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.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act only restricts telecom companies from disclosing data to the government. It doesn't restrict disclosure to other companies, who then may disclose that same data to the government. A-GPS (Assisted Global Positioning System) data is accumulated with the assistance of carriers. The regular GPS chip in your phone can take minutes (or longer) to pinpoint your location, and A-GPS was developed to help first responders and 911 operators find a cell phone when the need was urgent. Your location is worth about $300.
Scrolling through the average cellphone, you’ll almost always see apps such as Facebook Messenger, Google Chrome, Amazon Prime, TikTok, rideshare apps such as Uber and Lyft. That is just the list of apps and there are another set of lesser known ones that collect the same information. There is NO privacy in your movement with a cell phone or your car for that matter. You signed up for it!