Tell Etsy, Reddit, Tinder & Duolingo: Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech
The websites and services we trust for shopping, socializing, and learning shouldn’t be tools for surveillance.
- Yet, a new investigation by 404 Media has revealed that ShadowDragon, a U.S. government contractor, is exploiting publicly available data from websites and services like Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo — to fuel mass surveillance programs for U.S. government agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ShadowDragon’s
SocialNet and similar tools track your connections, map your movements,
and piece together your digital life, turning your ordinary online
activity into a powerful surveillance tool.
That’s why Mozilla is
launching an urgent campaign targeting 30 key websites and services
currently being used as fodder for shady surveillance tech, calling on
them to:
- Protect our data. Proactively detect and block surveillance tools like ShadowDragon’s SocialNet, which exploit the data we share with these websites and services.
- Increase transparency. Publicly report known attempts by surveillance contractors like ShadowDragon to access user data, and what measures they have taken to stop and prevent it.
- Strengthen privacy protections. Limit the exposure of our sensitive data and make privacy the default — so firms like ShadowDragon can’t easily exploit our conversations, connections, and activities online.
Sign Mozilla’s petition to demand websites and services like Etsy, Reddit, Tinder and Duolingo block ShadowDragon’s SocialNet, and protect our data from mass surveillance.
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