ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
@jasonkoebler Forgive my ignorance: would VPN solve or mitigate the issue?
@jasonkoebler @ai6yr Bad, bad news.
@jasonkoebler "why should I care about privacy. I'm too boring and not important for them to track me"
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That trade in user data must be outlawed. And enforced with jailtime for execs.
@jasonkoebler get rid of the smartphone, at least for a while. Use a lightphone with communication disabled when i doubt, or use offline recording devices to record evidence of unconstitutional abuses. We dont need easily surveilled smartphones, and folks need to start understanding this.
There is nothing tied to apple, android, microsoft, etc, smartphones that is important enough for you to be subjugated through them by a totalitarian state.
@jasonkoebler If you live in California, they have an easy way to delete your data from data brokers: https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/
@jasonkoebler Piling on with everyone's regular reminder that there are de-Googled #Android alternatives for your phone to break out of the panopticon if you can give up the convenience of historically unethical companies like Uber and use apps from #FDroid that won't surveil you.
@GrapheneOS for example you can just plug your #Pixel into their website and transition easily. Not sure what's good recently for Samsung users. #Apple people, you're on your own. #Resist
@jasonkoebler
The list of apps which were supplying geolocation data to Gravy is here :
The high-download ones are from Microsoft (Outlook, o365, Solitaire etc) and all Candy Crush games.
I'd suggest (for Android) going into Settings -> Location -> App Location Permissions , and remove the Location permission from all apps unless necessary (e.g. driving map/nav); and then check any apps you *do* need against the list above.
