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CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

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Post by chaps »

arghwhat wrote: post #194
chaps wrote: post #101

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I worked in ad-tech for a year before I left the tech industry as a whole. I've also done a fair bit of investigative journalism. Let me share a thing: Factual, a company that specializes in hyperlocal geofencing, uses geofencing much smaller than the self-regulation that their industry allows in their own rules. I learned this after a coworker quit because our company was allowing ad targeting to people using these…

First thing would be that a small geofence (i.e., a narrow church on available data) is entirely orthogonal to having high precision, high quality location data available. I won't claim with certainty that this is the case, but it seems likely that Factual was overselling their capabilities. That, or they relied specifically on having users grant high precision location data access and had nothing otherwise. Apps tha…

"Apps that already need location data are probably the most likely sources of collecting such data"

Yes, and many companies have access to both feeds.....

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Post by mulmen »

daft_pink wrote: post #206
mulmen wrote: post #144

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Weird take. Lots of examples recently of municipalities taking down Flock cameras. It's not a lost cause.

I think it’s possible in large cities, but seems unlikely that all small suburbs in an area you can get each suburb and some are very small to remove them. And that is just “possible” in large cities not reality. Who has the time to go from small locality to small locality.

Yeah you’re right, we should give up. Freedom is an impossible dream.

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Post by heisenbit »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #52
cdrnsf wrote: post #40

I have 26 apps on my phone. Of those, four are Safari extensions, one is a PWA and another I wrote myself. I use a restrictive nextDNS profile that also blocks Apple's native tracking (as best they can) and don't use social media. I feel like that's the best I can realistically do.

And you do realize your cellphone is constantly sharing your location with your cell phone company which is more than willing to give it to the government without a warrant. Whatever you are doing is meaningless privacy theatre

You phone company has a pretty good idea where you are all the time. This is well known and therefore there are strict rules, regulations and often laws preventing share this without good cause. As long as telco or law enforcement adheres to the law (hmm) this data is not available for fishing expeditions.

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Post by keybored »

drdaeman wrote: post #96
keybored wrote: post #49

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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…

I’m afraid you don’t understand humans. Yeah, if you completely strip every detail you get a picture like that, a very convenient one to blow all the righteous steam on some amorphous homogeneous “programmers” mass. World is not simple, it’s the opposite of that. When a poor lad comes on a work visa and is elevated from a literal poverty to a somewhat decent standard of living, would you expect them to stand up and m…

That’s a lot of text to say that I’m generalizing. Yes I’m generalizing.

It doesn’t apply to all programmers. It’s very simple to figure out that it doesn’t apply to you, hypothetical gal who works on internal software tooling in London, OT. Very simple.

There are enough programmers who have had very good wages and stock options. We read about them on this board. Plenty, plenty have had options. Their rationalization was presumably that enshittification paid better.

You can also see that my generalization was in response to a luser-blaming comment. That’s the context; not from nothing. But maybe you don’t understand human communication.

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