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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

Raphael Satter@raphae.li

Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield. www.reuters.com/business/med...

reuters.comExclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location dataIt's an illustration of how the global surveillance ‌economy is shaping the battlefield.
TitaniumTeddyBear
@titaniumteddybear.bsky.social

It might as well have been copied out of "Catch-22". They saw an opportunity to make a profit by selling the location of their own troops to their enemies. So of course they did it. Ethics has no place within capitalism. Only profit matters. 🫠