Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
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How would they know how many Internet users they have no information on?
They make a list of all internet users and then circle the ones they donāt have info on.
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I would love to read my own folder. I wonder if I have a unique folder for each of my online personas, or if they've managed to consolidate all into one.
if theyāve managed to consolidate all into one.
This.
We may feel safer with multiple aliases, email addresses, using different browsers, etc. but it's not hard for them to combine data and know exactly what profile belongs to whom.
Not that we shouldn't try, but it's far more difficult for the average user to evade data collection than someone who is online for a very specific purpose (and is covering their tracks with every interaction).
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hang them by the toes! no mercy for surveillance capitalists!
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I'm waiting for news in couple of days where the same guy finds out that internet knows quite a lot about him too...
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I'm waiting for news in couple of days where the same guy finds out that internet knows quite a lot about him too...
OPT OUT. OPT OUT! lol
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Anyone know the path to hitting them with CCPA info/take down requests?
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if theyāve managed to consolidate all into one.
This.
We may feel safer with multiple aliases, email addresses, using different browsers, etc. but it's not hard for them to combine data and know exactly what profile belongs to whom.
Not that we shouldn't try, but it's far more difficult for the average user to evade data collection than someone who is online for a very specific purpose (and is covering their tracks with every interaction).
https://adnauseam.io/ help flood the data collection with bad data
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hang them by the toes! no mercy for surveillance capitalists!
no mercy for
surveillancecapitalists!There, all fixed now.
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https://adnauseam.io/ help flood the data collection with bad data
Fascinating, thanks. This is like the ad-focused counterpart to that one AI image generation-harming tool, Nightshade.
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Then somebody goes and Mario Bro's this motherfucker and droves of people come out going "oh but he didn't deserve it!!!" š¤¬
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https://adnauseam.io/ help flood the data collection with bad data
This is awesome. How have I never heard of this
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This is awesome. How have I never heard of this
Welcome Mr 10,000
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https://adnauseam.io/ help flood the data collection with bad data
Happy to see this. I had a similar idea once. About every 6 months I spend a day searching a few search engines for my name. My name is fairly unique. At least one person shares my first and last name. I have seen them appear in results, listed with criminal charges that were mine. The ones that show up, I look for 'remove my data and do not sell my information' instructions. If they are not there, I look for a contact page and e-mail them. in the email i include:
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links with my data i want removed
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links with my data misrepresenting other people, also with a request to remove
companies that blatently disregard me or remove my data but return it later, by accident or not, after some time has passed, will also get requests to remove:
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arbitrary links to random people which have nothing to do with me but might be confused thanks to enough similarities.
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many of the same requests, from several different e-mails, basically spamming them.
the idea, which is probably pointless, is to taint the data on the sites that don't comply. i also assume the companies that return my info later, are tagging all removal requests together, because why would i want to remove the data of a completely unrelated stranger? i'm wishfully thinking they end up with bad data that damages their reputation. i call it 'fauxkakke' aka 'fake bukakke.
the template:
I understand this information is gathered from public sources and can still be found through other data brokers. I still wish for the linked profiles to be removed from your site.
{links}
If you claim that I have to pay a fee to remove my personal information from your website, I will file complaints at the following sites:
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/
https://www.bbb.org/consumer-complaints/file-a-complaint/get-started
http://www.reddit.com/
This is not meant to be threatening. I have no ill feelings towards your company. I also am sending e-mails to other data brokers. I am merely exercising my right to privacy. -
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How would they know how many Internet users they have no information on?
How would they know any of it is accurate?
Doesn't matter. Advertisement has never been about truth.
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How would they know any of it is accurate?
Doesn't matter. Advertisement has never been about truth.
Actually, this raises more questions. If ZoomInfo is anything to go by, Iām about 5 different people, none of which accurately map to the real me.
And thatās just me; thereās millions of bots and dogs on the Internet.
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And most of it is wrong.
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Anyone know the path to hitting them with CCPA info/take down requests?
Generally you can google the site name and then āremoval requestā and their portal will be visible.
Some more useful info:
California maintains a list of data brokers, available HereAlso, paid services will scan these lists and initiate takedown requests on your behalf automatically. Iāve found optery to be good but there are other services as well
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https://adnauseam.io/ help flood the data collection with bad data
sadly I didn't manage to actually get it working on my setups
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Actually, this raises more questions. If ZoomInfo is anything to go by, Iām about 5 different people, none of which accurately map to the real me.
And thatās just me; thereās millions of bots and dogs on the Internet.
I think the scariest thing going forward isn't some alphabet agency finding your anti-social messages. It's some shitbox algorithm having a false positive and deicing you're a threat to the regime.
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https://adnauseam.io/ help flood the data collection with bad data
Says it's FOSS. No source link on site. No source link on add-on page. I am skeptical.
