ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones.
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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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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/
@jasonkoebler
The list of apps which were supplying geolocation data to Gravy is here :The high-download ones are Outlook and all Candy Crush games.
I'd suggest (for Android) going into Settings -> Location -> App Location Permissions , and remove the Location permission from all apps unless necessary (e.g. driving map/nav); and then check any apps you *do* need against the list above.
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@jasonkoebler
The list of apps which were supplying geolocation data to Gravy is here :The high-download ones are Outlook and all Candy Crush games.
I'd suggest (for Android) going into Settings -> Location -> App Location Permissions , and remove the Location permission from all apps unless necessary (e.g. driving map/nav); and then check any apps you *do* need against the list above.
@NNN @jasonkoebler
#Cryptpad would be a better solution to host such docs :
https://cryptpad.fr
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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/
@jasonkoebler 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 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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@jasonkoebler 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 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
@z3r0fox Bit off topic, I'm still using a Googled Pixel but I'm also using DDG's tracker blocker which prevents apps from sending data home, for example I assume constant location data. It has blocked thousands upon thousands of third party data tracking attempts through the few apps I use. I'm very happy with it.
I may try Graphene at some point but the app I use the most is Libby which isn't available on Fdroid, I have 3 different libraries connected to it and I'm not sure if people continue to use certain apps like Libby from the Google Play store after they switch to Graphene or other OS. This kind of confusion attenuates my motivation to switch.
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