They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

[john 1775]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/capitol-attack-cellphone-data.html?searchResultPosition=1




In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans.

 

[240Geezer]

Well duh!

 

[HandLoad]

Why aren't ALL of the Perps who violated the Capitol in Jail?

 

[Mel's Cookin']

I'm stunned and amazed that companies who have repeatedly proven they cannot be trusted with private information have repeatedly shared said private information. I'm even more amazed that the same alphabet agencies who are absolutely oozing corruption like an infected wound would obtain private information about American citizens.

Or maybe it's not surprising at all.

Maybe what is surprising is someone thinking they are going to travel using their credit cards, phone apps, and google maps and NOT be tracked like a hound on a trail. I mean, damn, what rock did some of these people crawl out from under.

Not that in any way do I approve the incursion into the Capitol Building. I understand people's frustration with the DC swamp. But that is our building, paid for and supported by our dollars, and they didn't do anything more intelligent than the Antifa and BLM crowds have been doing. I suspect one of the main reasons for that is same leadership in one group as the other, but that's just my theory... Rather like Humpty Dumpty didn't fall, he was pushed.

 

[john 1775]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1442128120627273729

 

[GOBLIN X]

I'm stunned and amazed that companies who have repeatedly proven they cannot be trusted with private information have repeatedly shared said private information. I'm even more amazed that the same alphabet agencies who are absolutely oozing corruption like an infected wound would obtain private information about American citizens.

Or maybe it's not surprising at all.

Maybe what is surprising is someone thinking they are going to travel using their credit cards, phone apps, and google maps and NOT be tracked like a hound on a trail. I mean, damn, what rock did some of these people crawl out from under.

Not that in any way do I approve the incursion into the Capitol Building. I understand people's frustration with the DC swamp. But that is our building, paid for and supported by our dollars, and they didn't do anything more intelligent than the Antifa and BLM crowds have been doing. I suspect one of the main reasons for that is same leadership in one group as the other, but that's just my theory... Rather like Humpty Dumpty didn't fall, he was pushed.

its not surprising at all. a phone is a tracking and evesdropping device all in one. you going somewhere you dont want tracked, obd1 and earlier vehicle, no damn phone,cash and flip the plates with a cousin that dont care. im not saying you being actively tracked but no point in handin them your selves on a silverplatter. and stay away from quickstops. their cameras are actively watched when they on the hunt. especially in familiar areas.

 

[john 1775]

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