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Open Rights Group

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) ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/met

Open Rights GroupMeta opt-outIn March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have agreed to stop profiling Tanya – and now it’s your turn to say no to stalker ads! If you use any Meta products – Facebook, Instagram, Meta Quest or VR, Threads or WhatsApp – you can use our tool to request that they no longer collect or process your data for advertising.
#meta#facebook#instagram
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Don Marti

The #Meta / #Mozilla in-browser advertising features are already a discrimination+fraud risk, but will get worse if not shut down soon.

Google 2019: we're doing "Privacy Sandbox" ads in the browser so we don't have to do fingerprinting

Google 2025: fingerprinting is back on the menu

The time to call out and deal with #boundaryTesting is _when you notice it_.

Updated: why "privacy-enhancing" ad features don't belong in browsers blog.zgp.org/stop-doing-privac #Firefox #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism

blog.zgp.orgstop putting privacy-enhancing advertising technologies in web browsers
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John Gordon 📷

And, honestly, if you think that report was bad, take a look at the FuzzyPanda research report on AppLovin - it's even more damning:

fuzzypandaresearch.com/app-sto

Fuzzy Panda Research · AppLovin (APP) – Formers Allege Ad Fraud; Is DTC Hype Actually ‘Stealing’ Meta’s Data; Illegal Tracking of Children & Serving Sex Ads to Kids  - Fuzzy Panda ResearchWe are short AppLovin (APP). Formers employees told us this AI Hype Story was built on “Ad Fraud.” Experts told us that the E-Com bull case relies on “copying META’s data.” We also uncovered illegal tracking of children and sexual ads served to kids. Meanwhile, Culper Research destroys the growth story by uncovering illicit "Direct Downloads" without user consent that reportedly were the AppLovin's #1 revenue driver.
#ad#adtech#scam
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Xamanismo Coletivo

#Disenshittify, NOW!! We have a chance: #IP!!

"…thanks to internal memos published during last year's #monopoly trial against #Google, we know what they did. They made #search worse. They reduced the system's accuracy it so you had to search twice or more to get to the answer, thus doubling the number of queries, and doubling the number of #ads.

Meanwhile, Google entered into a secret, illegal collusive arrangement with #Facebook, codenamed #JediBlue, to rig the ad market, fixing prices so advertisers paid more and publishers got less." @pluralistic
#adtech
pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs

pluralistic.netPluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Strypey

"Many privacy laws, including the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA, require user consent for tracking. However, because fingerprinting works without explicit storage of user data on a device, companies may argue that existing laws do not apply which creates a legal gray area that benefits advertisers over consumers."

Hanna, #Tuta (@Tutanota), 2025

tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerpr

Evil, but smart. Time for a broad brush ban on surveillance advertising?

TutaDigital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | TutaAs Google gives you the choice to opt out of cookie tracking, it silently starts collecting your online habits with fingerprinting.
#privacy#surveillance#AdTech
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Glyn Moody

Steve #Bannon: #Musk’s money will help us make Europe a populist haven - politico.eu/article/us-steve-b this is arguably the most serious threat to European democracy now, and I doubt leaders there understand the seriousness of the threat... #adtech

POLITICO · Steve Bannon: Musk’s money will help us make Europe a populist havenBy Ketrin Jochecová
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feliz

"A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power."

Carole Cadwalladr in The Observer:

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy is over. What starts now is something much worse: the age of information chaos.

The collaboration of tech bros with the people in power is the fusion of state and commercial power in a ruling elite.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of powerBy Carole Cadwalladr
#techbros#cambridgeanalytica#misinformation
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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:

I missed this news last week. In Vita v. NEBH, the #Massachusetts SJC decided 5-1 that hospitals using website tracking services aren't violating the state's 1968 wiretap law.

commonwealthbeacon.org/courts/

Dissenting justice Dalila Wendlandt wrote:

“Unbeknownst to their patients, the hospitals aided third parties to record this healthcare information, allowing the third parties to create detailed portraits of the patients’ medical needs and to monetize this information for advertisements targeted to those patients. Rather than candidly disclose this arrangement, the hospitals assured patients that, on their websites, the patients’ identities and privacy would be maintained. In short, the hospitals lied.”

She gets it, but the legislature probably won't.

(Majority and dissenting opinions can be found at fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/)

CommonWealth Beacon · Tracking cookies doesn’t violate wiretap law, SJC rulesBy Jennifer Smith
#SurveillanceCapitalism#privacy#AdTech
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Julian Schmidli

Wir haben in den letzten Monaten viel zu #Cookie-Bannern, #Adtech, #Privacy und Profiling recherchiert. Daraus ist u.a. eine mehrteilige Podcast-Serie entstanden – seit heute auch darüber, wie unsere heiklen Daten auch bei den Geheimdiensten landen. srf.ch/audio/news-plus-hinterg

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)News Plus Hintergründe - Audio & Podcasts - SRFAufwändig recherchierte Geschichten, die in der Schweiz zu reden geben. In News Plus Hintergründe gibt es die ganze Story.
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The IT Blog

SmartTVs going from bad to worse?

When we bought a new TV a couple of years ago, I was really to use all the Smart features from our SmartTV. But after a while the discomfort has outweighed the features. Recently we had the opportunity to “test” a newer SmartTV in a hotel and I must admit – it hasn’t gotten better! But I was surprised that the rabbit hole was even deeper and darker than I would have expected …

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https://www.locked.de/smarttvs-going-from-bad-to-worse/

The IT Blog · SmartTVs going from bad to worse?When we bought a new TV a couple of years ago, I was really to use all the Smart features from our SmartTV. But after a while the discomfort has outweighed the features. Recently we had the opportunity to "test" a newer SmartTV in a hotel and I must admit - it hasn't gotten better! But I was surpris
#AdBlock#AdBlocking#AdTech
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Ecologia Digital

"Ed @Zitron is joined by @jasonkint, CEO of DCN and Arielle Garcia, Director of Intelligence at CheckMyAds, for the third episode of Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second antitrust case against Google, one that alleges that "through #SerialAcquisitions and #Anticompetitive Auction #Manipulation, #Google Subverted Competition in Internet #Advertising Technologies."
#adtech
pca.st/episode/53556b8f-78b5-4

Pocket CastsThe Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 3 - Better OfflineBetter Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.  Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.
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