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Are you being watched by your local police? (forwardky.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36111319

EFF: Atlas of Surveillance.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, 5G uses beamforming so they know where you are with pretty high accuracy.

Nothing will prevent them knowing your location, if you’re transmitting a signal it can be located with WWI level technology. But the providers do log that data so it can be available for law enforcement.