via this 404 media article: https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260108141914/https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
How commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
I think people need to know this, but then they’ll state the most ignorant, ridiculous thing possible about what their phone just “did”, and I marvel that anyone is able to get a single thing done, ever, without help.
zout@fedia.io · 2 pts · 209d
Since it's commercially available, could it be used to pinpoint/identify the phones of ICE or other law enforcement?
arin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 209d
Their phones can be in lockerroom hq while they use military comms on terrorism duty. But tbh most do bring it
entwine@programming.dev · 1 pts · 187d
The psychopath who murdered Rene Good was recording her with his phone before he shot her in the face
jasory@programming.dev · 2 pts · 204d
It's also pretty poor quality data. Open-source journalists use it alot and make erroneous claims.
Ryan MacBeth tried to do this to show a person hadn't left the US, when a third-party had actually recorded them in Palestine.