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   Yogthos (yogthos@social.marxist.network)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 03:27:36 JST Yogthos

   a story of how Angry Birds facilitated world wide phone tracking by logging IMEI of the phones and sending them over to their home server in plain text

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     Milly (aanee@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 14:31:19 JST Milly

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     @yogthos I'm more interested in how they bound imei to location. As it in itself can at best only be used as a "short term" personal identifier (until phone change). Nothing to do with location.

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     Yogthos (yogthos@social.marxist.network)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 14:31:19 JST Yogthos

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     @aanee people tend to keep the same phone for at least a year, that's a lot of time to see the patterns of movement for the person. Meanwhile, correlating the phone id to location is trivial when you have access to cell tower data which as we now know the US government absolutely has

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