12.20.2020

Upping the privacy stakes

Facebook’s Laughable Campaign Against Apple Is Really Against Users and Small Businesses

Facebook claims that this change from Apple will hurt small businesses who benefit from access to targeted advertising services, but Facebook is not telling you the whole story. This is really about who benefits from the normalization of surveillance-powered advertising (hint: it’s not users or small businesses), and what Facebook stands to lose if its users learn more about exactly what it and other data brokers are up to behind the scenes.

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