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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by ErigmolCt on Monday February 03, 2025 @03:01AM (#42915984)
They’ve basically turned every phone into a tracking beacon
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by blueflow on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:48AM (#42918187)
I'm sure there is a choir of "told you so"-singers somewhere.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by pizzafeelsright on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:07PM (#42927794)
Who thought lugging a transponder with GPS, facial recognition, microphone, and keylogger could lead to human tracking and privacy violations?

We all did and yet here we are.

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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by ErigmolCt on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:32AM (#42945158)
Yeah, at this point, the surprise isn’t that it happened. It’s that people still pretend it’s not a big deal
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