PrivacyDigest<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> are Selling Your Flight Information to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data</span><span class="invisible">-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice</span></a></p>
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kaspa<p>This isn’t drift. It’s a full-speed dive into <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> control.</p><p>Trump’s <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> agency is fusing <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/ssa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ssa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> and arrest data into one <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> engine; built by Palantir, enforced by <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> approved by <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> </p><p>They’re buying your location and search history from <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databrokers</span></a> </p><p>Encrypted? Doesn’t matter. Oversight? Gone.</p><p>You are the product. And the suspect.</p><p><a href="https://prismreports.org/2025/07/10/surveillance-state-in-u-s-is-far-worse-than-you-imagined/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prismreports.org/2025/07/10/su</span><span class="invisible">rveillance-state-in-u-s-is-far-worse-than-you-imagined/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfhost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/DigitalFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.originalsinners.org/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In selling law enforcement agencies bulk access to such sensitive information, these airlines—through their data broker—are putting their own profits over travelers' privacy. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently detailed its own purchase of personal data from ARC. In the current climate, this can have a detrimental impact on people’s lives. </p><p>Movement unrestricted by governments is a hallmark of a free society. In our current moment, when the federal government is threatening legal consequences based on people’s national, religious, and political affiliations, having air travel in and out of the United States tracked by any ARC customer is a recipe for state retribution. </p><p>Sadly, data brokers are doing even broader harm to our privacy. Sensitive location data is harvested from smartphones and sold to cops, internet backbone data is sold to federal counterintelligence agencies, and utility databases containing phone, water, and electricity records are shared with ICE officers."</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data</span><span class="invisible">-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️<p>U.S. Court nullifies FTC click-to-cancel rule that required easy methods of cancellation<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/us-court-cancels-ftc-rule-that-would-have-made-canceling-subscriptions-easier</span></a><br><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504699" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">4504699</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a></p><p>🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a></p><p>🏳️⚧️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@persagen/1141</span><span class="invisible">86381298087870</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a></p><p>Collaborate/advocate/educate/resist<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"“I’m here to tell you if you’ve ever been on a dating app that wanted your location, or if you ever granted a weather app permission to know where you are 24/7, there’s a good chance a detailed log of your precise movement patterns has been vacuumed up and saved in some data bank somewhere that tens of thousands of total strangers have access to,” writes Tau.</p><p>Unraveling the story of how these strangers—everyone from government intelligence agents and local law enforcement officers to private investigators and employees of ad tech companies—gained access to our personal information is the ambitious task Tau sets for himself, and he begins where you might expect: the immediate aftermath of 9/11.</p><p>At no other point in US history was the government’s appetite for data more voracious than in the days after the attacks, says Tau. It was a hunger that just so happened to coincide with the advent of new technologies, devices, and platforms that excelled at harvesting and serving up personal information that had zero legal privacy protections. </p><p>Over the course of 22 chapters, Tau gives readers a rare glimpse inside the shadowy industry, “built by corporate America and blessed by government lawyers,” that emerged in the years and decades following the 9/11 attacks. In the hands of a less skilled reporter, this labyrinthine world of shell companies, data vendors, and intelligence agencies could easily become overwhelming or incomprehensible. But Tau goes to great lengths to connect dots and plots, explaining how a perfect storm of business motivations, technological breakthroughs, government paranoia, and lax or nonexistent privacy laws combined to produce the “digital panopticon” we are all now living in."</p><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/23/1118401/privacy-book-reviews-surveillance-higher-education/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2025/06/2</span><span class="invisible">3/1118401/privacy-book-reviews-surveillance-higher-education/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a> SurveillanceCapitalism <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AdTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"There is no “cloud,” just someone else's computer—and when the cops come knocking on their door, these hosts need to be willing to stand up for privacy, and know how to do so to the fullest extent under the law. These legal limits are also important for users to know, not only to mitigate risks in their security plan when choosing where to share data, but to understand whether these hosts are going to bat for them. Taking action together, service hosts and users can curb law enforcement getting more data than they’re allowed, protecting not just themselves but targeted populations, present and future.</p><p>This is distinct from law enforcement’s methods of collecting public data, such as the information now being collected on student visa applicants. Cops may use social media monitoring tools and sock puppet accounts to collect what you share publicly, or even within “private” communities. Police may also obtain the contents of communication in other ways that do not require court authorization, such as monitoring network traffic passively to catch metadata and possibly using advanced tools to partially reveal encrypted information. They can even outright buy information from online data brokers. Unfortunately there are few restrictions or oversight for these practices—something EFF is fighting to change.</p><p>Below however is a general breakdown of the legal processes used by US law enforcement for accessing private data, and what categories of private data these processes can disclose. Because this is a generalized summary, it is neither exhaustive nor should be considered legal advice. Please seek legal help if you have specific data privacy and security needs."</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-</span><span class="invisible">cops-can-get-your-private-online-data</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encryption</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/E2E" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>E2E</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a></p>
