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

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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] 11 points 8 months ago

🤯imagine how much they spent only to to terrorise women

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months 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] 8 points 8 months ago

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Holy shit.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Hard to connect these dots for most "normal" folks without feeling like a conspiracy nut. Appreciate this journalism.

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