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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/113421585479739327">Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 10:05:41 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" title="glyph@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/19724-48-20221108060713.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Glyph" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Glyph</a></section><article><p>one of the areas that regulators have been less focused is opening the elements of app store platform security architecture so that third parties, hopefully 501c3s or PBCs, can crack open the API for the app store app on your phone and create alternative frontends to install/uninstall/review permissions. on the one hand it needs to be illegal to sell data like this, but on the other it needs to be possible to automate the *review* of what can access your location<br>  <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113420239852664505" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113420239852664505</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3932139#notice-7682693">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-11-04T10:05:41+09:00" title="Monday, 04-Nov-2024 10:05:41 JST">about 21 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph/113421585479739327" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph/113421585479739327">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113420239852664505">BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)</a></h5><div> from <span>BrianKrebs</span></div></header><div>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has written an op-ed published at MSNBC that links to last month's story about companies selling tools that can track hundreds of millions of mobile phones just by the digital exhaust from mobile ad networks."Congress needs to finally breach the corporate barricade that has blocked a strong consumer privacy law. I’ve authored my own strong privacy bills, the Mind Your Own Business Act and the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act. And in the coming months I plan to release two new bills: one that will protect Americans’ privacy by limiting how much data websites and apps can collect on Americans and preventing data brokers from amassing and selling that data, and another that will protect Americans from being spied on by their smart TVs and set-top boxes and having that data given away or sold to data brokers."https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/abortion-data-brokers-phones-google-apple-wyden-rcna178479The Global Surveillance Free-for-all in Mobile Ad Data: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 10:05:41 JST Glyph
one of the areas that regulators have been less focused is opening the elements of app store platform security architecture so that third parties, hopefully 501c3s or PBCs, can crack open the API for the app store app on your phone and create alternative frontends to install/uninstall/review permissions. on the one hand it needs to be illegal to sell data like this, but on the other it needs to be possible to automate the *review* of what can access your location
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  Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has written an op-ed published at MSNBC that links to last month's story about companies selling tools that can track hundreds of millions of mobile phones just by the digital exhaust from mobile ad networks. "Congress needs to finally breach the corporate barricade that has blocked a strong consumer privacy law. I’ve authored my own strong privacy bills, the Mind Your Own Business Act and the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act. And in the coming months I plan to release two new bills: one that will protect Americans’ privacy by limiting how much data websites and apps can collect on Americans and preventing data brokers from amassing and selling that data, and another that will protect Americans from being spied on by their smart TVs and set-top boxes and having that data given away or sold to data brokers." https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/abortion-data-brokers-phones-google-apple-wyden-rcna178479 The Global Surveillance Free-for-all in Mobile Ad Data: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

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