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Apr 4 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
"You don't give us any data. We don't give anyone your data. We connect data without sharing it" ...magic!
hello.infosum.com/hubfs/Webinar/…
Personal data laundering via 'clean rooms'
The claimed thresholds and limits don't do much, noise could help in theory. But first, I don't buy it. Second, what is it about? Reducing already bad match rates by another 1%? And third, senders/recipients still process extensive personal data co-controlled by the 'clean room'.
'Virtual' identity match.

hello.infosum.com/hubfs/ecosyste…
'Virtual' household matching via a 'virtual' household mapping file. Perhaps even the IDs and IPs and timestamps are very virtual, too? #personaldata #laundering

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Apr 5
Google notified me it removed permissions from apps not used in more than 3 months on a Samsung/Android10 device, including the 'location' permission of Life360, an app that sells location data to data brokers /cc @jonkeegan @alfredwkng

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@jonkeegan @alfredwkng It also removed contacts, SMS, camera, microphone and several other permissions from apps, including from pre-installed Samsung apps, which is a good thing.

Anyway, Google should have introduced this years ago, and it still facilitates large-scale app tracking #toolittletoolate
You'll never believe what happens after opening the Life360 app again 🤖

This is obviously not GDPR compliant, and already wasn't when I installed the app on that device in December:
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Apr 4
"In today’s world of online betting, gamblers aren’t stalked by a bookie or a loan shark, threatening to break their kneecaps unless they cough up the debt. Instead, they’re surveilled by algorithmic software that constantly feeds their worst compulsions"
prospect.org/power/rollups-…
“Even if you recover from a gambling disorder, your shadow profile held by data brokers will always have you labeled as an addict and companies will use it against you”

Excellent article on profiling in online gambling, also featuring our recent research:
crackedlabs.org/en/gambling-da… Image
US online betting platforms now "combine the technology of high-frequency trading, the immersive consumer experience of day-trading apps like Robinhood, and the addiction business model of social media. They represent a true Frankenstein’s monster of the 21st-century economy".
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Apr 3
Myriads of businesses are constantly collecting+selling personal data on billions without any oversight today.

Now the US intel community is openly advocating for systematic misuse of commercial data for government surveillance, from browsing history to mobile/vehicle location.
The authors suggest the US govt must buy 'commercially sourced intelligence' (CSINT) at scale, e.g. data from "cookies that inform retailer strategies for targeting consumers for advertisements based on their internet browsing history":
thecipherbrief.com/the-intelligen…

h/t @_jack_poulson
They promote 'commercially sourced data' as a "cornerstone of the future of intelligence", as a "foundational and critical component of national security", as a "radical innovation" (🙄) that will "enhance and complement" old-school government surveillance.
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Mar 28
Previously unreported: cobwebs.com, a so-called 'web intelligence' firm, obtains large amounts of location data secretly harvested from smartphones and sells it to law enforcement, intelligence and military agencies, who can use it for targeted or mass surveillance. ImageImage
I came across a procurement record with the US Navy's intelligence agency showing that its 'Webloc' product provides commercial location data from Android/iOS devices, plus Advertising IDs, Wi-Fi data, interest profiles, data on the apps used, and more:
govtribe.com/opportunity/fe… Image
Cobwebs Webloc product claims to "continuously monitor unique mobile advertising IDs" and even link them to 'cellular data dumps'.

It is not clear where they get the data from. They may get it directly from smartphone apps, from mobile data brokers and/or from the RTB bidstream.
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Mar 25
Remarkable report by the Dutch Review Committee on the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD) that discusses how "open source investigation" tools provide access to consumer data purchased from digital advertising and mobile apps, published in Feb2022: rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rap…
The findings are alarming.

The English summary states that Dutch intelligence agencies do NOT have a sufficient understanding of automated OSINT tools and their data sources, and suggests they involve a "serious violation of privacy", and violate the law:
rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijks…
They suggest this is in use, and specifically address "commercial data" purchased from data brokers being made available to intel/security services, e.g. mobile location data from digital advertising - far beyond "open source" data.

This is massive and deserves media coverage.
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Mar 24
Seit über 10 Jahren wird über den Bau eines Google-Rechenzentrums in Kronstorf/Oberösterreich diskutiert. Medien haben auch über den möglichen Bau eines Amazon-Verteilzentrums an dem Standort berichtet.

Weiss wer, was hier aktuell der Stand der Dinge ist?
nachrichten.at/wirtschaft/goo…
Bemerkenswert übrigens: 1950 haben die Amerikaner in Kronstorf die damals höchste Mittelwelle-Radiosendeanlage Westeuropas gebaut, 1954-94 dann vom ORF betrieben.

Mit Google würde ein privater Betreiber globaler IKT-Infrastruktur den Standort übernehmen.
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Warum diese infrastrukturelle Kontinuität? In der Diskussion um das Google-Rechenzentrum wurde immer wieder das Ennskraftwerk Kronstorf/Mühlrading genannt. Weiss nicht ob das beim Mittelwellen-Sender auch ein Kriterium war zB wegen Ausfallsicherheit?

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