Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surveillanceads, aggregated by home.social.
"Next week, #ChatGPT #Ads will expand to 31 European countries, including #Germany, #France, #Spain, #Italy, #Sweden, #Norway, #Denmark, the #Netherlands, and #Austria."
"Ads help advance our mission to democratize access to the best #AI by supporting free and low-cost access to ChatGPT. As in our existing markets, ads will be shown only to users on the Free and Go plans. Plus, Pro, and Enterprise subscriptions will remain ad-free."
Signez et partagez la pétition contre la surveillance publicitaire qui porte atteinte à la vie privée des citoyens et nuit à la santé mentale :
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-2881
#petition #droits #privacy #vieprivee #SurveillanceAds #surveillance #droitshumains #droitsenligne #stoppub #santementale #assembleenationale
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
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
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!
https://interaktiv.br.de/ausspioniert-mit-standortdaten/en/index.html
Ich frage mich nun, was schlauer ist: Die Werbe-ID auf dem Handy einfach blockieren oder alle x Tage eine neue ausknobeln? #tracking #SurveillanceAds
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.
#DSA #trackingfreeads #surveillanceads #dataprotection #privacy
"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!
#journalism #freecontent #trackingfreeads #surveillanceads #clickbait
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
#privacy #TrackingFreeAds #consent #gdpr #ePrivacy #BanSurveillanceAdvertising
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
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.
@RDBinns @LornaWoods I always had the impression that ad networks *could* be seen as online platforms as defined by Art 3.1(i) #DSA -- but I doubt the Commission will treat them as such given their previous refusal to regulate #SurveillanceAds via the #DigitalServicesAct.
Another example of why it's problematic when drafters and enforcers of a law are the same institution and even the same people.
The Google/Apple duopoly rakes 30% off every subscription payment collected in an app. The Google/Meta duopoly rakes 51% out of every ad-dollar (and maintain that death-grip through creepy, #privacy-invading #SurveillanceAds). Meta and Twitter hold social media subscribers hostage, forcing publishers to pay to reach *their own subscribers*.
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As long as #journalists keep on regurgitating this #marketing bullshit about "highly relevant ads" we will never be free of #SurveillanceAds.
(Screenshot from #PoliticoEurope newsletter)
🎉 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).
Why do I care if #Google and #Facebook know everything about me?
Ehm, "The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens"
https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/
#privacy #surveillance #bigtech #adtech #surveillanceads #tracking
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:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech
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):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising
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This week, I've got a followup about another important way to unrig the ad market: banning #SurveillanceAds:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising
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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I'm at #cpdp2023 now in case someone wants to meet up.
First up: @awo panel on the horrors of the #SurveillanceAds industry.
Always weird discussing this on a conference sponsored by the largest surveillance ads perpetrators (this year including #Tiktok).
To save #news from #BigTech, we need to:
- Unrig the ad markets
- Abolish the #AppTax
- Kill #SurveillanceAds
- Make social media #EndToEnd
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
“It’s time to pass bipartisan legislation to stop #BigTech from collecting personal data on our kids and teenagers online".
“Ban targeted advertising on children, and impose stricter limits on the personal data that companies collect on all of us.”
I guess that's good news?
I love how @jon jumps right on it by saying what a scandal it is that platform companies are even allowed to sell what basically is #spyware as "free service" to people. Remaking the case for banning #SurveillanceAds #PrivacyCamp23
You were probably worried about not having enough EU documents to read. Fear not!
‘The Council today agreed its mandate (general approach) for negotiations with the European Parliament on the proposal for a regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising.’