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New York Times: One nation, tracked flat
Autor: membran
Datum:03.01.20 10:52
Antwort auf:Die M! Tageszeitung - Journalismus VIII von Kilian

Man weiß es ja, aber es so vor die Augen geführt zu bekommen ist dennoch krass.

[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html]

"Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such file, by far the largest and most sensitive ever to be reviewed by journalists. It holds more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans as they moved through several major cities, including Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

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"With the help of publicly available information, like home addresses, we easily identified and then tracked scores of notables. We followed military officials with security clearances as they drove home at night. We tracked law enforcement officers as they took their kids to school. We watched high-powered lawyers (and their guests) as they traveled from private jets to vacation properties."

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The inauguration weekend yielded a trove of personal stories and experiences: elite attendees at presidential ceremonies, religious observers at church services, supporters assembling across the National Mall — all surveilled and recorded permanently in rigorous detail.

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Examining just a photo from the event, you might be hard-pressed to tie a face to a name. But in our data, pings at the protest connected to clear trails through the data, documenting the lives of protesters in the months before and after the protest, including where they lived and worked.

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Hundreds of protesters, some in black hoods and masks, gathered north of the National Mall that Friday, eventually setting fire to a limousine near Franklin Square. The data documented those rioters, too. Filtering the data to that precise time and location led us to the doorsteps of some who were there. Police were present as well, many with faces obscured by riot gear. The data led us to the homes of at least two police officers who had been at the scene.

As revealing as our searches of Washington were, we were relying on just one slice of data, sourced from one company, focused on one city, covering less than one year. Location data companies collect orders of magnitude more information every day than the totality of what Times Opinion received.
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Und nicht vergessen, dass das noch mit mit 3rd Party Tracking Cookies im Browser, Social Media Präsenz und v.a. Gesichtserkennung in Video und Foto kombiniert wird. Gerade zu Letzterem hatte ich letztens ein entsprechendes Video im Youtube-Feed, wo sie zeigen, wie man auf Suchmaschinen mit Gesichterkennungsfeature (z.B. beim russischen Facebook-Klon "VK") auf dem Profil von Leuten landet, von denen sie nur ein verschwommenes, 200x100 Pixel großes Bild des Gesichts haben, was sie von einem Screengrab eines Youtube-Videos ausgeschnitten hatten, in dem die Person im Hintergrund steht.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0dqW2HCRc]


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