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humanpropensity The NYT article is all ad tech data, as is the reports on tracking of abortion centers, linked in the second source list. The government absolutely regularly requests data from Google which wouldn't exist without ads as an incentive. And data brokers absolutely sell to gov'ts...
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humanpropensity I have two whole sections of sources on this exact topic: context.center/topics/law-enforcement-and-data/#data-brokers context.center/topics/law-enforcement-and-data/#how-law-enforcement-acquires-your-data
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humanpropensity I think we're actually sort of agreeing here - the problem is data brokers mostly do not have data that is really useful for marketers on a per row basis (which is how it is used in the ads space) but that data in aggregate is very useful for others looking to deanonymize people.