Posted on 12/20/2019 7:13:10 AM PST by janetjanet998
IF YOU OWN A MOBILE PHONE, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies. No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance. Not even the president of the United States. The Times Privacy Project obtained a dataset with more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million people in this country. It was a random sample from 2016 and 2017, but it took only minutes with assistance from publicly available information for us to deanonymize location data and track the whereabouts of President Trump.
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Easy fix for this: don’t have a cell phone with you when you don’t want to be tracked. Simple solution to a simple problem.
Absolutely. Most 'burner' phones should allow you to pop the battery. If not, look for a different phone. I haven't had a need for such things yet, but it's something to keep in mind for future reference.
Can someone please explain how this not spying? They have data on 12 MILLION people. They know where the calls went.
Are you one of them?
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