The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data
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In late January 2023, almost 45 GB of source code from the Russian search giant Yandex was leaked on BreachForums by a former Yandex employee.
  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlNederlands
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    1 year ago

    I fail to see the surprise in any of this. Yandex is Google but Russian. Telemetry apps and advertising platforms collect all this data and more. I’m honestly surprised the categories they’ve picked are so manual, American equivalents have much more specific groups of interests and target demographics that seem to be generated automatically.

    I’m disappointed this website doesn’t seem to have asked the Dutch DPA (https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/) for a response. Like the USA, Russia isn’t a country where you should be able to process any kind of information like this, so any app containing these trackers should be illegal within the EU as far as I understand. Unless they only do these analyses within Europe, of course, but I still have my doubts they can prove any kind of privacy guarantee with Russia being Russia.

  • bananabenana@lemmy.worldNederlands
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    1 year ago

    This may be naive but how is this different to any other big western tech company’s data collection, metrics and sharing with the US and other host governments?

    • mycoffeeisready@feddit.nlNederlands
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      1 year ago

      Not naive, this is not much different. Not to mention that in the west we’re making it a lot easier to be tracked (and controlled) with the coming digital identities and CBDCs. And most people will happily along with it.