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Police in US state of Nevada can now track cellphones without a warrant (apnews.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] plz1@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately yeah, although you can prevent for yourself it to some extent by disabling your advertising id

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They just use the different techniques to fIngerprint you. It's an arms race, and we lost it years ago.