Adtech is at its core an immoral and dangerous business practice that reveals its injuries to the innocent during ground war in Europe and the rollback of civil rights in America.
data privacy is a fundamental human right and stealing it save money on your ad spend is costing society somewhere else
Replace RuTarget with any domestic data broker or DMP and replace Ukraine with a vigilante state that offers abortion bounties and you’ve got Alito’s America
soon we will be reading this article and these are the only words that will change in this graf
Adtech is premised on the nebulous notion that privacy is somehow protected. I regret to inform you that it is not.
A moral industry would call for a moratorium on newly dangerous data practices after #Dobbs but they’re not even good at complying with sanctions against Putin.
Dems need to meet the moment in many ways but one of the ways is getting a national data privacy law in place ASAP that contends with our bleak post-Roe privacy dystopia. #DataRights#ADPPA
Congress discovering the marketplace of advertising identifiers that are used to re-identify us up the adtech and data broker supply chain. These IDs provide cover for data collection practices and help gaslight consumers about anonymization. #DataRightswsj.com/articles/lawma…
Dobbs will put focus on data brokers and the trafficking of targets for vigilante laws
UX design is about to become regulated and I doubt industry is prepared. Consider how revocable consent mandates a particular kind of switch type/design pattern if #ADPPA bill passes with this language which expressly prohibits dark patterns in consent UX/UI
Visualize a data broker registry website where you can issue “Do Not Collect” requests. #DataRights#ADPPA
this feeling of profound despair derives from the extreme minority rule engineered by the slave owners who designed this place
the minority worships guns because they are consumed with the prospect of having to kill the majority if it ever manages to exert any meaningful power
i was watching hannah arendt’s last interview this week via @openculture and her remarks on what makes the usa exceptional relate to minority rule so it’s informing my thoughts on question why our exceptionalism leads to a society animated by gun violence
Explorations, Speculations, Processes, Bodies, Sounds
Our graduate symposium @parsons_dt is starting at 11:30am Eastern. Register here. (It’s online so I don’t know why @TheNewSchool has a waitlist set up for it.) event.newschool.edu/dt2022d#echoes22
Summary of class today. Supreme Court’s privacy was violated so we know it is about to abort a women’s right of privacy as we know and our lack of privacy means huge risks from data brokers profiting in adversarial forced birth states.
There was also a scheduled discussion of web3 but it boiled down to the slurp juice is racist and interest in NFT has dropped 80% since the start of semester.
More class discussion notes:
web1
-decentralized protocols
-solo experience
-experimental web
web2
-centralized platforms
-social experience
-app for that