Alan Toner
@AlanToner4
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Policy Expert, data protection. Collaborator with EU civil liberties and consumer orgs. Previously EFF, Brave.
Joined October 2019
RT @LeeHepner: Varian is behaving very hostile to the DOJ, despite his damning testimony. Here was a good exchange:. Dintzer/DOJ: Defaults….
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RT @montezumachavez: Personalized advertising: French SA fined CRITEO EUR 40,000,000. Here's the decision in English: .
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If you're in London, check this out. Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy is an incredible achievement. I never met him and Máiréad, but once west of An Cheathrú Rua, his voice is in my head, helping me to look more deeply, and listen more carefully.
Celebration of Tim and Máiréad Robinson at Goldsmiths. Susan Stenger presenting Pat Collins' evocative documentary film 'Tim Robinson: Connemara' (Harvest Films | 2011 | 57 mins) and book launch of Tim and Liam Mac Con Iomaire's 'Conamara Chronicles'.
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RT @WolfieChristl: In this thread, I want to share some additional details about what the file from Xandr/Microsoft, which was reported yes….
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RT @WolfieChristl: Arbeitslos? Krebs? Schwanger? Ein Dokument gibt Einblicke in den globalen Datenhandel und zeigt, wie hunderte Firmen mit….
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The ad industry surveils users behaviour on/offline to classify them in 'segments' which can be sold to advertisers. This process includes observation and inference on sensitive health, political and financial data. @WolfieChristl found the dirt:
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RT @AIObjectives: A Privacy Hero's Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect #AI's Future via @wired . Thank you, @a_gre….
wired.com
Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying out his vision to steer artificial intelligence toward “human flourishi...
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DPC decision invalidating Facebook/Meta's legal basis (cotractual necessity) for behavioural advertising published:
noyb.eu
You can now read the details of the DPC decision! It seems interesting times lie before us in the Courts!
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RT @anselmlevskaya: For those who asked, my eulogy for my dearest friend Peter Eckersley:.
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Johnny Ryan on what is to be done with the Irish Data Protection Commission:
irishtimes.com
To restore confidence, the Government must ensure a robust and completely independent process to select two new commissioners
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RT @privacyint: BREAKING: Nearly 4 years after our complaint and 2 after starting their investigation, the French data protection authorit….
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Today, Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data brokers (Acxiom, Oracle), ad-tech companies (Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad), and credit referencing agencies (Equifax, Experian) with...
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"Anyone who thinks that Chrome turning off third-party cookies is going to fix this problem is naive. Ad tech solutions aren't going to solve ad tech problems.".
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BOK's conclusion? .“The fact that I am still getting tracked and targeted is problematic. "The fact that I don't know why, or by whom - even as a 15-year veteran of ad tech - is unbelievable.".
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@thezedwards responded to BOK's piece with a useful thread on how the identity matching behind Brian's disturbing ad occurred:.
Does everyone realize that this is almost assuredly @merck using the Ad ID Consortium to target ads to cancer patients? BOK's former company left this data-co-op (. I'll do a thread on this, explaining how you can audit a website like keytruda.)com ⚖️⛈️🧵
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Ultimately, Madhumita Murgia ended up writing about it for the Financial Times last September: .
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The subject studied the process with a data scientist, @sapiezynski.
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FB's ad delivery algorithms were optimised to find people like her with a history of engagement with such campaigns, even when they attempted to extricate themselves by deleting the health-related 'interests' assigned in their profile.
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