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How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is a marker of attendance and a plea for freedom.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html