Data Shedding

The following video is a summary of a report on how programmatic advertising can be weaponized for mass real-time surveillance. This report is highly troubling but not particularly surprising. If you want to learn how it’s being used, read up on the mastodon thread made by one of the report’s authors.

Links:

• Mastodon Thread
• Europe’s Hidden Security Crisis Report

Further Reading:

• The Military Origins of Facebook
• How Palantir Conquered the World
• Total Information Awareness
• Understanding Malicious ads