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Targeting ads to landline numbers cross correlated via shadow profiles built using aggregated data from 3rd parties, and implicitly tied to your social networking account.Facebook probably doesn't even have that number on file, but with enough metadata that it doesn't matter. https://t.co/O1SQGNg4WP
Address book stealing apps has been an issue since at least 2012https://t.co/vFIEjsQO3e
All these people trying to infer Facebook "shadow profiles" are a joke IMHO. They need to pay closer attention to stuff like this.https://t.co/riDDca1tOx
I personally and honestly believe that when Zuckerberg said that they do not create shadow profiles of users he wasn't lying.Why would they need to?People are losing the forest for the trees here:https://t.co/ycDX5W3Zvd
Facebook doesn't need your address book or landline number. And all these claims that they are using it - inferred by tests? It's an illusion caused by how they buy aggregate marketing data and identity wholesalers.This stuff is a fucking plague;https://t.co/QkcXhF8Rvz
This isn't some fucking conspiracy either, they literally tell you the aggregation's they use! Its straight up on their website. It's the Credit Card company profiles that make all this spooky stuff happen.https://t.co/kxi0tDGtgu https://t.co/rM2kjxL96c
All these 'security researchers' are doing when they try to divine facebook's 'shadow profiles'? There're just mapping the effects of what places like Acxiom's data platform, and Oracle Data Cloud is able to do. They are the "shadow profiles" all of this 'research' is seeing.
All of these people freaking out about shadow profiles don't understand it isn't Facebook they should be afraid of. It is the 3rd party data brokers.https://t.co/nHoPz9tWN9 https://t.co/Jt8aQbdmaX
Facebook is just the most visible result of all of this data surveillance network ecosystem.They're just a scapegoat here. If they go away, another organization will take it's space. This problem is systemic. And we're all fools.https://t.co/F1wEhBEHLk
This stuff is so much bigger than most everyone realizes.https://t.co/KWhWen9dnr
Give me enough data points with Alphonso's software and information your timezone and I could figure out where you live.https://t.co/ZawrEDyUH6
A Shazam like app that figures out what TV shows are in earshot, or what movies you go to see? Correlate that with regional data on TV viewership or movie sales and timezone and could tell you where you live with pretty high confidence.https://t.co/DFulgNQQV1
There's a reason why I'm asking strange questions like this:https://t.co/frHxubMiV3
A question that I haven't found a conclusive answer to:With digital transmission, are cable television companies able to substitute ads on demand by side loading on set-tops using the internet, or are they still subject to mixing in adverts for particular distribution regions?
Throw in Rakuten Intelligence (formerly Slice)'s ability to track Credit Card sales (not tracked in CA or ND), various audio beacon tech -> level of aggregate data is more than enough to reverse a landline to an address.The shadow profile is an illusion - a ghost in the data.
