Comment by 🚀 stack
If someone is selling data, agencies can buy it. Why set up a spy network when citizens self-spy and corporations sort the data for you?
I've seen Russians laugh at "foolish Americans" with their obsession with superficial rights and 'freedom of speech' and the dream of being deeply in debt...
Mar 19 · 7 weeks ago
3 Later Comments ↓
👻 darkghost · Mar 20 at 00:25:
I've heard that the internet in Russia is basically non-functional because it's always being shut off by the authorities. It's leading people to using 90s tech like walkie talkies and paper maps...
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 20 at 07:41:
@darkghost : Would you trust Kash Patel if he told you grass was green?
Whether he's telling the truth or not, I don't deny there's good reason to be concerned. This is why I'm such an advocate of de-Googled phones and open-source apps. And why everbody I know in real life thinks I'm a rabid tinfoil-hatter.
👻 darkghost · Mar 20 at 11:29:
Welcome to the club of rabid tin foil hattery. Our spring fashions are out and we have a lovely shade of silver this year. (I'm right there with you.)
Original Post
FBI buys location data — The first response is a perfect summary. consumer apps embed ad SDKs → those SDKs feed location signals into RTB ad exchanges → surveillance-oriented firms sit in the RTB pipeline and harvest bid request data even without winning auctions → that data flows to aggregators who don't have any direct relationship with consumers → and from there it's sold to government agencies, among others. The genius of this structure is that accountability dissolves at every layer. Each...