Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice…
ICE knocks on ad tech’s data door to see what it knows about you
: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agentsThomas Claburn (The Register)
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Carmen Zedler
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •"i have nothing to hide" they said.
Now they can pay the price to not listening to us.
noplasticshower
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •Sage 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇻🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇺 🍉
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •Petr Skála
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •einfach nur menschlich
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •They can ask the usual supporters for a data donation.
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Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks
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in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •I dont understand why Meta users don't understand how all the data collected about them to "help" the algorithm can also be used by the state to terrorize and blackmail them.
#meta #socialmedia #privacy
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in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •Retro Tech Shop
in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •Delete request and opt-out platform (DROP) - privacy.ca.gov
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in reply to Allen but one of the good ones • • •not directed at you but more generally...
clearly, being right isn't enough.
i would take this as cause for critical self-reflection on why privacy nerds, self-hosters, free software communities, etc. couldn't mobilise society sufficiently to resist this outcome
what can be done differently and how to proceed now?
a bunch of ex-cryptoparty participants proclaiming "i told you so" is not a constructive way forward