Ami<p>Why <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databrokers</span></a> collecting <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PII</span></a> need to be stopped.</p><p>WiFi signal (links your phone to where you live)<br>Credit card info, name, purchase history, location etc<br>BT/WiFi beacons announcing themselves to other devices watched by apple/google/amazon/shops/govts/transport<br>Your faceprint and gait, logged everywhere you go, linked to social media and photos online<br>Car license plate number with make and model</p><p>The likes of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palantir</span></a> collect it all and sell the analysis to anyone paying. Shops, govt.. etc</p>
Beautiful Downtown Mannheim 🗑️ 🔥<p><span>Hacker verkauft Daten aus Notrufsystem an Bestatter<br><br>Die Notrufdaten sind Bestattern in Taiwan in Echtzeit zur Verfügung gestellt worden. Sie konnten damit frühzeitig an Einsatzorten auftauchen, um neue Kunden zu gewinnen.<br><br></span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/NichtDerPostillion" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NichtDerPostillion</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Datenhandel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Datenhandel</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/DataBrokers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataBrokers</a><span><br><br></span><a href="https://golem.de/news/kundenfang-am-unfallort-hacker-verkauft-daten-aus-notrufsystem-an-bestatter-2507-197666.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">golem.de/news/kundenfang-am-unfallort-hacker-verkauft-daten-aus-notrufsystem-an-bestatter-2507-197666.html</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Electronic Frontier Foundation: Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?. “Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. These findings come as more states are passing data broker transparency laws that require brokers to provide information about their business and, in some cases, give consumers an easy way to opt out.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/electronic-frontier-foundation-why-are-hundreds-of-data-brokers-not-registering-with-states/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/electronic-frontier-foundation-why-are-hundreds-of-data-brokers-not-registering-with-states/</a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eff</span></a></span> IMHO <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> should be illegal per very concept!</p><ul><li>And I want both <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> & <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://respublicae.eu/@europarl_en" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>europarl_en</span></a></span> as well as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Bundesregierung</span></a></span> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/outlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>outlaw</span></a> any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DataBroker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBroker</span></a> from existing and collecting data on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> residents as well as -citizens!</li></ul>
Em :official_verified:<p>New Privacy Guides article 🌈👁️🗨️<br>by me:</p><p>When talking about data privacy and LGBTQ+ experiences, it's inevitable to also discuss queer dating apps. </p><p>Many factors contribute in making queer people more likely to seek love and friendship online. </p><p>Unfortunately, dating apps are horrible for data privacy, and it's even worse for queer dating apps. </p><p><a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">privacyguides.org/articles/202</span><span class="invisible">5/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PrivacyGuides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivacyGuides</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PrideMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrideMonth</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/QueerDating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerDating</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DatingApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DatingApps</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>Why Are Hundreds of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> Not Registering with States?</p><p>Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. These findings come as more states are passing <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DataBroker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBroker</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a> laws that require brokers to provide information about their business and, in some cases, give consumers an easy way to opt out.<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/why-are-hundreds-data-brokers-not-registering-states" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/why-</span><span class="invisible">are-hundreds-data-brokers-not-registering-states</span></a></p>
BGDon<p>The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has canceled plans to introduce new rules to ensure that data brokers obtain Americans’ consent before selling or sharing sensitive personal information, including financial data such as income, credit history and Social Security numbers. </p><p>Data brokers create extensive profiles on nearly every American, including sensitive data such as precise location history, political affiliations, and financial data - often without individuals’ knowledge or consent. This information is frequently resold for purposes ranging from marketing to law enforcement surveillance.</p><p>“Foreign and malign actors with access to these datasets could uncover information about high-level targets, such as military service members, that could be used for coercion, reputational damage, and blackmail,”. </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-k</span><span class="invisible">ills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PPI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PersonalData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalData</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databrokers</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CFPB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFPB</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ConsumerProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConsumerProtection</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a></p>
