Your personal data is secretly collected across the internet at massive scale. AI weaponizes it like never before. Passive collection becomes precision attacks on you, your employees, and your customers. Disconnect cuts off the data supply.
Disconnect's tracker intelligence has been leveraged by browsers that ship to billions of users worldwide.
They silently build the data profiles attackers weaponize against you.
of all web requests on U.S. Army networks were to tracker domains.
Trackers from banned apps including TikTok were still present in web traffic.
U.S. Army Cyber Institute, West Point (February 2026)
Hint: attackers use AI too.
Hackers don't have to hack anymore — your personal data is for sale directly through data brokers and indirectly through sophisticated ad tech.
Data brokers aggregate data about you from different tracking sources, including your IP, location, real name, email, phone, and much more. Attackers buy this data directly, and also leverage sophisticated advertising platforms. Ad campaigns allow attackers to hyper-target advertisements based on thousands of audience segments.
When you click or even see an ad, the advertiser receives your unique device identifiers, location, behavioral profile, and the audience segments used to target you. Anything you submit on their site or app — email, name, form data — or that they can track also gets tied directly to your profile.
Your personal data becomes AI fuel for surveillance, stalking, blackmail, social engineering, and precision phishing — all aimed at the real you. These attacks evolve as AI tooling matures. Documented cases include high-level government tracking and harassment of individuals at places of worship, healthcare clinics, and immigration offices. No hacking required.
Real-time bidding is "the biggest data breach ever recorded." It broadcasts personal data 178 trillion times per year across the U.S. and Europe.
— Irish Council for Civil Liberties (2022)
"Nation-state actors and cybercriminals shift from 'breaking in' to 'logging in.'"
— Cloudflare 2026 Threat Intelligence Report (March 2026)
Leading journalists trust Disconnect to expose what others can't find.
February 2026 FeaturedDisconnect provided the technical analysis for BBC Future's investigation into TikTok's expanded web tracking pixel. Our team found that the updated pixel collects information in unusual ways compared to its competitors, intercepting data from Google Tag Manager and transmitting health information without site owners' knowledge. "They're silently capturing that data without the site owner explicitly sharing that information with TikTok," said Patrick Jackson, Disconnect's CTO.
May 2026 LatestCasey Oppenheim, Disconnect's CEO, told Slate that smart TV apps capture rich behavioral data like device type, session length, household fingerprint, IP address, ad exposure, and the context of what was watched before and after. AI-enhanced tracking can now identify who in the household is watching, infer interests and political leanings, and shift ad targeting from the household down to the individual. Cross-device identifier matching makes the Smart TV app the new "holy grail" of ad targeting, and most TV platforms have weaker, buried privacy controls compared to web and mobile.
Disconnect research on AI data threats featured on Today Show.
2025Data-based research on fingerprinting prevalence on the web.
2019NY Times used Disconnect tech to test 250 iOS apps and record how they're tracking.
2021Disconnect discovers thousands of Zoom calls left exposed on open web.
2020NBC News highlighted our research into dating apps sharing personal data.
2020It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
2019Disconnect identifies and stops tracker infrastructure before it collects data.
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AI-powered attacks now target ordinary people through their leaked data. Disconnect blocks the tracker infrastructure that makes precision phishing, social engineering, and surveillance possible.
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