Electronic Frontier FoundationICE 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/
Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)
Turn off location permissions for as many apps as you can. (3/4)
For more tips, check out EFF’s guide to protecting yourself from location data brokers: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/creators-police-location-tracking-tool-arent-vetting-buyers-heres-how-protect.
Creators of This Police Location Tracking Tool Aren't Vetting Buyers. Here's How To Protect Yourself
Now more than ever, attorneys general in states hostile to reproductive choice will be emboldened to use every tool at their disposal to incriminate those exerting their bodily autonomy. Locate X is a powerful tool they can use to do this. So here are some timely tips to help protect your location privacy.
Justin Hitt@eff Thanks for raising this important point. Most retail businesses with a parking lot can purchase a Flock camera. This is enough to have access to the entire tracking system.