@briankrebs Argh and there I sat in front of #EU Parliamentarians from the #DMA oversight working group today speaking about how #Meta infringes the law and lies about its ad products, and these news would have been great additional evidence.
#trackingfreeads
@teilenswert Vielleicht steckt in dieser Situation auch eine Chance für alle demokratischen Kräfte, sich endlich aus der #BigTech-Falle zu befreien und unsere öffentliche Kommunikation auf neue, unabhängige Beine zu stellen.
I know some of us are really angered by #Meta's decision to stop running political, electoral and social issue ads in the EU.
I understand this will force many civil society orgs to painfully disentangle their own #campaigning from #Meta platforms.
But in my books it's a win-win: CSOs win because they finally break free from an abusive relationship, and society wins because less of our political debates and election campaigns are run on toxic #BigTech platforms.
I only now read Georg Riekeles' excellent 2022 account of #BigTech's outrageous global #lobbying influence. While I don't agree with everything (e.g. his take on #liability and the #copyright debate), after 15 years in #EU #Brussels I'd say his long-read is frighteningly accurate.
Includes special mentions of @corporateeurope and other crucial civil society groups fighting back.
A must-read: https://medium.com/@georg.riekeles/teknopolis-7cbe48a5fcf2
#TrackingFreeAds #DigitalServicesAct #DigitalMarketsAct #AIAct
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.
Potentially groundbreaking court ruling against #Meta:
"A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 to a 🇩🇪 #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding #tracking in third-party websites."
"This may very well be one of the most substantial rulings coming out of Europe this year, ... €5,000 in damages for one visitor adds up quickly if you have tens of thousands of visitors, or even millions."
🇧🇪 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 !
Rob from the Future of #Privacy Forum praises civil society for going after companies that violate #GDPR and the #TrackingFreeAds Coalition in the European Parliament for pushing tracking limitations into the #DigitalServicesAct. 👏
But his conclusion is "not too optimistic about #DPA action, needs other tools."
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
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
I know the outcome of the presidential election in #Romania has a web of complex reasons. But it would be ludicrous to ignore the dangerous impact that #bigtech's laissez-faire and its #trackingads and content #monetisation business model has. Not only #tiktok but also #google and #meta:
Meta’s Role in Romania’s 2024 Presidential #Election - important research by @checkfirst
https://checkfirst.network/research-note-metas-role-in-romanias-2024-presidential-election/
#surveillance #CommercialSurveillance #politicalads #TrackingFreeAds #digitalservicesact #gdpr
"Financing digital services almost exclusively through personalised #advertising poses considerable risks to #democracy, social cohesion, informational self-determination, #climate and national #security. [...] the new @EUCommission should take #digitalfairness seriously & push for a ban on personalised ads."
Great new report by @germanwatch @fiff_de @wikimediaDE @Konzeptwerk and @CCC
https://www.germanwatch.org/sites/default/files/germanwatch_rethinking_online_advertising_2024.pdf
#DigitalFairnessAct #DFA #TrackingFreeAds #GDPR #DSA #privacy #ConsumerRights
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
I mean there are good reasons to oppose #advertising as such (including online) but, if one acknowledges that ads play at least some legitimate role in financing online services, isn't Mozilla's proposal a good attempt in building a #TrackingFreeAds system? If not, why (real question)?
Does anyone know where to watch this #documentary?
"Welcome to the murky world of digital #adfraud, organised #crime's biggest source of income after drug trafficking. A former industry executive pulls the curtain to expose how it's done, who the victims are, and what role #Google and #Facebook play in the game."
There has already been some media coverage of #Linkedin's decision to limit ad #targeting based on sensitive personal data and comply with the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA instead.
Most failed to mention that this was based on a joint complaint filed by @edri, @Freiheitsrechte, @bitsoffreedom and @globalwitness, so I took the liberty to write down the inside story for you :)
https://edri.org/our-work/privacy-win-linkedin-limits-ad-targeting-after-edri-complaint/
#privacy #gdpr #dataprotection #trackingfreeads #BanSurveillanceAdvertising
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
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