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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

www.404media.co

Tony Bark@pawb.social to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Archive: https://archive.is/wfmdL

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Meshtastic might not be the best tool for this. Reticulum is more versatile.
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  You don’t want anything that pings a cellphone tower.
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    Reticulum doesn’t need a cellphone tower either.

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