This week the Consumer Data Industry Ass. - a business cadre of everyone's least favorite #databrokers and advertisers - mobilized **mobile billboards** as just part of their massive push against #SB362, #TheDeleteAct. Experian is raging with their armies of lobbyists obvious untruths about the bill, saying the sky will fall, #CA will fall into destitution and nonprofits will crumble into dust.
The strongest indication #SB362 is overdue is how much these absolute ghouls are sweating.

🚙 Cars Want Your Sexual History And Sell Your Personal Data

🚨 84% Share Your Data

#Mozilla #auto #cars #sex #news #databrokers #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #HumanRights

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/ https://fosstodon.org/@RTP/111022177837095444

🚙 Cars Want Your Sexual History And Sell Your Personal Data

🚨 84% Share Your Data

#Mozilla #auto #cars #sex #news #databrokers #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity #HumanRights

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

UK Home Office Threatened UK Privacy Regulator To Help Privatized Facial Recognition... Particularly In Retail

#facialrecognition #biometrics #News #UnitedKingdom #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #retail #databrokers #wearamask #privacy #facewatch

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/02/home-office-accused-of-secret-lobbying-for-facial-recognition-spy-company

HAZAA! Another huge step forward for #privacy as #SB362 #CADeleteAct has made it off the suspense file and out of Asm Appropriations! Now on to a floor vote sometime before 9/14. We’re facing steep opposition as #databrokers and #advertisers rage against the bill, so if YOU think Californians should be able to exercise privacy rights against data brokers, if YOU want to delete your PII from data brokers with a single click, please call your lawmaker to support! #CAPrivacy #california

#DataBrokers Hate This #California Bill. Help Us Pass It.
#privacy
https://act.eff.org/action/data-brokers-hate-this-california-bill-help-us-pass-it

#EU #DataBrokers #AdTargeting #TargetedAdvertising #DataProtection #Surveillance: "Now, for the first time, we present a detailed data analysis for the entire European Union. The research shows how closely data traffickers are tracking people in Europe. Over several weeks, we further analyzed hundreds of thousands of segments. We found tens of thousands of segments on the characteristics and behavior of EU citizens, and we have reduced them to particularly delicate cases. What remained were 1,900 segments that we consider to be extremely questionable.

They can all be assigned with a high degree of probability to one of 15 EU countries on the basis of their name, and they all relate to personal characteristics such as health, religion and political views. They deal, for example, with whether someone is easy to manipulate and has a lot or little money. The research makes it clear for the first time how thoroughly the advertising industry screens people on this continent.

Experts in the fields of data protection and civil rights describe the findings as „very explosive.“ Vienna-based researcher and activist Wolfie Christl writes: „It’s a scandal that this uncontrolled trade in digital profiles about personal characteristics and behaviors is still happening in Europe.“ He had discovered the Xandr document on the net and brought it to our attention."

https://netzpolitik.org/2023/eu-country-comparison-how-data-brokers-are-screening-us/

#USA #DataProtection #Privacy #DataBrokers #Doxxing: "This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the credit bureaus Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion have on most adults in America via their credit cards. Through a complex web of agreements and purchases, that data trickles down from the credit bureaus to other companies who offer it to debt collectors, insurance companies, and law enforcement.

A 404 Media investigation has found that criminals have managed to tap into that data supply chain, in some cases by stealing former law enforcement officer’s identities, and are selling unfettered access to their criminal cohorts online. The tool 404 Media tested has also been used to gather information on high profile targets such as Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and even President Joe Biden, seemingly without restriction. 404 Media verified that although not always sensitive, at least some of that data is accurate.

