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Wow, it's like there should be a law that allows anyone to disable all data tracking about then, not just anonymize it. This is a large conversation about Consent, which is a concept Silicon Valley refuses to acknowledge.
This is just happening now? Shouldn't this have been done for troop security a long time ago?
It sounds like they disabled the "advertising ID" OS feature, but there are many other ways to fingerprint a device for advertising. Maybe this will lead to real privacy reform, now that the true risks are apparent. Not to mention ICE using the same data against civilians.
It sounds like they disabled the "advertising ID" OS feature, but there are many other ways to fingerprint a device for advertising. Maybe this will lead to real privacy reform, now that the true risks are apparent. Not to mention ICE using the same data against civilians.
Wow, it's like there should be a law that allows anyone to disable all data tracking about then, not just anonymize it. This is a large conversation about Consent, which is a concept Silicon Valley refuses to acknowledge.
You see it in various bits of EULA and ToS all the time. "Continued use of implies agreement with the license terms".
Now, is that at all feasible when you need a smartphone to do things like pay for parking in cities or to read menus at restaurants? No. Do the people in SV who think this way also try to wedge their products and services in every single nook, cranny, and crevice of our lives as a way to increase their net worth? Yes. Is this indicative that these people have severe antisocial or sociopathic tendencies that we, as a society, need to handle? I'm not a psychologist.
The US government used to love this stuff when it was the only one who could abuse it. There might be a different outlook now that the tables have turned.
If deployed personnel are sharing videos of their deployment activities to social media, how is that allowed? It can't be, right? They're violating some policy in doing that. Unit commanders have your social media accounts and monitor what you do there. Uniformed servicemembers have never had any expectation of privacy. UCMJ doesn't have 4th amendment rights. Your room, housing, belongings, car, phone, can all be searched with impunity at any time, with or without notice. All communications can and will be intercepted and read.
Could probably get a lot of actionable military information about troop locations by running targeted ads for subprime auto loans and divorce lawyers and collecting location information, discarding any US locations.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ad...