Tag: adtech

• This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup

  June 18, 2025

  The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites. https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2025/06/17/this-is-how-you-stop-data-trackers-from-sucking-up-your-health-data more ›

• The future of (ads) privacy

  July 13, 2021

    This is the first in a n-part series on data and privacy, areas I’ve worked in and written about for an inordinate amount of time. For reasons I hope… more ›

• Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

  March 6, 2021

  No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea more ›

• It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?

  May 29, 2019

  It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots… more ›

• Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It

  April 17, 2019

  According to the description, “These advertisers are running ads using a contact list they or their partner uploaded that includes info about you. This info was collected by the advertiser… more ›

• How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and…

  January 30, 2018

  How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook » It’s easy to see how Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 1.11% threatens the world’s retailers. more ›

• A Serf on Google’s Farm

  September 3, 2017

  A Serf on Google’s Farm » An unintended effect of Google’s heavy-handed attempt to silence Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program at New America has been to shine a… more ›