Advertising Surveillance Technology 
Schneier on Security
JUNE 24, 2021
The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. Banning surveillance-based advertising in general will force structural changes to the advertising industry and alleviate a number of significant harms to consumers and to society at large.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 27, 2020
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. Forty major music festivals pledged not to use the technology, and activists are calling for a nationwide ban. Many Democratic presidential candidates support at least a partial ban on the technology. Let's take them in turn.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.
Security Affairs
JULY 12, 2020
Google announced that starting from August it will update its policies to reject ads proposed by organizations offering surveillance software. The move aims at fighting the advertising of any form of surveillance. Google wants to halt the use of ads for technology that could allow monitoring a person’s online activity (i.e.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
To evade detection, the malware makes use of the company’s so-called “invisible low stealth technology” and its Android product is advertised as having “low data and battery consumption” to prevent people from suspecting their phone or tablet has been infected.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 19, 2024
There is a lot we can learn about social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade that directly applies to AI companies and technologies. In both cases, the solution lies in limits on the technology’s use. #1: 1: Advertising The role advertising plays in the internet arose more by accident than anything else.
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