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>>benwer+(OP)
Every single person working in the adtech industry is complicit in this.

Joseph Cox’s reporting on the geolocation/tracking shit the US Gov buys up really highlights the direct link between consumer tracking (to sell them shit) and government intrusion into privacy.

>>fullsp+3A2
> Every single person working in the adtech industry is complicit in this.

Please let me know how to buy bulk consumer data from Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/etc-ad platform.

Ad-Tech isn't the ones selling data; they want to be high up in the value chain. Your ISP/phone company _is_ literally selling your geo-location and data (internet) usage.

>>lesuor+ZD2
GP never said adtech selling data, but they are complicit in the widespread sale of our data to governments. Is adtech not responsible for making the tools that only exist to sell us ads and soak up our data?

>>wyre+BH2
Lets say we have a company and I'll make up a name for them: Perizon. Perizon sells you phones and also collects your location whenever your phone is on. Perizon then sells this data to the USG and anybody (ex. journalists) claiming to be bounty hunters.

Continuing the story, lets say we have a company and I'll make up another name for them: Scroogle. Scroogle operates a popular website and collects your location whenever your phone connects to the website. Scroogle does not sell this data to the USG.

Which company is complicit in the widespread sale of data? Perizon has it's own data ingest system separate from Scroogles. It's always been separate and it's been operating for decades; Scroogle is not complicit in Perizon's decisions.

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Now, there is certainly an arguement that Scroogle shouldn't collect all the data it does. But lets be calling a Spade a Spade here; Perizon is the company that fits your description.

>>lesuor+mK2
The reality is this. Perizon sells you a phone with the ability to track your location. They do it. Websites do it. Apps do it. Let’s focus on the websites for a second. When you visit a website, you give up information about your device. User-Agent, device, maybe your location as well but definitely your IP address. This goes into a giant data lake where they can cross this with multiple other websites to determine if it’s “you”. Once determined, they put together a profile of you - your sites, apps, locations, buying habits, search history, demographics, income history, you name it - from multiple data brokers and sources. Then this profile is bundled and sold.

How do I know? I briefly worked for a company that enabled this. I didn’t stay.