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Cloudflare teams up with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to tackle bot traffic without CAPTCHAs

The basic idea is that sites with strong knowledge of "personhood" can issue anonymous tokens. A user's browser can then present those tokens elsewhere as proof that a human is involved, or that an automated agent is acting on behalf of one, without revealing the person's identity or browsing history.

These issuers will 100% sell these identifiers to be matched up with other databases.

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Are all Virtual Card providers careless with privacy?

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I use privacy.com for some things where I'd rather not share my data with the vendor. I like them, their privacy policy doesn't have anything too weird. I'm also under no allusion that it's subpoena-proof though, but that's not really what I'm looking for for banking anyway.

EDIT: OP appears to be concerned with how they handle the PII they collect. As far as I know, I've never been impacted but tbh how would I know if they didn't tell me? If anyone has heard otherwise, I'd like to know.

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Thanks for including the mirror, OP.

Companies that obtain mobile phone location data generally do it in two different ways. The first is through software development kits (SDKs) embedded in ordinary smartphone apps, like games or weather forecasters. These SDKs continuously gather a user’s granular location, transfer that to the data broker, and then sell that data onward or repackage it and sell access to government agencies.

The second is through real-time bidding (RTB). When an advert is about to be served to a mobile phone user, there is a near instantaneous, and invisible, bidding process in which different companies vie to have their advert placed in front of certain demographics. A side-effect is that this demographic data, including mobile phones’ location, can be harvested by surveillance firms. Sometimes spy companies buy ad tech companies out right to insert themselves into this data supply chain. We previously found at least thousands of apps were hijacked to provide location data in this way.

I really despise these practices. I don't know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.