Virginia Police Routinely Use Secret GPS Pings To Track People's Cell Phones | Slashdot
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."
I can't view the original source of the story as I'm within Europe's GDPR zone, so I'm sharing the Slashdot summary so that everyone knows about the situation.
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