Cookies feed the beast of targeted advertising 🍪

The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) wants the adtech industry to use less less-invasive forms of tracking by exempting them from cookie consent rules.

But will this stop the privacy-be-damned trade in our data to feed us adverts?

Our roundtable had its say ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-future-of-cookie-consent-and-the-risks-of-relaxing-online-tracking/

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #ICO #ukpolitics #ukpol #advertising

Relaxing cookie consent rules is unlikely to leverage change in the adtech industry towards non-intrusive online tracking.

There must be:

⚫ More effective and dissuasive action by the ICO to remove illegal advertising.

⚫ Enforce data protection.

⚫ Protect law-abiding market players from the unfair competition of adtech companies who violate our privacy.

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #ICO #ukpolitics #ukpol #advertising

Cookie consent rules aren't the biggest barrier to privacy-preserving advertising technologies being widely used.

Ads without personal data are often blocked from being traded by intermediaries in the market.

So lowering regulation instead of enforcement isn't the answer to tackle intrusive tracking.

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #ICO #ukpolitics #ukpol #advertising

Trying to nudge the adtech industry into more privacy-preserving models of online tracking by cutting our need to consent is flawed.

The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) is terrible at enforcing consent rules for adtech providers that run behavioural tracking as it stands.

So the ICO is offering a carrot with no stick 🤷‍♂️

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #ICO #ukpolitics #ukpol #advertising

Baked into cookies are what we do on any given site. Trackers can then make guesses about who we are and what we're interested in.

These behavioural profiles are then auctioned off to advertisers in real time.

And so ads for what you've just looked at start to haunt you through the Internet.

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #ICO #ukpolitics #ukpol #advertising

Cookies feed the beast of targeted advertising 🍪

The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) wants the adtech industry to use less less-invasive forms of tracking by exempting them from cookie consent rules.

But will this stop the privacy-be-damned trade in our data to feed us adverts?

Our roundtable had its say ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-future-of-cookie-consent-and-the-risks-of-relaxing-online-tracking/

#adtech #privacy #dataprotection #ICO #ukpolitics #ukpol #advertising

Reimagining Digital ID 💭

ORG's @sarahalsherif is on the panel to discuss how the introduction of Digital ID must learn from research in Global Majority contexts and consider the implications of such systems for migrants and refugees.

🗓️ Saturday 8 November
🕥 10:30 – 17:30 GMT
📍 Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Register now ⬇️

https://www.redid.net/events-1/london-reimagining-digital-identity

#digitalID #migrants #ukpolitics

Reimagining Digital ID 💭

ORG's @sarahalsherif is on the panel to discuss how the introduction of Digital ID must learn from research in Global Majority contexts and consider the implications of such systems for migrants and refugees.

🗓️ Saturday 8 November
🕥 10:30 – 17:30 GMT
📍 Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Register now ⬇️

https://www.redid.net/events-1/london-reimagining-digital-identity

#digitalID #migrants #ukpolitics

"Each of the “terrorists” who held up a sign will only be given 36 minutes in court to make their defence...

How can anyone accused of a terror-related offence get a fair trial if they are not allowed adequate time to plead their case? This is the very definition of a kangaroo court"

#PalestineAction #Terrorism #UKPolitics #Justice #HumanRights

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/palestine-action-supporters-to-be

"Each of the “terrorists” who held up a sign will only be given 36 minutes in court to make their defence...

How can anyone accused of a terror-related offence get a fair trial if they are not allowed adequate time to plead their case? This is the very definition of a kangaroo court"

#PalestineAction #Terrorism #UKPolitics #Justice #HumanRights

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/palestine-action-supporters-to-be