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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by rootusrootus on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:07PM (#36301150)
> Someone could show that movement info, for example, is available for sale on a legislator. Or a legislator's spouse or child.

Surely someone is already doing this? It wouldn't be especially expensive, but even if it were we could probably crowdfund it easily enough.

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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by thumbuddy on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:49AM (#36308255)
It's being done, and has been done for around a decade now. New York times did a good piece on how every civilians cellphone gps data has been for sale a long time ago. Bounty hunters buy this kind of data all the time is my understanding.
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