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How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Uber

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How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Twitter

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How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Google & YouTube

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How to minimise targeted ads on social media: Facebook

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Big Data

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Reports and Analysis

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No, Facebook is not telling you everything

Facebook "Download Your Information" feature only gives you part of the picture. Information about advertisers uploading lists with your personal information is limited in time and prevents users from exercising their rights

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Data Exploitation and Democratic Societies

Image Source: "Voting Key" by CreditDebitPro is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Democratic society is under threat from a range of players exploiting our data in ways which are often hidden and unaccountable. These actors are manifold: traditional political parties (from the whole political spectrum)

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Fintech: Privacy and Identity In the New Data-Intensive Financial Sector

Financial services are changing, with technology being a key driver. It is affecting the nature of financial services, from credit and lending through to insurance, and even the future of money itself. The field of fintech is where the attention and investment is flowing. Within it, new sources of

News

22nd January 2020

The Hindsight Files 2020: Much More Than Politics

13th November 2019

Give Google an inch and they’ll take a mile!

10th October 2019

Use of 2FA information for commercial purposes is unacceptable

2nd September 2019

Taking a depression test online? Go ahead, they're listening

1st August 2019

Review of 'The Great Hack' documentary

15th May 2019

Cloud Storage App ‘Ever’ Has Been Weaponising Peoples’ Photos

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

Ads that think they know you - including your politics

The New York Times picked 16 categories (like registered Democrats or people trying to lose weight) and targeted ads at people in them. They used the ads to reveal the invisible information itself, noting that it is a "story of how our information is used not just to target us but to manipulate

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Presentación de información a la Relatoría Especial de Derechos Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales (DESCA) de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) sobre la situación de los DESCA en la región

PI y sus partners acogen el llamado de la Relatoría Especial de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) sobre la situación de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales en la región.