We've got tech that can monitor images for make and model of the coffee pot in the background of your daughter's selfie. It wouldn't take much to geolocate where she lives and identify the person who bought it and sell them ads.We could do this in 2013 https://t.co/gW7XaMyzLt
Google Goggles could tell you make and model of cars, brands and various other htings since at least 2010.Fuck, you can use their public API to do logo detection for pennieshttps://t.co/PYZFCJQABU https://t.co/pV2RGaIWY0
This patent was from 2011https://t.co/Fgk8y4Eoii
I just assume now that every grocery store in existence is tracking people based on cellphones and using IBM's watson platform to optimize their marketing.https://t.co/YRbXzyGWAl
This stuff is trivial these days for anyone who is well funded and interested in leveraging it. I was able to figure out a tech stack to recreate google's beacon API using entirely open source software. https://t.co/jUEKaKm759
The cutting edge of this stuff? Walmart is predicting how much you put in your cart based on audio cues of crinkling bags!https://t.co/j1jjun1wyY
I can't even begin to describe foreign brands like Tesco, or Alibaba's foray into these waters. And this is just one sector's application of all this various tracking tech.https://t.co/ItdAMp3AYDhttps://t.co/lFAhqC45kH
I've been slowly fucking with Walmart to make them think I have bird feeders because I think it is funny.https://t.co/WSVp6xw0IA
I have a whole thread on algorithm jamming via grocery narratives.https://t.co/Sr2lYHTzwg
Narrative Violation: New mother's diet is poor -> increased allergies, constipation, during stressful holiday.Baby DiapersLaxativeBenadrylWhiskey"But buying a pack of nappies might suggest responsibility; she’ll gain a few points."https://t.co/2ByUk4AG8M (h/t @miniver)
I don't know where to go from here.https://t.co/DE8jLRVBf7
The zeitgiest of all of this can be seen in the "coffee shop gives free coffee for your personal data" story that is spreading like wildfire.1) sentiments expressed in this article and2) how quickly this is spreading among auxiliary channels.https://t.co/DH7Sxumtr8 https://t.co/2C48fPqD35
Facebook is just a node in a much larger network.Some would call this surveillance capitalism.Thread exploring one of the ecosystem level players in this space:https://t.co/5VeHrm36si
With enough pressure sensor and "gyroscope" data collected over a swarm of phones, you could perform something akin to what waze does and figure out actual traffic flows within buildings. https://t.co/4ZRn5KMcpe
How long have you been waiting at that school in your car?You might be a more conservative parent.Sitting at that gay bar for a while?Let's advertise grindr when you're scrolling thru your feed.https://t.co/JWUfJFDzJu https://t.co/rdr7hokOlh
Sell the dream.https://t.co/gr7bGxt0xB
The shift from context-sensitive relevant information on demand into one where we can nonchalantly slip in advertisements and attention getting content. Bombard you at times when you're most vulnerable. #PeopleFarming & the #HumanZoo.I don't trust google https://t.co/5I1raf1Eh3
Competing for market share. Get more data about your users today!https://t.co/W0PuPDYuq2
Oh no."We see advertisers as evolving. Technology and the advertiser are going to work together."https://t.co/exFs5UnyeR https://t.co/jxUYpqQkRy
"Remember when RadioShack asked for your phone number when you wanted to buy batteries? This is one of the reasons why. Brokers can also scrape public records about you, so they knows if you own a house, as well as details about it."https://t.co/rMvgzY9KmF https://t.co/Lyn1EMEL2w
Much more information about Acxiom here, in a convenient timeline:https://t.co/tZAjTKO8Nx
Desire to live in the woods intensifying.https://t.co/19PUk4N3rn
This non-profit put in a formal complaint against data-brokers! <3"Despite exploiting the data of millions of people, are on the whole non-consumer facing and therefore rarely have their practices challenged."https://t.co/s0yYA1qQgO https://t.co/b5iobJ2Gt7
"it will be a tragic error if the race to develop (and profit from) the things that are confusingly called “cryptocurrencies” end up developing dossiers or surveillance societies such as the world has never seen. I’m just saying there’s a danger."https://t.co/T2z9a5TDhU
