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Because The U.S. Is Too Corrupt To Pass Privacy Legislation, Data Brokers Increasingly Traffic In Sensitive Mental Health Data | Techdirt

Karl Bode3 years ago2 years ago05 mins

Because The U.S. Is Too Corrupt To Pass Privacy Legislation, Data Brokers Increasingly Traffic In Sensitive Mental Health Data from the have-you-ever-noticed-that-making-money-is-the-only-thing-we-actually-care-about dept We’ve noted for a long while that the performative hysteria surrounding TikTok is basically a giant distraction from our failures on consumer protection and privacy legislation. Case in point: the growing number…

On privacy fundamentalism – ProjectVRM

Doc Searls3 years ago2 years ago030 mins

This is a post about journalism, privacy, and the common assumption that we can’t have one without sacrificing at least some of the other, because (the assumption goes), the business model for journalism is tracking-based advertising, aka adtech. I’ve been fighting that assumption for a long time. People vs. Adtech is a collection of 129 pieces…

HUMAN Discovers and Shuts Down Massive Ad Fraud Scheme – AdMonsters

Susie Stulz3 years ago2 years ago06 mins

Mobile advertising is big business, and where money flows, fraudsters follow. Last year, advertisers spent over $327 billion targeting users as they engaged with popular mobile apps, but as HUMAN Security announced yesterday, a chunk of that spending went into the pockets of fraudsters who successfully launched a massive ad fraud scheme. HUMAN discovered the…

Axie Infinity (AXS) Crypto Game Promised NFT Riches, Gave Ruin – Bloomberg

Joshua Brustein3 years ago3 years ago036 mins

Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons. There was the thrill of competition, the desire for companionship, and, at base, the need to pass the time. In his 20s, feeling isolated while working for a solar panel company in Florida, he spent his…

The (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto

Molly White, Matt Binder, Grady Booch, Amy Castor, Stephen Diehl, Dirty Bubble Media, Dr. Catherine Flick, David Gerard, Geoffrey Huntley, Bennett Tomlin, Neil Turkewitz, Ed Zitron, and some anonymous contributors3 years ago3 years ago066 mins

The Edited Latecomer’s Guide To Crypto Annotations by Molly White, Matt Binder, Grady Booch, Amy Castor, Stephen Diehl, Dirty Bubble Media, Dr. Catherine Flick, David Gerard, Geoffrey Huntley, Bennett Tomlin, Neil Turkewitz, Ed Zitron, and some anonymous contributors. Published March 25, 2022. On March 20, 2022, the New York Times published a 14,000-word puff…

Facebook/Meta Asks: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Die?” | Defector

David Roth4 years ago012 mins

Given the company’s character and scale and long ethical rap sheet, it is reasonable to construe every message issued by the company formerly known as Facebook as a threat. The company surely doesn’t intend this, but the story of the company’s growth and success has by now been overtaken by the sum of the many,…

THE PROGRAMMATIC POOP FUNNEL

Bob Hoffman4 years ago4 years ago012 mins

Who doesn’t love a good funnel? Today, we’re going to make a nice colorful funnel using the latest data from some of the ad industry’s most reliable sources to trace a dollar spent for programmatically-bought display advertising on its exciting journey from your pocket to the bank accounts of middlemen, con men, crooks, and the Bermuda…

There’s Inside Information in SEC Filings – Bloomberg

Matt Levine4 years ago4 years ago047 mins

Hack the SEC A good plot for, like, an insider-trading Hollywood thriller would be if the villains hacked into the computers of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC, after all, is maybe the world’s greatest repository of material information about public companies. Companies are constantly filing earnings releases, merger announcements, management changes, proxy…

How BuzzFeed Is Using Automated Ads to Power Growth

Lucinda Southern4 years ago4 years ago09 mins

BuzzFeed’s four-year-old programmatic business is the engine of its advertising growth. That muscle will come in handy as publishers and marketers enter the usual frenzy of the fourth quarter against the backdrop of the delta variant threatening to derail ad creative and campaign budgets. On its road to becoming a public company, the publisher wouldn’t…

Carissa Véliz: Privacy is Power – Tech Policy Press

Carissa Véliz4 years ago4 years ago067 mins

For the Tech Policy Press Sunday Show podcast, I spoke to author Carissa Véliz about her recently published book, Privacy is Power: Why And How you Should Take Back Control of Your Data. Carissa is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, at the…

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The Anxiety of Influencers

Andrew Tate, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, returns to the U.S.

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Because The U.S. Is Too Corrupt To Pass Privacy Legislation, Data Brokers Increasingly Traffic In Sensitive Mental Health Data | Techdirt

On privacy fundamentalism – ProjectVRM

HUMAN Discovers and Shuts Down Massive Ad Fraud Scheme – AdMonsters

Axie Infinity (AXS) Crypto Game Promised NFT Riches, Gave Ruin – Bloomberg

The (Edited) Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto

THE PROGRAMMATIC POOP FUNNEL

There’s Inside Information in SEC Filings – Bloomberg

How BuzzFeed Is Using Automated Ads to Power Growth

Carissa Véliz: Privacy is Power – Tech Policy Press