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The Register: Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds . “A jury has unanimously found Meta guilty of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act by using data from menstruation and fertility app Flo to sell advertising to the social network.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/the-register-meta-used-flo-menstruation-app-data-to-sell-ads-jury-finds/

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> Line may share your personal information with third-party partners for a variety of reasons, including to provide you with targeted advertising.
> While Line claims to carefully vet its partners, there’s always a risk that your data could be mishandled or misused by these third parties.
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> The company also collects data about your usage of the app, including your contacts, messages, and calls.
> While Line claims to use this data to improve its services and provide you with #TargetedAdvertising...
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Rupert V/

#TargetedAdvertising

My barber has a phone app that has a queue feature. It's a positive piece of technology that lets me wait at home and/or at a cafe until there's no-one else ahead of me in the queue.

Today it tried to show me an add for razor blades. I haven't shaved in 30 years, so it's hard to imagine anything more useless.

I've sent them an indignant email, I will also be complaining in person at the shop. Anything else I should do?

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Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺

NEW VIDEO: I was honored to address the European Parliament on Tuesday 3rd June at invitation of the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield on 'Regulation of Political Advertising in the EU... or How to Avoid It?' (My contribution starts: 16:34:00 - panel begins 16:24:00) I talked about how #ChatGPT is suggesting ways for advertisers to skirt around #GDPR protections & target us on the basis of anxiety. multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/ #disinformation #targetedadvertising #cambridgeanalytica

Multimedia CentreSpecial committee on the European Democracy Shield Ordinary meeting - Multimedia CentreThe multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General for Communication (DG COMM).
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Eric Maugendre

@data @datadon 🧵

In its judgment, the General Court of the European Union strengthened the conciliation and regulatory powers of the European Data Protection Board.

"The DPC will have to continue its investigations into Meta unless it chooses to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice. Given the timeline of the original investigation, which began in 2018, it may still take several years before a final determination is made regarding the GDPR compliance of Meta’s business model, particularly in relation to behavioural advertising."

dpoblog.eu/cjeu-and-the-powers by Christina Etteldorf, Institut of European #Media #Law, Saarbrücken (Germany)

dpoblog.euCJEU and the Powers of EDPB – DPOblog
#advertising#GDPR#Meta
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Kent Pitman

@FinchHaven @shonin

I have a real problem with their new "approach". The countering of misinformation by community requires community is aware that misinformation needs to be countered in the first place.

A lot of the problem is that people are isolated. They're seeing targeted ads that reach specifically them. They're talking to bots in private. They're in a cult or other closed community not predisposed to admit is is ridden with lies.

Free speech ought be more than a right to drown someone in lies.

One simple idea I've pondered is that we should just make it illegal to do targeted advertising without registering the ad somewhere publicly viewable and saying what demographic it is targeted at, so that paid advertising is publicly inspectable and possible to mount a response to. That was an accidental property of early advertising that we've lost in the modern world. I don't know if it would work, but it has the right feel to me because it has the property that one could objectively tell whether a violation had occurred, not by characterizing the content but just checking the registry.

I also think it wouldn't hurt to have to declare which forums allow bots/AI, and possibly which entities are such non-human tech. We are social critters, easily influenced by wanting to go along with peers, more than by logic, but artificial entities are not peers and it's too easy to create the illusion that a lone human is surrounded by disapproving humans.

The following essay by me is not recent but is still quite relevant in how it breaks down free speech, analyzing why it's core to a democracy and what aspects of it really need protecting. (It probably needs to be updated for the post-truth world of bots and generative AI, but even without that, I think it gets the basic ideas right.)

The Freedom to Hear
netsettlement.blogspot.com/200

netsettlement.blogspot.comThe Freedom to HearKent Pitman's blog. Independent, progressive views on Society, Technology, Social Justice and Climate, or sometimes poetry, philosophy, or history.
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