Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 10/14/23
How data flows from apps to the feds, Top-notch AI voices are the new misinformation battlefield, Tech industry's attempt to undermine right-to-repair, The shape-shifting crypto war, more
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How Ads on Your Phone Can Aid Government Surveillance
In this Wall Street Journal piece, complete with a sophisticated, interactive graphical data stream, Byron Tau, Andrew Mollica, Patience Haggin, and Dustin Volz discuss how they identified a network of brokers and advertising exchanges whose data was flowing from apps to Defense Department and intelligence agencies through a company called Near Intelligence.
Near Intelligence, based in India with offices in the U.S. and France, was until earlier this year obtaining data from other brokers and advertising networks. It had several contracts with government contractors that were t…
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