ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nobody could possibly have seen that coming.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well they could and they did, but those people were delusional and paranoid.

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• bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kinda surprised they hadn’t been doing this already.

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought that was what Theil and Karp were doing

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• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I strongly recommend against using bluetooth connectivity unless completely necessary. Bluetooth is used for tracking, monitoring and detection. It is very precise. Your position can be triangulated with it and tracked in real spacetime using hardware that costs literally less than $5 without any warrant, license or restriction.

  I strongly recommend getting USB-C adapter for headphones and opting out of smart wearables which rely on bluetooth.

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same for WiFi.

    Even on Android/iOS these functionalities have big, friendly on/off switches in the status bar dropdown, but people are lazy.

    And GPS, but it will be harder to convince people to not constantly use it.

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    • h3ron@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even if you are not connected to a WiFi network (so the toggle is off) background WiFi scans can still be used to track you by triangulating your position from nearby networks. This service is provided by Google for your convenience of course, so you don’t even need to wait for GPS to pick up and they can track you without draining your battery too much.

      When I used to run a degoogled phone I was able to swap that service with an equivalent one provided by Mozilla, but they stopped supporting it after a while.

      We need someone like the EU to forbid bank apps to require Google’s integrity checks so we can make modded Android great again.

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    • Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      GPS is receive only, there’s no way to track you for using GPS, it’s only when you look up the coordinates that your device calculates that you could be identified.

      Can always use one of those fully offline old Garmin car GPS maps too.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is official. Corporations will betray us like they always have. Corporations are at war with humanity, but the majority of people haven’t realized it yet.

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• p0ster@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This seams to be a good place to advertise for a dumb/minimal phone.

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or one that doesn’t run one of the duopoly OS.

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• CopLoverBillionairefan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Tbh a huge technilogical leap forward. I’d rather if Google sent agents to shoot in the head than watch one of their ads.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As if there wasn’t enough already.

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This Mark of the Beast in the form of intrusive surveillance technology which determines who gets something and who could be kicked out of the US.

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