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Please bear in mind that the site this is on appears to be a Russian propaganda machine. This story may have some validity to it - I haven't investigated yet - but a quick browse of the front page consists primarily of anti-ukraine conspiracy pages.
The wikipedia article seems to spell it all out concisely: > "The company purchases cell phone location data from advertisers who in turn get the information from embedded software development kits (SDK) in commonly used phone applications. The publishers of apps frequently allow third parties to insert SDKs into their apps for a fee. Some of the apps have Anomaly Six’s own SDK embedded in them. This system often rel…
Ah yes, the "it's not malware because technically you agreed to it" defense. "Legitimate companies" with their "legitimate interests".
Please bear in mind that the site this is on appears to be a Russian propaganda machine. This story may have some validity to it - I haven't investigated yet - but a quick browse of the front page consists primarily of anti-ukraine conspiracy pages.
"I haven't investigated yet". Clearly. As your attack on the site's credibility appears to be based on nothing more than their dogged questioning of the dominant US narrative about the US proxy war against Russia.
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There's a significant difference from an advertiser learning a little too much about me to the government tracking my every move. Of course, there are risks, but it is beyond the pale for our own governments to be utilizing these tools in this way and this article puts the focus squarely on this part of the problem. In any case.. I wonder if the solution to all of this is just noise. Our devices should be generating…
I used to think privacy was the way, but it's proving more and more impossible to do. I know think that this is the way, begin to generate fake data tons of it all the time, the best defense is a good offense, if we can decrease the signal to noise ratio sufficiently then they can no longer use it, and no I don't have any moral qualms with it because they started the war. They are the ones who have caused only 1 in 3…
I love how understated (or frankly clueless) these articles are. You should just assume that every mobile phone is reporting high accuracy (< 10m) location information at all times of the day, from tens to thousands of times a day, to a variety of aggregators. Essentially they are little snitches and we are all rats in a maze to their panopticon.
There's a significant difference from an advertiser learning a little too much about me to the government tracking my every move. Of course, there are risks, but it is beyond the pale for our own governments to be utilizing these tools in this way and this article puts the focus squarely on this part of the problem. In any case.. I wonder if the solution to all of this is just noise. Our devices should be generating…
No, there isn't, because the government buys that data.
The wikipedia article seems to spell it all out concisely: > "The company purchases cell phone location data from advertisers who in turn get the information from embedded software development kits (SDK) in commonly used phone applications. The publishers of apps frequently allow third parties to insert SDKs into their apps for a fee. Some of the apps have Anomaly Six’s own SDK embedded in them. This system often rel…
The very few proprietary apps I have are installed on a separate profile of my Graphene phone, and they are given very few permissions. I sometimes use rotating burner SIM's to thwart the telcos and never make calls with the SIM. I am pretty sure I am in the >1% of people taking these precautions, which is why Anomaly 6 has the location of almost everybody else.
Please bear in mind that the site this is on appears to be a Russian propaganda machine. This story may have some validity to it - I haven't investigated yet - but a quick browse of the front page consists primarily of anti-ukraine conspiracy pages.
Not sure why you were downvoted. From what I can tell, you aren't wrong. The site has a history of alignment with Kremlin and Beijing interests. (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone ) This particular story doesn't seem egregious however. Thinking the worst, I can speculate how it might support a western surveillance state narrative. A too often accurate narrative, unfortunately. addendum: The columnist se…
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Ah yes, the "it's not malware because technically you agreed to it" defense. "Legitimate companies" with their "legitimate interests".
Or is it intelligence agencies pretending to be legitimate companies.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a significant difference from an advertiser learning a little too much about me to the government tracking my every move. Of course, there are risks, but it is beyond the pale for our own governments to be utilizing these tools in this way and this article puts the focus squarely on this part of the problem. In any case.. I wonder if the solution to all of this is just noise. Our devices should be generating…
I used to think privacy was the way, but it's proving more and more impossible to do. I know think that this is the way, begin to generate fake data tons of it all the time, the best defense is a good offense, if we can decrease the signal to noise ratio sufficiently then they can no longer use it, and no I don't have any moral qualms with it because they started the war. They are the ones who have caused only 1 in 3…
To thwart telcos, you can use https://invisv.com/ or rotate burner SIMs from Mint or Ting. To thwart the OS level tracking we have many alternate OS such as Graphene, Postmarket, and Linux. For app level SDK's which are the primary vector used here, primarily use FOSS apps such as those from fdroid.org and treat any proprietary apps with extreme caution.
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"I haven't investigated yet". Clearly. As your attack on the site's credibility appears to be based on nothing more than their dogged questioning of the dominant US narrative about the US proxy war against Russia.
Hello Margarita Simonyan.