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ICE & the US Government is monitoring FA + e621
8 months ago
SOURCE
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sit.....is-monitoring/
THE LIST
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet.....it?gid=0#gid=0
NOTABLE INCLUSIONS relevant to furries
YouTube, xHamster, WhatsApp, Vimeo, Venmo, Twitter, Twitch, Tinder, Telegram, Skype, Signal, Rule34.xxx, Reddit, Pornhub, PayPal, Myspace, LiveJournal, Linktree, LinkedIn, Instagram, Imgur, GoFundMe, FurAffinity, Facebook, Etsy, e621, Danbooru, Bluesky, and Discord and 4chan.
HOW IT WORKS (speculation)
Journals, public profiles, and General-rated submissions are all publicly accessible by anyone.
Journals may contain information about activities, include links to other profiles, and provide information about connected accounts or people.
Public FA profiles contain information about accounts and other linked profiles, and can provide information that upon further research may identify an individual.
General-rated submissions could be photos and images that might somehow be useful to identify a person or link to a profile or account on another site, or contain comments and replies that provide further information
WHY??
Relationships. Connecting the dots between a person's online activities and identity. They see someone on one site, follow them to every other site they're on, create an entire profile based on everything, and link them to all the other people.
And then it's fed into an AI. That AI then spits out whatever the agency wants, including justification for hunting a person down and arresting them, and then it's hell from there.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
This isn't an FA problem and it's not a technical issue FA can fix. This is an ICE & fascist government problem.
1) Cleanse your profiles of personally identifying information
2) Check your contact information page that links to alllll the other websites and accounts you use, and be sure you know that it's being used to track you
3) Review the list of websites above and scrub personally identifying information, including photos, from there so they can't be fed into an AI that might get used to target you
BlueSky, Twitter / X, Facebook... they might not know who you are on this site, but if you link to other places and post pics of yourself there, then yeah, they know who you are.
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sit.....is-monitoring/
THE LIST
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet.....it?gid=0#gid=0
NOTABLE INCLUSIONS relevant to furries
YouTube, xHamster, WhatsApp, Vimeo, Venmo, Twitter, Twitch, Tinder, Telegram, Skype, Signal, Rule34.xxx, Reddit, Pornhub, PayPal, Myspace, LiveJournal, Linktree, LinkedIn, Instagram, Imgur, GoFundMe, FurAffinity, Facebook, Etsy, e621, Danbooru, Bluesky, and Discord and 4chan.
HOW IT WORKS (speculation)
Journals, public profiles, and General-rated submissions are all publicly accessible by anyone.
Journals may contain information about activities, include links to other profiles, and provide information about connected accounts or people.
Public FA profiles contain information about accounts and other linked profiles, and can provide information that upon further research may identify an individual.
General-rated submissions could be photos and images that might somehow be useful to identify a person or link to a profile or account on another site, or contain comments and replies that provide further information
WHY??
Relationships. Connecting the dots between a person's online activities and identity. They see someone on one site, follow them to every other site they're on, create an entire profile based on everything, and link them to all the other people.
And then it's fed into an AI. That AI then spits out whatever the agency wants, including justification for hunting a person down and arresting them, and then it's hell from there.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
This isn't an FA problem and it's not a technical issue FA can fix. This is an ICE & fascist government problem.
1) Cleanse your profiles of personally identifying information
2) Check your contact information page that links to alllll the other websites and accounts you use, and be sure you know that it's being used to track you
3) Review the list of websites above and scrub personally identifying information, including photos, from there so they can't be fed into an AI that might get used to target you
BlueSky, Twitter / X, Facebook... they might not know who you are on this site, but if you link to other places and post pics of yourself there, then yeah, they know who you are.
Google? PayPal? Cash App? MySpace? GoodReads? General Motors? Honda? Minecraft? OnlyFans?!?
Say what?
I won't be surprised if this is just stuff the NSA was doing all along.
Those are old as dirt.
Do they have my ICQ chats from 2004? LOL...
As for other platforms, and the Internet as a whole: If the only barrier to seeing your stuff is a free account, it's no different than it being public. This is as true today, in a world of Advanced Persistent Threats, as it was 25 years ago when all we had to worry about were our parents/bosses finding out we were weird online. It's good that knowledge of that reality is becoming more mainstream again.
And tbh more websites need more protection for its users
If those morons were to vote for him a third time they still vote for him
They’re THAT stupid
Which is just purely disgusting
Solidarity is pretty much the only way forward, but obviously with care and caution. :O)
Trust me I know what’s rude and not lol
But thanks for the information and honesty ^^
It’s just been brought to light recently again
And in a bad way.
I hope that the tangerine man gets stoped before they turn USA back in time to the 60s