The FBI is buying Americans’ location data

In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI director admitted that the agency is turning to data brokers to get around warrant requirements.

The Verge
@evacide I'd love to see more folx poisoning data.
@alice @evacide i feel like i have a decent enough homelab set up where i could get into it but i dont know where to start. 😅

@miclgael anywhere. The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

@evacide

@alice @miclgael @evacide If you want to really ruin the day of developers, throw random broken unicode characters and html entities into strings to make it look like the encoding failed

@ellesaurus @alice @miclgael @evacide

I see you have chosen violence, Elle. Time will tell if that was the optimal path for you.

@ellesaurus @alice @miclgael @evacide

"All user input is evil."

@Enema_Cowboy All user inputs are evil, but some user inputs are more evil than others

@ellesaurus @alice @miclgael @evacide

Why, hello random site! My name is
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(Yes, please don't point at the irony of me using my real name on here)