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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 sought to protect access since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade. Abortion rights a...

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