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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Surveillance

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  1. Facebook Shadow Profiles

    Aguiar, Peukert, Schaefer, and Ullrich (CESifo, 2022) quantify Facebook's cross-web tracking via its engagement buttons, finding that 52% of websites visited by US users employ Facebook's tracking technology. Facebook builds shadow profiles even for non-users — the scope of cross-platform surveillance is much larger than most users assume.

  2. How the NSA Analyzes Call Metadata

    GigaOm's technical explanation of how the NSA processes bulk call metadata — published in June 2013 immediately after the Snowden revelations. The article explains the graph analysis techniques that make even metadata (not call content) a powerful surveillance tool.

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