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    Sep 9

    My first thought on these glasses is that the light to indicate that they are recording video is nowhere near visible enough. Think of a sunny park. These things allow for seriously creepy recording of people in public spaces. It's a failure of responsible design.

    Here’s my deep dive on Facebook and Ray-Ban’s first pair of smart glasses that are going on sale today. They start at $299 and honestly, they’re pretty good.
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    Sep 9

    Facebook's answer to the risk of people using their new spy-glasses for spying? Asking them kindly to please not to.

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  3. Sep 9

    In case the privacy risks weren't already high enough, Facebook also considered adding facial recognition technology.

    Would also be great to know what other privacy experts Facebook is consulting for its glasses, given that the exec behind the project was considering facial recognition for them earlier this year.
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  4. Sep 9

    Facebook is a surveillance advertising company whose business relies on exploiting our data and invading our privacy on a vast scale. Now it has teamed up with Ray-Ban to sell camera glasses. have you thought this through?

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    Sep 9

    Remember that whole thing where Google Street View cars were passively scraping everyone’s wifi information? Imagine that but Facebook with all of our faces and locations

    Facebook and Ray-Ban’s smart glasses leak before launch
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  6. Sep 9

    New investigation finds Facebook enables discriminatory ad targeting, excluding women, older people from seeing job ads. This isn't a glitch. This is *exactly* how surveillance advertising works. And why we need to ban it.

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    Sep 9

    “What century does think we’re living in?” NEW: Our latest investigation found that Facebook’s algorithm may be discriminating on the grounds of gender and age when promoting job adverts.

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 7

    Germany's federal police has reportedly bought NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. At a time when it has been clearly established that NSO Group has facilitated systemic human rights abuse worldwide, this news is worrying.

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    Sep 7

    👏🏼We're delighted to see new supporters join the Coalition in the European Parliament! Among them are friends from civil society but also EU companies that have successfully deployed tracking-free ads like & .

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    Sep 7

    A warm welcome to & Take a look at all our 50 supporters:

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  11. Sep 7

    Online advertising does not need to be based on . Today is pleased to join over 40 orgs in supporting the Tracking-Free Ads Coalition - led by a x-party group of MEPs, pushing for an end to invasive tracking ads in Europe.

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  12. Sep 2

    Surveillance advertising brings & billions of dollars in profit. The rights to privacy, freedom of expression & non-discrimination are being harmed for the sake of profit margins.

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  13. Sep 2

    . & track us through our daily lives, inferring a huge amount of information about who we are, what we think & how we feel. They are more in control of our data than we are. Time to take back control & switch off surveillance ads.

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  14. Sep 2

    . is calling for a ban on surveillance advertising - because we shouldn't have to choose between accessing the internet & enjoying our human rights. Watch the video to find out more.

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  15. Aug 31

    New report from & : Tech has become the biggest corporate lobby sector in Brussels: €97 million/year in lobbying 10 companies represent 1/3 of total spend Privileged access to high-level EU officials

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    Aug 13

    New from : Yet another example of Facebook shutting down independent research into the harms of their opaque algorithmic systems. The company is terrified of any meaningful scrutiny.

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    Aug 13

    1/9 ⚠️ AlgorithmWatch was forced to shut down its monitoring project after threats from ! 👉🏻 Read our story: ✍🏻 And sign our open letter to European lawmakers to protect future research on online platforms: 🧵

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    Aug 12

    Important call by to to ban dangerous, irresponsible, unlawful sale & transfer of spyware and adopt robust rules to end free zone

    See👇🏼 joint call w to ban dangerous, irresponsible, unlawful sale & transfer of spyware and adopt robust rules to end free zone as recommended 2 yrs ago by my predecessor
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    Aug 12

    welcomes UN experts' call for global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology until there are regulations guaranteeing compliance with IHRL

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    Aug 12

    Today, following the revelations of the UN human rights experts have called on all states to impose a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology until robust regulations are in place.

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