Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant.
They can’t be the only one doing this, though. It’s going to be a game of whack-a-mole as long as the carriers are still allowed to sell this data. The only way that’ll change is if some well connected politician gets outed or arrested because of it, probably.
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They can’t be the only one doing this, though. It’s going to be a game of whack-a-mole as long as the carriers are still allowed to sell this data. The only way that’ll change is if some well connected politician gets outed or arrested because of it, probably.
Unfortunately yeah, although you can prevent for yourself it to some extent by disabling your advertising id
They just use the different techniques to fIngerprint you. It’s an arms race, and we lost it years ago.
I would think opting out would just subject you to extra scrutiny.