they also employ tracking cookies so that companies like facebook and google can learn about you, even if you don’t directly patronize those services. it used to be to sell to advertizers to make more effective ads, but as that market dries up because it turns out the most effective advertising dollars are put towards billboards and radio, these digital marketing companies are making back the difference selling to brokers and companies who interact more with state based actors. that’s effectively why palentir exists. the cia isn’t allowed to spy on you, and technically neither is the nsa or fbi authorized to spy on you unless they’ve gotten a search warrant (which has been comically easy to do since 2002), there’s nothing illegal and no legal grey area for a private company to spy on you and then the agencies to buy services from that company.
they also employ tracking cookies so that companies like facebook and google can learn about you, even if you don’t directly patronize those services. it used to be to sell to advertizers to make more effective ads, but as that market dries up because it turns out the most effective advertising dollars are put towards billboards and radio, these digital marketing companies are making back the difference selling to brokers and companies who interact more with state based actors. that’s effectively why palentir exists. the cia isn’t allowed to spy on you, and technically neither is the nsa or fbi authorized to spy on you unless they’ve gotten a search warrant (which has been comically easy to do since 2002), there’s nothing illegal and no legal grey area for a private company to spy on you and then the agencies to buy services from that company.