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  1. 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.

    ft.com/content/b3bb80f4-4e01-4

    #DSA #trackingfreeads #surveillanceads #dataprotection #privacy

  2. "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!

    joanwestenberg.com/the-bait-an

    #journalism #freecontent #trackingfreeads #surveillanceads #clickbait

  3. The #CSAM clusterfuck just became even more shitty:

    Dutch researcher Danny Mekić has looked at #advertising data from #Twitter & says that the @EU_Commission's #DGHome has used #SurveillanceAds based on prohibited data categories to target people with #disinformation about the #ChatControl proposal.

    #YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.

    dannymekic.com/202310/undermin

  4. 🎉 In other news:

    24 European Parliament lawmakers from the @TheProgressives, #Renew, @eppgroup, @ecrgroup and the @EP_GreensEFA asked Parliament President #RobertaMetsola to suspend #advertising campaigns run through #Google’s parent company #Alphabet and on #YouTube over fears they could be sponsoring Russian #propaganda. They also urged to reallocate the EP’s advertising budgets to “trustworthy" ads methods (think: #TrackingFreeAds).

    #TrackingAds #SurveillanceAds #privacy #ForeignInfluence

  5. CW: Long thread/6

    Each week since, I've published a specific policy recommendation. The first one was breaking up the #AdTech industry, on the lines suggested by #SenatorMikeLee's #AMERICAAct:

    eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save

    Next was passing comprehensive privacy law, which would kill off #SurveillanceAds and force a switch to "contextual ads" (ads based on what you're looking at, not who you are):

    eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save

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  6. CW: Long thread/6

    This week, I've got a followup about another important way to unrig the ad market: banning #SurveillanceAds:

    eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save

    Even if we break up the ad-tech stacks, ads will still be bad for the news - and for the public. That's because the dominant form of digital ads is "#BehavioralAdvertising" - the ad-tech sector's polite euphemism for ads based on spying. You know these ads: you search for shoes and then every website you land on is plastered in shoe ads.

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