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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data::Violating Americans’ privacy "not just unethical but illegal," senator says.

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[–] piecat 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

I bet, if they haven't already, some of the info stored by sites is how we interact with it. And I bet with AI you can pretty much fingerprint someone based on habits.

So even your alt accounts will know it's you.

Edit: why do you think Reddit made the big push for their own app? Engagement, time spent looking at a post, how fast you scroll past something, all useful metrics for ad revenue. And we know that ad companies like tracking us.

Any spooky shit comes after the systems are developed for ads.

[–] cashews_best_nut 5 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I don't think AI is necessary. Reddit was able to find all my alt accounts pretty easily years back. Now I'm banned I can't even sign up without the new account being banned in a few days for trying to circumvent it.

[–] Trollception 2 points 11 months ago

That's pretty impressive

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