In our recently published research on the worldwide web of commercial surveillance, we took a close look at the global infrastructure connecting and correlating personal information across platforms, devices, and even from physical world sources like point-of-sales...
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Identity Resolution and the Big Dogs
Sep 27, 2024 | Insights, Spotlight
In our recently published research on the worldwide web of commercial surveillance, we took a close look at the global infrastructure...
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Aug 13, 2024 | Insights, Spotlight
It's cybersecurity season in Las Vegas and I'm inspired to write an overdue post on why I hate the phrase "cyber civil defense"....
We Need to Talk About Product Labels
Jun 20, 2024 | Insights, Spotlight
This week, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called for warning labels for social media platforms. If you know anything about...
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Harms Wrap-up
Oct 27, 2023 | Insights
One of the things we measured in our 2022 US K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark was the presence of risky trackers within the school’s...
Safe Products are NOT the Consumer’s Responsibility
Oct 5, 2023 | Insights
We’re lucky to live in the US. One of the things we routinely take for granted in our country is the general safety of virtually all...
The Elephant is Product Safety
Jun 1, 2023 | Insights
There’s a popular parable about five blind men touching various parts of an elephant to identify what they are unable to see. One,...
Data Controller Confusion in EdTech
May 9, 2023 | Insights
Who’s Responsible for Student Data: Data Controller Confusion in EdTech In Spotlight Report #4, we introduced the problem of “data...
Product Safety as a Human Right: Thoughts on Elizabeth Renieris’ “Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse
Mar 23, 2023 | Insights
Familiar with Elizabeth Renieris’ keen mind and exceptional writing skills, I was excited to read her recently published book,...
Why Location Data Brokers Put All Communities At Risk
Jun 6, 2022 | Insights
In our continued effort to educate people about the risks from data brokers this blog post provides a list of authoritative news...
What the Heck is a Data Broker? John Oliver Breaks it Down
May 11, 2022 | Insights
We hear about data brokers, but who are they and why should I care? They’re pervasive, collect thousands of data points about us on an ongoing basis, and aren’t properly governed.
Introducing the Me2B 101 Flash Guide Series
Sep 1, 2021 | Insights
When we started drafting the Respectful Tech Specification a couple of years ago, it was immediately obvious that we didn’t have an adequate vocabulary to describe personal experiences in the digital world—never mind measure them.
Freedom in the Digital World
Jul 4, 2021 | Insights
I’m writing this on USA’s Independence Day 2021. I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom—especially in the digital world. Mainly because it doesn’t exist there (or here, since I’m posting this online).
For some time, the Me2B Alliance has been working on easy-to-understand educational material to better convey the particular harms visited upon us through the “Invisible Parallel Dataverse”, which is mainly embodied through a vast network of entities artfully calling themselves a “media ecosystem” but which is in fact the massive infrastructure and industry of Digital Advertising.