Thread by @profcarroll

Reading adtech lobby’s statements for Congressional committee hearings on privacy this week. They cite Cambridge Analytica as example of harms. Then claim GDPR and CCPA do nothing to prevent this type of harm. This is appallingly false disinformation given UK ICO’s enforcement.

The data sharecroppers are locked and loaded to water down a national privacy law that preempts state’s rights for the least possible concession. If you have a Rep in House or Senate committee, let em know you demand tough concessions for preemption on privacy. GDPR or better.

Data privacy debate in 2019 is boiling down quickly to state’s rights vs preemption on an issue that is broadly bipartisan. Roughly 80% Rs, Ds, Indys agree on data privacy issues. Lawmakers could get crushed between their consituents and industry donors if this debate gets testy.

Industry claiming that the fundamental data rights of access and remedy that undergird GDPR and CCPA won’t protect from harms such as Cambridge Analytica is grotesquely false given that their servers were seized under criminal warrant and pled guilty to ignoring disclosure order.

IAB, adtech’s lobby, will admit to Congress this week that Cambridge Analytica has put a spotlight on horrific practices. IAB will offer no specific alternative but will bash GDPR & CCPA yet won’t mention UK ICO’s enforcement actions against CA/SCL & FB. iab.com/news/2019-cons…

IAB won’t mention enforcement against CA/SCL because that draws attention to Right of Access that GDPR & CCPA grant. IAB doesn’t want to admit that CA was a product of the adtech ecosystem and IAB members were creditors in the end. FB is IAB member fined for breaking UK data law.

If IAB gets its way a national privacy law won’t prevent another Cambridge Analytica because IAB members profit from political spending (addressable adtech) which incidentally helps industry further ingratiate itself to lawmakers by helping them stay in power by microtargeting.

Privacy hearing on Hill with industry mouthpieces this week is up against a backdrop of new details showing how Mueller has been running an investigation that is following the data as much as the money. Kaiser is fluent in working with addressable adtech. msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhl…

🥃SHOT: Photo of IAB Chair Randall Rothenberg with Dr Oz at a special on-set event after the 2016 election decrying “fake news” — a scourge that IAB members monetize and incentivize.

🍺CHASER: Dr Oz endorsing Cambridge Analytica in a promotional video for Advertising Week 2017

The advertising tech industry is not going to ask Congress for enforceable limits on building secret psychological profiles on consumers. Voters must demand these and many other muscular protections despite industry’s disgusting grip on Congress.