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Wolfie Christl Sep 5, 2024

Revisiting 2 of the 5 docs from the Snowden leaks that mention 'cookies'.

GCHQ 2009 on 'target detection identifiers':
https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/188/

NSA 2011 on 'selector types':
https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/172

...featuring cookie/browser IDs from Google/Doubleclick, Facebook, Microsoft and many more.

It's breathtaking how the surveillance marketing industry has still managed to claim for many years that unique personal identifiers processed in the web browser are 'anonymous', and sometimes still does.

Target Detection Identifiers · Snowden Archive

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Daniel Fisher(lennybacon)Sep 5, 2024

@wchr When I read it correctly the German government is about to install a central system “to manage Cooke consent” which would mean the same data you talk about in the thread will be commercially collected by law 🥳🤢

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Wolfie Christl

@lennybacon I'm very critical about the law, but AFAIK it does not mandate the centralized collection of actual IDs that are used for tracking/profiling in any way. The IDs maintained to store consent 'choices' could be exploited, though.