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Although Facebook has denied that our phones listen to us, they do have other ways of finding out what we are talking about, listening to and searching for.

Byron Tau's Means of Control documents how the private sector helps government agencies keep tabs on American citizens.

On January 9, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its first ever prohibition on the use, sale and disclosure of sensitive location data against X- Mode Social and Outlogic ("X-Mode"), a location data broker.

Federal law bars medical providers from sharing health data without a patient’s consent but doesn’t prevent digital tech companies from tracking menstrual cycles or an individual’s location and selling it to data brokers. Whether that should change has become another political fault line in a nation where most Republican-controlled states have restricted abortion — including 14 with bans in place at every stage of pregnancy — and most Democratic ones have soug...

Senator Ron Wyden warned that the data could be used to "put women in jail"

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden asked the feds to look into Near data after the Wall Street Journal said it sold location data related to abortion clinics.

Sen. Ron Wyden revealed that a conservative group targeted visitors of 600 Planned Parenthood clinics with social media ads peddling abortion misinformation.

In its May 2023 complaint, the FTC alleged that data broker Outlogic (formerly known as X-Mode Social) (hereafter Outlogic) had engaged in activities that violated Section 5(a) of the...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is calling on federal regulators to scrutinize a location data broker amid its bankruptcy proceedings, saying he’s concerned about its ownership of data showing people visiting sensitive places such as reproductive health clinics. Wyden addressed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a letter on Tuesday…

The bill’s sponsor also said it could keep anti-hunting groups – like those that oppose wolf hunting – from intervening in hunts.