Do you work at a disinformation campaign center?

On Friday, Rep. Anna Eshoo asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate newly revealed police software, known as Fog Reveal, which allows law enforcement agencies to map the movements of Americans “months back in time.” That service relies not on netflow data, but location data culled from hundreds of consumer apps, purportedly for advertising purposes.

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There is only 2 advertisement companies on the net for most of the market google and meta

I wonder if the US TEENS and kids can handle the withdrawal symptoms...it's only the majority of US content creators that make a living on tiktok.

let's see what happens.

Lies. All lies

Apple products are foreign-made as well.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram 😂 tiktok is just another one

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Apparently you can't read. Literally nowhere does it say that FB/G sell to data brokers like Neustar.

All the US internet platforms were eventually neutered by the Chinese government.

The real question is, can China use their protected, walled-off market to create platforms and then export these platforms to the US without allowing US firms to compete in China?

Maybe you smell justice (or injustice), but I just smell payback.

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Both are true. Just because they have prism doesn’t exclude them from buying our data from data brokers

Apparently you are not a good security expert

https://www.zdnet.com/article/meet-the-shadowy-tech-brokers-that-deliver-your-data-to-the-nsa/

TikTok also shares with the NSA. This was the whole point of moving the app to Oracle datacenters with tight access control and connection auditing. Oracle closely cooperates with the NSA. So yes, the NSA effectively has unfettered access to TikTok.

I suspect this is less of a national security issue at this point and more of an attempt to force a sale of TikTok to a US entity, strengthening our position in adtech. Alternatively, this is an attempt to kill TikTok entirely, accomplishing the same strengthening of our own adtech industry.

Please do some basic research. Cambridge Analytica was effectively an exploit.

A researcher working for a Russian-sponsored thinktank found ways to extract much more data from the social graph API than Facebook ever intended for any developers to be able to retrieve.

Been hearing about these bills for 2 years now

Ah yes they don’t “sell” the data they just let the Cambridge Analytica’s of the world “collect the data “ with open API’s. I’m sure they had no idea

No, your comment is false.

Google and Facebook don't sell your data, this is a misinformed Reddit meme. Your data is literally their secret sauce, it's the most valuable thing these companies have.

These companies sell ads using your data. They keep your data itself close to their chest, because it is what generates ongoing revenue for them. They are not data brokers at all, and they wouldn't do something so stupid as selling their most valuable asset to data brokers.

FB/G also don't sell data to the NSA, rather they are forced to implement backdoors (PRISM) with gag orders (NSLs). Sometimes the NSA gives them token compensation for the engineering effort, but it's not obligated to. The NSA also doesn't really need their compliance to begin with, to get into their systems.

Source: am a security engineer that has worked for most of Big Tech at this point.

Just the ones that don’t share with NSA. Lmao.

No, just banning the apps that cut out the data broker middleman. Hell, I bet Meta and the data brokers wrote this bill to regain a bigger share of the data market. And you can bet your ass they’ll gladly sell your data to the CCP, since that seems to be the fake concern here.

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The US gov wants to make sure they are the only ones profiting off citizens' data.

I'm just wondering what would happen if other countries started Banning us companies over data collection concerns.

They didn't just hand over the info but proved what was requested by a legal court order which did not request info about abortion.

Can we do talking about it and just do it?

If we’re banning apps over data collection, Silicon Valley is about to crash like it’s 1929.

Why all this concern about foreign companies but not American ones? I was just reading this article:

Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2