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Files: Neuer Datensatz enthllt 40.000 Apps hinter

Files: Neuer Datensatz enthllt 40.000 Apps hinter Standort-

380 Millionen Standortdaten aus 137 Lndern: Ein bislang unbekannter Datensatz zeigt so umfangreich wie nie zuvor Gefahren des globalen Datenhandels. 40.000 Apps sind betroffen, darunter queere Dating-Apps. Mit alarmierender Genauigkeit geortet wurden Nutzer*innen von , Online und .

Dank an , spendet an sie, denn die sind sehr gut.

Alright, so the we know from , are now used to trick us into ...

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Rocket science

faces ban on selling driver data that can be used to raise rates

Texas has sued insurance provider Allstate, alleging that the firm and its data broker subsidiary used data from apps like GasBuddy, Routely, and Life360 to quietly track drivers and adjust or cancel their policies

For people who travel frequently, does anyone know have a good AirTag alternative for Android I'm currently eyeing the moto tag, but I'm a bit overwhelmed at the options for trackers among Moto, Tile, Chipolo and the other alternatives. Any recommendations

For context, this would be for use in European countries, to be attached primarily to checked luggage.

Facebook ad privacy: Practical instructions for protecting yourself from Meta surveillance
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Bruker selskapet ditt Instagram og Facebook for skape engasjement med konkurranser og gaver

Vel, da burde dere st ansvarlig for at Meta ikke selger bort person data.

Vi kan ikke forvente at amerikanske eiere skal ta ansvar lenger - vi m ansvarliggjre dem som benytter seg av sporingen og eknologien.

Mad at Meta Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Meta in 2018 admitted to collecting information about non-users, including their contact details and browsing history.

Although Metas surveillance systems are pervasive, there are ways to limit how Meta collects and uses your personal data.

Google's pixels aren't any better either. I always try to convince my clients to avoid using .

Tracking

I am far less concerned, as a practical matter, over whether or not my ISP is on my data or whether or not I need to use a , than whether or not OS and hardware manufacturers and browser software are providing unique device identifiers to websites and applications that can be used to track me even if I completely wipe the device, change location and IP address, delete my accounts, and start over.

Schnauze voll! das sagen Betroffene

Millionen von Menschen in Deutschland funken ihre Standortdaten an Databroker, ohne davon zu wissen. Unsere fortlaufenden Recherchen mit dem Bayerischen Rundfunk und weiteren Recherche-Partnern zeigen: Die Werbe-Industrie macht unsere Handys zu Peilsendern. Und wer will, kann sich diese Daten einfach besorgen.

Als Vorschau fr ein Abonnement erhielten wir zunchst 3,6 Milliarden Standortdaten von Handys aus Deutschland. Sie offenbarten genaue Bewegungsprofile aus nahezu jedem Winkel des Landes. Spter erhielten wir weitere Datenstze mit noch mehr Standortdaten.

Manche Betroffene konnten wir selbst identifizieren, weil uns die Daten zu ihren Privatadressen fhrten. Andere erfuhren durch unseren Databroker Checker, dass ihre Werbe-ID in unserem Datensatz auftaucht, und meldeten sich per E-Mail...

Banned From Selling Your Driving Data For Five Years - Slashdot

Can Be Banned, US Rules

Without doubt, the remedy and the President chose here is dramatic, Justice Neil wrote in a concurring opinion. Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know.

Mad at Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

Neu in meinem :

Die Datenhndler wissen, wo Du Dich regelmig aufhltst, kennen Deine tglichen Routinen und Interessen. Wie knnen wir unsere Daten vor diesem Missbrauch schtzen und unsere Privatsphre wahren

heise+ Bluetooth-Tracker Moto Tag mit UWB im Test

Der Motorola Moto Tag ist eine Android-Alternative zu Apples Ortungschip Airtag. Er untersttzt auch Ultra Wideband (UWB), wird jedoch durch Google ausgebremst.

Doing everything I can to avoid tracking (continuous & up hill battle that).

One important tip for folks in general (you may already be doing this)...

Don't use apps when the web will suffice!

Apps allow much more thorough penetration of your phone data, location, camera, etc.

(This assumes well-made websites with https: turned 'on' of course!)

The corollary tip is to find out how to delete all the cookie/web-related data on your phone and do it frequently. I usually do this more than once a day. You could make it a "first thing in the morning" thing like brushing your teeth. Actually there's a lot of similarity between purging tracking data and dental hygiene!

After all the lies (lookin' at you /#Meta!) I do not trust ANY declaration of "your data is safe with us". It ain't!

I have a "Distrust & Verify" stance for the sites/apps I actually use.

It's the world we live in...

