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:
404media.co/inside-ices-tool-t…
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •The list of apps which were supplying geolocation data to Gravy is here :
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…
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.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •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
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This is not completely true and could give people a false sense of security that does not exist. Google is not the one selling the information in this case. It is the apps that you load and give location information too that do not actually require or use it, other than to sell. Take this into consideration. Everyone goes to GrapheneOS or something compatible with their device. Everyone uses the FDroid store, which I already do. Now were do the people publishing their apps go to? FDroid does not actually have a policy or enforce a policy that prohibits an app from gathering or selling data. If it was big enough then app publishers that do this would use them also to propagate their apps.
The real issue here is not giving apps permissions they do not need, irrelevant to the OS you are using on your mobile device.
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This is not completely true and could give people a false sense of security that does not exist. Google is not the one selling the information in this case. It is the apps that you load and give location information too that do not actually require or use it, other than to sell. Take this into consideration. Everyone goes to GrapheneOS or something compatible with their device. Everyone uses the FDroid store, which I already do. Now were do the people publishing their apps go to? FDroid does not actually have a policy or enforce a policy that prohibits an app from gathering or selling data. If it was big enough then app publishers that do this would use them also to propagate their apps.
The real issue here is not giving apps permissions they do not need, irrelevant to the OS you are using on your mobile device.
Nice plug, but not an honest one, and one that could endanger people's security if they blindly followed it thinking that replacing Android and using another OS with a different app store fixed all their issues. Which it will not. Blindly giving unneeded permissions to apps has been a on going issues since smart devices have existed.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •Delete request and opt-out platform (DROP) - privacy.ca.gov
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •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.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •"why should I care about privacy. I'm too boring and not important for them to track me"
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No, not at all. This might stop a website from detecting were you are from. It will have no effect on an app that has permission to us location information. In fact a VPN does not do half of what marketers have lead you to believe. You have to understand what a VPN really is and what it is meant for to understand why it is useless in the way it is being used. It might help you bypass a Games or Netflix regional locks, though other than that it does not provide the security you are lead to believe it does.
The best way to protect yourself is to turn off location services for apps that do not really need it, like navigation and weather.