The communities where this tool is advertised include chat rooms focused on swatting, where criminals place bogus calls that result in a heavily armed police response to a specific location; SIM swapping, in which hackers take over a victim’s phone number to then receive login codes and break into their online accounts; and physical violence, where criminals hire one another to rob, shoot, or assault their enemies and vandalize the target’s home. Overall, the tool offers exceptional power and requires little to no technical sophistication to obtain a victim’s sensitive data. Worse yet, it is exceedingly difficult for a user to opt out, and this data may be available even for people who have otherwise been careful with distributing their personal information, and who have taken steps to have their details scrubbed from other data brokers."

https://www.404media.co/the-secret-weapon-hackers-can-use-to-dox-nearly-anyone-in-america-for-15-tlo-usinfosearch-transunion/

Support the #DeleteAct unless you totally love #DataBrokers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/californias-delete-act-protects-us-data-brokers

You know your bill is doing something right when data brokers and advertisers start spinning up hit pieces against it. SB 362 aims to let people delete their information from data brokers — that’s it; and it’s long past time for that to be possible. We’re facing an uphill battle, but clearly making them sweat. Support the #CADeleteAct #SB362 #databrokers #privacy #california #policy

Two pillars of the American surveillance industry are #CreditReporting bureaux and #DataBrokers. Both are *unbelievably* sleazy, reckless and dangerous, and neither faces any real accountability, let alone regulation.

Remember #Equifax, the company that doxed *every adult in America* and was given a mere wrist-slap, and now continues to assemble nonconsensual dossiers on every one of us, without any material oversight improvements?

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/20/equifax-settles-with-ftc-cfpb-states-and-consumer-class-actions-for-700m/

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#USA #California #DataBrokers #DataBrokerage #Privacy #DataProtection: "When it comes to the reckless trade of our personal information, data brokers are the problem. These entities collect then sell personal information they’ve amassed on individuals with very little oversight. This includes very sensitive information such as buying habits, financial records, social media activity, or precise geolocation information. Scams, identity theft, and financial exploitation result from the collection and misuse of personal information.

Potential misuse of health data could lead to real harms in harassment, discrimination, and legal consequences for those seeking health services in California, including reproductive and gender affirming healthcare data. And if information is sold to local, state, or federal agencies, that puts our Fourth Amendment rights at risk.

That's why EFF is a proud supporter of S.B. 362, authored by California State Senator Josh Becker. It allows people to easily and efficiently make one request to delete their personal information held by all data brokers registered in California. It is also known as the California Delete Act and is sponsored by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and Californians for Consumer Privacy. It will improve everyone's privacy rights and make California's consumer privacy laws more user-friendly."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/californias-delete-act-protects-us-data-brokers

Edifiant podcast du lundi 23 novembre 2020 : Ils cherchent “les trucs bizarres qu’il y a dans vos téléphones” https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-code-a-change/ils-cherchent-les-trucs-bizarres-qu-il-y-a-dans-vos-telephones-rencontre-avec-des-traqueurs-de-trackers-4352957], avec l'association Exodus Privacy.
#trackers #pisteurs #DonneesPersonnelles #vieprivee #DataBrokers #Gafam #RGPD #inevitabilisme
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The National Security Agency is upset about a proposed amendment to the #NDAA that would prevent them from buying sensitive personal data from #databrokers. https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ndaa-lobbying-privacy-loophole/

California's DELETE Act Protects Us From #DataBrokers
#privacy #california
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/californias-delete-act-protects-us-data-brokers

Doing an interview in a few hours about the horrors of #databrokers and why the #CADeleteAct is no necessary! What’s your favorite #databroker parade of horribles? Selling location info about planned parenthood visits? Home address of #abortion protestors? Grouping people in “#depression prone” or “freq. purchasers of pregnancy kits”? How about NDIO calling commercial data sets a threat to #privacy, #civilliberties and #NationalSecurity ? Sound off! #California #legislation #law

@privacyint

In the physical world theft is not allowed. In the digital world it is a usual practice #digitalthieves #adtech #databrokers

Data brokers collect
Agency opposes the law
For access instead bought

#nsa #databrokers #dataprivacy #haiku #poetry

https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ndaa-lobbying-privacy-loophole/

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data

An effort by US lawmakers to prevent government agencies from tracking citizens without a search warrant is opposed by the #NSA.

Last month it was revealed that US intelligence agencies were avoiding judicial review by purchasing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on Americans, including data that can be used to trace people’s whereabouts.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/instead-of-obtaining-a-warrant-the-nsa-would-like-to-keep-buying-your-data/ #MassSurveillance #DataBrokers

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data - National Security Agency headquarters. (credit: Trevor Paglen, Wikimedi... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1957520 #nationalsecurityagency #databrokers #syndication #section702 #policy #nsa