The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location
4 hours ago
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- #privacy
- #surveillance
- Online advertising systems track user location data for targeted ads, which government agencies like CBP and ICE exploit for surveillance without warrants.
- Real-time bidding (RTB) in online advertising auctions exposes sensitive user data, including precise location, to thousands of companies daily.
- Data brokers collect and sell location data from apps and websites, often without users' or developers' knowledge, enabling government tracking.
- Users can protect themselves by disabling mobile advertising IDs and limiting location permissions for apps.
- Tech companies should stop using precise location data for ads and disable advertising IDs by default to curb surveillance.
- Lawmakers need to pass strong privacy laws to close the 'data broker loophole' and ban behavioral ad targeting to protect constitutional rights.