Privacy is a myth everywhere that you use social media, cellular connected GPS trackers (aka phones), drive around with unique number plates while OCR capable video cameras take continuous records of which plates passed by them and when. Yes, it’s bad in the US. Is it better anywhere else?
Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Your phone company is selling this data. Your tax dollars are then used to spy on you. But let’s place the blame with the enablers. If the data wasn’t being sold, ICE couldn’t buy it with your money.
Privacy is a myth in the United States.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days ago
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
While you are right, sounds like they are mostly getting the data through location data brokers that use advertisement industry to track you.
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
yeah, you have to analog.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
There’s plenty of blame to go around on this, no need to only go after one party in the whole chain that allows this to occur.