Kvn WMar 6
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp
The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.

The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mar 5 at 9:14pmTypefully
Show threadHTPC NZMar 6
@eff no no instead lets focus on how Proton had to comply to a swiss court order to release payment data - somehow people here think a company can magically make charges to a US bank issued cc without storing PCI compliant data that can be ultimately traced back to personally identifiable information at the card issuer... paypal mafia must has been hiding this magical way from rest of us who work on payments.
Show threadKit PaulMar 6
@eff Creating a list of apps whose operating companies leak, share, and sell user data would be a great idea. Maybe there is one but Iā€™m unaware of it.
Show threadJoe | šŸ‡µšŸ‡ø | šŸ§‘ā€šŸ’»Mar 6
@Kitone someone in the comments mentioned: https://tosdr.org/
Terms of Service; Didn't Read

'I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.

Show threadPeter LordMar 6
@eff tosdr.org is worth a look, BTW, gives a rating of a site/app's terms of service
Terms of Service; Didn't Read

'I have read and agree to the Terms' is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that.