Comment by mensetmanusman
1 month ago
When your phone sends out a ping to search for cellular towers, real estate brokers collect all that information to track everywhere you go and which stores you visit.
Owning a phone is a privacy failure by default in the United States.
> When your phone sends out a ping to search for cellular towers, real estate brokers collect all that
Care to provide a pointer to what device they are using? I would absolutely get my real estate license for this.
You are being downvoted because you're so painfully correct. It's not an issue exclusive to the United States, but American intelligence leads the field far-and-away on both legal and extralegal surveillance. The compliance forced by US Government agencies certainly helps make data tracking inescapable for the average American.
Unfortunately, the knee-jerk reaction of many defense industry pundits (and VCs, for that matter) is that US intelligence is an unparalleled moral good, and the virtues of privacy aren't worth hamstringing our government's work. Many of these people will try to suppress comments like yours because it embarrasses Americans and American business by association. And I sympathize completely - I'm dumbfounded by the response from my government now that we know China is hacking our telecom records.
FWIW, SS7 had known flaws very long ago.
It's apparent it has been kept in place because of all of the value it provides to the 5 eyes.