An internal DHS document shows CBP used location data sourced from the online ad industry to track phone locations; ICE has bought access to similar tools
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' precise movements over time …
404 Media Joseph Cox
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Discussion
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@leahlibresco
Leah Libresco Sargeant
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Fights about surveillance aren't going to be about what the government can wiretap, but what they can buy and how AI helps them connect it.
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@adamscochran
Adam Cochran
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AI makes deanonymizing bulk data easier than ever. We need to make clear that the government deanonymizing data counts as illegal surveillance on citizens. And pass some common sense digital privacy laws. The government shouldn't passively track innocent Americans!
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@tysonbrody
Tyson Brody
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This is the exact sort of surveillance explicitly permitted by the DoD's contract with OpenAI. This document repeatedly states that cell phone data to track your every move is not “personally identifiable information” - but the contract only bans working with PII, so this clears!…
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@eff.org
@eff.org
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The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.
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@sesmith.lol
S. E. Smith
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Ad blockers and rejecting cookies aren't just things I do for readability or because of annoyance!
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@cdt.org
@cdt.org
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“[CDT's] Jake Laperruque Laperruque [] tells WIRED that while Palantir isn't the company harvesting people's data, it enables ICE to analyze data it obtains from other sources. In doing so, it enables the agency's larger surveillance apparatus.”
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@tyleraking.com
Tyler King
on bluesky
So while this administration is consolidating our government identity information and law enforcement is buying everything else that is commercially available, and it all goes into the big DOGE cauldron of AI chaos, all data is now the same data.
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@marypcbuk
Mary Branscombe
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my near-obsessive ad blocking on every platform used to just be about stopping the advertising platforms from knowing about me... and did the whole Manifest v3 ad blocking mess ever get sorted out? Using Edge I still get v2 which blocks before download so I've got uBlock Origin …
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@campuscodi.risky.biz
Catalin Cimpanu
on bluesky
You should hate Google with the energy of 1000 burning suns for attempting to kill ad blockers in Chrome [embedded post]
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@josephcox
Joseph Cox
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Today a group of ~70 lawmakers are urging the oversight body of DHS to investigate ICE's location data purchase we recently revealed. DHS previously ICE, CBP, Secret Service all used the data illegally. Letter says ICE is stonewalling congressional oversight www.404media.co/cbp…
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All the Ways Big Tech Fuels ICE and CBP
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements