• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    They don’t really need to.

    They get all your phone’s metadata, and thats usually enough to plug in to a bunch of other databases that they can add you to a watchlist of some kind.

    I mean really at this point we are all in a giganto mega watchlist, its just that its so big that the problem is actually sorting through that list and ‘accurately’ assigning threat levels, but thats what Palantir is for.

    Like, they get your IMSI code, unless you are somehow regularly/randomly resetting or spoofing that, uh, they can easily get a bunch of other info from cell providers, they just can’t (usually) specifically use that info alone to convict you of something, but…

    They know who you are, roughly where you were and when.

    So thats a pretty good starting point for a subsequent investigation, or just throwing it onto the dragnet data pile.

    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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      17 minutes ago

      So good I need not fear about all this, because I said a very rare bunch of people to kick rocks (not directly, not knowing who they are, just in response to their words relayed anonymously by another person, and technically more rude, but I was told it was translated this way), and expressed my opinion about the current regime in my country with its leader’s biological daughter (by no measure the only one) in the room (also I was trying to fsck her), using prison castes’ names, and also my dad probably had ties to security services, making it almost certain I’m already as tagged as tagging goes personally and not by some combination of coefficients. There’s even a little probability that this has already saved my life once or twice.

      Can’t recommend it.