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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Who else are they selling this too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Whoever has money I suppose. Makes me wonder if there are laws regulating this sort or tech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Article link not requiring you to sign up: https://archive.ph/Th1Sq

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

ty 🙏🙏🙏

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago) (3 children)

Your survival kit:

Empty GrapheneOS Pixel 6a bought with cash that isn't your daily driver (last Pixel with snapdragon chip that allows IMEI changes)

JMP.chat

Silent.link

Sensors off (developer options)

Bluetooth/WiFi/NFC off

Offline maps/airplane mode when navigating/at destination/anywhere near your residence or other frequently visited places that could be associated with you

Infrared AND polarized license plate covers. Remove any and all bumper stickers and other accessories that can be fingerprinted

IR blocking lens sunglasses for facial recognition

And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the tor browser over a trustworthy VPN

So yeah fuck the police

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Still can’t escape cell tower triangulation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They can triangulate the signal, but in this case it has absolutely no connection to you or your identity, so you don't need to. Regularly changing esims (IMSI) and IMEI will effectively neuter triangulation. You're just a random red dot with no name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

...Or just not taking a phone and taking public transport instead of a car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

But that's so boringgg. And in the U.S public transport is pretty limited.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

how does one change your imei number using a pixel 6a, with a rooted phone with magisk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I may be wrong, but I don't think root is required. Most of the methods in this article use the AT command.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

privacy is important, kids

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

This is not new and it has previously been used against anti-abortion activists, tracking locations and even being used to record religious confessions. People on both sides of the abortion issue can oppose this type of monitoring.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Time for an alternative means of communication

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