Neuer Datensatz enthllt 40.000 Apps hinter Standort-Tracking

380 Millionen Standortdaten aus 137 Lndern: Ein bislang unbekannter Datensatz zeigt so umfangreich wie nie zuvor Gefahren des globalen Datenhandels. 40.000 Apps sind betroffen, darunter queere Dating-Apps. Mit alarmierender Genauigkeit geortet wurden Nutzer*innen von Wetter Online, Focus Online und Kleinanzeigen..

Zusammengefassste Infos,
mit denen sich Handy-Nutzer*innen schtzen knnen vor Databrokern (Sammlung von Trackingdaten, zB Standort Metadaten, usw):

"Millionen Handy-Nutzer*innen weltweit stehen zum Verkauf. Databroker sammeln sie in Multi-Milliarden-Paketen.

"Nicht nur Standortdaten kursieren.
Viele weitere Daten knnen erfasst werden.
Etwa, welches Handy man nutzt, welchen Netzbetreiber und welche Apps oder welche Websites man besucht hat. Auf dieser Grundlage wird man auch in Schubladen gesteckt, die einen beispielsweise als angebliche fragile Senior*in outen sollen oder als Shopping-versessene Mama.

Dennoch bin ich absolut dankbar, dass dieses Thema nun endlich mehr ffentlichkeit bekommt. Wir geben z.B. Elternabende zu Medienkompetenz, aber die Sensibilisierung fr dieses Thema ist gering. Und wo soll sie auch herkommen Gerade die Databroker arbeiten weitgehend im Verborgenen, die kennt ja keiner.
Ich halte die Elternabende absolut fr sinnvoll, und die TN sind durchaus geschockt und schtteln mit dem Kopf. Aber ob daraus auch eine Verhaltensnderung folgt, sehe ich leider nicht... da kann ich nur hoffen.

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Time tracker makes remote workers' screens public: what we know so far

While the tracker platform claims that it encrypts data, more than 13 million screenshots containing sensitive information are public, putting users and clients at risk of attack.


kann und sollte man zumindest nur fr die erlaubt haben, wo es Sinn macht. Und dann idealerweise nur "bei Verwendung" und nicht "immer". Aber dann muss man sich halt auch konsequent angewhnen, dass man Apps, die man grade nicht mehr nutzt auch mal zu schliessen/zu beenden!
Ansonsten habe ich mglichst viel im Keim erstickt und erscheine danke ich in keinem Mobilfunknetz aktiv unterwegs zu sein, sondern immer irgendwo in Helsinki zu sein (das erkennt man auch wunderbar daran, dass z.B. Google einem bevorzugt finnische Dinge prsentiert )

WTF! Boar, das ist echt krass. Geschieht solchen Rasen aber schon ein bisschen Recht, oder! Quasi eine volldigitalisierte und automatische Bestrafung

Levelling up a few areas, really feeling the push and pull up difficulty. Aiming for two sets of 8 pull ups but Im only at 8 and 5.

A 30 minute run with Fitness+ definitely added to the challenge

Wofr sollte eine Versicherung meinen Standort wissen wollen

Well, now even a major intelligence agency recommends disabling sharing::
warns that mobile devices store and share device geolocation data by designLocation data can be extremely valuable and must be protected. It can reveal details about the number of users in a location, user and supply movements, daily routines (user and organizational).

und Umstndlichkeit.

"Data privacy advocates have long warned of the risks that data brokers pose to individuals privacy and national security. Researchers with access to the sample of Gravy Analytics location data posted by the hacker say that the information can be used to extensively track peoples recent whereabouts."

Have All State for your auto insurance This is a fun read.

Databroker Files: New data set reveals 40,000 apps behind location tracking

Dieser Artikel stammt von Netzpolitik.org.

This is the English summary of a longer . The publication is part of the series.

A new data set obtained from a US data broker reveals for the first time about 40,000 apps from which users data is being traded. The data set was obtained by a journalist from netzpolitik.org as a free preview sample for a paid subscription. It is dated to a single day in the summer of 2024.

Among other things, the data set contains 47 million Mobile Advertising IDs, to which 380 million location data from 137 countries are assigned. In addition, the data set contains information on devices, operating systems and telecommunication providers.

Ths investigation is part of an international cooperation by the following media: , , , , , , and WIRED (USA).

Overview of our findings

Where did the data set come from

The research team obtained the data set from US data broker Datastream Group, which now uses the name Datasys. The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Contact with the data broker was established through Berlin-based data marketplace Datarade. The company states in response to inquiries that it does not host any data itself. According to a spokesperson Data providers use Datarade to publish profiles and listings, enabling users to contact them directly. Datarade requires data providers to obtain valid consent in case theyre processing personal data and to aggregate or anonymize data in case theyre processing sensitive personal data.

