#dataselling — Public Fediverse posts

🚨🤖 BREAKING NEWS: "Privacy" extensions are selling your secrets! Who knew that clicking "accept" was basically signing over your soul and deepest thoughts to the #ShadyPanda Corporation? 🐼💼 Now, 8 million of us can enjoy the honor of having our mundane AI conversations peddled for profit. Truly, we're living in the future! 🎉🔐
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection #PrivacyExtensions #DataSelling #AIConversations #DigitalPrivacy #HackerNews #ngated

[en] FTC orders GM to stop collecting, selling driver’s data

"... proposes a settlement in which the automotive giant will be barred from sharing drivers’ sensitive data for five years."

"#FTC alleges that #GM collected precise #geolocation data every three seconds, as well as driving data (braking, speeding) from millions of #vehicles without obtaining the consumers' explicit #consent."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/ftc-orders-gm-to-stop-collecting-and-selling-drivers-data/

#car #auto #privacy #pii #sensitivedata #dataselling #dataprivacy #dataprotection

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/tinder-candy-crush-wetterapp-spion-in-der-hosentasche-tausende-apps-verraten-unseren-standort

#srf #LocationDataBrokers #locationdata #Advertising #dataselling #DatastreamGroup #DataBreach

The free tool from Privacy4Cars provides some insight on whether your vehicle is collecting and sharing location and other types of data.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7enex/tool-shows-if-car-selling-data-privacy4cars-vehicle-privacy-report
#carprivacy #CYBER #privacy #cars #dataselling #locationdata #privacy4cars #Mazda

For years the DEA has used paid informants inside airline, bus, and parcel companies to bypass needing to get a warrant. A pair of bipartisan Senators now want the DOJ to put an end to it.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akn8v/the-dea-bought-customer-data-airlines-parcel-bus-amtrak-no-warrant
#dataselling #CYBER #privacy #JUSTICE #dea #FBI #senatorronwyden #ATF #USMarshals

ICE has queried LexisNexis' data more than a million times, and leadership encouraged officials to use the tool for finding non-citizens.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vz5w/ice-urged-to-drop-lexisnexis-contract
#CYBER #data #dataselling #lawenforcement #lexisnexis #DataBrokers #ImmigrationsandCustomsEnforcement

Procurement records and documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests highlight LexisNexis' often overlooked business of selling data to the government.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p8j5/lexisnexis-selling-data-government
#CYBER #dataselling #lexisnexis #ice #secretservice #data #personaldata