#surveillanceadvertising — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/

Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/

How to baffle and confuse online advertisers.

A VPN masks your IP address, making it harder for companies to track you and build a profile that can be traded by the adtech industry.

✅️ Get a reputable VPN – don't use a free one.

Drop your suggestions below 👇️

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/

#StopStalkerAds #adtech #privacy #vpn #tips #surveillanceadvertising

Your emails can be a pipeline to the adtech industry.

Gmail delivers targeted advertising and scans emails to power “smart features” in the name of personalising your experience.

✅️ Switch to an email provider like Proton Mail.

Drop your suggestions below 👇️

Find. out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/

#StopStalkerAds #adtech #privacy #email #tips #surveillanceadvertising

Your chats fuel online advertising.

Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger send metadata to Meta, gain access to your contacts and information about your device from the app for behavioural profiling and advertising.

✅️ Use a messenger like Signal.

Drop your suggestions below 👇️

➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/

#StopStalkerAds #adtech #privacy #meta #surveillanceadvertising

Your phone is a goldmine for adtech brokers.

A key step to stopping surveillance advertising starts with preventing 3rd party access to the personal data generated on your personal device.

✅️ Turn off ad tracking in your phone settings.

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/

#StopStalkerAds #privacy #adtech #surveillanceadvertising #tips

Your apps can be leaky when it comes to online advertising.

Taking steps to limit the data that's collected and sold on to third parties for targeted ads is essential to protect your privacy.

✅️ Limit the data collected on your apps.

Drop your suggestions below 👇️

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/

#StopStalkerAds #adtech #privacy #surveillanceadvertising #tips #dataprotection

Use a burner email address to #StopStalkerAds.

ORG's investigation into Liveramp showed that adtech systems combine online and offline identifiers to profile people for advertising.

✅️ Use disposable email adresses when you're creating accounts online.

➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising

Google to pay $68m to settle lawsuit claiming it recorded private conversations

Users accused Google Assistant – a virtual assistant present on many Android devices – of recording private conversations after it was inadvertently triggered on their devices.

They claimed the recordings were then shared with advertisers in order to send them targeted advertising. […] It follows a similar case in January where Apple agreed to pay $95m to settle a case alleging some of its devices were listening to people through its voice-activated assistant Siri without their permission.

More at BBC

I know, I know, a lot of people are tired of hearing about Google's "Privacy Sandbox" thing from 2019-2025.

But it's an example of a surveillance oligopoly trying to get something and then not getting it.

A win. (Well, almost) so IMHO worth celebrating.

https://blog.zgp.org/google-privacy-sandbox-timeline/ #surveillanceAdvertising

myth: Big Tech is bullshitting about their "AI" stuff but they're totally honest about their legacy #surveillanceAdvertising businesses

reality: cool story bro

https://blog.zgp.org/what-if-ed-zitron-is-an-optimist/

ENG: Corporate overlords want us to feed Ai, not just by storing everything in their mega servers and data centers ( euphemistically called "the cloud"), but now by making it really expensive not to create content right there. Watch the vid, boost and please: do not feed the corporate monster...

ESP: Los amos corporativos quieren que alimentemos a Ai, no sólo almacenando todo en sus megaservidores y data centers (eufemísticamente llamados "la nube"), sino disparando el costo de crear contenido fuera de ellos. Mira el vídeo, compartelo y, por favor, no alimentes al monstruo corporativo...

#CorporateCorruption #USA #corporategreed #greedybastards
#maga_fascism #CorpLife #nvidia
#nand #authoritarianism #antifa
#surveillanceAdvertising
#surveillancecapitalism
#surveillancestate #ramshortage
#nandflash #nvidiacorporation
#noAI #aibubble

"I'd developed a level of candor with my AI assistant that I don't have with most people in my life.

And then an uncomfortable thought: what if someone was reading all of this?

The thought didn't let go. As a security researcher, I have the tools to answer that question.

We asked Wings, our agentic-AI risk engine, to scan for browser extensions with the capability to read and exfiltrate conversations from AI chat platforms. … "

#AI #privacy #surveillanceAdvertising https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115727331342544129

As much as I don't like LinkedIn, but this piece is really good:

"You Shared One Holiday Photo Of Your Child. You Have No Idea Where It Went Next."

It sends a *really* good message out on why not to share too much (esp. images) on Big Tech social media, and what to do to instead.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-shared-one-holiday-photo-your-child-have-idea-where-clara-hawking-8mtbf/

#sharenting #privacy #OnlineSafety #SocialMedia #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillanceAdvertising

Third installment in my series for Reynolds Journalism Institute, on the #surveillanceAdvertising oligopoly

But, to look on the bright side for a minute, this is just an internet dystopia narrative. And the internet turns out to be remarkably good at beating those. We don’t eliminate them entirely, but we take them down from civilization-ending risks to merely ongoing problems that flare up into the occasional crisis.

#TormentNexus

https://rjionline.org/news/big-techs-economic-takeover-can-be-beat/

@privacybadger @Distante @eff This looks like my good advice. Right now my number one #surveillanceAdvertising security concern for users of managed devices is the Google search ads. (The trademark policy on there allows for scammers to run ads targeting the domains or trademarks of SaaS providers, so users get a bunch of fake login pages trying to steal their info.)

