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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by azinman2 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:37AM (#23560710)
The business model of watching people's web browsing history and selling them adds? You mean like Jumpshot (through antivirus Avast -- Czech), Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest through their pixels (US), every ad tracking network (US/China/Europe generally), and Google through its search engine history & ad platform (US)?

It feels very unfair to malign Israel here when the majority of surveillance on the web for money is happening in other countries.

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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by raxxorrax on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:14AM (#23560918)
Israel is used for ethically questionable stuff many "allies" don't want to do in their own countries. The NSA cannot contact random developers to spy on users, they would be caught yesterday. But it probably isn't antisemitism to state that you can sell any form of security product to more conservative Isrealis.

But yes, saying Isreal does undermine privacy to a disproportionate amount is probably false.

Not only sigint, weapons tests in general are also conveniently outsourced.

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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by tal8d on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:01AM (#23560853)
It seems pretty reasonable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley
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Re:Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new secu... by peteretep on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:43AM (#23561465)
I don't have the data, but I definitely think of Israel as being a country where many of these questionable data privacy things originate. Add PIPL to the list, who are a data aggregator and who claim to be in Idaho, where all their management is actually in Israel.
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