The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives.

This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – dimly concealed within complex, opaquely-rendered systems and fine print designed to be scrolled past. The way most of the internet works today would be considered intolerable if translated into comprehensible real world analogs, but it endures because it is invisible.

https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/

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Facebook shut down Signal’s ads because they exposed too much

Facebook has barred privacy-focused messaging app Signal from running a series of Instagram ads, which would have exposed just how much personal information the photo-sharing network – and its social media behemoth owner – has on individuals as they browse their timeline. Signal had intended to use Instagram’s own third-party advert tools to reveal some of the precise targeting that advertisers can buy access to.

There’s a general acknowledgement these days that advertisers can filter who, exactly, sees their commercials. That makes good business sense, after all: there’s no point in showing ads to people who are unlikely to be interested in your product.

However it’s likely that few mainstream consumers are aware of quite how much targeted information ad network providers like Facebook hold on them. Collated across multiple interactions online – with websites, apps, services, and more – they help build unexpectedly precise profiles about each user. Those profiles can then in turn be sold as visibility filters to more advertisers, so that they can further narrow down their campaigns to whoever they believe will be the most receptive audience.

https://www.slashgear.com/facebook-shut-down-signals-ads-because-they-exposed-too-much-04671574/

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#signal #instagram #facebook #DeleteFacebook #ads #data #thinkabout
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I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack | Center for Internet and Society
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/05/i-have-lot-say-about-signal%E2%80%99s-cellebrite-hack

#Signal #Cellebrite #MobileForensics

According to an internal report of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the easiest way for intelligence agencies to read the correspondence of messaging services.
#intelligence #fbi #signal #telegram #wickr #le #im

Feds Accessed Encrypted Signal Messages To Charge Oath Keepers' Leader Over Jan 6

Federal Investigators have admitted to accessing encrypted messages sent on Signal before the Capitol riots, to help charge the Oath Keepers' leader and other defendants for 'seditious plots'.

Investigators did not confirm how they accessed them, as the encryption allows only the sender and recipients to read them - even #Signal can't. One possibility is someone with access to the group messages cooperated with the authorities and handed them over.

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Belgium wants to ban Signal

Last week, the Belgian government launched a proposal that would ban Signal.

Just over seven years ago, a Dutch court threw out the Dutch Telecommunications Data Retention Act. Under that law, telecommunication providers were obliged to retain metadata about our communications for up to two years. This did not concern the content of a message or conversation, but information about who has contact with whom. And when. And the location of the participants. It was almost inevitable that the court would invalidate this law: European judges previously declared the European Data Retention Directive invalid, and the Dutch law was its national implementation.

https://edri.org/our-work/belgium-wants-to-ban-signal-a-harbinger-of-european-policy-to-come/
#belgium #signal

#Signal Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

#Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption - BBC News
https://web.archive.org/web/20230224103103/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001


The encrypted-messaging app Signal has said it would stop providing services in the UK if a new law undermined encryption.
If forced to weaken the privacy of its messaging system under the Online Safety Bill, the organisation "would absolutely, 100% walk" Signal president Meredith Whittaker told the BBC.


#UK #Privacy #Encryption

#Tucker #Carlson on How the #NSA Hacked His #Signal Account to Stop Him From Interviewing Putin

"Everyone's in on it. Republicans and Democrats are all in on it."

https://rumble.com/v2ck8m0-tucker-carlson-on-how-the-nsa-hacked-his-signal-account-to-stop-him-from-in.html

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1634322345509756930

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