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Sep 21, 2020 • 14 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
Today, we release new data on the consequences of the biggest data breach of all time: Real-Time Bidding. Two years after my complaint about the RTB privacy crisis, @DPCIreland has failed to end it.
@ICCLtweet
iccl.ie/human-rights/i…
This morning, @Politico @markscott82 has the story
politico.eu/article/google…
Here is a list of the companies that Google sends RTB data to in Europe. It is 25 pages long!
(US list is longer, and has companies from many nations)
iccl.ie/wp-content/upl…
Here is what you need to know about the RTB privacy crisis
vimeo.com/451973748
Google’s RTB system allows Irish people to be targeted in “Substance abuse”, “Diabetes”, “Chronic Pain”, and “Sleep Disorders” categories, based profiles from Polish data broker company OnAudience (profiles built from RTB data).
See page 6 of report iccl.ie/human-rights/i…
OnAudience (uses RTB data) profiled 1.4 million voters in Poland by politics and sexual orientation, to influence the 2019 parliamentary election. Whatever side of the political issue you stand on, these data could have been used for the opposite too. iccl.ie/wp-content/upl…
In @irishexaminer, @ciananbrennan reports on the story, quotes a remarkable reaction from @DPCIreland. Unfortunately for all of us, the DPC's "extensive correspondence" and "a meeting" over two years is not enough to end this privacy crisis. irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4005…
IAB "RTB" system allows users to target 1,300 people in Ireland profiled in a “AIDS & HIV” category, based on data broker profiles built with RTB data.
Other categories include “Incest & Abuse Support”, “Brain Tumor”, “Incontinence”, “Depression”. iccl.ie/human-rights/i…
A very big thank you to the excellent @WolfieChristl, who has dug deep in to the murky world of data brokers.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Today's submission builds on his work.
For @IrishTimes, @jackpowerIT covers the story irishtimes.com/business/techn…
@jackpowerIT important correction. The profiles are clearly not anonymous, which is the problem.
Big piece from @riptari of @TechCrunch
techcrunch.com/2020/09/21/ire…
I missed this earlier. @broadsheet_ie has the story here
broadsheet.ie/2020/09/21/int…
In @independent_ie, @adrianweckler has the story.
(I like that phrase about "notional" anonymity)
independent.ie/business/techn…

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Apr 24
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Meet the Six Horsemen of the Digital Apocalypse.
Horseman 1: The quality of information in democracy is collapsing.
Broken and fraud-riddled online advertising market is crushing journalism and monetising disinformation.

Plus, social media toxic "recommender system" algorithms artificially amplify hate and disinformation, and push self harm and suicide at children.
Horseman 2: Election manipulation
Online advertising tech (Real-Time Bidding) leaks intimate data about what all voters read online and their real world movements, too. This is a goldmine for anyone who wants to interfere in Europe's elections.
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Dec 14, 2023
People – not Big Tech’s algorithms – should decide what they see and share online. The European Commission should learn from @CNaM_ie’s example, and give everyone in Europe the freedom to decide.
iccl.ie/2023/the-europ…
These systems are acutely dangerous. Just one hour after @AmnestyTech’s researchers started a TikTok account posing as a 13-year-old child who views mental health content, TikTok’s algorithm started to show the child videos glamourising suicide.
@AmnestyTech Algorithmic “recommender systems” select emotive and extreme content and show it to people who the system estimates are most likely to be outraged. These outraged people then spend longer on the platform, which allows the company to make more money showing them ads.
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Nov 14, 2023
New report: how data about Europe's political leaders, judges, and military personnel flow to foreign states and non-state actors.
RTB's security problem is a national security problem. iccl.ie/digital-data/e…
Our investigation highlights a widespread trade in data about sensitive European personnel and leaders that exposes them to blackmail, hacking and compromise, and undermines the security of their organisations and institutions. Image
The report also reveals that Google (and other RTB firms) send RTB data about people in the U.S. to Russia and China Image
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Nov 21, 2022
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission @FTC is considering new privacy rules.
Today, ICCL @ICCLtweet & @OpenMarkets & @TACD_Consumers (a forum of 75 NGOs) make a major submission showing the need for action against commercial surveillance.
iccl.ie/digital-data/f…
The private things we do online, and where we move in the real world, are tracked by a vast online system called “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB). It works behind the scenes on almost every website and app. It tracks and exposes Americans' secrets 107 trillion times a year.
On average, the RTB system broadcasts what a person in the U.S. is reading and watching, and where they are, 747 times a day. For example, a person in Ohio will have their online activity and location exposed 812 times every day.
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Nov 17, 2022
Newly unsealed court documents reveal data anarchy at @Meta.

We've just sent the European Commission @vestager +@ThierryBreton @dreynders new material revealing Meta’s internal data systems
+how Meta infringes the new EU Digital Markets Act + GDPR
iccl.ie/news/unsealed-…
We examined thousands of pages of unsealed docs and depositions of Meta engineers from a long running case against Meta in Northern California. We found a data free-for-all inside Meta that makes compliance with the new EU Digital Markets Act an impossibility.
Case starts in 2018. After prolonged difficulty obtaining the necessary information from Meta the Court in Northern California appointed a Special Master in July 2021 to oversee Meta’s production of information about several plaintiffs. See @jason_kint's excellent timeline.
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May 16, 2022
Today we release (staggering) new data on the "RTB" online ads data breach.
“Real-Time Bidding” tracks and shares what people view online and their real-world movements 178 Trillion times a year in the U.S. & Europe.
iccl.ie/digital-data/i…
Google says 4,698 companies are allowed to receive its RTB data about what people in the U.S. are viewing online, and where they are. That number includes companies in Russia and China.
Our report includes figures for every U.S. state and European country.

Example: if you live in Ohio your internet behaviour and movements are exposed 812 times on average every day. Many other U.S. States are higher.
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