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Push Notifications: Yet Another Secret Surveillance Technique
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2024
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2024, page 23
Filed under:
Cell-Phone Location/Tracking Data,
Electronic Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by Michael Dean Thompson
According to what Cooper Quentin who is a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Washington Post, the government has promised they will only use this latest tool for the most grievous crimes. We have heard that before. We previously heard that with regard to ...
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