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   jomo (jomo@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 21:35:28 JST jomo

   Everything you share publicly on the internet is publicly available and will not be forgotten. That includes government agencies, [and] your worst enemies.

   This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but it repeatedly is. The latest source of outcry is #ShadowDragon, which seems to be a simple #OSINT tool that just collects public posts and makes them available to the feds. Some call this mass surveillance.

   https://www.404media.co/inside-shadowdragon-ice-babycenter-pregnancy-fortnite-black-planet/ #privacy #surveillance

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     jomo (jomo@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 21:35:28 JST jomo

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     You use your real name to post online? You use the same phone number, or the same email address to sign up to different accounts? You use the same, or a similar sounding username on your online accounts? You use the same profile picture on your accounts?

     Anything that is publicly available is being scraped and indexed by archivists, officials, and private companies.

     Do you really think there are no automated tools that connect the dots, let alone investigators being able to manually do this?

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 21:35:28 JST feld

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     Data Brokers exist, yes
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 21:49:37 JST Sexy Moon

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     • feld
     @feld @jomo > it sounds highly unlikely that users are aware their data is being scraped
     
     This goes beyond Internet-illiteracy
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