Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

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      That’s cute but to get those laws you have to vote third party and hope they don’t get killed or bribed before passing said law. I don’t see that happening until long after the US collapses, so in the meantime it makes more sense to understand how not to be a victim to a fascist government.

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        In the US, yes. But this is mainstream in countries with democracies.

        Anyway, of course. Stein or West or youre voting for climate catastrophe, privacy erosion, and genocide.

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          The opposite, actually, they’re the only candidates, assuming you meant Stein and Claudia, that do not have any of that in their policies.