2000 Mules is an obvious invasion of privacy. Yes I am saying it out loud because most people have been expectedly quiet on the subject. I mean it's easy to support invasions of privacy when they work in your favor.
But I am not here to ramble about why the movie overstepped on people's lives, mainly because the privacy they invaded was that of traitors and well... traitors hang.
The obvious elephant is still very much in the room and that is how in the fuck did they obtain the data and why aren't they being arrested for invasion of privacy?
I don't have the answer, but allow me to paint you this picture: law enforcement has to go through many hoops to get cell phone data from suspects. There's paperwork and a third party that typically has to be gone through to get approval. The only exception is typically life and death emergencies. Now yes you COULD make the argument that the election is life and death, but we all know that is going to be rejected by most people as "reaching" and uh... I kinda have to agree with that conclusion...
So if it requires all these approvals to get such data for criminal activity, how did they get it and why haven't they been arrested for invasion of privacy? Who gave them access to this data and when? How did they know who to look for and why haven't they been tossed in a cell yet?
Is it... is it maybe because... Patriots are indeed in control? That they knew what was coming and had been tracking them long before the documentary was released? Is it because they caught them in violation of the law and had enough probable cause to follow them?
As I said, people have died to preserve the right to vote. The penalty for violating such should be no less so yeah, they gave up their privacy the moment they decided to rape all our votes.
EDIT: TIL my cell phone user data can be sold... fucking great! Thank you all for the education. Leaving this post up for any others like myself who did not know.
You sign a TOS doc when you activate your cell service.
That ToS says your personal data can be sold.
Thats all there is to it.
Thanks for informing me on yet another reason to swap carriers...
Am I the only one who finds that even more disturbing? And have we confirmed that ALL the Mules fell under this? I would think at least one major company would NOT engage in this practice, but if it's just that fuckin easy...
I doubt the data is coming from carriers, it's likely coming from Facebook and a bunch of apps tracking everything you do.