🚨 NEWS. I am taking @Meta to court asserting my legal Right to Object to their harmful model of surveillance advertising. People have the right to access social media without being subjected to vast surveillance & profiling: awo.agency/blog/tanya-o-c… The case shows Meta is breaking the law by denying my objection request. We all have the right under GDPR to object to the use of our personal data for direct marketing but the company is straining to concoct legal arguments as to why this shouldn't apply to them.

🚨EU lawmakers are currently deciding whether or not to axe one of the Digital Service Act’s most important proposed measures: a prohibition on using people’s sensitive data in targeted advertising. 🧵A quick thread on what is at stake. At present there is nothing to stop Facebook and Google profiling people with ‘ad interests’ that reveal or infer sensitive data about them, such as their religious or political views, health conditions, and sexual preferences.

Just launched 🚀: our new @amnesty report making the case that Google & Facebook’s surveillance-based business model is a systemic threat to human rights

amnesty.org/en/latest/news… 2/ We all know the concentration of power in the hands of big tech is a problem. We hope this brings a human rights lens to the debate. For those who aren’t going to wade through all sixty pages, here are some choice bits from the report