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So I've just been thinking about privacy, and how everyone's location can be tracked. Then I realized: What about people who have no permission to enter the country?

Like do they just decide to not have a phone, or do they still have phones and just roll the dice and hope they don't get caught?

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[–] DragonsInARoom 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

They don't use tracking capabilities to help people, they use it for law enforcement. And if you want to track someone illegally entering the country cellphone triangulation is the least effective method. The person could: - Not have a phone - turn the phone off - use a burner phone and number. And by the time you've found them they're already across. If their traveling by boat they could drop the phone in the water aswell. And cell tower triangulation is inaccurate anyway, a 5G triangulation can pin someone down to the cm. (Half a hotdog for the Americans.) And you need to have towers close enough to the entry point aswell. If the tower is too far away it will be inaccurate.

[–] bizzle 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're high, half a hotdog is 7.5 cm

[–] mkwt 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they're conceptualizing hot dog radius.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's are the most common radii of lukewarm dogs?

[–] mkwt 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'd reckon about half a cm.

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