Comment on Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencies

nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ugo@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not enough, a better idea is to, somehow, poison the location data. Otherwise by disabling location tracking you still leak the information that you are going to a clinic.

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  • faerbit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    poison the location data i.e. leaving it at home?

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or you can disable it from time to time at random when you’re doing something innocuous, and obscure the pattern that way. Which is probably easier for the average person than figuring out a second method of tampering with their phone.

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    • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t, even when you disable location it still keeps track of where you are with cell towers and some GPS. It just doesn’t tell you that it still is collecting data.

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      • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t mean disable it in software, I meant physically disable it by stuffing the phone in a Faraday cage (you can buy them for phones in the form of pouches with metal worked into them), which blocks electromagnetic radiation and therefore prevents it from contacting towers or satellites.

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      • ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Leave your phone at home sometimes, and when you need the abortion, just do that!

        As in, every time you go on a walk, leave your phone at home, and then they lack of data will just be normal.

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• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe clinics should start mailing out Faraday pouches ahead of appointments?

  I’m sure they don’t need the extra expense but this is fucked up.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They could just work that into the cost of service. So you make an appointment and it costs whatever amount it costs. And that cost also includes the mailing to you of a Faraday bag.

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• foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In fact customer faraday cage are not protecting us, the only option would be to block waves from the very low to the very high, in other words, military grade. Good luck.

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