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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous

www.the-independent.com

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ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous

www.the-independent.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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ICE buys tool to monitor millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous
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Move comes after immigration agencies ceased buying some location data during Biden administration after inspectors found they abused privacy protections
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    Good thing if you don’t do crime, you have nothing to hide!

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      And what is completely normal and legal today can be criminal tomorrow, so no need to worry for all kinds of companies and instututions hovering up everybody’s private data.

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        Yeah that’s why I keep a ring camera in my bathroom. Got to make sure that corporate knows I am doing nothing wrong!

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          “poops once ever 3 days or a week” sends miralax, metamucil ad to your phone.

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          It’s messed up when some random spyware Chinese camera is safer to use than anything made in the US.

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            they made huwei phones a boogeyman of spyware thus having it "sanctioned’ from us market, because its competing with low cost phones.

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      Forgot the /s?

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      Yeah it’s great how the law is complex enough to criminalize any aspect of your life that is needed for persecution!!

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        Criminal prosecution has always mostly been used for pleb control.

        That’s why rich pedos never go to prison.

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          its also useful for GOP states, to illegally count them as residents for the census.

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          We should all get the same protection they do.

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      They’re making up crimes that’s what Nazis do read a history book

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