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The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (29 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow2 years ago022 mins

Pluralistic: The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (29 Sept 2023) Today’s links The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline: Finding suckers is the one thing ad-targeting is good at. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current…

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power | Federal Trade Commission

FTC2 years ago08 mins

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions allow it to stop rivals and…

Why Major SSPs Monetize the Majority of the Web’s Low-Quality Websites

Catherine Perloff2 years ago09 mins

Despite the industry’s efforts, low-quality supply continues to be a regular component of the programmatic supply chain, according to July’s Jounce Media report, which found that top supply-side platforms (SSPs) often sell as much inventory from premium publishers as sub-premium. Inventory classified as sub-premium includes made-for-advertising sites, non-viewable ad placement, and inventory that could only…

New York Bans Geofencing Near Health Care Facilities

Catherine Perloff2 years ago07 mins

New York is prohibiting advertisers from geofencing health care facilities, according to a new provision in the state budget passed in May. As a result, it’s becoming harder for advertisers, who want to use location or health care data, to maintain performance while still abiding by the law. Geofencing is a technology that lets companies…

VPPA: the New — yet Old — Privacy Legal Threat to Major Brands

Ryan Joe, Lara O'Reilly2 years ago09 mins

Brands like Chick-Fil-A and Geico are being accused of violating 1980s privacy law the VPPA. Companies that use online tracking codes like Meta Pixel or Google Analytics are potentially at risk. It can cost companies millions of dollars to resolve these cases. Broadcasters have long been wary of running afoul of a 1988 privacy law…

Opinion: The misuse of personal data is everywhere. Here’s one measure that fights back – Los Angeles Times

Roger McNamee2 years ago09 mins

The United States has no national privacy law. What it has instead is a laissez-faire policy that allows businesses and governments to harvest all manner of data and use it in any way they choose. While many Americans are aware of the harm caused by social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, they are generally…

AI Is Killing the Grand Bargain at the Heart of the Web

Kali Hays, Alistair Barr2 years ago021 mins

Content owners are wising up to their work being freely used by Big Tech to build new AI tools. Bots like Common Crawl are scraping and storing billions of pages of content for AI training. With less incentive to share online freely, the web could become a series of paywalled gardens. AI is undermining the…

The New Gold Mine: Your Personal Information & Tracking Data Online – WSJ

Julia Angwin2 years ago028 mins

Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty’s computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details about her, all to be put up for sale for a tenth of a penny. The file consists of a single code— 4c812db292272995e5416a323e79bd37—that secretly identifies her as a 26-year-old female in Nashville, Tenn. The code knows that her favorite movies include “The Princess…

Advertisers further probe ad buying transparency on YouTube, despite platform’s protestations – Digiday

Ronan Shields2 years ago010 mins

One month after the publication of a hotly contested report on the transparency of media buys on YouTube, advertisers are probing the industry’s largest seller of online ad space for better answers. The controversy sprang from a report by research firm Adalytics which claimed that marketers buying ad space on YouTube are potentially vulnerable to…

How The YouTube Scandal Exposes A Double Measurement Failure | AdExchanger

Nico Neumann2 years ago09 mins

By now, most people working in advertising have heard about the recent YouTube scandal. A comprehensive report from measurement company Adalytics provides a long list of cases where TrueView ads didn’t seem to adhere to Google’s quality standards. Ads were served on third-party sites and apps via the YouTube partner network, known as GVP. Many…

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The surveillance advertising to financial fraud pipeline (29 Sept 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power | Federal Trade Commission

Why Major SSPs Monetize the Majority of the Web’s Low-Quality Websites

New York Bans Geofencing Near Health Care Facilities

VPPA: the New — yet Old — Privacy Legal Threat to Major Brands

Opinion: The misuse of personal data is everywhere. Here’s one measure that fights back – Los Angeles Times

AI Is Killing the Grand Bargain at the Heart of the Web

The New Gold Mine: Your Personal Information & Tracking Data Online – WSJ

Advertisers further probe ad buying transparency on YouTube, despite platform’s protestations – Digiday

How The YouTube Scandal Exposes A Double Measurement Failure | AdExchanger