Adtech Surveillance and Government Surveillance are Often the Same Surveillance

By Matthew Guariglia In the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States, the…

Russell Brand’s Demonetization Is Not a Bug of the Emerging Financial Order, but a Feature

By Jon Miltimore YouTube initiated a ban on commentator Russell Brand on last week that prohibits…

EU Regulators Seek Breakup Of Google’s Ad Business Over “Illegal” Practices

By Tyler Durden On Wednesday, European Union regulators informed Google that it “breached EU antitrust rules…

To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech

By Cory Doctorow The news is in trouble. It’s not just the mass closures of newsrooms…

Surveillance State: 60% of Americans Think Government Tracks Their Data

By Sophia Naughton Do you ever get that nagging feeling that someone’s watching you? You talk…

Microsoft Allows “Blacklisted” Conservative Sites Back Into Advertising Program

By Tyler Durden Microsoft has reversed a decision to add negative ad revenue flags for conservative…

Lawmakers Want Apple and Google Investigated for “building advertising-specific tracking IDs into their mobile operating system”

By B.N. Frank Collecting individuals’ personal data (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,…

The Bipartisan Digital Advertising Act Would Break Up Big Trackers

By Bennett Cyphers In May, Senators Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Richard Blumenthal introduced…

Brave Browser Update Will Include Feature that Prevents “Bounce Tracking”

By B.N. Frank Data collection for the purpose of marketing more products and services to customers…

40 States Are Addressing K-12 Data Privacy Laws. Is Yours One of Them?

By B.N. Frank Internet user data collection for the purpose of marketing products and services to…

Regulators Haven’t Done Much to Limit Advertising Browser Tracking “akin to a cookie that cannot be deleted.”

By B.N. Frank Data collection for the purpose of marketing more products and services to customers…

Facebook Will Be Targeting Oculus VR Headset Users with Ads

By B.N. Frank Facebook is one of many promoting and profiting off of Virtual Reality (VR)…

Daily Mail Sues Google Over Downranked Search Results

By Tyler Durden The owner of the Daily Mail newspaper and MailOnline website has filed a…

After Cookies, Ad Tech Wants to Use Your Email to Track You Everywhere

By Bennett Cyphers Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. Google…

Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.

By Bennett Cyphers Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC),…