🎉 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

“Tubes is a newsletter about tubes. Sort of.
The name, like most names, sounded way funnier in my head.”

It’s also about ad tech AKA what life is like on the web these days.

https://swodinsky.substack.com/p/tubes-is-a-newsletter-about-tubes
#Substack #Tubes #AdTech #trackingads #ShoshanaWodinsky

@airwhale @rysiek @atomicpoet @mike @mmasnick ...while adding some #transparency and #duediligence obligations for the biggest social media operators out there.

That does not mean we should not regulate the terrible #TrackingAds-driven business model that creates a lot of the commercial incentives for social media platforms to harm users and societies. The #DSA is too weak on this front unfortunately. [2/2]

Some more background: https://edri.org/our-work/the-dsa-fails-to-reign-in-the-most-harmful-digital-platform-businesses-but-it-is-still-useful/

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

He gave us a long anecdote about his daughter finding #trackingads “creepy”. So he’ll be supporting a comprehensive data protection bill? 😉