Patrick Leavy<p>Scientific study finds that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adtech</span></a> IS using browser <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fingerprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fingerprinting</span></a> to track people and so it no longer matters so much how good you are at blocking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cookies</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trackers</span></a> 😒</p><p><a href="https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025</span><span class="invisible">/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html</span></a></p><p>They call on browser makers to do more. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span> is your team putting effort into this area?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>johnnyryan</span></a></span> I suggest this area is added to your investigations since it is linked to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RTB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RTB</span></a> system and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databrokers</span></a> 🙏</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browserfingerprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>browserfingerprinting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancecapitalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Techdirt: U.S. Airlines Built A Secret Data Broker To Help The Government Spy On Customers. “A new report by 404 Media this week revealed that U.S. airlines have created a data broker whose primary purpose is to covertly sell user flight and other information to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). As part of the airlines’ contract with the government, it was demanded they not tell anybody […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/techdirt-u-s-airlines-built-a-secret-data-broker-to-help-the-government-spy-on-customers/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/techdirt-u-s-airlines-built-a-secret-data-broker-to-help-the-government-spy-on-customers/</a></p>
Peter Murray<p><a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> and other public officials have special protections from <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a>, and West Virginia officers sue Whitepages over unlawful info disclosure. (2024) </p><p><a href="https://dltj.org/article/issue-117-local-government-surveillance#wv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dltj.org/article/issue-117-loc</span><span class="invisible">al-government-surveillance#wv</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.</p><p>CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.</p><p>The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.</p><p>“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement."</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/airlines-dont-</span><span class="invisible">want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BorderControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BorderControl</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Delta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Delta</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AmericanAirlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanAirlines</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UnitedAirlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedAirlines</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a></p>
Blaidd Drwg<p>"A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from"</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/airlines-dont-want</span><span class="invisible">-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/InternetPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetPrivacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/InternetSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/PersonalPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalPrivacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AirlineIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirlineIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/CommercialAirlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommercialAirlines</span></a></p>
Ami<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> scraping by <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databrokers</span></a> and websites is just a corporate version of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/creepshots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creepshots</span></a> </p><p>Nasty little <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PII</span></a> data thieves snooping on our connections and collecting our data to sell.</p><p>You can't say no because goolag doesn't give you the option. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/recaptcha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recaptcha</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/captcha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>captcha</span></a> collects data on you.</p><p>There's no <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/consent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consent</span></a> when it comes to these corporations.</p><p>Tell your local politicians that you don't consent to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> monitoring every thing you do online.</p><p>Tell them what is going on!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fuckgoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckgoogle</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>Hell No: The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ODNI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ODNI</span></a> Wants to Make it Easier for the Gov to Buy Your Data Without <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Warrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warrant</span></a></p><p>ODNI is attempting to create the Intelligence Community’s Data Consortium–a centralized online marketplace where law enforcement and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spy</span></a> agencies can peruse & buy very personal digital data about you collected by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DataBrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBrokers</span></a>. Not only is this a massive escalation of the deeply unjust <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DataBroker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBroker</span></a> loophole: it’s also another repulsive signal that your <a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> means nothing to them</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/hell-no-odni-wants-make-it-easier-government-buy-your-data-without-warrant" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/hell</span><span class="invisible">-no-odni-wants-make-it-easier-government-buy-your-data-without-warrant</span></a></p>
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