in English via google translate
[Archive Privacy Informed Consent is a canard Moving Towards Real Privacy]
This is absolutely incredible.
Norwegian news agency NRK tricked a data broker in to selling them 400 million "anonymized" location data points taken from SDKs that monetize mobile applications. NRK took a random row from the database, doxed the person and interviewed them.
Of course, this person had no idea that their phone had sent location data to this broker for 200 days the last year, showing intimate personal details for anyone who knew to look.
This is the state of play right now, mobile developers have to eat but their marketplace is so bloated that data brokers and other lizard people are building a panopticon to feed them. And we lie to ourselves that this is about consent, especially in the US, that we have any sort of choice in the matter, or that the matter is so unimportant as to be ignored.
I've seen tables which grow at the rate of terabytes a week showing the users' movement, with the most basic of access control applied to it, available to nearly any engineer or data scientist who knew where to look. Companies' data platforms rarely provide enough audit capabilities to truly secure this data, much less make an informed decision on what is valuable or invaluable to keep. which columns are queried here? you don't know? me neither. better not touch it.
A vast unaccountable ecosystem of data brokers simply cannot be the way society is forced to feed app developers.