Comment on How French spies, police and military personnel are betrayed by advertising data

ILoveUnions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• verdi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The US secret service agents were being tracked with Strava… Everyone is getting fucked by the unregulated collection and use of personal data. Shit, some idiots even voluntarily give it away.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nation-states get more from this than lose. Otherwise they’d close all the shops pretty swiftly.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some idiots voluntarily give it away? Brother… we as a society moved the public common areas for discourse, entertainment, finance, and research onto a digital landscape. That landscape, in particular, is set up like as though every Roman in the fora had an invisible personal Sherlock Holmes set up to automatically dissect their footprints, fingerprints, the direction and timeliness of their stair, … and then to record it in a virtually limitless ledger where it can later be aggregated and analyzed for behavioral patterns. We aren’t giving it away anymore than the Roman commoners would have been by merely walking around town. This is a very aggressive data harvesting situation.

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• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  GrapheneOS, one of the few countermeasures they could have, was recently banned in France.

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  • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Devs pulled out of France because of government pressure, but it wasn’t banned.

    proton.me/blog/grapheneos-france

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  • eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It wasn’t banned.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s dumb.

    If they wanna go authoritarian, at least allow their own government agents to use them. At least that’s what I’d do if I was a wannabe dictator.

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  • arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How do you even ban a whole OS?

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “I DECLARE THIS OS ILLEGAL!!!”

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  • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They could literally just leave their phones at home.

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    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Phones are used as communication. Unless you want to go back to Nokias and Razrs

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      • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If you’re in intelligence.services, security should be a priority. You can also just have phones at work.

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