussion
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@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social
Jason Koebler
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New: A surveillance tool government agencies have access to can track everywhere a phone goes without a warrant. Someone with access to the tool tracked a person crossing state lines to go to an abortion clinic, then showed us how it works: — https://www.404media.co/...
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@anelsona
Anne Nelson
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Concerning story on phone tracking.
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@taragolshan
Tara Golshan
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NOTUS' @ByronTau was given access to ~2 hrs of footage of Atlas Privacy using phone tracking tool, Locate X. Our investigation found how easily someone can be tracked from a residential address to an abortion clinic, a place of worship, court house etc https://www.notus.org/...
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@byrontau
Byron Tau
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NEW: We watched as privacy advocates geofenced an abortion clinic in Florida, where the procedure remains legal, and identified specific devices that came from Alabama, where it is not. Inside the wild world of phone tracking data for sale. https://www.notus.org/...
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@f4micom
@f4micom
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what the fuck this is evil lol
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@josephfcox
Joseph Cox
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New: inside the US government-bought tool that can track phones at abortion clinics. Called Locate X, it tracks phones around the world without a warrant. Leakers showed it in action, we watched a phone go from Alabama, to an abortion clinic, back again https://www.404media.co/..…
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r/privacy
r
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This U.S. Government-Bought Tool Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics