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U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data (www.reuters.com)
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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So big tech sold there services to USA to target Iran, then turned around and sold Iran target data for USA troops.

That is so Google.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If true, that's also treason.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

They will claim they have no control over third party data brokers that strip anonymity as part of the Real-Time Bidding for ads. Even though they do own the data brokers also.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Corporate treason has been not only legal, but encouraged for hundreds of years. This is not new, nor will it be addressed.

[–] Pistachio@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Section 230 baby!