Surveillance

Surveillance advertising is based on massive data collection, profiling of users and, micro-targeting them with ads. These ads are immensely profitable for the ad-tech industry but have been linked to a range of societal ills, including manipulative political campaigns, the exploitation of people in vulnerable states, and discrimination.

Yeuyei - Surveillance capitalism
Lobbying the EU

Big Tech’s last minute attempt to tame EU tech rules

Lobbying in times of trilogues
23.04.2022
As the EU discussions to set up new tech rules come to an end, new lobby documents expose the intense last minute corporate campaign to influence the secretive last phase - the trilogues.
Illustration Yeyei Gomez
Lobbying the EU

How corporate lobbying undermined the EU’s push to ban surveillance ads

18.01.2022
Despite the EU's talk about regulating the digital sphere , we uncover how Big Tech has successfully waged a major lobbying campaign to prevent a ban on their extremely profitable model of intrusive surveillance advertising . However MEPs still have a chance to turn some of this around.
The lobby network
Lobbying the EU

The lobby network: Big Tech's web of influence in the EU

31.08.2021
As Big Tech’s market power has grown, so has its political clout. Just as the EU tries to rein in the most problematic aspects of Big Tech – from disinformation, targeted advertising to excessive market power – the digital giants are lobbying hard to shape new regulations.

Post-scandal Facebook: will the EU stop treating the tech giant as a trusted partner?

21.05.2018
Following the Cambridge Analytica affair and the massive leak of 87 million people’s data revealed earlier this year, Facebook is facing unprecedented scrutiny of its business model. Regulators must stop treating the social media giant as a trusted partner and better protecting EU citizens' digital rights.

Big Data is watching you

The industry lobby battle against ePrivacy
17.10.2017
MEPs are about to determine how secure our data is when we are online in this week's vote on ePrivacy Regulation. For the past 16 months, industry lobbies, including all those who commercially use personal online data, have been vigorously opposing new proposals on ePrivacy, while digital rights campaigners demand optimum data privacy for citizens online.