Where does the data originate

According to our analysis, the data originates from Real Time Bidding (RTB), which is a process in the online advertising ecosystem. These are auctions in which advertising inventory of apps and websites is sold. In the process, apps and websites send data about their users to hundreds or thousands of companies. These data contains the information that we can see in our dataset. There have already been multiple warnings that advertising companies are collecting the data from RTB in order to sell it often without the knowledge or explicit consent of the users or their apps.

What the apps say

None of the apps we confronted so far states they had business relations with Datastream Group / Datasys. The apps Hornet and Vinted for example wrote, that they cannot explain how their users data ended up with data brokers. Queer dating app Hornet emphasizes that it does not share actual location data with third parties and announces an investigation. Other companies such as Kik, Wetter Online, Kleinanzeigen, Flightradar, Grindr and King, the company behind the game Candy Crush, did not respond to press inquiries.

Reactions

Experts from politics, government agencies and civil society expressed concern about the findings.

Michael Will, the Bavarian data protection commissioner, said there would be consequences. In an interview, he describes the findings of the investigation as disillusioning and alarming. The data protection official views the situation as a blatant breach of trust. This is contrary to everything that the average users of apps would expect to be able to track where they have been for months afterwards. The data broker should not have had this data. This is beyond the agreed rules of the game.

Will also expresses criticism on Real Time Bidding: anyone who uses it to display advertising must ask themselves whether their own contractual partners are really abiding by the contract. As a result of the investigation, the data protection authority wants to take action itself. We have investigative powers. We will now make intensive use of them on the basis of the information you have provided, says Will and points out that his authority can also impose sanctions. We have the option of imposing quite considerable fines.

In view of the latest findings, the German Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection (BMUV) writes: The collection of the data alone must be prevented. We need effective EU-wide protection against personalized advertising to prevent app providers from having incentives to collect more data than is necessary to offer an app. The ministry continues to advocate a consistent switch to alternative advertising models.

In addition, the Ministry for Consumer Protection is calling for technical standards to prevent devices from collecting identifying data in the first place. The manufacturers of operating systems and end devices also have a role to play here. Finally, the supervisory authorities would need to take consistent action.

Michaela Schrder from the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) comments: The current findings show and confirm once again that the global online advertising market has escaped any control. Unscrupulous data traders collect and disseminate highly sensitive information about people, while websites and apps make these illegal practices possible in the first place and the supervisory authorities seem to be completely overwhelmed.

Consumers are left defenceless against the massive risks posed by data trading, says Schrder. The vzbv is therefore calling for action at the European level. It is long overdue for the European Commission to effectively protect consumers and present a proposal to ban personalized advertising for example, through the announced Digital Fairness Act, Schrder said.

Difference to Gravy Analytics leak

The results of our investigation confirm and expand on the insights that experts gained in early January from data obtained by hackers from US data broker . The Gravy Analytics leak also mentions thousands of apps this data also apparently comes from Real Time Bidding. Among them are numerous apps that are also represented in our dataset from the Datastream Group: Candy Crush, Grindr, Kik, Wetter Online, Focus Online, FlightRadar24, Kleinanzeigen and many more.

However, the list of apps in our data set is much longer. For the first time, we can also differentiate between the apps for which only very rough location data is available and those for which users can be located exactly. It is this the precise location data that puts users at particular risk, as it allows to draw conclusions about their home address and movement patterns.


Author: Ingo Dachwitz

#behind #databroker #files #location #reveals #tracking

Ich hoffe mal, dass meine Strategie mit und zuhause plus mein eigenes mit (mit o.g. pihole) fr unterwegs ausreichen, um nun auch noch dieses Standort bestmglich zu verhindern

In the end most countries not only follow the model, but do so unwittingly.

I'm not saying Americans aren't entertaining or inspiring, but , coupled with the , their that feeds these silly money to fail upwards is becoming somewhat trite - and dangerous.

I'm against of my people in , mostly because no country should have centralized access to all the world's data.

That is insane.

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auch im nutzen. Dem gibt man keinen Zugriff auf etc. , setzt entsprechende , arbeitet im privaten Modus, lscht bei jedem Schlieen und und nutzt u.a.

The DuckDuckGo Android browser has a handy tool for seeing what sorts of tracking activity is happening behind the scenes with apps on your device and, if you wish, for blocking any or all of that activity.


Dann empfehle ich mal jedem bei Maxmind auf GeoIP / Global Opt-Out zu klicken:

Sure, I am happy to allow 864 companies that I don't know (yet...) to process my data. What could possibly go wrong

"... Noch Monate spter nachvollziehen zu knnen, wo sie sich aufgehalten haben, ist kontrr zu allem, was Nutzerinnen und Nutzer von Apps erwarten wrden. ..."

...und ich dachte immer, genau dafr entwickeln (viele) Unternehmen ihre Apps.

"... Apps mit Sitz in Bayern ..."

! Apps haben einen Sitz Also einen Appsitz


Last updated: 2025-01-19






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