*It’s Possible to Track Someone’s Personal Phone to an Abortion Clinic.
And It’s Legal Too.*
/A company got access to a mobile phone-tracking tool used by law
enforcement and U.S. government agencies across the country. They found
significant privacy vulnerabilities.
/
Byron Tau
October 23, 2024 06:00 AM | Updated: October 23, 2024 10:36 AM
On a day this past June, researchers were able to track a cell phone as
it went from a residential address in Alabama to Tallahassee, Florida,
where it remained for about two hours before going to another house in
Mississippi.
The address in Tallahassee was an abortion clinic that explicitly
advertises its services to out-of-state visitors.
Earlier this year, start-up company Atlas Privacy got access to a mobile
phone-tracking tool used by law enforcement and U.S. government agencies
across the country. The tracking tool, sold by Virginia-based company
Babel Street, pulls commercially available data that phones beam out
through apps. Atlas researchers were looking for privacy and security
vulnerabilities in the data for sale.
Data brokers claim the information is fully anonymized. But in reality,
it can easily expose someone’s identity, and it can potentially reveal
some of the most private moments of a person’s life — like crossing
state lines to go to an abortion clinic.
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https://www.notus.org/technology/cell-phone-tracking-law-enforcement-abortion-clinic
