- Yes, I remember such a decree

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— So it turns out that the secret services are buying commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searching them for information about the past movements of citizens without a warrant?

— Exactly! And it circumvents the famous ruling from three years ago. Remember? The Supreme Court ruled that the constitution requires the government to get a warrant to force phone companies to hand over data about their customers. But the government can buy similar data from a broker instead — and doesn’t think it needs a warrant to do so.


— Only the purchase must, naturally, not be on behalf of the empire.

- Of course. Obviously, such actions can be repeated, which means we will have to organize or rather even buy an advertising company.

- Yes, and most likely more than one.

- Thanks for the idea, Johann!

- Always happy to help! Formally, the state has nothing to do with it.

This is exactly how US government intelligence agencies benin whatsapp data today, buying data about their citizens from private firms. Formally, the state does not monitor its citizens. But in reality?
Nowadays, every day is Data Protection Day.
Daniel Fried | 01/28/2021
The events of 2020 have forced companies across EMEA to radically rethink their work patterns, with millions of employees working remotely – from home offices, kitchens, or even living room sofas.

As noted in a Eurofund study , almost half of the entire EU workforce switched to remote work in the first months of 2020. Then, in just a few weeks, this figure doubled.

The pandemic has made remote work and flexible working more commonplace and normal. But it has also created a new headache for companies across industries: data security.

Today, IT managers are forced to operate in an environment where corporate data is scattered across a variety of locations. Whereas previously it was typically physically contained in a limited, controlled space, such as a company’s offices or data centers, it is now scattered across hundreds or thousands of private homes.