Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
You’ve probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they’ve heard a lot about you.
It’s no secret that your personal data is routinely bought and sold by dozens, possibly hundreds, of companies. What’s less known is who those companies are, and what exactly they do.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information
📡 @NoGoolag
#BigData #privacy #mydata #why #data #brokers
You’ve probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they’ve heard a lot about you.
It’s no secret that your personal data is routinely bought and sold by dozens, possibly hundreds, of companies. What’s less known is who those companies are, and what exactly they do.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90310803/here-are-the-data-brokers-quietly-buying-and-selling-your-personal-information
📡 @NoGoolag
#BigData #privacy #mydata #why #data #brokers
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2020: A Facebook user's Odyssey?
Join us on a journey to try to solve the mystery behind the advertisers who have uploaded our personal data to Facebook but with whom we've never interacted with before.
👀 Key findings:
👉🏼 In summer 2019, we noticed that "unknown" companies had been uploading our data to Facebook and we decided to send Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) to find out more.
👉🏼 This ended up being a lengthy and tedious process, involving requests to fill in unnecessary forms or being asked to provide more data than needed as well as other obstacles to the proper and smooth exercise of our data access rights.
👉🏼 Eventually, we managed to shed some light on the "Facebook advertisers mystery" by finding out more about the involvement of third parties in the process.
👉🏼 However, our investigation demonstrates the need to continue challenging this opacity overall and Facebook's less than adequate transparency
👉🏼 As a result of this investigation some companies reviewed their practices and we have written to Facebook to demand changes.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3857/2020-facebook-users-odyssey
#DeleteFacebook #fb #privacy #mydata #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_ES
Join us on a journey to try to solve the mystery behind the advertisers who have uploaded our personal data to Facebook but with whom we've never interacted with before.
👀 Key findings:
👉🏼 In summer 2019, we noticed that "unknown" companies had been uploading our data to Facebook and we decided to send Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) to find out more.
👉🏼 This ended up being a lengthy and tedious process, involving requests to fill in unnecessary forms or being asked to provide more data than needed as well as other obstacles to the proper and smooth exercise of our data access rights.
👉🏼 Eventually, we managed to shed some light on the "Facebook advertisers mystery" by finding out more about the involvement of third parties in the process.
👉🏼 However, our investigation demonstrates the need to continue challenging this opacity overall and Facebook's less than adequate transparency
👉🏼 As a result of this investigation some companies reviewed their practices and we have written to Facebook to demand changes.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3857/2020-facebook-users-odyssey
#DeleteFacebook #fb #privacy #mydata #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_ES
Privacy International
2020: A Facebook user's Odyssey?
Introduction In August 2019, when Facebook announced a few new features for advertisers such as ads in search, PI decided to take an in-depth lo
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#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit #mydata #ourdata #thinkabout
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📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit #mydata #ourdata #thinkabout
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Un projet fait par des étudiants espagnol pour récupéré vos données personnelles. .
Tutanota@mastodon.social - A great #OpenSource project by Spanish students helps you to easily check how to take back your data from #BigTech such as #Google, #Twitter, #Facebook and more.
😎 💪 Check it out: https://justgetmydata.com
#gafam #rpgd #DonnéesPersonnel
#GetYourDataBack
#MyData
Tutanota@mastodon.social - A great #OpenSource project by Spanish students helps you to easily check how to take back your data from #BigTech such as #Google, #Twitter, #Facebook and more.
😎 💪 Check it out: https://justgetmydata.com
#gafam #rpgd #DonnéesPersonnel
#GetYourDataBack
#MyData
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Screw it, I’ll host it myself
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Likewise, it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else.
You don’t have to be an expert seeker to be able to quickly duck out (it’s like the verb ‘googling’, but used to describe searching the interwebs through a decent search engine, like DuckDuckGo) all the stories about little guys being fucked over by “don’t be evil” type of corporate behemoths.
💡 You know what? Let me duck it out for you:
👉🏼 That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month
👉🏼 What it’s like to get locked out of Google indefinitely
👉🏼 Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts
👉🏼 GitHub blocks the entire company because one employee was in Iran
A drinking game recommendation (careful, it may and probably will lead to alcoholism): take a shot every time you find out how someone’s data has been locked and their business was jeopardized because they didn’t own, or at least back up their data.
💡 Owning your data and your tools
Owning your data is more than just having backup copies of your digital information. It’s also about control and privacy. It’s about trust. I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust a lot of services with my data (the ones I do are few and far between).
As this is a post about self-hosting, I won’t start preaching (trust me, it’s hard for me not to) how you should consider switching from WhatsApp to Signal, Google Maps to OpenStreetMap, or how you should quit Instagram and Facebook. You’re creating a lot of data there, and they don’t do pretty things with it. Fuck, I’m already preaching. Sorry about that.
https://www.markozivanovic.com/screw-it-ill-host-it-myself/
#mydata #selfhosting #thinkabout
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Likewise, it’s all fun and games until someone loses access to their private and/or business data because they trusted it to someone else.
You don’t have to be an expert seeker to be able to quickly duck out (it’s like the verb ‘googling’, but used to describe searching the interwebs through a decent search engine, like DuckDuckGo) all the stories about little guys being fucked over by “don’t be evil” type of corporate behemoths.
💡 You know what? Let me duck it out for you:
👉🏼 That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month
👉🏼 What it’s like to get locked out of Google indefinitely
👉🏼 Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts
👉🏼 GitHub blocks the entire company because one employee was in Iran
A drinking game recommendation (careful, it may and probably will lead to alcoholism): take a shot every time you find out how someone’s data has been locked and their business was jeopardized because they didn’t own, or at least back up their data.
💡 Owning your data and your tools
Owning your data is more than just having backup copies of your digital information. It’s also about control and privacy. It’s about trust. I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust a lot of services with my data (the ones I do are few and far between).
As this is a post about self-hosting, I won’t start preaching (trust me, it’s hard for me not to) how you should consider switching from WhatsApp to Signal, Google Maps to OpenStreetMap, or how you should quit Instagram and Facebook. You’re creating a lot of data there, and they don’t do pretty things with it. Fuck, I’m already preaching. Sorry about that.
https://www.markozivanovic.com/screw-it-ill-host-it-myself/
#mydata #selfhosting #thinkabout
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv
TechCrunch
That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month
How much of your digital life would you lose if you lost a single password? Without it, you are locked out and the cold reality of using free cloud services like Google is that you don’t have a human arbiter to help you. If you think back to earlier times…