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Charlie Warzel ✔ @cwarzel Dec 20, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-data-national-security.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
New: Today's piece from @stuartathompson and me is about the national security risks in smartphone tracking. No one is exempt. Not even @realDonaldTrump*. It took minutes to find a phone that we believe belonged to a Secret Service agent traveling w/ Trump*.
And it's not just the president*. It was alarming how easy it was to find senior officials and security staff as they moved around the White House, Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court and other govt facilities. In many cases, the data trails led back to the smartphone users homes.
When we reached out to some lawmakers to show what we found, the outrage was bipartisan.
This is terrifying, said @HawleyMO "Not just because of the major national security implications...But it also raises personal privacy concerns...These companies are tracking our kids.
Here's what @ewarren told us when we shared with her some of what we'd found: "This report is another alarming case for why we need to break up big tech, adopt serious privacy regulations and hold top executives of these companies personally responsible.
Perhaps the most alarming bit in reporting this piece was how resigned even our national security professionals are to this stuff.
Link to tweet
* - Donald J Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives on December 18, 2019
marble falls
(57,144 posts)I don't need a GPS tracker in my pocket.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Hackers would be bored to tears to follow my daily activities.
marble falls
(57,144 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Assume that Russia and all of our enemies (and most of our friends) have heard every convo and intercepted everything thing he says and does on his phone.
His constant tweeting is also being used as markers for anyone tracking him.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)in peoples heads, and databases. Thats the only thing he protects.
harumph
(1,910 posts)They don't really give a shit about telcom security or they would take known anti-surveillance measures.
It - is - not - rocket - science - stupid - fuckers - everyone.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,389 posts)We, not corporations, should own our data.
Cell carriers, facebook, google, et. al., should be constrained from spying.