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wchron A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data

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There is now some publicly available evidence about 5-10 'Western' actors operating DSPs (or partnering with DSPs) for natsec or 'cybersecurity' purposes. Still no evidence about actors from other regions, but...

wchron A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data

Question to adtech folks, from the author of the linked thread.

Nuviad, the DSP that appears to be linked to the surveillance/spytech system Patternz, claims to analyze '700k ad opportunities every second' (https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1724805640974168341).

How could they do so? I mean, this company is far from a tier-1 DSP. Could they pretend to be a bidder and listen to such a high volume of bid requests without actually bidding/winning most of them? Is the number just exaggerated? Are there other ways of how they could get access to such a high volume of bid requests? In 2018, Nuviad acquired a viewability vendor (realvu.com). Could this perhaps be a major source?

wchron A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data

Author of the linked thread here. Interesting remark. Measurement is always underdiscussed, including in my research. Any idea about how RTB data (or data similar to it) could flow to a spytech firm via MMPs?

wchron A mass surveillance system for national security based on advertising/RTB data

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