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Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pegasus spies on all the data on a phone. If a phone is really infected with that, then location access is the least of your worries. But this is not relevant to this post anyway, because 99,9% of people will never be a valid target for such high-level spyware.

[–] humblebun@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

In general yes. Just a daily reminder of our dystopian days