How well does PB address that problem?

https://blog.zgp.org/winners-don-t-click-search-ads/

They can't reach me online through surveillance advertising and now I get stuff like that stuck to my gate, every other day.

Persistent buggers, aren't they? They even know when I've read it, after taking it down.

#Advertising #SurveillanceAdvertising

@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

Glad to see #Rob from #FPF brings up #Kobler's #contextualads solution as a viable alternative to #RTB and #SurveillanceAdvertising.

Also makes a super important point about mandatory #DoNotTrack signals in browsers.

IMO this is what #Mozilla should be working towards, not making #Firefox as a data collection platform.

Wow so the #Mozilla engineer disagrees and claims "#GDPR has done a great deal of harm" (I didn't understand his argument why) but now diverted to saying the #browser should be the platform collect all the personal data and then provide it in aggregated form to advertisers.

This would "give control to people while also unlocking the data". 🥱

And all in a sudden, #SurveillanceAdvertising is not a #humanrights issue any more but merely a question of "governance".

At a #Mozilla event in #Brussels this morning about "#privacy-first online #advertising". I am _very_ curious where this weirdest of things Mozilla does is going. 🤔

Speakers: Petra Wikström, policy person at #Schibsted, @rvaneijk, @eff's Svea Windwehr and Mozilla's own Martin Thompson.

#onlineads #SurveillanceAdvertising #TrackingFreeAds #gdpr #dataprotection

Four years ago, human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll took on social media giant Meta when they refused to stop collecting and processing her personal data for targeted advertising.

In March 2025, Meta settled and agreed to honour O’Carroll’s right to object.

Now it's your turn to opt-out.

Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech

Meta has admitted that users have the right opt-out of stalker ads. Now what for our data rights?

Join our webinar to explore the impact of
Tanya O'Carroll's case against Meta.

🗓️ Wed 16 April
🕕 6–7.30pm BST
📍 Zoom

Register Now ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/webinar-taking-on-meta-what-next-for-our-data-stalker-ads/

#StopStalkerAds

#meta #dataprotection #gdpr #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech #privacy #facebook

What are stalker ads?

Meta harvests personal data to track your behaviour, making assumptions about who you are and what you believe. This is used to sell targeted adverts 🏧

By settling Tanya O'Carroll's case, Meta admits that you have the right to opt-out.

It's time to #StopStalkerAds

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/

Use our tool to opt-out ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech #GDPR #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

NEW: Tool launched to opt-out of stalker ads on Meta!

Last week saw a big win for data rights! Meta settled Tanya O'Carroll's legal case against them. They agreed to stop using her data for targeted advertising.

Now it's your turn 🫵

Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #adtech #GDPR #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #Facebook

I'll post this periodically in case anyone missed their chance to STOP THE #CREEPY

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456

Please sign if you're either a British citizen or resident.

#surveillancecapitalism #petition #surveillanceadvertising #tracking #datarape #surveillamcebusinessmodel #notok #dataprotection #infosec #dataprivacy #privacy #threattodemocracy #democracy #gdpr #ukpol

myth: "personalized" advertising is a good thing that needs to be balanced with #privacy

reality: personalized/surveillance ads are problematic at a lot of levels—where state privacy laws result in de-personalization, that's a bonus win

https://blog.zgp.org/advertising-personalization-good-for-you/ (way too many links to way too much research to click them all—my prep for Internet arguments with surveillance advertising fans) #advertising #surveillanceCapitalism #surveillanceAdvertising

fwiw The Document Foundation somehow manages to keep #LibreOffice, a complex cross-platform GUI application, useful and secure without selling out to #surveillanceAdvertising

@Mer__edith I'm going to launch a petition in the UK to get #surveillanceadvertising banned.
🤞

A great article by #ShoshanaZuboff from 2021 that summarises and extrapolates her amazing 2019 book #TheAgeOfSurveillanceCapitalism

https://archive.is/2023.03.28-040439/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/facebook-privacy.html

The way this stuff works is so subtle and the corrosion so gradual, that I encourage you to read this even if you've already read her book.

And if people tell you privacy is dead, ask them for their email password 😁

#surveillancecapitalism #threattodemocracy #socialmedia #bigtech #surveillanceadvertising

THIS is why the #SurveillanceAdvertising data trade needs to be banned.

The #EUcommission itself couldn't resist using it to push an agenda via #X.

https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-eu-commission-illegal

I respect the EU - they are doing more than others to impose #regulation on #bigtech - so this is sad news.

But it shows that the temptation shouldn't be there...

#surveillancecapitalism #microtargeting #tracking #profiling #digitalprivacy #RTB

More great news in the fight against #surveillancecapitalism 😁

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-proposes-rule-to-stop-data-brokers-from-selling-sensitive-personal-data-to-scammers-stalkers-and-spies/

"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today proposed a rule to rein in data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive personal and financial information."

🙏🙏🙏🙏 pass this into law.

Can #Europe do the same? The #RTB needs to be controlled, IMO by banning the harvesting of #surveillanceadvertising data

@floort @acm yes, this. #SurveillanceAdvertising must be banned.

The appetite for this has grown much stronger in Europe now.

Follow that hashtag ☝️ and also #surveillancecapitalism here on Mastodon to see what I mean.

And speak with @Mer__edith - she's a badass 💪