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Even the stuff that used to be entirely consumer-oriented are now data harvesters. Want to protect your car from being stolen? Put in several GPS chips that will help us locate it - but until you need it, those chips are basically geolocation beacon for context ads. Convenience is being used to track everyone and everything.


GPS chips don't matter because they are receive-only. What matters are cellular modems. Those need to be found and disabled.


Until they make it illegal to tamper with said modems.


I'm sure it already is.




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