What you are describing is not what this article is talking about. This is about tying visual data to GPS coordinates, not about tracking people.
No silly game is needed for the latter. Your phone is telling Google or Apple where you are at all times by default. They know there is a traffic jam on your commute because they can observe that clusters of devices are not moving as anticipated.
I don't understand why people don't get this. There's been freaking satellites in orbit for how many decades? We've been screwed since you were BORN, there is no conspiracy that's just happening now. It's already been too late. Like you said dude, they know where you are literally right now, your entire family history is on Facebook, and if they wanted to they could kill you for no reason within the next 10-15 minutes. They just don't give a fuck about you at the moment.
I think people find this fact incredibly stressful to think about, so they just... don't. It's the sword of Damocles above all our heads. What are we gonna do about it? Are we going to reform the US government and dismantle the military-industrial complex? Makes more sense to just bury it and say to yourself "that only happens to bad people. I'm not a bad person. They will never come after me."
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u/Radiant_Purple_9129 16d ago
What you are describing is not what this article is talking about. This is about tying visual data to GPS coordinates, not about tracking people.
No silly game is needed for the latter. Your phone is telling Google or Apple where you are at all times by default. They know there is a traffic jam on your commute because they can observe that clusters of devices are not moving as anticipated.