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Mass phone tracking via cell tower dumps ruled unconstitutional (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hah.

This private company has used sattelites (ones even higher up than Starlink sattelites) to map RF signals all over the globe for a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HawkEye_360

This includes cell signals, they can map every single cellphone in the world and it's location. Newer cell signals (4G and 5G) don't leak any identifying signals, but 2G and 3G signals leak signals that identify your exact phone, and is 100% visible from space.

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

That's incredibly cool and disconcerting. Yet another dystopian stone unturned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's only a couple decades and some from '48.