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I wonder if doge had anything to do with this? 🖕🤷‍♂️

Damn

They never wanted to ban it. Just control it and use it for their own benefit.

the U.S. is too corrupt to function perhaps my friends at libertarian "free market" think tanks can crack this case

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What about poor jet owners? No one ever does anything for them.

I wonder if Trump's continuous posts on Truth are used by adversaries to track his every movement in real time?

Uhhh, yep…oh well..

Elections won't fix any of this either. The descent is well underway. The same madness that history shows always ends up needing to be reached at the nadir is going to take place. It's inevitable. And the oligarchy...particularly the tech broligarchy...is not going to fare well at all. Good.

the purpose of "national security" is protecting capitalism

Regulation is going to be even more difficult if the Trump family are in on the scam!

Surely the market will correct. Or failing that surely the businesses will regulate themselves. Right before all the money trickles down... /s 🤡

Why are they even allowed to have cellphones?

Yeah, but have you considered all the societal benefit that comes from the privately owned surveillance state that we all live under???

If your over seas turn location data off

I mean this tech has literally given away the location of secret bases, the idea of ‘opsec’ is dead.

Is this news?

From cell towers, you can’t beat that by turning off location services. Do any other countries’ privacy protections limit this?

"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them" -Attributed to various folks

I mean evidence of this stretches back more than a decade. It's an active choice.

We learned nothing from the Ukrainians who quite successfully target the Russians using location data and dating aps

Wow. That's a surprise! Not. Tech Bros...unable to see beyond their noses.

boom

SMDH. Monetizing personal data without a legal and regulatory framework and mechanisms for enforcement for its control and use was always going to lead to a bad end. And we're living in that dystopia.

On top of all this mass surveillance too. Trump has done far too much damage. We’re not criminals. Protesters will soon begin whistling the hunger games.

All that Bruce Sterling cyberpunk stuff coming home to roost.

they're not going to change a damn thing, it would cost people money and the government domestic surveillance capabilities

Capitalist greed putting soldiers’ lives at greater risk.

They told us if we didn’t get onboard with the ring doorbells and flock cams, we’re pro- crime / defunding the police. ☝️

This was a foregone conclusion. Why Congress (Democrats) don’t attempt to regulate virtually any digital transactions and technology is gobsmacking.

i think what many tech journalists need to acknowledge (even the ones like doctorow who i agree with) is that they got played by an industry built on fraud, surveillance, and govt handouts

Ever read Catch 22? This is Milo Minderbinder shit.

230 is not the issue here.

But they'll get a free year of credit monitoring from experian

When a thoroughly compromised Russian asset is squatting in the White House, we have to expect this kind of thing.

This has to worry their commanders.

That's capitalism babyyyy

I'm assuming you've read the 'data broker protection act'?

I honestly assumed service members serving in a war would not be allowed to bring their personal mobile phones. When I learned otherwise I was flabbergasted!

Pandora’s box: Opened

FAFO

and if they don't get it from their jogging app they can probably get it from the rideshare app, or the diet app, or the cellular carrier themselves

Don't wear "smart" accessories. I agree, Karl.

Too bad we can't trust ANYTHING the Trump Pentagon says.

they sure are

I recall an interview with the Bellingcat folks where they said they can do their work in Russia because it's so corrupt everything is for sale. Looks like the same is true for the U.S.

Good, they deserve it.

they've been warned for a decade, they just don't care because it's profitable, and the broken system can be exploited by the U.S. government to spy on its own citizens

Now do drones used on domestic populations in the US. But yeah, they're so cool delivering your items from Jeff Bezos and the police. When that check comes due, oh, someone's at the window, just a sec.

The invisible hand of the market at work.

The owner of any data center that gives away the location of an American soldier that can be put in harms way should be tried as a traitor and everything they own taken. Data centers need to be regulated

'dying for the cause' has a broad remit