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CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
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Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#182I am evolving my views on personal privacy. I am, like many people, trying to passively defend myself. However, the environment today is more akin to people coming up and punching you than it is to just avoiding door to door sales people. We are being actively attacked, and real harm is being caused. People are loosing their entire livelihoods, or worse, to attacks on their privacy like this. At the moment all I see…
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> most evil is created by good people trying to do good Citation needed.
Look at your username then look at mine. You ask me to prove something essentially unprovable. Prove to me that most evil is created by people trying to do evil. It'll be equally as difficult to prove as you can't look in the minds of those doing evil. And you also can't trust what's coming out of their mouth. I gave you some evidence in indirect form. I'll give you another saying: "for the greater good." There's no…
Ok, since you don't care about evidence-based reasoning, I say: You are wrong. Most evil is created by people trying to do evil.
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look at your username then look at mine. You ask me to prove something essentially unprovable. Prove to me that most evil is created by people trying to do evil. It'll be equally as difficult to prove as you can't look in the minds of those doing evil. And you also can't trust what's coming out of their mouth. I gave you some evidence in indirect form. I'll give you another saying: "for the greater good." There's no…
Ok, since you don't care about evidence-based reasoning, I say: You are wrong. Most evil is created by people trying to do evil.
If you're going to troll, do better. You can't just pretend to be illiterate. You know I gave evidence lol
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither the government nor an ad agency needs to know where I am, no matter how "rough" the data is. It's none of their business.
At this point, your device is not giving anyone your location without explicit permission. So it really just comes down to your IP Address, which services do need.
Verizon and AT&T were literally selling the realtime location of your device without any ability for users turn it off. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/court-rejects-ve...
You're still that confident that no one else is selling your location data without your knowledge?
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, since you don't care about evidence-based reasoning, I say: You are wrong. Most evil is created by people trying to do evil.
If you're going to troll, do better. You can't just pretend to be illiterate. You know I gave evidence lol
Ah my apologies, I forgot to cite my source, which is the devil (just a coincidence it's the same as yours).
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#187If you build it, they'll come.
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
People here complain that programmers aren’t engineers because real engineers can accidentally kill people and get sued if they mess an equation up. Instead of just breaking a build or something. I think it’s more concerning that programmers seem to have no care or shame about designing systems that works against the users’ interests. Did you share something intimate in our chat? Well it’s not E2E, moron, we have tha…
It really cannot be both ways--the tech industry cannot both be producing critical infrastructure and be immune from liability. We've tried this experiment before, and millions suffered and died needlessly. We have electrical codes, building codes, automotive safety standards, etc., because many, many people died preventable deaths. With the amount of leverage tech has over the economy I don't think it's reasonable t…
Alas, but the body count usually must be worryingly high before the "hmm, well, maybe we should do something?" thing kicks into gear. Daylight unescorted bomber raids, for example, or a space shuttle departing itself most awkwardly, usually after the attrit rate is already out the barn door and up and over the third ridge is action taken. Fixes may also require a change of thinking, which may be awkward for some, especially where reputations are involved, or piles of Mammon so high that a Jesus himself would throw his back trying to turn those tables at Wall-street. The engineering on the space shuttle was near perfect, right? And then you need ongoing vigilance soas to help slow down the rate of repeats where, spoilers, o-rings were again involved in the almost-disaster that was the Starliner. Squick-worthy adtech? Meh, hasn't gotten enough killed. Yet.
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
i feel like this is the same as voting independant. it's the right idea in theory, but given the fact that 99% of people don't do it , righteousness is decreased. in this case very literally as having a unique fingerprint is entirely counter intuitive to the idea of privacy
It starts with you. Doesn't matter if others won't. You can't expect anything to chamge if you, yourself, are not willing to change.
I really want to be in a world where that's true. in the meantime we live in a zero sum survival of the fittest game where the powerful execute the weak for insubordination. in this world it is often necessary to take roundabout paths to reach the objective.
for example, a constitutional representative in my country attempted to place restrictions on unfettered gambling advertisements. a single day later, photos emerged of that politician having dressed as a nazi for a costume party in his youth. that politician stood up for what was right and then got fired for it, by losing his job and his status in the court of public opinion, effectively achieving no change.
exacting change isnt always such a simple process as embodying the end result.
Re: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
#190the whole point of buying ad-tech data is that purchasing doesn't have the legal requirements that collecting does