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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" (www.motherjones.com)
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Cool...

This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.

Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gyro/accelerometer data isn't accurate enough to do that. Small errors in the data add up and will quickly drift away from the actual location. You can use it for video game controllers, but not tracking over large distances. Edit: there's a reason the best VR tracking often uses external methods, not controllers alone.

But most phones have GPS and that's where the real problem is.