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Daily Dashboard | NSA Uses Ad-Tracking Tech To Locate Targets Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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The Washington Post reports on leaked U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) slides that reveal the agency is “piggybacking” on tools used by Internet advertisers to locate potential targets for government hacking and surveillance. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ use cookies to identify individuals. Specifically, they have used Google’s PREF cookies, which generally do not contain personal information but do include users’ e-mail addresses and numeric codes to identify their browsers, the report states. Additionally, the documents reveal that the NSA is using commercially collected data to help it locate mobile devices around the world. UC Berkeley Law Prof. Chris Hoofnagle said, “On a macro level, ‘we need to track everyone everywhere for advertising’ translates into ‘the government being able to track everyone everywhere’ … It’s hard to avoid.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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