Meta earns about $50 per user per year from highly targeted ads powered by your personal data. In richer regions, the figure is much higher: around 60–70 dollars per user per quarter in the U.S. and Canada. #Meta #SurveillanceAdvertising #AdTech #Privacy #YourDataTheirProfit
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/
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 […]
A recent government meeting in Newton City exposed alarming truths about surveillance advertising and the urgent need for stronger digital privacy laws to protect personal data.
Learn more here!
#NewtonCityMiddlesexCounty #MA #CivicEngagement #CitizenPortal #SurveillanceAdvertising #NewtonCity
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
fwiw The Document Foundation somehow manages to keep #LibreOffice, a complex cross-platform GUI application, useful and secure without selling out to #surveillanceAdvertising
thesocialdilemma.com
Worried about the current state of democracy, I suggest you watch this documentary or read The Sirens Call.
#socialmedia #surveillanceadvertising
old rule of social media: where the users go, the #surveillanceAdvertising follows
former TikTok users: switch to a PRC app that can't receive personal data because of the Protecting Americans' Data From Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024
well played, former TikTok users
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.
noyb.eu/en/political-microtarget...
I respect the EU - they are doing more than others to impose #regulation on […]
That was 2014, imagine how much more data points they have now 😬
#surveillanceadvertising needs to be banned
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE F@%k Microsoft??!?! They are officially as bad as #Google and #Meta 🤮
#surveillancecapitalism has gone too far. #surveillanceadvertising needs to be banned!
"since 2018 the GDPR requires consent for advertisement. Until 2023 Meta has simply ignored that requirement."
#Democracy needs to grow a pair 🤨
noyb.eu/en/ads-meta-wants-be-les...
#meta #surveillancecapitalism #surveillanceadvertising #socialmedia
#Advertisers Are #SPYING On You (w/ #MattCrain)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDF...
#BriahnaJoyGray #BadFaith #SurveillanceAdvertising #Surveillance #Internet #Media #Capitalism #Privatization
