cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41641719
Keystrokes? Screen recordings? Camera and microphone spying? Assuming an average person who’s not actively targeted by an intelligence agency.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41641719
Keystrokes? Screen recordings? Camera and microphone spying? Assuming an average person who’s not actively targeted by an intelligence agency.
There is so so so much, and they do get caught, and when they do we keep a peek into how invasive they are. As someone who has had to worry about being targeted by intelligence agencies and nation-states, I was completely blindsided by corporate/capitalist surveillance.
for example, look at this action by Meta, where they broke out of security sandboxes and exploited protocols in order to tie your browsing history (even private browsing) back to your identify saved in their databases back in meta land
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/
the amount of data that is being harvested and sold, and resold, is absurd, and the greater threat is not just that they are exploiting you, its that they dont care who the data gets sold to. Bad actors (criminals, etc) can and will purchase information they can use against you.
So, consider the unintentional ramifications of all that info being harvested and available in addition to the intentional ramifications of hyper greed, and couple that with the amount of available compute and you will see that you do not need to be a person of interest, everyone is a data point that can be and will be exploited.
I would encourage everyone to take their privacy seriously.
This is the real issue. It’s not so much the intentional sale of your info for profit, or, for the majority of people, the threat of surveillance states finding out you’re one of their enemies of the month. Most people are hit by criminals using the info to target them. For example, if they know your adult child’s information and have samples of their voice data from social media, they can make an AI bot to impersonate them and ask for money. Or, if robbers happen to be targeting a neighborhood, they can use your location information to determine when you aren’t home. These are much more complex than most of these scams, though. Most are much simpler, but using some combination of info from social media, security breach data, location data, etc. All of that data is being bought and sold now. Mostly by “legitimate” companies. Things like that are the major consequences for the majority of people.
I swear meta is just built different in terms on spying on people compared to everyone else. It’s like they have a team of ex non ethical elite hackers to find security vulnerabilities in everything and exploit everything as much as possible.
Reptillian ceo desparately trying to learn how to properly drink water