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How advertisers became the NSA’s best friend
This week, new documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden arrived with some troubling revelations: the NSA has been piggybacking on Google’s network, using the company’s “preferences” cookie to follow users from site to site, proving their identity before targeting them with malware. It means the agency has tapped into one of the most popular features on the web and the core of Google’s multibillion-dollar ad-targeting empire. Instead of just targeting ads and saving preferences, the infrastructure is being used to find people the NSA is interested in and silently infect their devices with malware.
Date posted: 2013/12/13 03:12:19
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Date liked: 2013/12/16 18:12:55
142 Tumblr notes
Liked from: Notational
Notational reblogged from: theverge
Original link: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5204196/how-advertisers-became-the-nsa-best-friend
Tagged:
data visualization 189
infographic 92
network visualization 9
bubble chart 2
website popularity 1
web usage 1
web traffic 1
internet domains 1
digital ecosystem 1
data clusters 1