Google has been trying to get at your transaction data for yearshttps://t.co/MRScmz5LDiThey have even implemented a system that side-stepped Credit Cards Orgs entirely (at least in india). It was using audio beacon tech to enable txns on flip-phones.https://t.co/grQDOBaJT3
There is some strange dynamic between Google and Mastercard. It seems that google recently flipped the dynamic on them using that Tez thing rebranded as android pay. https://t.co/2jDaqI44sp and later just as google pay https://t.co/FGLAa17jl7
Mastercard is taking this dynamic in stride and is trying instead to get its fingers into all the pies. https://t.co/LsFhC8VMzM
The Google Pay headline on adopting Mastercard (and Visa) is newsworthy, but if you dig further its actually that they've integrated 65 banks (and Paypal's Mastercard)? https://t.co/auCWQRD178
Its fun to learn all this in light of the "explosion" of news stories over the 'secret deal' thing a few months back; If you've been paying attention to the wallet ecosystem this kind of thing seems like clickbait and obvious old news.https://t.co/QGT5tVk7k6 https://t.co/glaqxIJuPK
Much more interesting is the idea that Mastercard/Visa may miss their KYC data locality mandate by the Bank of India. I didn't even know that was a thing. https://t.co/i6qO5YJSkK
"unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data [...] these prediction products are traded in a new kind of marketplace for behavioral predictions that I call behavioral futures markets."https://t.co/spUREBvUwN
"With Sidewalk Labs, a product from the company to “smarten up” urban areas, Google’s trackers will extend into the real world, tracking not just how we move around the web but how we move around our cities."https://t.co/69JOfom8lu
"you can do things like connect your social media accounts and web browsing history with the route you take when you’re running errands and your purchase history at your local grocery store."https://t.co/A0G8Vciau0
"information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches, [...] We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less now what you're thinking about." — Eric Schmidt [2010]https://t.co/YjKeenk2LN
Introducing "Google Lens". It's like Google Goggles from 2010, but now is able to do things like identify 'faces' in real time, and stores all the photos in the cloud.But don't worry, you can delete it...https://t.co/ZLjeIPh7O1https://t.co/UdvhaivLTq
~'we promise we wont spy on your web browsing history, pweese don't take away our ability to track people to sell access to targeting profiles to advertisers, uwu. Our shareholders will get mad'https://t.co/eRn3XOQion
You see.. we gotta do mass collection of people's web browsing history so that disenfranchised people will be able to access loans. Please ignore how this data can and will be abused once collected. https://t.co/Fu2YOkrMxBhttps://t.co/48dnJ9GBuH https://t.co/0CK9AY51Wr
"What we’ve seen is that when this data becomes visible to a lender, suddenly a much more comprehensive consumer profile is formed"https://t.co/haVjZoS7iL
"If you're thinking of applying for a job, talk with the hiring manager to find out what's involved with the background check process, so you can know what to expect."https://t.co/d6WWA6rJE0
Severe and persistent threat.https://t.co/83bKlLROLK https://t.co/7uqg9HkH6V
At best, these kinds of data will likely be turned into something that any employer, police, government agent, corrupt power, private eye, bounty hunter, concerned citizen, can end up paying to access. If not illicitly, just straight up thru a service.https://t.co/IKLIWOeJSO
I bet someone out there is writing a hand-wringing piece of how giving financial fairness to the unbanked is why we need to do mass-surveillance of the poor and disenfranchised minority groups is *FOR THEIR OWN GOOD*.propaganda.https://t.co/wl59IQvUYA
I can't use coinbase to send / receive donations anymore: I don't have a valid ID.I can't use cashapp b/c I don't have a compatible card for the account.The only reason I can use Simple is b/c they let me ID by taking a selfie in front of house.Food is priced in fiat.
