Whenever you see the words “ads”, “cryptocurrency”, “blockchain”, “web 3”, or “AI”, just replace them with “farts” and you’ll know whether you want them or not.
“Can the fediverse survive without farts?”
Yes, perfectly well.
“Will farts replace people?”
I hope not.
“The European Commission embraces farts.”
That’s unfortunate.
“This new startup wants to improve your life with farts.”
Meta is proposing a paid option to opt-out of advertising on Instagram and Facebook. It's basically extortion to have your right to #privacy protected.
Ads can and should be delivered without resorting to illegal #surveillance that violates users' rights and exposes them to predatory or discriminatory advertising.
If #Meta can't conduct their business legally, that should be their problem to solve not ours.
Wer nicht will, dass seine persönlichsten Daten bei jedem Webseitenbesuch an Hunderte von "Werbepartnern" weitergegeben werden (die diese Informationen oft mit unzähligen weiteren "Partnern" weltweit teilen), der oder dem bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als selbst Hand anzulegen und seinen Webbrowser vor Tracking zu schützen. Ist eigentlich ganz einfach! (Und macht das Internet nebenbei auch wieder benutzbarer und auch etwas sicherer.)
5/6 #AdTech#Tracking https://dnip.ch/2023/12/20/tracking-nein-danke/
Today in #SurveillanceCapitalism I went to acquire snacks and there were two of these #DOOH#DigitalSignage screens at the entrance. That circle at the top is a camera, I think.
The really weird thing is that it served me an ad for a Google Pixel as I approached it. It was serving a Bendigo Bank ad. There are no signs anywhere stating if this is using facial rec or beacons or other #AdTech. I am curious if it's doing age / gender classification from the camera.
Would love to see what my #FlipperZero can make of this.
ORG has submitted complaints in the UK and France about LiveRamp, an online advertising and data broking company.
An investigation commissioned by ORG shows the new #adtech system undermines #privacy through invasive profiling.
Thousands of #advertising companies draw detailed profiles of Internet users’ online activities to target them with ads. It's the backbone of #surveillancecapitalism and it's proven to be harmful.
#SocialMedia#Facebook#Meta#EU#GDPR#DataProtection#AdTech#Privacy: "Today, the EDPB has issued its first decision on "Pay or Okay" in relation to large online platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, as first reported by Politico. This decision prohibits Meta from using an unlawful consent request processing personal data. It seems that by now, Meta has run out of options to continue using people's data for advertising in the EU without a consent mechanism that actually complies with the law." https://noyb.eu/en/statement-edpb-pay-or-okay-opinion
Is it ethical to use ad blockers and anti-tracking technology?
Here’s my stance: in print media, was it ethical to flip past a magazine ad without reading it?
Anything that makes skipping ads harder than that—or that gives advetizers one byte more data about me than they would have had when I picked up a magazine off the newstand—is an overreach, and fair game for me to block or evade by any means necessary.
#Norway#SocialMedia#Facebook#Instagram#Meta#AdTech#BehaviouralAdvertising: "The Meta-owned social media platforms will face a temporary three-month ban on behavioural advertising based on extensive user profiling in Norway starting on 4 August, following a ruling of the EU Court of Justice that found the practice lacked a legal basis.
Although Facebook and Instagram will continue their operations in the country, behavioural advertising infringing the EU regulation on data protection is banned. The penalty is 1 million Norwegian kroner (almost €89,000) daily.
The General Data Protection Regulation applies to all 27 member states of the EU, plus the three additional countries of the European Economic Area: Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway."
Ach, was soll schon passieren, wenn die Wetter-App meine Location-Datan sammelt... 😌
Nun ja.
Eine Enthüllung in den Niederlanden zeigt die Risiken durch den weltweiten Datenhandel – auch für die nationale Sicherheit. Demnach standen detaillierte Standortdaten von potentiell Millionen Niederländer*innen zum Verkauf, darunter Angehörige des Militärs. Der Marktplatz: Ein Berliner Datenhändler 🤡
#Surveillance#Privacy#DataProtection#AdTech: "Nearly every time we load new content on an app or a Web site, ad-exchange companies—Google being the largest among them—broadcast data about our interests, finances, and vulnerabilities to determine exactly what we’ll see; more than a billion of these transactions take place in the U.S. every hour. Each of us, the data-privacy expert Wolfie Christl told me, has “dozens or even hundreds” of digital identifiers attached to our person; there’s an estimated eighteen-billion-dollar industry for location data alone. In August, 2022, Mozilla reviewed twenty pregnancy and period-tracking apps and found that fifteen of them made a “buffet” of personal data available to third parties, including addresses, I.P. numbers, sexual histories, and medical details. In most cases, the apps used vague language about when and how this data could be shared with law enforcement. (A 2020 foia lawsuit filed by the A.C.L.U. revealed that the Department of Homeland Security had purchased access to location data for millions of people in order to track them without a warrant. ice and C.B.P. subsequently said they would stop using such data.) The scholar Shoshana Zuboff has called this surveillance capitalism, “a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.” Through our phones, we are under perpetual surveillance by companies that buy and sell data about what kind of person we are, whom we might vote for, what we might purchase, and what we might be nudged into doing." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-pregnancy-experiment
Our industry has never really questioned the notion that one-to-one marketing is a worthy goal. Rather than learn the lessons of the consumer rebellion that led to GDPR, CCPA, and countless other regulations, we are embarking on a new style of consumer spying based on a new set of private signals. Today we are leveraging those signals to bully people into buying stuff they don’t need as well as instill in them irrational fears in order to prompt them to support anti-democracy candidates.
Why are we repeating the same mistakes? And make no mistake about it, the “alternatives” to third-party cookies function in the same way; they log a consumer’s private behavior and use it to follow them around the internet. Today we stand on the dawn of cookie-free advertising, tasked with reimagining the world. Instead, we are dangerously close to a colossal failure of imagination. Our focus is on identity resolution graphs and hashed emails — the exact kind of tracking we had with third-party cookies. Call it surveillance capitalism 2.0."
#AdTech#DataProtection#Privacy#TargetedAds: "In April, attorney Christine Dudley was listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.
Her audiobook consumption, she explained, had been highly focused the previous month, focused on a specific subgenre that she doesn't believe would come up by chance.
"You don't coincidentally come across mobile ads [for that particular subgenre]," she told The Register. "Those ads made me extremely angry."
Concerns about the privacy of library reading material date back to the early 20th century, explained Dorothea Salo, academic librarian and library-school instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to The Register.
"There was a time when American libraries weren't sure what their stance on reader privacy should be," said Salo."