Mar HicksJun 9, 2023

“I think it’s the largest piece of evidence I’ve ever seen that provides information about what I call today’s “distributed surveillance economy,” said Wolfie Christl, a privacy researcher at Cracked Labs, who discovered the file and shared it with The Markup.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You – The Markup

A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences

Show threadEsther Payne 

@histoftech "The file, which was linked to from a public page on Xandr’s website, contains 650,000 rows of data, each containing the name of an audience segment, the name of the supplier of the data behind that segment, a supplier ID number, and a segment ID number.

On Xandr’s platform, advertisers can pay for the ability to target people through the segments. "

Anyone seriously want to tell me there's no risk from #massdatacollection?

https://chaos.social/@onepict/107780763058678202

Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@[email protected])

Content warning: Superstition, data collection, metadata

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Show threadDavid CarrollJun 9, 2023

@onepict @histoftech

A regular reminder that Democrats, specifically West Coast Dems, not Republicans, blocked the best chance for a federal privacy law yet, the #ADPPA, which would have started to put the kibosh on this crap.