Only thing that seems to be preventing taking hold is that the credit agencies fight w/ each other over who gets to run it. You can see this by looking at (microsoft/google/amazon/apple/facebook) wallet tech & cc alliances.Too many potential actors.https://t.co/2usKyusBbH
I worry about this; perhaps too much.https://t.co/roC9GPeKJ4
> Restoring Trust in Travel: Creating a Globally Accepted Health Pass> MastercardYou wat m8https://t.co/1ST431KfUt
"In May of 2020, ICC launched ICC AOKpass, a blockchain-powered digital health passport that enabled travelers to present Covid-19 test results at border control without compromising personal data." https://t.co/wOZgUuhJpY
"Co-developed by ICC’s blockchain partner Perlin and startup AOKpass, the solution will allow businesses and other organizations to screen employees and users for COVID-19, helping them resume pre-pandemic activities."https://t.co/6onaOdP08k
"it is conceivable that the poorest and most vulnerable people would be able to log into a system and prove who they are to social services, banks or foreign governments."https://t.co/KWRDn8Jw21https://t.co/AMiuP0gbWS
Hosted wallets make things more accessible! /s https://t.co/IVDVkvKbW7
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.https://t.co/tKjlOlVXIf https://t.co/hidWlgE1VK
Slippery, digital IDs."Apple is not not the only one rolling out digital driver’s licenses in the United States. New York State is working with IBM on the possibility of expanding its Excelsior Pass vaccine passport system to include driver’s licenses"https://t.co/ltjGh2GwfU
"We appreciate the feedback from our users, and are always looking for ways to simplify our settings and make it easier for people to control their data,"https://t.co/JNS5gWNDMXhttps://t.co/Z8mj9uymH0
Track and Trace.https://t.co/P0EFKmHOmH
"But data brokers go about their business with little or no oversight. While there are laws on the books that protect the privacy of Americans’ health and financial information, they do not cover data brokers’ marketing activities."https://t.co/Ygwuqj5ti1 https://t.co/mxXrkDdG33
One card to rule them all...https://t.co/hl9jf15C04
"These transactions have given rise to a complex data-selling ecosystem. At the heart of it are credit card processing networks, including Visa, American Express, and Mastercard, the latter of which took in $4.1 billion in 2019"https://t.co/MPGTImBbrahttps://t.co/e5B6goKTXx
Veiled in darkness; Bind them.https://t.co/iP0kWnN8oj
"This broad acceptance is partly because most credit card issuers now operate under Visa [...] and MasterCard [...] These massive payment networks work out acceptance agreements with merchants so that issuers don’t have to do it individually."https://t.co/sIsDReKdSP
We complain about tiktok and china harvesting data from consumer devices.Because we this to our own population.https://t.co/nuXrefD16bhttps://t.co/iJ3tkiVgyf
Its ok as long the sinister thing is happening on our own soil in our own datacenters?https://t.co/KpypQTWsnB
"TikTok is a hugely popular social media platform that has helped children keep in touch with their friends during an incredibly difficult year. However, behind the fun songs, dance challenges and lip-sync trends lies something far more sinister."https://t.co/pR6hucgEoa
https://t.co/vzeS1rVzX3 https://t.co/0XcR3v8ldt
"While several ISPs in our study tell consumers they will not sell their data, they fail to reveal to consumers the myriad of ways that their data can be used, transferred, or monetized outside of selling it, often burying [it] in the fine print"https://t.co/1Qy7dfYY50
Your research repository platforms and library book checkout tools are watching what you read.It's even encouraged as best practice https://t.co/QdEueduXuHPay no attention to massive data tracking conglomerate buying up services behind the curtain.https://t.co/oq7DjAukmA
"surveillance software like ThreatMetrix in their research databases, and data analytics companies like Clarivate are trying to acquire [...] to exploit library patrons' data to create more academic metrics to sell grant funders and research institutions."https://t.co/IEMOgppebj
That nifty 3rd party analytics platform and toolkit that helps you collect data to optimize your customer journey... Have you considered that they are siphoning off data and lying to you about their motives? https://t.co/yXR8YzOw2Whttps://t.co/sBCbkvJaS9
