"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

Your devices are monitoring you through ultrasonic beacons https://nordvpn.com/blog/spying-gadgets-research/
'This phone is wack- either that or my lines been tapped...' https://youtube.com/watch?v=8qlGwrrefx0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

#surveillanceCapitalisme #SurveillanceAdvertising

Your devices are monitoring you through ultrasonic beacons https://nordvpn.com/blog/spying-gadgets-research/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=8qlGwrrefx0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE #surveillanceCapitalisme #SurveillanceAdvertising

Q: how will small businesses get by after #SurveillanceAdvertising?

A: same way they get by after Green Stamps, door-to-door sales, and the Yellow Pages

good new article on a common #surveillanceAdvertising practice if you're curious about it (the tl;dr is "install #privacyBadger" if you're not)

https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pixels-digital-advertising-facing-tougher-ftc-scrutiny/

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

the most lucrative job of the 2020s is going to be real estate broker in whatever state passes a #privacy law with private right of action—the lawyers are going to do really well from it. Let's see, which states have a powerful Bar Association and real estate business, but relatively few #surveillanceAdvertising and #socialMedia employers?

Newsletter question from krehbielgroup.com -- "What if programmatic advertising died?"

https://krehbielgroup.com/letter-archives/Krehbiel-Letter-2022-12.pdf

(Right now, it doesn't look like #surveillanceAdvertising is going to die out everywhere at the same pace. Right now, some niche markets are already full of #privacy nerds. Figuring out how to serve those markets will help #marketing orgs become more future-proof, kind of like how Amazon dot com got started with figuring out how to serve early adopters of online shopping)

#SurveillanceAdvertising #privacy #freedom

@LukaszOlejnik yes, Google started promoting it in 2019, before #CCPA went into effect, when a lot of #surveillanceAdvertising lawyers had an optimistic view of how the state would define "sale"

After the Sephora case it's pretty clear that a lot of "Privacy Sandbox" is sales of personal info for CCPA/ #CPRA purposes. Agree there will be a lot of complexity in integrating with IAB GPP and related consent/opt-out systems

Good reminder that deceptive UX is not just a b2c thing. Web developers who include a "Facebook pixel" (which is a fairly complicated piece of #surveillance #JS by now) are seeing that the defaults are to gather a lot of info from the page, automatically -- which means embarrassing news.

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/11/22/tax-filing-websites-have-been-sending-users-financial-information-to-facebook

Worth checking and removing or minimizing imho #surveillanceAdvertising

(this is not really a US politics post—it's a #surveillanceAdvertising #surveillanceEconomy post like most of the other stuff I post on here)

One of the easiest surveillance ad business models is the "petition" or "survey" with an upsell to political contribution. If you're in the USA and not already Internet famous for something else, you could be making mad cash with this (as a bonus, the $ doesn't go to a real politician, it's like a negative contribution)

https://blog.zgp.org/perfection-achieved/

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

European parliamentarians #MEPs Christel Schaldemose, René Repasi, and Paul Tang, all heavily involved in the crafting of the #DigitalServicesAct, have issued a formal complaint against #BigTech for deceiving lawmakers by lobbying through smaller front organisations.

They seek no less than banning Google, Meta, and the #SurveillanceAdvertising industry to be banned from entering Parliament.

RT @echo_pbreyer@twitter.com

🇬🇧 We #Pirates want to protect democracy from manipulative #surveillanceadvertising!

Today I table amendments to the regulation on political advertising, calling for a ban on the exploitation of personal data for #politicalads.

Read on: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/new-rules-on-political-advertising-to-stop-voter-manipulation/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/echo_pbreyer/status/1549343631408041985

@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.

Twitter blocked my account when I refused to supply a mobile phone#. Now #Twitter got caught using people’s 2FA info for #surveillanceAdvertising & was ordered to pay $150 million. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-pay-150-million-penalty-allegedly-breaking-its-privacy-promises-again https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101275323/twitter-privacy-settlement-doj-ftc

Es ist ein wichtiger Schritt.

Danke für deinen großartigen unermüdlichen Einsatz!

#DSA

RT @AlexandraGeese@twitter.com

Breaking: The @Europarl_EN@twitter.com just voted for a ban #surveillanceAdvertising based on sensitive data like sexual or political orientation. Should be confirmed in a the final vote this afternoon. https://twitter.com/janagooth/status/1484076402194489346

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AlexandraGeese/status/1484087071300100098