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Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencies

www.404media.co Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.

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Thus, for the time being, if you're in the US or some other nation that has issues with women's health, do not take your phone to the abortion clinic with you, or turn it off and stuff it in a Faraday cage until you're at least a block away.

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- That’s not enough, a better idea is to, somehow, poison the location data. Otherwise by disabling location tracking you still leak the information that you are going to a clinic.
  
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  poison the location data i.e. leaving it at home?
  
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  Or you can disable it from time to time at random when you're doing something innocuous, and obscure the pattern that way. Which is probably easier for the average person than figuring out a second method of tampering with their phone.
  
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- Maybe clinics should start mailing out Faraday pouches ahead of appointments?
  
  I'm sure they don't need the extra expense but this is fucked up.
  
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  They could just work that into the cost of service. So you make an appointment and it costs whatever amount it costs. And that cost also includes the mailing to you of a Faraday bag.
  
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- In fact customer faraday cage are not protecting us, the only option would be to block waves from the very low to the very high, in other words, military grade. Good luck.
  
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Conservatives have already said that they want to inspect children's genitals, so it's only a matter of time until they start saying that they want to regularly inspect women's genitals as well to "protect unborn children" (read: control women and fulfill their sick fetish)

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What we need is a phone mode that disconnects from the cell network periodically when not in use, then bounces back up to check for notifications. Obviously this mode wouldn’t be good for people who need to be available by phone, but who calls nowadays? ;)

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- Your survival kit:
  
  Empty GrapheneOS Pixel 6a bought with cash that isn't your daily driver (last Pixel with snapdragon chip that allows IMEI changes)
  
  JMP.chat
  
  Silent.link
  
  Sensors off (developer options)
  
  Bluetooth/WiFi/NFC off
  
  Disable 2G
  
  Offline maps/airplane mode when navigating/at destination/anywhere near your residence or other frequently visited places that could be associated with you. When changing the IMEI/IMSI combo make sure you go to another location first so that you break the link
  
  Infrared AND polarized license plate covers. Remove any and all bumper stickers and other accessories that can be fingerprinted
  
  IR blocking lens sunglasses for facial recognition
  
  And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the tor browser over a trustworthy VPN
  
  So yeah fuck the police
  
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  Until you get pulled over for those plate covers.
  
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Well it's time for everyone to do their civic duty and drive by an abortion clinic once or twice a month and sit in the parking lot for 5 or 10mins to fuck up their data.

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accidental repost

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Your survival kit:

Empty GrapheneOS Pixel 6a bought with cash that isn't your daily driver (last Pixel with snapdragon chip that allows IMEI changes)

JMP.chat

Silent.link

Sensors off (developer options)

Offline maps/airplane mode when navigating

Infrared AND polarized license plate covers

IR blocking lens sunglasses for facial recognition

And of course, it wouldn't be complete without the tor browser over a trustworthy VPN

So yeah fuck the police

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