"These bare-knuckle tactics, long commonplace in the world of politics, have become increasingly noticeable within a tech industry where companies vie for cultural relevance" https://t.co/rehkIc6hMZ https://t.co/vBthPiksPD
"Facial recognition first trickled into personal devices as a security feature with Windows Hello and Android’s Trusted Face in 2015, and then with the introduction of the iPhone X and Face ID in 2017.Things have ramped up since then" https://t.co/4nwWWVilPN
I wonder how long until America gets something more holistic like GDPR.Weirdly, the CLOUD act suggests the US is legally allowed to subpoena a foreign country's data if you operate a business in US. Is very hypocritical.https://t.co/Dr4ErJl4G7https://t.co/U8zsw2TuSN
It is very important that credit card companies have access to your complete digital footprint so that underprivileged people can be tracked and vetted by an industry that is in the business of scoring people for loans. /shttps://t.co/6va10PkKqR
"isn’t the first time Mastercard (and other processors like Paypal and Visa) have completely transformed the digital jack-off landscape. [...] when they instituted a blanket ban on any erotic content that features mentions or depictions of hypnosis."https://t.co/oID0nckEtn
"Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means that every arbitrary policy of these two companies can translate into rules that all websites who want to process payments must follow." https://t.co/YvbYI8oFHn
Ah yes. Would be a shame if a payment provider was shut off or we tracked your biometrics when you wank in the metaverse.> "Mastercard’s biometric tools could one day help with the development of payments infrastructure for the “metaverse,”"https://t.co/q3QCFkFX6q
Don't worry, is that a visa in your pocket? We got you covered and have your face on file already.https://t.co/kwCvK3IpmN
Visa, everywhere you want to be. https://t.co/O0eUgaXIzw
First they came for the hate speech blowhards. But I said noth... No, I actually said something, but I have no power."If they can do this to me, they can do it to you and they likely will." [2020]https://t.co/nK13sFJyHjhttps://t.co/MRs1kLBwu7
if they actually cared about censorship resistance, they wouldn't be using AWS and various credit card providers anyway.At least alt-right sites like hatreon has some semblance of sanity on how they are approching the threat landscape.The rest are basically posers.
If visa and mastercard can effectively neuter economic activity with people for "hate speech", why do we even have the SDN?https://t.co/S3jvfOxgGo
"In the material to be sent to shareholders, the activists refer to a website called Blood Money, which tracks online payments to white supremacist groups from the likes of Mastercard, American Express, and Stripe." https://t.co/NQiUNtkOgT
"In June, the ACLU joined 22 other civil rights groups in demanding a stop to financial platforms’ practices that harm vulnerable communities by shutting people out without due process." [2021] https://t.co/R79GJKX1Mo
Shareholder activism is an interesting lever to pull.https://t.co/eBZMyl9xys
Hey, don't worry, we're not in the business of restricting the sale of products based on shareholder sentiment.We're a private business, we can do what we want!https://t.co/i2Ft7crYj6
I feel like I'm watching some form of cosmic chess going on.https://t.co/gTEQIjDMkI
"Under this myopic view, publishers and advertisers can tell consumers they engage in CCBA by “sharing” personal information, but do not “sell” their personal information." 😂https://t.co/ecRofi1bsEhttps://t.co/I7LDFSEtzg
Someone had to use the Open Records Act to catch a DNS provider selling records to a DoD-funded research team.https://t.co/96Z1Y9XfjNhttps://t.co/8mCbwnPflr https://t.co/NtFX3qsIva
Did you know Neustar is working with Comcast to implement signed caller ID features? Cool way to fix caller ID spoofing, but also to gather intelligence easier. https://t.co/9tZvd4d740
Like I said, shadow profiles are probably provided by 3rd parties.Worth exploring this thread here: https://t.co/AMS0ROyVoc
Something interesting @WolfieChristl points out is that Neustar was acquired by TransUnion (in 2021)https://t.co/uXeAXnZm6nA 3rd party data broker that literally fed data to Facebook, per my 2018 tweet with a screenshot of their list of providers. https://t.co/e5B6gp33bF
@WolfieChristl My, what a big acquisition for a large credit reporting agency to do. What would a massive analytics firm hoovering up data for $3.1 billion be for, grandma?https://t.co/7r7FaBZd8p
