Tag: data harvesting

• Push to reform murky adtech industry threatening existing duopoly by Facebook / Google

  A push to reform murky ad tech industry practices in Europe, and the viability of data transfers over the pond has been all over the news last week.  Twitter is full with Mark Zuckerberg’s response yesterday questioning the ability to provide its main services Facebook and Instagram within the EU in the future, if data…

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  7th February 2022

  data, micro targeting, privacy, Tech Policy

  data harvesting, facebook, google, microtargeting, privacy

• Regulating the ad tech industry to minimise discrimination by association

  Why do we need regulation for online advertisement?   Algorithms can draw inferences about sensitive personal traits such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and religious beliefs based on our browsing behaviour. This data is very valuable. BUT, creating user groups using this kind of sensitive data is illegal under the current EU data protection regulation.  To sidestep…

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  13th January 2022

  AI, data, micro targeting, Tech Policy

  data harvesting, discrimination, micro targeting, Tech Policy

• The tech / security legacy of January 6

  I wanted to offer a slightly different perspective and contextualise what happened on Januar 6 in terms of tech / security, because my background is in security and social movements, and this event can be deconstructed in these terms.  So to keep things as simple as possible, and look at it from a different perspective,…

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  8th January 2022

  Uncategorized

  AI prediction, data harvesting, Storm on Capitol