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Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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ShadowDragon tracks BabyCenter, a website for people expecting children, as well as social media sites specifically for Black people, bodybuilders, and the fetish community.

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[โ€“] mx_smith 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone know the specifics of this app? Is it calling public APIs on these sites, or do they pay for special access, or is it just scraping. I feel like most of us aware of the data collection prob put very little public data out there. RIP babycenter.com they might lose a bit of traffic from this article.

[โ€“] MaxVoltage 0 points 1 year ago

they are grifting the feds bro its fine