Apps that help people track their menstrual cycle are data “gold mines” for advertisers, a new report warns. Advertisers use this highly valuable data for customer profiling, allowing them to tailor marketing campaigns to specific groups of consumers. The report, published by the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy on Tuesday, June […]
North Carolina Bill Would Require People to Share Their IDs With Social Media Companies
In North Carolina, legislators are considering a bill that would grant consumers more control over data collected and sold by companies. Great! Who can argue against that? But that’s not all it’s about. Following national trends, it would also set forth troubling age verification requirements for social media. Although pitched in a “save the kids” […]
John Oliver Set Up a Guide to Make Your Data Less Valuable to Mark Zuckerberg
Following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s transparent sucking up to President Trump and a change in content moderation policies across Meta platforms that allow for what is pretty unquestionably hate speech against marginalized groups, lots of people are looking for ways to part with the social media giant. You can count John Oliver among them. On […]