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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

My prev submission showed the spooks piggybacking hackers. A previous disclosure from the Snowden stash ran by The Intercept shows how much care the spooks take care about your (tax) money - they piggyback ad-trackers as well, in a programme codenamed BADASS:

British and Canadian spy agencies accumulated sensitive data on smartphone users, including location, app preferences, and unique device identifiers, by piggybacking on ubiquitous software from advertising and analytics companies, according to a document obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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For users, however, the smartphone data routinely provided to ad and analytics companies represents a major privacy threat. When combined together, the information fragments can be used to identify specific users, and when concentrated in the hands of a small number of companies, they have proven to be irresistibly convenient targets for those engaged in mass surveillance. Although the BADASS presentation appears to be roughly four years old, at least one player in the mobile advertising and analytics space, Google, acknowledges that its servers still routinely receive unencrypted uploads from Google code embedded in apps.

Maybe SPDY had a better idea than HTTP/2 [soylentnews.org]?

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