Scientific study finds that #adtech IS using browser #fingerprinting to track people and so it no longer matters so much how good you are at blocking #cookies and #trackers đ
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html
They call on browser makers to do more. @jon is your team putting effort into this area?
@johnnyryan I suggest this area is added to your investigations since it is linked to the #RTB system and #databrokers đ
Also, if you want to get your info off of data broker sites, it's really easy. (Helps to avoid what happened to the victims in MN.)
1. Pull up any search engine and grab the Top 20 Background Check Sites.
2. Search for your specific info page on each one.
3. There should be a link there to request deletion, which each site has to abide by legally.
Easy.
Techdirt: U.S. Airlines Built A Secret Data Broker To Help The Government Spy On Customers. âA 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 airlinesâ contract with the government, it was demanded they not tell anybody [âŚ]
đ§ Ever heard of a âdata brokerâ?
They buy, sell, and swap your personal infoâphone number, home address, even salary ranges.
At BiyteLĂźm, we fight back. We erase what they shouldnât have in the first place.
#Police and other public officials have special protections from #DataBrokers, and West Virginia officers sue Whitepages over unlawful info disclosure. (2024)
https://dltj.org/article/issue-117-local-government-surveillance#wv
A DHS contract reveals US airlines sold detailed domestic flight data to CBP via ARC, a broker they own, while barring disclosure of the source. Data includes names, itineraries, and financials. Civil liberties groups raise alarm over surveillance via data brokers.
https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/
"A data broker owned by the countryâs major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellersâ 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.
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 interestâs air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.
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.
âThe big airlinesâthrough a shady data broker that they own called ARCâare selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,â Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement."
https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/
#USA #BorderControl #PoliceState #CBP #Delta #AmericanAirlines #UnitedAirlines #Surveillance #Privacy #DataBrokers #ICE #DHS #DataProtection
"A data broker owned by the countryâs major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellersâ 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"
https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs
#InternetPrivacy #InternetSecurity #PersonalPrivacy #DataBrokers #AirlineIndustry #CommercialAirlines
#data scraping by #databrokers and websites is just a corporate version of #creepshots
Nasty little #PII data thieves snooping on our connections and collecting our data to sell.
You can't say no because goolag doesn't give you the option. #recaptcha and #captcha collects data on you.
There's no #consent when it comes to these corporations.
Tell your local politicians that you don't consent to #google monitoring every thing you do online.
Tell them what is going on!
Hell No: The #ODNI Wants to Make it Easier for the Gov to Buy Your Data Without #Warrant
ODNI is attempting to create the Intelligence Communityâs Data Consortiumâa centralized online marketplace where law enforcement and #spy agencies can peruse & buy very personal digital data about you collected by #DataBrokers. Not only is this a massive escalation of the deeply unjust #DataBroker loophole: itâs also another repulsive signal that your #privacy means nothing to them
The data broker industry proves again and again that they're among the worst when it comes to privacy!
Data broker CRIF has phone numbers from contracts I cancelled before 2011 on file. Those numbers have been inaccurate for 14 years now, yet they apparently saw no need to delete them. And I'm not even beginning to ask why they ever needed them.
Needless to say that I knew nothing about which of my data they had until I filed an access request.
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#DataBrokers #CRIF #privacy #GDPR
Maybe, just maybe, data brokers are a bad idea.
LexisNexis leaked social security numbers and other personal data of over 364,000 people
https://www.theverge.com/news/675702/lexisnexis-data-broker-breach-social-security-numbers
Good news for Montana residents. But lets face it the data is still out there for sale. That's what needs to stop.
@RedwoodSec these #DataBrokers should be illegal as a matter of principle...
American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data
From the intercept:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is working on a system to centralize and âstreamlineâ the use of commercially available information, or CAI, like location data derived from mobile ads, by American spy agencies, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept. The data portal will include information deemed by the ODNI as highly sensitive, that which can be âmisused to cause substantial harm, embarrassment, and inconvenience to U.S. persons.â The documents state spy agencies will use the web portal not just to search through reams of private data, but also run them through artificial intelligence tools for further analysis.
Rather than each agency purchasing CAI individually, as has been the case until now, the âIntelligence Community Data Consortiumâ will provide a single convenient web-based storefront for searching and accessing this data, along with a âdata marketplaceâ for purchasing âthe best data at the best price,â faster than ever before, according to the documents. It will be designed for the 18 different federal agencies and offices that make up the U.S. intelligence community, including the National Security Agency, CIA, FBI Intelligence Branch, and Homeland Securityâs Office of Intelligence and Analysis â though one document suggests the portal will also be used by agencies not directly related to intelligence or defense.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy
Whatâs striking about this is how the language of modernisation (âODNI is working to streamline a number of inefficient processesâ) is used to describe a rather terrifying exercise, particularly if the still mostly unspecified use of AI lives up to its dystopian potential. It entrenches the process by which data collection is taken out of judicial oversight, becoming a commercial transaction rather than a process which requires a warrant.
The suggestion this will use LLMs to analyse the data is particularly worrying. Even the < 5% textual recall hallucination rates in frontier models (vastly higher in the latest reasoning models) could have enormous implications when you consider the possible use cases for surveillance.
I remember recently that data brokers are selling personal data released through data breaches, which presumably will be included in the collection here. Iâm struggling to find a link though and Iâm hoping I might have dreamed this.
#confidentialData #dataBrokers #hallucination #intelligenceAgencies #LLMs #personalData #power #surveillance
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/
#cybersecurity #privacy #surveillance #databrokers #FCRA #CFPB
đşđ¸ is looking for a company to build a centralized marketplace where smaller government agencies can buy commercially available information from #databrokers
Intelligence Community Data Consortium, the portal will aggregate data from different data brokers and #AI to process and deduplicate the data
The portal ordered by Office of the Director of National Intelligence and will be made available to at least 18 different US đşđ¸ government agencies
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/ #Privacy
Holy flying crap balls!
The #Trump admin is building a central online marketplace for the #Intelligence Community to buy private #information about individuals from #unregulated #DataBrokers.
#law #privacy #InfoSec #NationalSecurity
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/
U.S. spy agencies are building a centralized platform to buy and analyze sensitive commercial data on Americans, bypassing traditional legal safeguards. The Intelligence Community Data Consortium aims to streamline access to location, biometric, and behavioral data across 18 federal agencies.
#CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield #Americans From #DataBrokers
https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-quietly-kills-rule-to-shield-americans-from-data-brokers/
#consumers #customers #privacy #capitalism
