Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

• EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think cellular location would be excluded from such tracking tbh. I would rather not take my phone with me at all when visiting such a potentially sensitive place, or at the very least use a Faraday cage.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That would be a better approach, of course.

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    • mostdubious@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      while the best approach would be to remove conservatism from society by any means necessary. it’s honestly self defense now.

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Odds are good it’s using facebook or some other cancer to perform this evil.

  You really need to read the entire article. Turning off your WiFi and deleting Facebook isn’t going to fix this.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a good start tho

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• suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is turning off wifi doesn’t actually turn off the wifi, it just stops a subset of packets being broadcast and won’t trasmit any data you want it to send. Among other things this is how ‘find my device’ works with the wifi and bluetooth “off”. They’re actually on.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can turn this wifi and bt scanning/‘location accuracy improvements’ off though, at least on android. It’s tucked away in the settings but once it’s done, it’s done.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That won’t work. But if you install the ROM without gapps or closed source software, you don’t have to worry about these issues.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Having just done that for the first time I feel confident in saying anyone who’s still using facebook or Xitter or tiktok or whatever - is not going to do that. I wish they would but that’s an order of magnitude more technical than where they are.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Counterpoint - the only reason I didn’t degoogle earlier was because my phone simply didn’t support Lineage or Divest. Chances are that whatever budget Chinaphone you have would be in the same situation. Now I bought a Pixel specifically with the intent of installing a privacy-preserving OS, but for a while most I could do was ADB-disabling Google services.

      Unlike installing Linux, chances are high that a degoogled OS wouldn’t work on the hardware you already have.

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh it took me a solid month of trial and error, scrolling through xda and other forums reading every how-to and watching plenty of vids and I finally got it to work. But it was not even fun. Yes starting with a Pixel is better, but f* teh googlez.

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• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or - OR, right, everyone can turn off location and WiFi on their phones.

  Right now. But maybe not forever and so regulation to make sure that we canor even better, regs against this tracking. Because it shouldn’t be necessary.

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