Four Films by Douglas Rushkoff
Four Frontline films from Douglas Rushkoff focusing on modern culture, social media, advertising, and marketing.
Four Films by Douglas Rushkoff Read MoreFour Frontline films from Douglas Rushkoff focusing on modern culture, social media, advertising, and marketing.
Four Films by Douglas Rushkoff Read MoreThe tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation Read MoreBotmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.
How Bots Corrupted Advertising Read MoreFrom pop-up notifications to Facebook ads, campaigners in Ukraine and beyond are using any means necessary to beat Russia’s information firewall.
Activists are using ads to sneak real news to Russians about Ukraine Read MoreAt some point next year, Google Chrome will stop using third-party cookies. It’s a move that could upend the global advertising and publishing industries – and it has major implications for your privacy.
Google’s cookie ban and FLoC, explained Read MoreDark patterns are user interfaces that benefit an online service by leading users into making decisions they might not otherwise make. Some dark patterns deceive users while others covertly manipulate or coerce them into choices that are not in their best interests.
Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future. The evolution of tricky user interfaces. Read MoreCitizens worldwide have demonstrated serious concerns regarding the management of personal information by online services. Policymakers have reacted to this situation by passing or proposing new regulations in the area of privacy and/or data protection. In a recent work, we demonstrated that Facebook (FB) labels 73% of users within the EU with potentially sensitive interests (referred to as ad preferences as well), which may contravene the GDPR. First, this article extends the scope of our analysis from the EU to 197 countries worldwide in February 2019. Second, we analyze whether the enactment of the GDPR on May 28, 2018 had some impact on the FB practices regarding the use of sensitive ad preferences. Third, we discuss privacy and ethics risks that may be derived from the exploitation of sensitive FB ad preferences. Finally, we present a technical solution that allows users to remove in a simple way the sensitive interests FB has assigned them.
Does Facebook Use Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes? Read More