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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 04:04:10 JST Joe Ortiz

   Holy Shit is right and in the hands of a authoritarian, it will be worse...

   "Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant."

   https://www.404media.co/inside-the-u-s-government-bought-tool-that-can-track-phones-at-abortion-clinics/

   https://archive.ph/gSK9A

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 05:53:52 JST Joe Ortiz

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     Here's another good piece on this:

     "Babel Street’s LocateX platform also allows customers to track individual mobile users by their Mobile Advertising ID or MAID, a unique, alphanumeric identifier built into all Google Android and Apple mobile devices."

     https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 05:53:59 JST Joe Ortiz

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     "Babel Street can offer this tracking capability by consuming location data and other identifying information that is collected by many websites and broadcast to dozens and sometimes hundreds of ad networks that may wish to bid on showing their ad to a particular user."

     https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 10:53:05 JST Joe Ortiz

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     • Kat O’Brien

     @obrien_kat I'm telling you, data brokers shouldn't exist. :(

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     Kat O’Brien (obrien_kat@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 10:53:06 JST Kat O’Brien

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     @joeo10 read about this just today, 😫😫😫😫😫