Who wants to start a nonprofit that buys and distributes FBI worker’s location data?
FBI admits buying Americans' location data and says it won't stop
Submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/111739-fbi-admits-buying-americans-location-data-wont-stop.html
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hash@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
John Oliver threatened something like that once (but for politicians). Not sure what happened after that, though I have occasionally wondered.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Better yet, politicians
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do we need these government agencies that murder civil rights leaders and help Mossad traffic children again?
pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because someone has to coordinate to let Saudi royal families safely exit nationally closed airspace after 9/11 when 15/19 plane hijackers were from Saudi Arabia!
Can you imagine what might have happened to them if not? Luckily we then started having those same agencies spew stories about WMD that didn’t exist in Iraq so we could fight a proxy war in Iraq.
The US is China’s bitch, Israel’s bitch, Saudi Arabia’s bitch…
org@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Some of you give that info away to companies so easily, of course they sell it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thats why I spoof my location. Nobody knows where I am. I’m actually on the moon.
org@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Do you also always use a VPN? Your IP gives you away.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You can’t spoof what cell tower you’re connected to.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How to become wealthy in America: Drop out of school. Move to San Francisco. Develop an app that takes pictures of people buttholes on the toilet. Sell those pictures to the pentagon and claim it’s for monitoring terrorism. Fire everyone at your business. Sell business to a data collection company based in china. Move to Texas and start a podcast complaining about how LGBTQ rights have lead to the rise in gas prices.
content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I would watch this movie without a shred of irony
Please flesh this out into a dry satire
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
That also means that all those apps which are embedding those location trackers are illegal in Europe and other countries. There is no way for someone to give his informed consent to sell his location data to the fucking FBI just by clicking a button.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Why can’t Kash have an accident already
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
He’s too alert; he always sees it coming.
inari@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Rookies. I bet the NSA is getting it for free.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
We can make great use of this, to hunt certain malicious individuals.
Perfect.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Sign me up - where do I sell local Bluetooth device identifiers to?
perishthethought@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Anyone else remember a few years ago when the government was caught performing warrantless searches on America’s phone data and metadata, using direct wiretaps at the phone companies, and it was a huge deal and the whistleblower had to flea the country or face imprisonment? And we all said at that time that the government’s actions were shocking and they had to stop right away, and at first they said they would, but then they never really did?
Yeah, me neither.
RIP, the Constitution. We’ll miss you.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Eh, if the constitution was half as great as people think, we wouldn’t have the problems we do now.
And don’t forget, without the flaws of the constitution, us couldn’t have give full fascist so early and quickly.
Fuck the constitution, we need something better.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I believe the original intent of the constitution was to review/update it every 20 years but they got lazy.
They knew it wouldn’t stand the test of time.