Proud to be able to support the excellent #DSA complaint drafted by @aiforensics_org against the illegal use of personal data by #X to target people with #SurveillanceAds.
Proud to be able to support the excellent #DSA complaint drafted by @aiforensics_org against the illegal use of personal data by #X to target people with #SurveillanceAds.
"We have identified more than 46,000 #ads, approved and delivered by #Meta to European users more than 292 million times, these products generally promoting dubious #medicines or ‘remedies’ not approved by national or European #health bodies."
Yet another data point to show how dangerous the current #RTB-based #SurveillanceAds industry is.
Report by @aiforensics_org:
Belgian appeals court rules #TCF's #consent framework that enables 80% of the internet's #SurveillanceAds is illegal.
What a fantastic win for the complainants (@edri members) @panoptykon, @bitsoffreedom, and #ICCL !
#DigitalSovereignty doesn't mean tech for sovereign nations, it means tech for sovereign people.
Tech in the hands of a European billionaire class is hardly any better than what we have now.
Free it up, give people control, open source it, decentralise it, remove choke points and gatekeepers, encrypt all the things, remove the #SurveillanceAds industry from the equation, enable #SelfHosting and #SmallTech. And then let's talk #GoEuropean.
@blogoklahoma "The spacecraft could also be used for national security and defense, the board said."
Another thing to worry about. Surveil more Pro-Palestinian and human rights activists from above why don't you?
#surveillancecapitalism #surveil #surveillance #surveillanceAdvertising #surveilancecapitalism #SurveillanceAds #surveillanceselfdefense #surveillancestate #ProtectNotSurveil #surveilance
Been talking to colleagues about Apache Iceberg since yesterday, before which time I hadn’t ever mentioned it. Today, Meetup sends me an email to come to the Apache Iceberg summit in California #SurveillanceAds
Frightening new evidence found by #Adalytics on how #adtech and #surveillanceads help fund #CSAM #childabuse online:
Correction: I made a mistake, the evidence appears to have been collected by Adalytics, not CheckMyAds: https://adalytics.io/blog/adtech-vendors-csam-full-report
Here's an excellent report about what to (not) expect from self-regulatory #advertising codes of conduct under the #DigitalServicesAct, by the brilliant @jjaursch
https://www.interface-eu.org/publications/dsa-advertising-codes
The DFA must tackle the systemic invasion of privacy that allows Big Tech to keep us hooked with hyper personalised content. The Commission has already linked this to anxiety, depression and many other harms. Now it must act - by stopping tracking by default and #SurveillanceAds
After a question from the conservative EPP group, McGrath confirms he'll use the #DigitalFairnessAct (DFA) to tackle barriers to protecting people as consumers, especially safeguarding minors from unfair marketing techniques like in-app sales & gambling-like features in video games.
We call on the Commissioner-designate to use the #DFA to also address the massive gap in regulating #SurveillanceAds and pervasive online #tracking that continues to undermine everybody's #privacy online!
Great job, @noybeu !
The #CJEU decided today that #Meta has to massively limit the use of personal data for online #advertisements. Secondly, it has to limit the use of publicly available personal data to the originally intended purposes for publication.
#surveiallancecapitalism #surveillanceAds
https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-meta-must-minimise-use-personal-data-ads
In the latest episode of #BigTech fuckery, #Google & #Instagram made a "secret deal to target #ads for #Insta to #teenagers on #YouTube."
This Google marketing campaign "deliberately targeted a group of [underage] users labelled as “unknown” [...] to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised."
Google’s own rules as well as the #EU's #DigitaServicesAct prohibit targeting online ads to minors.
"The real issue here is a system that prioritizes #engagement over accuracy, #clicks over comprehension. It’s a system that rewards the most provocative headline, not necessarily the most accurate one."
A crucial analysis about the state of our #media landscape, brilliantly written by @Daojoan.
Go read it!
Wow so 350 local media outlets in #Poland protest the "threat of domination" by #BigTech in a full-day campaign.
And the only demand they can come up with is "fairer copyright laws"???
Not breaking up big tech, an end to #SurveillanceAds, not competition. So disappointing.
Holy shit, I thought I knew how evil the #SurveillanceAds industry was but here we are:
Two-thirds of European websites just ignore your #cookie choice and track you anyways, researchers from #ETHzurich found.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf
Today: #DMA #compliance workshop with #Meta lawyers at the @EU_Commission:
The #DigitalMarketsAct mandates Meta to "enable end users to freely choose to opt-in to [combining or cross-using personal data] by offering a less personalised but equivalent alternative".
When I pointed out to Meta that by offering users to either #consent to #SurveillanceAds or pay € 275 per year for #Instagram & #Facebook isn't "equivalent alternative" they said, Meta *has* to do that because of #GDPR Really??
"Datatilsynet er bekymret over utviklingen, og det pågår en prosess på europeisk nivå for å vurdere lovligheten den nye løsningen. Vi deltar aktivt i denne prosessen. Vi håper å kunne komme tilbake med mer informasjon snart."
That’s inflation for you. They once valued users’ data at 14 USD each per year.
Step right up and rent your own data exhaust for a day or a week at a time.
#SurveillanceAds #Privacy #Meta #Facebook https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/111305833107815688