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The Trump campaign app is tapping a "gold mine" of data about Americans - 10 août 2020
President Trump’s campaign app is targeted to his most fervent supporters, but it is able to collect data about a swath of the American public far larger than his base.
The app requests access to significantly more information from each user’s phone than Joe Biden’s, and is on as many as 1.4 million devices, (...)
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Contact Tracing in the Real World - 14 avril 2020
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google. To both cryptographers and privacy advocates, this might seem the obvious way to protect public health and privacy at the same time. Meanwhile other cryptographers have been pointing out some of the flaws. (...)
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Trump 2020 Location-Tracking Firm Cashing In on Coronavirus - 11 avril 2020
A smartphone tracking firm helping Donald Trump clinch his 2020 presidential reelection recently told investors it’s identified a promising new profit opportunity : the global coronavirus pandemic.
Phunware is part of a vast galaxy of obscure advertising technology companies that help clients follow and target (...)
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Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. - 8 mars 2020
"I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene of the crime," the man said.
The email arrived on a Tuesday afternoon in January, startling Zachary McCoy as he prepared to leave for his job at a restaurant in Gainesville, Florida.
It was from Google’s legal (...)
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Political Campaigns Know Where You’ve Been. They’re Tracking Your Phone. – [your]NEWS - 6 février 2020
Voter targeting has grown more invasive with location data that apps can transmit from cellphones
When Donald Trump took the stage last month in Fayetteville, N.C., to support Republican candidate Dan Bishop in a special election, thousands of people showed up.
Mr. Bishop was seeking their support. An outside (...)
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Présidentielle américaine : les candidats vous traquent jusque sur votre smartphone - 6 février 2020
Le ciblage des électeurs est devenu plus intrusif avec les données de localisation que les applications peuvent transmettre à partir des téléphones cellulaires
Lorsque Donald Trump est monté sur scène le mois dernier à Fayetteville, en Caroline du Nord, pour soutenir Dan Bishop, le candidat républicain à une élection (...)
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Have a Search Warrant for Data ? Google Wants You to Pay - 3 février 2020
The tech giant has begun charging U.S. law enforcement for responses to search warrants and subpoenas.
Facing an increasing number of requests for its users’ information, Google began charging law enforcement and other government agencies this month for legal demands seeking data such as emails, location tracking (...)
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Donald Trump’s Campaign Is Reportedly Deploying Phone Location-Tracking Technology - 19 décembre 2019
A recent report from The Intercept reveals that President Donald Trump‘s campaign is deploying the services of Phunware, a Texas-based firm that specializes in collecting smartphone location data, which can be used to track and target voters for political purposes.
The Phunware website claims that it can obtain (...)
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Catholics in Iowa went to church. Steve Bannon tracked their phones. - 18 décembre 2019
Campaigns have been using cell-phone location data for years. Did Bannon take it too far ?
Steve Bannon and the conservative group CatholicVote used cell-phone location data for people who had been inside Roman Catholic churches in Dubuque, Iowa, in 2018 to target them with get-out-the-vote ads, ThinkProgress has (...)
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The Trump Campaign Is Deploying Phone Location-Tracking Technology - 11 décembre 2019
President Donald Trump’s reelection effort has retained the services of a technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data, which can be used to track voters for political targeting purposes.
Phunware, an Austin, Texas-based firm, announced the connection in a little-noticed (...)
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How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide - 3 mars 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been banned.
The program, involving a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from the Uber app and other (...)
