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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 04:11:21 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Stalking your ex using phone location services isn’t cool. Neither is the way that governments and companies use your phone's data to determine where you've been. Learn more about protecting your privacy, and how EFF helps:
* https://www.eff.org/issues/location-privacy
* https://ssd.eff.org/module/mobile-phones-location-tracking
#TaylorSwift #blackdog #locationprivacy #dataprivacy #digitalrights
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1. Locational Privacy
  
  Modern communications mean most individuals today walk around with a beacon that transmits their location. Mobile phones register to a nearby tower as the owner moves through space and the phone company can collect that data in real time or retrospectively to physically place the phone with varying degrees of accuracy. Companies can also determine the owner of every handset within range of a particular tower. GPS enabled phones enable far more precise location placement. Many cars now have GPS devices installed some of which transmit the vehicle’s location to a centralized service. As the devices get cheaper and smaller law enforcement agencies can more easily attach GPS trackers to cars and individuals enabling precise round-the-clock surveillance without ever leaving the precinct. Location-based services including maps of nearby restaurants friend finders and other social networks collect location data as part of providing the service or for contextual advertising. EFF is fighting to protect the privacy and prevent the misuse of this data that users of phones GPS transmitters and location-based services leak to providers and to the government. In our cell tracking and GPS tracking cases we advocate that the law protect this information by requiring police to get a search warrant before obtaining this sensitive data. We also work to ensure that location based service providers don’t abuse the information they collect on their customers or hand it off to other companies or the police without consent or probable cause.
2. Mobile Phones: Location Tracking
  
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  Location Tracking The deepest privacy threat from mobile phones—yet one that is often completely invisible—is the way that they announce your whereabouts all day (and all night) long through the signals they broadcast. There are at least four ways that an individual phone's location can be tracked by others. Mobile...
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 04:11:22 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
  A reminder to Swifties and non-Swifties alike to regularly review your phone's location sharing settings.
  Remember: the deepest privacy threat from mobile phones is the way that they announce your whereabouts all day (and all night) long.
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  1. A screenshot from the lyric video of Taylor Swift's new song, "Black Dog.' The lyrics are: I am someone who, until recent events you shared your secrets with and your location you forgot to turn it off
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/367/406/019/362/864/original/0ce9b0b1161e7696.png
  2. A screenshot from the lyric video of Taylor Swift's new song, "Black Dog.' The lyrics are: And so I watch as you walk into some bar called The Black Dog and pierce new holes in my heart you forgot to turn it off
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/367/406/087/118/376/original/7d44933d6385c131.png

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