Koch-funded group sues US state over mobile 'spyware' (contact tracing) • The Register :gigachadglow:

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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users' devices without their knowledge and without obtaining warrants, according to a class-action lawsuit filed this week by the New Civil Liberties Alliance.

The Massachusetts app, according to the legal complaint, gave the public health department, Google, application developers, and others access to the device owners' media access control addresses, wireless network IP addresses, phone numbers, contacts and emails, thus making these parties privy to the owners' personal information, location and movement. If Android users discovered and deleted the COVID-19 tracer, the state's health agency would reinstall it on their devices, the lawsuit alleges.

"In sum, DPH installed spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners' permission and awareness," the lawsuit claims [PDF]. "On knowledge and belief, that spyware still exists on the overwhelming majority of the devices on which it was installed."

This violates Android device owners' federal privacy and unreasonable search protections as well as the state's computer crime laws, according to the lawsuit, which also names the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Margret Cooke as a defendant.

Those are the highlights. The Register and some r-slurs on HN got uppity cause Kochs donated money to the organization suing MA. Here's a thread from last June about it if you're interested in how something without the Kochs being involved Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

Also remember contact tracing? That was something that went nowhere in 2 weeks :marseysal:

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How does it feel to be a filthy bedouin who belongs to a lineage and culture which has never actually accomplished anything for itself? The only remarkable traits of your people are that they sit atop oil which white people pay you for and that you are dishonest and relatively dim witted. If western leaders weren't a bunch of jew addled traitors they would have wiped your people off the face of the earth and simply taken your oil rather than paid your r-slurred royalty a single cent.

Now we have a scenario in which a bunch of dune coons run around playing 21st century warlord with weaponry their stupid people couldn't possibly invent and pooping up life on earth for everybody. We never should have sold you so much as a Lamborghini let alone a fricking autocannon. Handing you sand BIPOCs modern weaponry is like handing a small child a hand grenade.

If your people were worth their weight in salt they would turn their own lands into a place fit for human beings. Since they aren't able to, they flee to our lands and proceed to breed like rats while feeding their children with fraudulently earned income and welfare paid for by white people. You and your ilk will eventually outnumber us in our homes and our lands will become as shitty and useless as your lands. Cograts, you'll achieve dar es salaam but you won't have running water or a functioning power grid. You played yourself.

Shameful behavior from a deceitful desert tribe. Yet you feel pride. So strange.

Begone, rat.

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