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Four years ago, human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll took on social media giant Meta when they refused to stop collecting and processing her personal data for targeted advertising.
In March 2025, Meta settled and agreed to honour O’Carroll’s right to object.
Now it's your turn to opt-out.
Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) 
Open Rights GroupMeta opt-outIn March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have agreed to stop profiling Tanya – and now it’s your turn to say no to stalker ads! If you use any Meta products – Facebook, Instagram, Meta Quest or VR, Threads or WhatsApp – you can use our tool to request that they no longer collect or process your data for advertising.
Meta has admitted that users have the right opt-out of stalker ads. Now what for our data rights?
Join our webinar to explore the impact of
Tanya O'Carroll's case against Meta.
Wed 16 April
6–7.30pm BST
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Register Now 
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/webinar-taking-on-meta-what-next-for-our-data-stalker-ads/
Open Rights GroupWebinar: Taking on Meta – What next for our data?Join us for a discussion about the right to object to your personal data being collected and processed for targeted advertising, aka stalker ads.
As Big Tech deepens ties with the U.S. government, we face a choice: convenience or control.
I've chosen privacy. This isn’t just about tools. It’s about the internet we want to live in.
Privacy isn’t radical. It’s resistance.
open.substack.comPrivacy Isn’t Paranoia—It’s a Choice. And I Have Made Mine.Diary: 31 March, 2025
A great interview that @pluralistic delivers most succinctly: "Fire the unelected social media dictators"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXa4DzhkUZ8
In today's digital world, privacy is becoming a rare commodity. Many people are starting to realise that the convenience of popular US-based apps comes at a cost - our personal data. And when you learn that even American scientists resort to burner phones at conferences, you begin to realise: privacy isn’t a fringe concern — it’s a frontline issue.
open.substack.comPrivacy Isn’t Paranoia—It’s a Choice. And I Have Made Mine.Diary: 31 March, 2025
After about a month of researching, documenting, and writing, this piece is out. Out of my brain, out of my soul.
Knowledge hurts sometimes. Acting consciously is so empowering though, and liberating.
Thanks @Ullilust and @Xeniax for allowing me to include your images and words.
My and @davidrevoy's illustrations in the article are CC-BY 4.0.
Illugination · Not In My Name
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Simona Casolari
Thinking about internet protocols like #activitypub or #atproto as just "social media", namely platforms for sharing cat images, influencers and followers, shitposting and memes, trolls and flamewars etc. is missing the point entirely.
These are merely emergent behaviors when people interact with primitive forms of "digital society".
In truth these are "societal media", they increasingly capture a good fraction of human reality. The masters of #surveillancecapitalism know this all too well.
Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderationReddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers.
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/637083/elon-musk-reddit-ceo-content-moderation
The Verge · Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
"Usefulness is only a byproduct of privacy invasion."
On the "The candid naivety of geeks" by @ploum
ploum.netThe candid naivety of geeks
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ploum
You have a legal right to object to targeted adverts based on your personal data.
Meta should give us options for opting-out of stalker ads. Until they do, you can use our tool to make this request.
Take control of your privacy 
Act Now (UK Residents) https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
The glorious future without Ring.
(Door knocker of Villa Parisio in Lija, Malta. Photo by S Bonnello.)
#ring
#surveillance
#surveillancecapitalism
#smartcity
#smarttechnology
#malta
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What are stalker ads?
Meta harvests personal data to track your behaviour, making assumptions about who you are and what you believe. This is used to sell targeted adverts 
By settling Tanya O'Carroll's case, Meta admits that you have the right to opt-out.
It's time to #StopStalkerAds
Use our tool to opt-out https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
TechCrunch · Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunchA human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement
NEW: Tool launched to opt-out of stalker ads on Meta!
Last week saw a big win for data rights! Meta settled Tanya O'Carroll's legal case against them. They agreed to stop using her data for targeted advertising.
Now it's your turn 
Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents)
Open Rights GroupMeta opt-outIn March 2025, there was a huge victory for your data rights! Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have agreed to stop profiling Tanya – and now it’s your turn to say no to stalker ads! If you use any Meta products – Facebook, Instagram, Meta Quest or VR, Threads or WhatsApp – you can use our tool to request that they no longer collect or process your data for advertising.
The problem with #privacy people is that they tend to be diligent hard-working types, the kind of people who write and proofread long PDFs.
Only 15 (?) states in the USA still don't have a privacy law. But legislators don't need to write a long, boring bill to get most of the benefits of dealing with the Big Tech / #surveillanceCapitalism problem.
As of 2025, two short bills would do it. Put the work on the private sector, not the legislature or regulators…
blog.zgp.orgprivacy laws for slacker states
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Don Marti
Tanya O’Carrol WINS against #Meta:
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising, concedes in legal case!
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: targeted ads and profiling are NOT something you must simply tolerate.
TechCrunch · Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunchA human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement
My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.
With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.
https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/
It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.
(Don’t hold your breaths.)
Aral Balkan · Careless peopleNotes from “Careless People: A story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness.” by Sarah-Wynn Williams
Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456
If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 
We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762
And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc
Petitions - UK Government and ParliamentPetition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertisingBan the extraction of peoples behavioural data for advertising purposes. This extraction can happen on most internet-connected devices 24/7. Data is sold through Real Time Bidding (RTB) system which is easily accessible and data may be de-anonymised. We think fines show GDPR may not be adhered to.