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1. Wolfie Christl (wchr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 08:01:13 JST Wolfie Christl

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   The commercial data industry is complicit. Google, the IAB, adtech firms, data brokers, publishers and advertisers are complicit.

   Whenever someone visits a website or uses a mobile app that displays digital ads, profile data is broadcasted to dozens or hundreds of companies and other entities in uncontrolled ways.

   This occurs billions and billions of times a day. Billions of people are affected globally, hundreds of millions in Europe.

   (see our report: https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf)

2. Wolfie Christl (wchr@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 05:23:45 JST Wolfie Christl

   As part of a new report on digital advertising as a security threat published today by @johnnyryan and me (https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf), and previously unreported:

   We reveal 'Patternz', a global mass surveillance system that harvests digital advertising data on behalf of 'national security agencies'.

   Patternz is operated by a company based in Israel and/or Singapore. It claims to collect data about 5 billion users from 87 ad exchanges and SSPs via 6 data centers around the world.

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