In-reply-to » Virginia Police Routinely Use Secret GPS Pings To Track People's Cell Phones The nonprofit online news site Virginia Mercury investigated their state police departments' "real-time location warrants," which are "addressed to telephone companies, ordering them to regularly ping a customers' phone for its GPS location and share the results with police."

@mckinley@twtxt.net very reasonable and i don’t disagree with your tactics. my own view is less about tracking and more about not being distracted. in a world where attention can be currency, i try to preserve it. i do have a mobile, but there’s no sim and it’s a glorified messenger when i don’t want to lug my laptop around.

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