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Surveillance Report
Uncovered: The Ad Network Spying on Billions of People
Jan 30, 2024
The podcast discusses global ad spying, the mother of all data breaches, Ring stopping data sharing with police, privacy threats of smartphone ads, the requirement of creating an account to view articles, blocking ads for privacy, various data breaches and hacking incidents, flaws in security mechanisms, the NSA buying internet data, surveillance technology in San Francisco, a ransomware attack on a water services company, and other stories.
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- A global ad-based spy industry utilizes Patterns to collect and analyze vast amounts of data on smartphone users, raising concerns about privacy and data security.
- The 'mother of all breaches' exposed an unprecedented 26 billion records, emphasizing the urgent need for improved data security measures across platforms.
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Global phone spy tool patterns tracks billions of user profiles
The podcast highlights the global surveillance tool called Patterns that can track the physical location, hobbies, and family members of smartphone users. By starting with ads inside ordinary apps and utilizing real-time ad bidding, Patterns can collect and analyze vast amounts of data, analyzing more than 90 terabytes of data daily and having profiles on more than 5 billion user IDs.
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