@blogoklahoma "The spacecraft could also be used for national security and defense, the board said."
Another thing to worry about. Surveil more Pro-Palestinian and human rights activists from above why don't you? 
#surveillancecapitalism #surveil #surveillance #surveillanceAdvertising #surveilancecapitalism #SurveillanceAds #surveillanceselfdefense #surveillancestate #ProtectNotSurveil #surveilance
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 data collection platform.
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 control to people while also unlocking the data". 
And all in a sudden, #SurveillanceAdvertising is not a #humanrights issue any more but merely a question of "governance".
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.
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) 
Meta has admitted that users have the right opt-out of stalker ads. Now what for our data rights?
Join our webinar to explore the impact of
Tanya O'Carroll's case against Meta.
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What are stalker ads?
Meta harvests personal data to track your behaviour, making assumptions about who you are and what you believe. This is used to sell targeted adverts 
By settling Tanya O'Carroll's case, Meta admits that you have the right to opt-out.
It's time to #StopStalkerAds
Use our tool to opt-out https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
NEW: Tool launched to opt-out of stalker ads on Meta!
Last week saw a big win for data rights! Meta settled Tanya O'Carroll's legal case against them. They agreed to stop using her data for targeted advertising.
Now it's your turn 
Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents)
Wouldn't it be great if the technology you use every day didn't constantly spy on you?
If you're in the UK, consider signing this petition from @patrickleavy :
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
https://blog.zgp.org/advertising-personalization-good-for-you/ (way too many links to way too much research to click them all—my prep for Internet arguments with surveillance advertising fans) #advertising #surveillanceCapitalism #surveillanceAdvertising
Folks are very rightly upset about Facebook, Google, and Amazon partnering with company that listened in on people's conversations to figure out what ads to show them.
But I'm not hearing enough about the company that actually did the spying:
Cox Media Group, aka CMG.
Say their name. Say it with venom. Hold them accountable.
@cstross Yes, mostly legit steps but a % does go into negative-sum games like #surveillanceAdvertising, which is not an optimal way to match honest buyers and sellers.
Most people would probably eat better at lower cost on a Facebook-advertiser-free diet if they tried it
@ai6yr @FroehlichMarcel
„Adversaries can even create carefully tailored ads as part of a targeted campaign against a specific victim.“
"but #surveillanceAdvertising keeps the Internet free!!"
well, no. let's do the math: advertising _total_ in the USA is about $1100/person.
even if _half_ of that is due to surveillance (Johnson et al.) and _half_ of the ad money makes it to ad-supported content--which is some pretty generous assumptions--that's like $275/year from surveillance which means at _best_ $23/mo of your total "Internet" costs.
If the annoyance+resources+risks of surveillance ads are more than $23, it's a net loss
@ericdano Thus, not a spam issue but spam being scapegoated in Google’s move to push everyone into the #surveillanceAdvertising hellscape. What @woozle is experiencing now is just a nuanced variation of the same. Raising the bar of effort & making small operations dance more is just another way to knock some of them down & get them to concede to surveillance capitalism.
I’ve become convinced that one of the most important things we can do to protect what remains of our democracy is to protect data privacy and eliminate hyper-targeted ad tech. The goal here shouldn’t be stopping the FBI from buying the data, but stopping that data from being available to anyone at all.
https://mastodon.social/@eff/110001706181938376
#dataprivacy #adtech #politics #privacy #surveillance #SurveillanceAdvertising
This week, @POTUS said:
“It’s time to ... Ban targeted advertising to children and impose stricter limits on the personal data that companies collect on all of us.”.
This is another, huge recognition of the harms of #surveillanceadvertising
Rewind: In 2021 we launched a campaign along with a detailed report that called for a ban on surveillance advertising. More than 60 civil society groups from around the world joined as well. https://twitter.com/i/status/1407647741753298945
@ifixcoinops They shut down in 2018, which was bleak times -- #GDPR had just gone into effect, we didn't have any US state privacy laws, the tracking protection tech was niche, all the #surveillanceAdvertising stuff was still on the way up.
But now the ad business is finally reforming, could be the right time for a re-launch
https://www.theprivacywhisperer.com/p/is-behavioral-advertising-dying
Those of you interested in my comments at the EU Parliament yesterday on #surveillanceadvertising and #disinformation in #elections might want to check out this illuminating thread in ‘the other place’ from the European Partnership for #Democracy of interest to those interested in #propaganda #data #politicalads #targetedadvertising #socialmedia #surveillance https://twitter.com/emmalbriant/status/1592202468359897091?s=46&t=1xGMlxR-mwPrEApgAvdnSw @potemkinvillage
@RLetot @aral If you ignore all the MS corruption & anti-consumer actions by MS & fixate just on privacy, MS was widely thought to not be in the #surveillanceAdvertising biz (certainly not to the Google/FB extreme). People assumed MS did not snoop in their email. But this year MS bought a surveillance ad spin-off (#XANDR?) from AT&T, so now there can be no mistake: MS is firmly in that business.
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