#data-brokers — Public Fediverse posts

Engadget: GM agrees to pay $12.75 million to settle California lawsuit over misuse of customers’ driving data . “Following its settlement with the FTC earlier this year over its sale of drivers’ data to brokers, General Motors has now also reached a settlement in California. The company agreed to pay $12.75 million in civil penalties to settle the lawsuit led by Attorney General Rob Bonta on […]

Library events page for DROP Day is up. JULY 24 at the Alameda (California) Free Library. (fixed)

"DROP gives you more control over your data. You can tell data brokers to delete and not sell your personal information."

If you're already signed up please stop by for bonus privacy tips and/or to help others. Hope to see you there https://alamedafree.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=351893

#california #privacy #alameda #calPrivacy #DROP #dataBrokers

Gizmodo: Meta and TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State Healthcare Sites: Report. “According to a report from Bloomberg, all 20 state-run healthcare marketplaces include advertising trackers that share information with Big Tech companies.”

#US #government ramps up #masssurveillance with help of #AI tech, #databrokers – and your apps and devices
While companies can manipulate you, they cannot put you in jail. But US government can, and it now purchases massive quantities of your information from commercial data brokers. The government is able to purchase Americans sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly.
https://theconversation.com/us-government-ramps-up-mass-surveillance-with-help-of-ai-tech-data-brokers-and-your-apps-and-devices-277440
#privacy #surveillance

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Your home blueprint is being sold to data brokers.

Smart vacuums use LiDAR to create millimeter-accurate 3D models of your living space. That floorplan? It could end up in a subpoena, a breach, or a broker's database.

Ep 23 of Impractical Privacy breaks it down: ImpracticalPrivacy.com

#DataBrokers #IoT #PrivacyRights #SmartHome #ImpracticalPrivacy #Privacy #DigitalRights #Surveillance #SurveillanceTech

If you've ever wondered: How can they know so much about me?

It's probably because of data brokers.

You know those "data enrichment partners" they are mentioning as vaguely as possible in the privacy policies you didn't read?

To learn more about data brokers, I highly recommend watching this excellent interview with @yaelwrites by @privacyguides :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Monbu9bh6nY

#Privacy #DataBrokers #MassSurveillance

TechCrunch: How the rewards app Freecash scammed its way to the top of the app stores. “The app has been marketed as a way to make money just by scrolling TikTok — and jumped to the top of the app stores in recent months, peaking at the No. 2 position in the U.S. App Store. In truth, Freecash pays users to play mobile games — all the while collecting a heaping amount of sensitive data, […]

@evan They do. But when the #DataBrokers and ad/message pushers have their own geofences, we see shitty influences (measles! Alberta separation! yay!) entering our communities as a result of interaction with their targets. We have a responsibility to protect each other, and to be sensible about the scale at which we can be effective.

It wasn't always like this. It has accelerated dramatically since #Harper's gutting of #Canadian content regs and the advent of social media targeting.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116405287961261735

This is absolutely vile. It needs to be exposed, outlawed, and punished.

#labor #labour #exploitation #salary #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #labourrights #jobmarket #databrokers #negotiation #LaborAbuse #evil #workersrights #futureofwork

@crazyeddie @hooper @overholt

#databrokers already know your secrets

Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching #Porn After Governor Vetoes #AgeVerification Bill

Evers wrote that the bill doesn’t prevent platforms from giving collected personal data to third parties, such as the government or #dataBrokers. “This is a violation of personal privacy,” he wrote.
#privacy #pii #security #wisconsin #veto

https://www.404media.co/wisconsin-age-verification-bill-vetoed/

Engadget: OkCupid settles FTC case on alleged misuse of its users’ personal data . “According to the lawsuit, the FTC accused OkCupid of inappropriately sharing personal user data that includes photos and location info with a third party company, Clarifai, which offers AI-powered software for uses like facial recognition and content moderation.”

🚨 The FBI is back to buying location data on Americans, no warrant required

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the agency resumed purchasing bulk location histories from data brokers. When Sen. Ron Wyden pressed him on ending the practice, Patel replied: “We use all tools… to do our mission.” No commitment to stop.

The surveillance state doesn’t need a warrant when it can just swipe a credit card

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/

#DigitalPrivacy #FBI #SurveillanceState #DataBrokers #WarrantlessTracking

🇺🇸 har sat myndigheders brug af og køb af kommercielle #databroker data på dagsordenen: Under en høring i Senatet i sidste uge sagde FBI-direktør Kash Patel, at FBI køber data, der kan bruges til at overvåge

Det kommende 🇩🇰 Folketing skal i både forsvars- og rets udvalg behandle ændringer i love om efterretnings-tjenesternes køb og brug af bla. lokations-data fra #databrokers

Anbefalet læsning: IT-pol høringssvar https://itpol.dk/hoeringssvar/fe-loven-2025-oktober og https://itpol.dk/hoeringssvar/pet-loven-2025

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116259474226178881

As said the great Bill Hicks :

« By the way if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...»

(Bill Hicks on advertising VOSTFR : https://youtu.be/hJAx64ulht8 )

#Marketing
#Adertising
#Capitalism
#Tech
#TechnoFascism
#Data
#DataBrokers
#NothingToHideTheySay

🇺🇸 FBI Kash Patel indrømmede under en høring i Senatet i denne uge, at hans agentur køber følsomme data om amerikanere på det private marked

Dataene bruges angiveligt til at spore folks bevægelser og historik over, hvor de har opholdt sig

Amerikansk lovgivning forhindrer rets-håndhævende myndigheder i at indhente data fra tech-platforme uden en rets-kendelse, men ikke i at købe dem fra #databrokers
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/fbi-buying-data-track-people-patel-00834080

breathtaking: #BernieSanders spoke to #Anthropic’s AI agent #Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data, #DataBrokers and how that information is being used to violate our #privacy rights.

What than the AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us all up.

https://youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0

spread this video - please

The Register: Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts. “Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.”

Well, this slipped past while we were watching the war crimes. The House advanced #KOSA and some other "protect the kids, punish the gay" legislation on party line votes.

None of this legislation, just like the laws passed in CA and CO, are about protecting children. These are pedophile protectors, they don't care about your kids unless they get to peer into their pants. This is about enriching their sponsors and Total Information Control.

This is dangerous to liberty, life and freedom.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5770101-house-panel-advances-slate-of-kids-online-safety-bills-along-party-lines/

#lgbtq #onlinesafety #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #palantir #databrokers #FreedomForSale #USpol #Congress

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

Here's the short and skinny of it. Those advertisements that are targeted at you, by Facebook, google & others.
Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, as confirmed by new reports.

#Privacy #EFF #DigitalPrivacy #DataBrokers #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #SurveillanceCapitalism #PrivacyMatters

"Breaches at #databrokers have cost American consumers more than $20 billion. The estimated losses stem from identity theft linked to just four recent data breaches involving major brokers" https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/02/data-brokers-leak-personal-data-cost-americans-21-billion/