The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
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The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
@evacide Nobody voluntarily shares their precise location history with the FBI when they download a flashlight app. The consent buried in a 47-page terms of service that nobody reads isn't consent in any meaningful sense of the word. It's legal infrastructure designed to manufacture the appearance of consent while eliminating its substance.
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The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
@evacide as long as people are blindly and happily using the services hoarding the data, data brokers will be around.
only the society can kill them, but society is lazy and not interested.
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@evacide @mastodonmigration Along with the insurance industry and pretty much everything else that has become an "industry" rather than a service.
@heafnerj @evacide @mastodonmigration
IaaS? industry as a service, or SaaI?
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The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
@evacide I'd love to see more folx poisoning data.
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@evacide I'd love to see more folx poisoning data.
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i know alice has some cool repos with tools for this - is that enough?
edit: see utm_defiler, paraminator
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@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Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info).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.
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i know alice has some cool repos with tools for this - is that enough?
edit: see utm_defiler, paraminator
https://codeberg.org/alicewatson@miclgael that was a proof of concept, and needs a lot of work. I'd love to see AdNauseam or uBlock Origin pick the idea up and roll it into their plugins.
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@miclgael that was a proof of concept, and needs a lot of work. I'd love to see AdNauseam or uBlock Origin pick the idea up and roll it into their plugins.
feeling inspired to maybe pivot my own silly poc extension toward this goal. https://codeberg.org/miclgael/firefox-no-shit-shirlock
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@evacide Nobody voluntarily shares their precise location history with the FBI when they download a flashlight app. The consent buried in a 47-page terms of service that nobody reads isn't consent in any meaningful sense of the word. It's legal infrastructure designed to manufacture the appearance of consent while eliminating its substance.
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@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.
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@bornach the reason to use 1970-01-01 is because it's Unix epoch time, and usually means something is formatted as a date, but has invalid data. In my years in marketing, it's often discarded when using birthdate to determine age demographics for campaigns, because it's *more likely* to be an error than a real birthdate, and it's easier to discard anything that whiffs of bad data, because sending marketing materials costs money.
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@evacide Nobody voluntarily shares their precise location history with the FBI when they download a flashlight app. The consent buried in a 47-page terms of service that nobody reads isn't consent in any meaningful sense of the word. It's legal infrastructure designed to manufacture the appearance of consent while eliminating its substance.
@bayo @evacide "legal infrastructure designed to manufacture the appearance of consent while eliminating its substance."
Thanks, I've been looking for a concise phrase to capture the difference between self-governance and government, and I think this really gets to the heart of it.
These data brokers have been building on top of layer upon layer of consent-stripping infrastructure put in place by corporations and governments, all of it designed to simultaneously remove our ability to protect ourselves from it -
The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
@evacide it does, but not only because it harms americans, it harms humanity, and there's also something very wrong about the USA Government, which is as guilty of this harm, likely more guilty.
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@bornach the reason to use 1970-01-01 is because it's Unix epoch time, and usually means something is formatted as a date, but has invalid data. In my years in marketing, it's often discarded when using birthdate to determine age demographics for campaigns, because it's *more likely* to be an error than a real birthdate, and it's easier to discard anything that whiffs of bad data, because sending marketing materials costs money.
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The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant
I say this often, and with fervor!
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@evacide as long as people are blindly and happily using the services hoarding the data, data brokers will be around.
only the society can kill them, but society is lazy and not interested.
@utf_7 @evacide >> as long as people are blindly and happily using the services hoarding the data, data brokers will be around.
I can’t opt out of having my data collected and then sold to data brokers by credit bureaus and if you’re American, you can’t either.
And that’s just the example I can think of off the top of my head.
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@evacide I'd love to see more folx poisoning data.
