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The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data (www.confiant.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org to c/series_of_tubes@sullen.social

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Yandex software source code leak examined, and some history about the companies relationship to the Russian government. An interesting look at what goes on under the hood of a big data advertising business like Google.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1680842

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1680837

I feel it's relevant, because of it confirming the possibility of "big tech" spying and cooperating with 3-letter agencies.

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[–] sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Actually, this is more than just interesting. This is unsettling.