2022-05-27
@joejerome And the Utah law in particular is the biggest joke in privacy since whichever of Mark Zuckerberg's faux intellectual “we've listened and hear that privacy is important so we're increasing security” insincere apologies is most recent.
The Markup
An investigation finds Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have launched a coordinated campaign in 31 states against data privacy legislation since 2021
Coordinated industry lobbying is overwhelming the scattered efforts of consumer groups and privacy-minded lawmakers
@joejerome I think you can say that on the whole, this new generation of state privacy bills are largely insufficient, performative, and serve to rubber stamp dangerous corporate data practices rather than meaningfully addressing them.
The Markup
An investigation finds Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have launched a coordinated campaign in 31 states against data privacy legislation since 2021
Coordinated industry lobbying is overwhelming the scattered efforts of consumer groups and privacy-minded lawmakers
2022-05-17
Even for those of us who study privacy, surveillance, and data, the scale of commercial ad surveillance for such negligible benefits in the zero-sum ads arms race is shocking. We don't need this surveillance industry, it threatens democracy, and it needs to be brought to heel. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Report: the real-time bidding industry exposes a person's online activity and location 747 times per day on average in the US and 376 times per day in Europe
New data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system's use of web users' info for tracking and ad targeting, released today … Source: Irish Council … .
2021-09-06
Another great piece by @issielapowsky showing how privacy - and power - are everywhere you look, in this case the awful, cruel, and unconstitutional Texas abortion law. https://twitter.com/...
Ars Technica
Texas Right to Life whistleblower site is now using Epik for its name servers and domain registrar, after DigitalOcean appears to have cut off service
from voting to reproductive choice. #BansOffOurBodies https://www.cnbc.com/... Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : GoDaddy tells me it's going to kick Texas Right to Life's whistle...