Electronic Frontier FoundationOct 2, 2025
ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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@eff i am not sure if this also works but shelter (using the workprofile as samdbox on android) has the ability to freeze all apps in there with just one click.

ao a frozen app cannot send location data, can it?

btw, timw without recharge went from 1 per day to once per 3 days

Oct 3, 2025 at 4:22amWeb