Post by @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social

2026-01-08 16:12 UTC

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/

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@z3r0fox@mastodon.social 2026-01-08 16:39

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social 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@grapheneos.social 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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@Cappyjax@mastodon.social 2026-01-08 18:09

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social If you live in California, they have an easy way to delete your data from data brokers: https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

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@titociuro@mstdn.social 2026-01-09 01:22

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social Forgive my ignorance: would VPN solve or mitigate the issue?

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