The Mozilla Foundation is calling upon 30 technology companies, social networks, and websites to block web scraping by an ICE surveillance contractor called ShadowDragon after 404 Media published a list of sites that the contractor pulls data from.
…ShadowDragon sells a tool called SocialNet that streamlines the process of pulling public data from various sites, apps, and services. Marketing material available online says SocialNet can “follow the breadcrumbs of your target’s digital life and find hidden correlations in your research.” In one promotional video, ShadowDragon says users can enter “an email, an alias, a name, a phone number, a variety of different things, and immediately have information on your target. We can see interests, we can see who friends are, pictures, videos.”
Reminds me of Cambridge Analytica
Serious question: how do they avoid siphoning up data from states or countries with data protection regulations?
Easy: you don’t.
Nobody has the balls to chase these ghouls down for illegally accessing information, most especially because our government is the ones enabling them to do this.
ShadowDragon?!? Why not IncelMaxx?
Sounds one of Elon Musk’s gaming handles.
All they do is combine data from bunch of different data brokers, including a few that sell hacked data. They are likely breaking multiple laws. Someone could put the same thing together that targets law enforcement and politicians. I’m sure it already exists.
deleted by creator
