Tony Bark@pawb.social to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

www.404media.co

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

www.404media.co

Tony Bark@pawb.social to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Archive: https://archive.is/wfmdL

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To be fair, a weather app does need to know my location to give relevant information.
- jve@lemmy.world
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  No it doesn’t.
  
  It just needs to know what cities you care about.
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  Absolutely. Just don’t do anything shady with that information. I think that’s all anyone’s asking.

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