Mastodawn

The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data

In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI director admitted that the agency is turning to data brokers to get around warrant requirements.

The Verge

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bayo 1d ago

@evacide Nobody voluntarily shares their precise location history with the FBI when they download a flashlight app. The consent buried in a 47-page terms of service that nobody reads isn't consent in any meaningful sense of the word. It's legal infrastructure designed to manufacture the appearance of consent while eliminating its substance.

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disorderlyf

@bayo @evacide I know I probably haven't actually downloaded a flashlight app in over a decade, but I don't actually recall even needing to agree to a ToS that a lot of these apps could bury their "consent" in. I just tapped the "install" button.