Everyone knows your location

This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location

It's usually very difficult to investigate the advertising industry. A new tool called DecryptAds aims to make it much easier with a massive dataset anyone can query.

Anchor - Your Personal Location Journal

The Missing Piece: How Location Data is Coming to the AT Protocol

A deep dive into community-driven geolocation schemas, emerging projects, and the future of location-aware social networking on Bluesky

I Decompiled the White House's New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

bsky.app | WhoTracks.Me

Explore the tracking landscape of bsky.app on WhoTracks.Me, revealing the most common trackers like Sentry and their impact on privacy

The Missing Piece: How Location Data is Coming to the AT Protocol - Building on atproto

A deep dive into community-driven geolocation schemas, emerging projects, and the future of location-aware social networking on Bluesky

Ad Tech Says It’s Not In The Surveillance Business. Now Is The Time To Prove It | AdExchanger

ICE wants to know how ad tech and location data could aid investigations. The question is: Will ad tech finally draw a line – or cross one?

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

Two Ways to Build Location on ATProto: Geo Markers vs. Embedded Check-ins

A technical comparison of architectural approaches for location-aware apps on Bluesky

@me - explore your atproto identity

visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server

@me - explore your atproto identity

visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server

Search warrant for Signal user data, Santa Clara County

Here we are in the second half of 2021, Signal still knows nothing about you, but the government keeps asking.

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My Logger app information.

Are AI data centers coming to your area?

This free, crowd-sourced tracker website is one of the most comprehensive attempts we’ve seen to keep tabs on where new data centers are being proposed. Maps are currently available across 18 states, with data compiled from public sources. You can read about the Data Center Proposal Tracker creator’s methodology here. [Image: Here’s a screenshot from the tracker showing sites around NYC. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-16-100907.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]