Why all the better to provide fair and balanced access to underserved communities with, my dear.https://t.co/Hg3Uxn8GU3
Oh BTW, Facebook/Meta says they no longer work with these aggregators to access Metadata (hah).https://t.co/Yi56Vu8F2I https://t.co/WiEzLK8Rue
This website changed sometime after November 15th 2018 according to wayback machine on archive[dot]orghttps://t.co/i2IVp7K0Sj
According to https://t.co/evfKN8c0To the ban on 3rd party data brokers was done as part of a response to GDPR regulations. They sunset the data sharing program entirely as of October 1st 2018. https://t.co/TmTL1HjxzA
"This is why so many find the site addictive. In a world with no cellphone or email directories. Facebook is a way to find lost friends."https://t.co/gkfjSHhVWOhttps://t.co/jfLenlgVvG
The phone companies are still able to track you even if your phone app does not.https://t.co/JiOaBFeGMG
"The defense contractor also claimed to have developed a learning model that could detect symptoms of a traumatic brain injury in a soldier just by watching how they moved their smartphone."https://t.co/h7vKZrAxRR
Track & Trace+ They be making weavrs."HAYSTAC will be run by the DNI’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). It’s kind of like DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue-sky research department, but with a focus on intelligence projects."https://t.co/HHVBXc6KGl https://t.co/YziJKSR8Pd
> "Once you have the data out there, [...] there is a whole set of things you can do with it, some of them justifiable and some not justifiable." https://t.co/VIpllUliKy
What happened to the data that the CDC bought to track people with? https://t.co/t6tfav4vjz
Why has it taken so long to get analysis of this data visible to the public?All we get is a dashboard with "low, med, high" warnings that have no meaningful breakdown in how they are calculated. And yet the CDC has bought data from multiple brokers?https://t.co/UjIT7mmwZa
Mastercard seems to be better at laws than governments. > "The impending Mastercard requirements involve consent documentation [...], as well as age and identity verification (requiring creators to provide government-issued ID)." https://t.co/Iaj195EGhw https://t.co/2lnBGWwBjH
They protecthey attacthey trachttps://t.co/hOJHWhdU1E
"All of this is happening under a veil of secrecy. Credit card companies may acknowledge that they make money from analyzing transactions, but they are vague about what data they actually share."https://t.co/hl9jf15C04
"These transactions have given rise to a complex data-selling ecosystem. At the heart of it are credit card processing networks, including Visa, American Express, and Mastercard, the latter of which took in $4.1 billion in 2019"https://t.co/MPGTImBbrahttps://t.co/e5B6goKTXx
"companies outside the narrow scope of HIPAA, from data brokers to period tracking apps, can legally sell Americans’ health-related information, and they do, from a list of your surgical procedures to your mental health conditions" https://t.co/PxtvxUu4aGhttps://t.co/P6h9ERFTHb https://t.co/FBI09foej5
I'm living a cyberpunk novel. Buying products on a computer, having a system of networked couriers transport said items to my house. I open them up and proceed to hack and disable corporate surveillance subsystems, working on building my own when I can't. https://t.co/DvjpCAMPqq
"Carolinas Healthcare has started to incorporate these data on 2 million people in North and South Carolina into algorithms that are designed to identify high-risk patients. The idea is that doctors can intervene before the patients get sick." [2015]https://t.co/ifJObZgUp5
> “The data is already used to market to people to get them to do things that might not always be in the best interest of the consumer,” he says. “We are looking to apply this for something good.” https://t.co/8ECNcYdYs5How much can you infer from data?https://t.co/lrz8MNH4jj https://t.co/bx4YYfOy3b
Dossierhttps://t.co/Khnym4Wtwn https://t.co/OXDNe5c1Uv
Everyone is saying that facebook did this first without citing anything. The first thing I found while searching about this is a snopes article about how Facebook being CIA is satire.https://t.co/cK2I2VDLtuhttps://t.co/9g2bS1AtRL
The funny comment is about how TikTok can't do anything original...https://t.co/semNNWcdv1
I think it's funny that X's "discover more" recommendation feed off of that tweet is just showing other posts that @pmarca has RT'd.Is this 'look alike' feed generation? or...https://t.co/VCeiXl2y0N