• FinalFallacy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Arguably the location data has several purposes, and needs to be collected but shouldn’t have been available for sale. It’s bad enough you can’t keep law enforcement out of it but even worse when random businesses get the information.

    That said, in this day and age, it should be a no brainier that your phone is a tracking device for multiple organizations and we should all keep that in mind

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      1 year ago

      Americans: we will cry foul online until we get an adequate transportation system.

      Also Americans: we will cry foul online if you try to collect the data that you need to plan a transportation system.

      Just one example of how phone data is useful.

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      I would argue it’s worse that law enforcement can just buy data they would otherwise need a warrant to access. In the case of broad data (e.g. location data for every cellphone user in a neighborhood or city) law enforcement can’t legally seize that at all but they can buy it from a broker. It’s a major fourth amendment violation.