Tanya O´Carroll
@TanyaOCarroll
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Human rights + accountable & equitable tech. Senior Fellow @Foxglovelegal suing @Meta. Co-founded @AmnestyTech. #PeopleVsBigTech
London
Joined February 2011
Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown invasive surveillance-ads on Facebook.
thetimes.com
The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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I’m live today at 4pm BST with @IanBRUCEStudio who is painting a series of psychological portraits of Elon Musk in a 5 day livestream exploring the ‘Muskification’ of social media and what we can do about it. He’s raising funds for #FreeOurFeeds. Tune in: https://t.co/9p32WhG6Tm
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Excited to do this livestream tomorrow at 4pm BST with the brilliant @IanBRUCEstudio who's painting a 5-day "psychological portrait" of Elon Musk and raising funds for #FreeOurFeeds. Tune in here: https://t.co/o09qizsVay After me tomorrow: Brian Eno at 5pm, Jon Ronson at 6!
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So...I'm taking part in an experimental art-meets-tech project at 4pm BST today. I'm joining artist Ian Bruce who's in the throes of a marathon portrait painting session of Elon Musk to raise money for #FreeOurFeeds. Join us!
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Who are the “handmaidens to authoritarianism”? In 1hr join me & @carolecadwalla to find out Carole broke the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 & recently gave a viral TED Talk ‘This is what a digital coup looks like’. Tune in at https://t.co/AofcQW8MoT
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🔥 @kuminaidoo "We survived Apartheid, we know how to dismantle oppressive systems. We recognise their playbook because we wrote the resistance manual against it. So what I say to people in this moment of history, is pessimism is a luxury we cannot afford"
I’m Ian. I'm fascinated by what Elon Musk is doing to the world. My way of understanding things is to paint them. Join me live for the next 5 days as I explore why Musk is who he is. I’m raising funds for https://t.co/BwMLqExv0V
#WeNeedToTalkAboutElon
https://t.co/KPmGjT0gfI
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Will Elon take this down? Let's see...
I’m Ian. I'm fascinated by what Elon Musk is doing to the world. My way of understanding things is to paint them. Join me live for the next 5 days as I explore why Musk is who he is. I’m raising funds for https://t.co/BwMLqExv0V
#WeNeedToTalkAboutElon
https://t.co/KPmGjT0gfI
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So, Internet, we really do need to talk about Elon. How did we get to a place where a single billionaire with daddy issues could take over and control our global public square? I picked up my paintbrush as a means to answer that question. https://t.co/AofcQW8MoT
ianpaintselon.com
We need to talk about Elon Musk.
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This Wednesday ⏰ Meta has admitted that users have the right opt-out of stalker ads. Now what for our data rights? Join our webinar to explore the impact of @TanyaOCarroll’s case against Meta. 🗓️ 16 April 🕕 6–7.30pm BST 📍 Zoom Register Now ➡️ https://t.co/5c5hmXKToC
openrightsgroup.org
Join us for a discussion about the right to object to your personal data being collected and processed for targeted advertising, aka stalker ads.
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To anyone in the UK who wants to exercise their right to object, the campaign group @Eko_Movement has created a website for that! https://t.co/cFfNQ06DRq
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But most of all I want to thank my incredible legal team @awolegal @RaviNa1k Alex, Gerry, Jenny, Eddie, WE DID IT!! And to everyone who had my back in this crazy journey THANK YOU! @luminategroup
@Foxglovelegal @SweeLengHarris @Alaphia @EmmaDebouverie @cori_crider & more!
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I applaud @ICOnews for their rational and principled application of the law in their intervention in my case and for publicly confirming they will back up other UK citizens who wish to exercise their right to object in the context of online targeted ads.
ico.org.uk
"People have the right to object to their personal information being used for direct marketing, and we have been clear that online targeted advertising should be considered as direct marketing. "
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I believe this is a victory not just for me but for every UK and EU citizen as it paves the way for the right to object to be used to stand up to surveillance-advertising across the web.
techcrunch.com
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement
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Enforcement is the second leg of competitiveness, as I told the European Parliament @EPP @EP_SingleMarket last week. Giant Chinese and U.S. tech firms dominate Europe's market by breaking EU Law. They must be pushed back, and space created for European SMEs & startups to scale.
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How can we make social media a happier, healthier place? Today, we kicked off our Bootcamp in London 💪 Here, 16 young ambassadors will tackle this question as they explore challenges, brainstorm solutions & take action for change! #OnlineSafety #YouthAction
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Our statement on the ongoing far right riots in the UK. Please share far and wide. #UKRiots #Riots #riotsengland #RiotsinUK #riotsuk #disinformation #misinformation #BigTech
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🚨 URGENT: We’ve put together some guidelines for journalists - and everyone else - about Big Tech’s role in the far right #riots. Please share. #Ukriots #UKRiots2024 #journorequest
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NEW 🚨 an investigation by us @mozilla and @aiforensics_org has revealed critical vulnerabilities in TikTok Lite. An app with 1 Billion downloads that's mostly available to people in its Africa, LatAm and Asian markets. A thread 🧵 https://t.co/PIEUHiC0Cj
wired.com
TikTok labels AI-generated material and warns about potentially deceptive content. A Lite version popular in the Global South, though, lacks these and other safeguards.
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Vous avez entre 16 et 25 ans et vous voulez rendre les réseaux sociaux plus démocratiques ? Postulez à la campagne de @PeopleVsBigTech pour apprendre pendant 3 jours aux côtés d'experts européens de la régulation des réseaux sociaux. Pour en savoir plus👉 https://t.co/W6kjzsdDrl
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Congratulations to @PeopleVsBigTech on the launch of its newsletter, The People. Subscribe for all things #tech justice⤵️👏
The algorithm is watching you 👀 tailoring everything you see down to the comment sections, partly based on gender stereotypes. What impact is this having on our societies? Find out in the 1st issue of our newsletter, this week taking on online #misogyny:
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