alt Hacker NewsIt's even worse: Since cell phones broadcast your location at all times, this means telling hundreds of companies (and a number of governments) your location at basically all times.
That's already an issue with most cell phones. Making this apply to prepaid phones is even worse.
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tencentshill • today at 4:28 PM
Apple has implemented a mitigation for this in their new modems, but unfortunately its a carrier opt-in, so only actually useful in Europe.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-expands-this-location-focus...
reactordev • today at 4:00 PM
"Downstream collection" would have a field day with this data.
One thing I wonder is if this is just one step removed from 'Now we know the identity of every user so we can now have both probable cause and verified identity to arrest over statements containing speech we do not like.' "
Like that is Carr's FCC in a nutshell - he wants to control speech by controlling the airwaves. That is a raw fact in his behavior. But when the news stations say the thing they want them to say, what happens next other than slightly extending the definitions of public good to the internet and then restricting speech?