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1. Wolfie Christl (wchr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 16:44:15 JST Wolfie Christl

   New WSJ report found that 'Near Intelligence', a consumer data broker based in India, Singapore and the US with an office in France, obtained massive amounts of smartphone geolocation data via digital advertising firms like OpenX, Smaato and AdColony and sold it to US defense and intelligence agencies.

   Near claims to have access to data about 1 billion mobile devices.
   https://wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/how-ads-on-your-phone-can-aid-government-surveillance-943bde04

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   • Wolfie Christl (wchr@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 17:00:14 JST Wolfie Christl

     in reply to

     The company's general counsel and chief privacy officer in an email to the CEO:

     The US govt "gets our illegal EU data twice per day", a "massive illegal data dump".

     "We sell geolocation data for which we do not have consent to do so … we sell/share device ID data for which we do not have consent to do so [and] we sell data outside the EU for which we do not have consent to do so"

     If this isn't reason for EU data protection authorities to take urgent action than I don't know what is.