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A while back, I stumbled upon a file I consider the largest piece of evidence revealing how hundreds of data brokers trade personal data on everyone, including super-sensitive data, globally. Massive investigation by US-based @themarkup and German @netzpolitik_feed, I think this is a must-read for everyone interested in the future of digital technology: The file, dated 2021, describes 650,000 'segments', most of which are lists of digital IDs that refer to people with certain characteristics. These lists are sold by many data brokers from across the planet via the 'data marketplace' of Xandr, now a Microsoft company, for ad targeting. For example, lists of people diagnosed with 'depression'. FB had to disclose a full list of database tables that contain user identifiers and a list of 'data pipelines' for analytics. Unsealed court doc, 255 pages, listing 11,051 Hive tables and 1,190 source code files, from the NdCal/US lawsuit via @jason_kint@twitter.com: @jason_kint@twitter.com So 11,051 database tables that contain IDs or other means of identifying a FB user, and thus may contain 'personal data' under the GDPR. Did the Irish regulator or other EU authorities ever assess the legal compliance of this data processing? Did they even see this list at all? Elite tech billionaires, who went down the rabbit hole of right-wing paranoia and see anything that would allow society at large to have a say in how their tech-supremacist elite agenda shapes society as 'censorship', are a threat to democracy. |
The report is part of a larger project which examines how employers (mis)use worker data, funded by Austrian Arbeiterkammer:
https://crackedlabs.org/en/data-work
To illustrate wider practices, the report investigates software for cybersecurity and risk profiling from two major vendors including Microsoft. While employers can use these systems for legitimate purposes, the report focuses on potential implications for employees.
The Register's @thomasclaburn wrote about my research:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/27/microsoft_workplace_surveillance/
The report is part of a larger project which examines how employers (mis)use worker data, funded by Austrian Arbeiterkammer:
https://crackedlabs.org/en/data-work
To illustrate wider practices, the report investigates software for cybersecurity and risk profiling from two major vendors including Microsoft. While employers can use these systems for legitimate purposes, the report focuses on potential implications for employees.
@wchr thanks for sharing.