Privacy advocates got access to Locate X, a phone tracking tool which multiple U.S. agencies have bought access to, and showed me and other journalists exactly what it was capable of. Tracking a phone from one state to another to an abortion clinic. Multiple places of worship. A school. Following a likely juror to a residence. And all of this tracking is possible without a warrant, and instead just a few clicks of a mouse.

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    Run a headless browser that does random searches at random times across different social media and search engines and have it click random ads.

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      you can essentially already do this with TrackMeNot and AdNauseam

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      This was part of the fictional operating system in the book Little Brother. I think it inspired similar features in a particular real life Linux build too