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)

#TrackingFreeAds #privacy #GDPR #surveillance

Re To the #TrackingFreeAds Coalition it is all crystal clear: ban tracking
@karmel80 @LeitaoMarquesEP @ErnstCornelia @SchaldemoseMEP @kimvsparrentak @woelken @echo_pbreyer @repasi @BirgitSippelMEP

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1681687924226572288

Great news to start the week off right #trackingfreeads https://pro.politico.eu/news/166506

🎉 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).

#TrackingAds #SurveillanceAds #privacy #ForeignInfluence

3/4✊🏾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/

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

👊 #TrackingFreeAds
RT @accountabletech: Two years ago, we launched a transatlantic coalition of 50+ civil society groups fighting for an end to Big Tech’s toxic business model of surveillance advertising.

Today, #BanSurveillanceAdvertising is no longer considered radical, but is becoming policy around the world. 🧵

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1638525313234657283

Another victory!

De Nederlandse rechter oordeelt dat Facebook 10 (!) jaar lang gegevens van Nederlandse gebruikers verzamelde voor het aanbieden van advertenties, zonder dat daar rechtsgeldige toestemming voor is.

#TrackingFreeAds
https://nos.nl/l/2467537

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1636002771227869186

RT @paultang
Another victory!

De Nederlandse rechter oordeelt dat Facebook 10 (!) jaar lang gegevens van Nederlandse gebruikers verzamelde voor het aanbieden van advertenties, zonder dat daar rechtsgeldige toestemming voor is.

#TrackingFreeAds
https://nos.nl/l/2467537

Repeat after me: The personal data industry is dangerous. #TrackingAds are dangerous. Mass #surveillance, whether commercial or state-run, is dangerous.

"Colorado Catholic group bought app data that tracked gay priests"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

#privacy #dataprotection #TrackingFreeAds #tracking

Together with Estelle Massé from #AccessNow I wrote a thing @edri about #TrustPid, the latest system for #tracking ads online, this time proposed by the #telecoms industry.

👉 "TrustPid: Baking ad tracking into the internet infrastructure"

https://edri.org/our-work/trustpid-baking-ad-tracking-into-the-internet-infrastructure/

This time, the #tracking is directly built into the mobile network stack. 😳

#DigitalRights #TrackingFreeAds #ProtectTheStack

Only one conclusion derives from this study: remedy the online ads market. If necessary, introduce a new law to do that. #trackingfreeads

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8b950a43-a141-11ed-b508-01aa75ed71a1/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1620753602439700480

"The ad revenue of local publishers is decreasing rapidly. In 2016, they represented 43% of the market. This is consistent with the data in table 6, which shows that traditional advertising spend decreased by 36% between 2014 and 2021." #trackingfreeads

More and more Davids wake up to fight Goliath.

Another blow for Google’s adtech ecosystem! #trackingfreeads

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/doj-poised-to-sue-google-over-digital-ad-market-dominance

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1618201383941079040

"Apple says that during the first quarter of last year, 78 percent of searches in the App Store where people could have been shown #ads were from devices that had personalized ads turned off—the “conversion rate” for #advertisers is basically the same for personalized ads and #contextual ads, it says."

#TrackingFreeAds

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

You mean not harming privacy but effective targeting through location of advertisement? Sounds pretty good to me :)

#contextualadvertising #trackingfreeads
RT @pbannist: It would be pretty sad if, after privacy regulations are fully enforced, that advertising goes back to the way it worked in the 1950s. What a waste.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1612763395647995905

The FBI is actively encouraging people to use ad blockers because of malicious advertising.

Why don't we just attack the root of the problem and ban targeted advertising - which only benefits those opaque ad brokers? #TrackingFreeAds

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221

"Instead of having a yes/no option for personalized ads, #Meta just moved the #consent clause in the terms and conditions. This is not just unfair but clearly illegal. We are not aware of any other company that has tried to ignore the #GDPR in such an arrogant way." -- Max Schrems

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-declared-illegal

#privacy #TrackingFreeAds #Facebook #digitalrights

🇬🇧At 12:00 the LIBE Committee will vote on whether to ban manipulative #surveillanceads before elections and votes only on online platforms or also when targeted at large scale via post, email, SMS or messenger services. Read more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/political-advertising-eu-parliament-disagrees-on-personalised-targeting-of-political-messages/ #trackingfreeads

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/echo_pbreyer/status/1598252646632427520

Don't ask me how #LinkedIn's #advertising #algorithm thought I was in the market of luxury apartments in #Barcelona "starting at €2.4 million" 🤷‍♂️

#AdFail #SurveillanceAds #TrackingFreeAds