Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

A whole industry of #databrokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers & sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry also sells that data, including bulk cell phone location data, to police ...

#FourthAmendment

7/ If you’re in California, use DROP today. If you’re not: push your representatives to demand the same federal protection. Your privacy is a right, not a privilege.
#DataPrivacy #Surveillance #DataBrokers #DigitalRights #Privacy #FISA #Congress #TechNews #CyberSecurity

Whatever AI was used should be found criminally negligent

Then the civil case should pierce liability protections and get huge punitive damages

For the class of people falsely detained

Point and click law enforcement and war

#techlords #Flock #databrokers #Palantir #PayPalMafia #Andressen #Karp

Headline from 404 media: ICE How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir Joseph Cox Joseph Cox · Mar 31, 2026 at 9:14 AM Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.

Data brokers will sell their mothers. Just greedy MFers.

One of the biggest travesties of this century is how 'Mericans traded their privacy for socials and free web sites.

Right to privacy? Not so much...

#Palantir #ThomsonReuters #Databrokers

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And firms like Thompson Reuters and Lexis Nexis and other data brokers sell deep profiles of your every move to the G’mint.

#databrokers #techlordlings #survellienceeconomy

US government buys your location data from advertisers. No warrants. CBP, ICE spent millions. Immigrants, activists tracked. Fourth Amendment bypassed.

#Privacy #Surveillance #FourthAmendment #DataBrokers #CBP #ICE #CivilLiberties

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Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information? — Guardian US FBI director, Kash Patel, revealed agency had resumed purchasing private information en masse in possible constitutional violation

#DATA
#Privacy
#surveillance
#ICE
#DataBrokers
#FuckAI

FBI and DIA are buying location data of US citizens from data brokers Both the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have confirmed that they’re buying location data...

FBI and DIA are buying Americans’ location data from brokers to bypass warrants, creating a procurement-based surveillance system for large-scale tracking without judicial oversight. #Trump #FBI #DIA #Surveillance #FourthAmendment #DataBrokers #9to5Mac

So glad I don’t have to pay for a service like this because the EU does a much better job at protecting personal data than the U.S. (Even if it’s not perfect.)

#privacy #databrokers

The Ad-Tech Surveillance Loophole: How US Borders Agency Tracked Phones CBP used online advertising data to track phone locations during 2019-2021 pilot, bypassing warrant protections, newly released documents show.

The Ad-Tech Surveillance Loophole: How US Borders Agency Tracked Phones

#Privacy #DataBrokers #Surveillance #FourthAmendment #AusNews

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Following Markup investigation, Congress finds data brokers cost consumers tens of billions of dollars – The Markup A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

Following #Markup investigation, #Congress finds #databrokers cost #consumers tens of billions of dollars

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We investigated, then Congress did. They found data brokers cost you billions Identity theft from data broker breaches cost consumers an estimated $21 billion. The brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out.

"Breaches at #databrokers have cost American consumers more than $20 billion. The estimated losses stem from identity theft linked to just four recent data breaches involving major brokers" calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Your AI Confessions Are Being Sold. Here's How. Browser extensions posing as VPN tools are intercepting intimate AI chatbot conversations and selling them to data brokers. What this means for Australian users.

Your AI Confessions Are Being Sold. Here's How.

#AIPrivacy #DataBrokers #CyberSecurity #AusNews #ChatGPT #PrivacyAct

thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-03-your-...

GitHub - yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/yaelwrites/B... #privacy #DataBrokers #OptOut

Hidden Opt-Out Pages and Billions in Losses: The Data Broker Reckoning US lawmakers estimate $20.9 billion in identity-theft losses from four data broker breaches, after firms were caught hiding legally required opt-out tools from search engines.

Hidden Opt-Out Pages and Billions in Losses: The Data Broker Reckoning

#DataPrivacy #IdentityTheft #CyberSecurity #DataBrokers #PrivacyLaw #AusNews

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Jen Ophelia: "Recruiters and Employers Are Exploiting Job Seekers" | #JobScams #Phishing #PyramidScams #MLMs #GhostListings #GhostPostings #AutomatedSystems #ATS #KeywordGaming #UnpaidWork #HiringTests #WorkingInterviews #TrainingAI #DataBrokers #ShareStories
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We investigated, then Congress did. They found data brokers cost you billions Identity theft from data broker breaches cost consumers an estimated $21 billion. The brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out.

calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Following CalMatters investigation, Congress finds data brokers cost consumers tens of billions of dollars

#California #databrokers #data

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Today I have to stop by the local print shop to pick up the table cover and backdrop for the @oaklandprivacy booth at @socallinuxexpo

pretty stoked to be getting into booth mode again (as a boy I ran away from home to join a #linux trade show) If you haven't gone through the California #DROP […]

Data brokers, privacy (pers: I fhate LinkedIn) - I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245 #LinkedIn #Persona #DataBrokers #surveillance #privacy #capitalism #billionaires #Thiel #Palantir #ICE #DHS #authoritarianism #Trump

Data brokers, privacy (I fhate LinkedIn): I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
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#LinkedIn #Persona #DataBrokers #surveillance #privacy #capitalism #billionaires #Thiel #Palantir #ICE #authoritarianism #Trump

Worst Apps for Your Privacy Revealed | VeePN Blog Worried about your data getting into the wrong hands? Check out our comprehensive overview of the worst apps for privacy and learn how to stay safe online.

If your phone feels clingy, it’s because weather, maps, and food apps stalk you 24/7, then auction off your movements to advertisers and data brokers. Convenience has a price: you. #LocationTracking #AdTech #DataBrokers

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Uninstall now: CityBus, active in Poland & Ukraine, should inform about public transport but instead harvests massive personal data, shares it beyond Google with China ties. Worst: you cannot delete your data. #CityBus #Privacy #Surveillance #DataBrokers #CyberSecurity #DataLeaks

California State Portal | CA.gov CA.gov is the official website for the State of California. You can find and access California services, resources, and more.

#California, #DROP, #PersonalInformation, #DataBrokers

Hey fellow Californians, have you signed up on the CA.gov site to protect your personal data?

It's called the DROP program, simple to use, takes only minutes (I just did it myself). Have your Google phone ad ID number handy.

"Your #devices #record you, parse your language, and use that information to tell #YouTube and other #SocialNetworks what content to give you, as well as what #ads to show you," sounds like a #conspiracy theory but it's been proven to be a #fact.

#privacy #digitalprivacy #databrokers #data

⚠️Memetic Warfare - The Battlefield isn't Boots on the Ground - Its YOUR MIND⚠️ #psyops #battlefield #surveillance #databrokers #toilettimetv #thematrixnetwork

@jaredhenderson.bsky.social | Jared Henderson: "The War on Privacy" | #PrivacyRights #Flock #Nova #AIsurveillanceCameras #BigBrother #Dystopia #ExploreIdeas #Corporations #PrivateInformation #DataCollection #Advertising #ACR #AutomatedContentRecognition #DataBrokers
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EP 728, Apps & Doodads: New gear flex: #DJI #OsmoMobile8 + #Mic2, playing #Bogle & #Pictionary via #Netflix on our #TV, a #Victrola with a speaker placed under the turntable & #California’s #DROP tool that tells 500 #databrokers to kindly forget you exist. Progress! gog.show/728 #podcast