Everything you share publicly on the internet is publicly available and will not be forgotten. That includes government agencies, [and] your worst enemies.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but it repeatedly is. The latest source of outcry is #ShadowDragon, which seems to be a simple #OSINT tool that just collects public posts and makes them available to the feds. Some call this mass surveillance.
https://www.404media.co/inside-shadowdragon-ice-babycenter-pregnancy-fortnite-black-planet/ #privacy #surveillance
You use your real name to post online? You use the same phone number, or the same email address to sign up to different accounts? You use the same, or a similar sounding username on your online accounts? You use the same profile picture on your accounts?
Anything that is publicly available is being scraped and indexed by archivists, officials, and private companies.
Do you really think there are no automated tools that connect the dots, let alone investigators being able to manually do this?
Your instagram story is only visible for 24 hours? hahahaha
You have deleted that post from last night? That one was just tagged "interesting" on all the monitoring tools.
Another big surprise: People track and archive your Discord activity.
Wait until you find out they also do this on Telegram, Matrix, Mastodon, TikTok, GitHub, IRC, whatever!
https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/