Ars Technica reports on the EFF investigation into the outsourced surveillance tool, Fog Reveal. The only constant in American politics in my lifetime is the growth of the surveillance state. There's a tag in here where counties with less than 100k people are buying this off the shelf software to build their tiny little panopticons. I'm dim on the current court doing anything about this, and likely the only recourse is to try and commercially punish companies sharing our data with this company.

Here's another fun tidbit:

One critic in AP's report called EFF's attempts to highlight privacy concerns over law enforcement reliance on Fog Reveal contributing to a "cult of privacy."

If you don't believe the police should be able to track anyone without oversight, you're in a cult:got it. How to avoid feeding the beast:

For iOS users, starting in iOS 10.0, Apple disabled ad IDs by default. Android users aren't so lucky but can update settings to disable the ad ID. To walk users through the process of disabling ad IDs, EFF provides this guide for both iOS and Android users. EFF also recommends that anyone in California submit a "right to know" request to Venntel under the California Privacy Act.