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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 107 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

What's really scary about this is that someone apparently has a list of black people

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now wait until you hear what happened with 23andMe.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/23andme-user-data-targeting-ashkenazi-jews-leaked-online-rcna119324

And I'm both amazed and quite worried that nothing has come of it yet.

[–] dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yet. Give them time, they'll need to figure out where it can be best integrated into Project 2025.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

That's why I'm worried.

[–] Dravin@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Given the state of data harvesting I imagine purchasing a list of phone numbers associated with a given demographic is trivial.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Google has that list, and it's for sale. Regardless if you tell them, they know.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Google doesn't sell their private data collection. They use it to target ads so it's the most valuable thing they have (or as they would call it their "unfair advantage"), so selling it directly is out of question. There are multiple data brokers that also have very comprehensive lists that will happily sell it to anyone.

[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

They sell the targeting, from there it's simple for the advertisers to compile the list with the tracking cookies left behind.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You're gonna lose your mind when you hear about the census office. This last census also mandated you disclose your sexual preferences and gender identity. They have a list of black and brown people, LGBTQ+ people, and trans people. 😬

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

They absolutely did not mandate that.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

You could get a highschool kid to build this with available data.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Not that hard to buy people's data these days.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing to hide nothing to fear. Till suddenly u got so thing to hide. I hate to say it but i fucking told you so.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

No kidding. When I heard about this I asked how the fuck do they even know it's a black person.