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Turkmenistan Tells Its Pensioners To Prove They Are Not Dead. (www.rferl.org)
 

To prove they are alive and unfreeze their pensions, elderly people in Turkmenistan must travel to a family doctor and three separate government offices, knowing that the process could be different next time.

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Garfield Re-2 wants to notify parents if a transgender student requests a chosen name change. (aspenjournalism.org)
 

Garfield Re-2 School District is considering requiring its staff to notify parents if a student requests to use a chosen name at school that differs from their legal name and reflects their gender identity — a move that some community members support, while others worry it could further isolate transgender kids, and even put them at risk.

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Taiwan issues public sector ban on DeepSeek, Japan eyes similar action. (rfa.org)
 

Taiwan said its public sector workers would be banned from using DeepSeek, a recently released Chinese artificial intelligence model, due to concerns over data leaks, joining a group of U.S. government agencies that reportedly introduced a similar restriction.

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MAGA is just a populist pipedream. (360info.org)
 

Trump’s policies will lead to neither domestic cohesion nor external peace, the essential pre-requisites for making America great again

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Kazakhstan: Founder of Satirical Instagram Account Arrested. (text.hrw.org)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Cat@ponder.cat to c/world@quokk.au
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The blogger, Temirlan Ensebek, 29, manages the satirical Instagram account Qaznews24. Police arrested him on January 17, 2025, and searched his home. On January 18, an Almaty court approved his pretrial detention for two months on vague criminal charges of “inciting interethnic discord” in connection with a post he uploaded to the Qaznews24 Instagram account over a year ago.

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Global Football’s Dirty Climate Tackle. (www.desmog.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Cat@ponder.cat to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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No Autopsy, No Answer: Nebraska stands alone with 'antiquated’ system that leaves families guessing. (flatwaterfreepress.org)
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List of products from the United States subject to 25 per cent tariffs effective February 4, 2025. (www.canada.ca)
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Government’s efforts to address violence against women and girls have not yet improved outcomes for victims. (www.nao.org.uk)
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Everyone knows your location. (timsh.org)
 

TL;DR

After more than couple dozen hours of trying, here are the main takeaways:

  1. I found a couple requests sent by my phone with my precise location + 5 requests that leak my IP address, which can be turned into geolocation using reverse DNS.
  2. Learned a lot about the RTB (real-time bidding) auctions and OpenRTB protocol and was shocked by the amount and types of data sent with the bids to ad exchanges.
  3. Gave up on the idea to buy my location data from a data broker or a tracking service, because I don't have a big enough company to take a trial or $10-50k to buy a huge database with the data of millions of people + me. Well maybe I do, but such expense seems a bit irrational. Turns out that EU-based peoples` data is almost the most expensive.

But still, I know my location data was collected and I know where to buy it!

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Fifty-two years after a U.S. spy plane was shot down over Laos, a family still fights for answers: Did the crew all perish or were half of them LEFT BEHIND? (thewarhorse.org)
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Fifty-two years after a U.S. spy plane was shot down over Laos, a family still fights for answers: Did the crew all perish or were half of them LEFT BEHIND? (thewarhorse.org)
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