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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by retrocryptid on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:51AM (#36920324)
There's probably a market for fake id streams: want my contact history? Fine here's 100 fake contacts. Want my location data? Fine. I'm at the Taylor Swift concert two states over. Want to listen in on my microphone? Fine. Here's a recording of Pat Boone trying to do rap.

I'm far from the first person to recommend this.

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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by dylan604 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:39AM (#36920756)
That's an easy solve with a charge of corrupting of evidence or some such. We know you weren't at the Taylor Swift concert 2 states away because your WiFi history and cell tower triangulation puts you on the couch watching the Love Island.
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by rolph on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:30AM (#36921222)
do the chattels and daily dealings, of life become evidence at birth, or do you have to commit a crime before anything becomes evidence?
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by dylan604 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:09PM (#36921609)
When the Eye of Sauron gazes upon you, by nature of the gaze you are under suspicion. Depending what is found while the gaze is upon you might decide if you are guilty or not. However, you cannot be ruled out as a terrorist until you've been under that gaze. By falsifying your data just means that the gaze will be much more intense because you're clearly behaving in the manner of someone guilty. It takes time to determine if that guilty looking behavior is because of guilty actions or just some nerd trying to corrupt the data. Either way, you are behaving like a subversive, so you'll just be remembered for that for future investigations.
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by rolph on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:14PM (#36921662)
that suggests, the chattels and daily dealings, of life become evidence at birth, is true.

by extension 5th amendment is hogwash, shielding the obviously guilty.

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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by sandworm101 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:57AM (#36920367)
That will come in next-gen adblockers. Ads will run in an emulated sandbox, unseen by the user. And many user-agent tools already allow randomization, a tiny fictional history.
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by retrocryptid on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:09PM (#36923426)
Sure, but they'll be banned by Apple / Android ToSes. But meh, that shouldn't stop everybody. And it would be fun to watch the back and forth between ad tech and ad blockers.
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by DANmode on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:41AM (#36929799)
Android doesn't have ToS.

Google may.

No other variants of Android do, AFAIK.

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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by retrocryptid on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:15PM (#36934246)
True. Do carriers try to add stuff like this to their ToS? I usually ignore them and root my phones anyway, so I'm not current on which part of the "value chain" is offering a ToS.
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by pydry on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:55AM (#36920885)
There is a market for this but while Google controls android and Apple controls iPhone and it remains a duopoly theres no way in hell they will unlock their ecosystems enough to allow it to thrive.
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Re:Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to kee... by derivagral on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:40AM (#36921324)
This tool sort of exists for web ads, though I think people started getting account actions or something from G.

https://adnauseam.io/

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