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.
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/
"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
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.
"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!
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/
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
@artemesia @w7voa Aaaactually I would argue it's quite simple: just don't spy on your readers and you're good. You might even *save* money by cleaning up your website of unnecessary #tracking tech and contracts with #adtech vultures. #gdpr #trackingfreeads
News: @DefendDemocracy joins the #TrackingFreeAds coalition of politicians, biz & civil society orgs that are committed to ending the intrusive tracking #advertising industry that dominates our #internet.
"#Surveillance harms democracy, journalism & security."
As long as #journalists keep on regurgitating this #marketing bullshit about "highly relevant ads" we will never be free of #SurveillanceAds.
(Screenshot from #PoliticoEurope newsletter)
In other news:
24 European Parliament lawmakers from the @TheProgressives, #Renew, @eppgroup, @ecrgroup and the @EP_GreensEFA asked Parliament President #RobertaMetsola to suspend #advertising campaigns run through #Google’s parent company #Alphabet and on #YouTube over fears they could be sponsoring Russian #propaganda. They also urged to reallocate the EP’s advertising budgets to “trustworthy" ads methods (think: #TrackingFreeAds).
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For years, @edri and a large coalition of civil society organisations, ethical tech firms and politicians have pushed for a ban of the very #surveillance ads business model that Google is abusing here.
#TrackingFreeAds
https://trackingfreeads.eu/
Who the heck would voluntarily use an email service that puts #surveillance #ads inside email text?
Great news!
All (13) Dutch regional broadcasters jointly decided to quit personal data-based advertising. No more tracking cookies but instead contextual ads! 
#trackingfreeads https://www.emerce.nl/nieuws/regionale-publieke-omroepen-overgestapt-cookieloos-adverteren
