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.

    • @basmati@lemmus.org
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      -529 days ago

      That’s cute but to get those laws you have to vote third party and hope they don’t get killed or bribed before passing said law. I don’t see that happening until long after the US collapses, so in the meantime it makes more sense to understand how not to be a victim to a fascist government.

      • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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        -129 days ago

        In the US, yes. But this is mainstream in countries with democracies.

        Anyway, of course. Stein or West or youre voting for climate catastrophe, privacy erosion, and genocide.

        • @basmati@lemmus.org
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          -229 days ago

          The opposite, actually, they’re the only candidates, assuming you meant Stein and Claudia, that do not have any of that in their policies.