UK petition to ban harvesting of behavioural metadata for ads (petition.parliament.uk)
from Paddy66@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 13 May 10:39
https://lemmy.ml/post/30031588

Please sign this petition to get this topic discussed by the UK government.

#privacy

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boreengreen@lemm.ee on 13 May 20:17 next collapse

This sounds like a good idea.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 13 May 20:34 collapse

Sounds like what we should have been protected from before they put mind parasites in our minds

Dextofen@lemmy.ml on 14 May 00:05 collapse

It’s a step into into the right direction.

Doing something late is better than doing nothing at all.

Yes our data is already out there but at least we can make it illegal for them to collect more new data, it probably won’t stop them but it’s a start.

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 14 May 03:33 collapse

Yes but I meant it as a recognition that our institutions are failing us, have been failing us for a long time.

copd@lemmy.world on 14 May 08:08 next collapse

stop crying about it and do something about it then

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml on 14 May 11:32 collapse

Hang on, overturning the government any minute now, those elites are really hard to scrape of the asphalt

Dextofen@lemmy.ml on 14 May 10:35 collapse

Yeah they are.

This is a typical case of that the lawmakers have near 0 IT comprehension unfortunately.

charleey@lemmy.world on 13 May 23:21 next collapse

Brexit left us keeping all the braindead legislature like the fucking paper straws and bottle caps whilst moving towards scrapping the sensible ones like GDPR.

Fucking knobs in govt. since David Cameron payed any attention to Enoch Powell’s reincarnation the fascist racist american bootlicking dickhead Farage.

cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 May 02:23 next collapse

This is atleast positive

Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml on 14 May 08:55 next collapse

Come on, ban ALL data collection for ads. This will be good for privacy, and for the environment. The internet will save enormous amounts on power and hardware.

Jason2357@lemmy.ca on 14 May 16:21 next collapse

It’s insane that this is even needed. Show me ads for things relevant to the content of the web page and nothing else. If I’m reading about furnace filters, sure, show me an ad for buying furnace filters, I might buy from you, but don’t follow me around for 2 weeks shoving furnace filter ads in my face. If I’m not reading about them anymore, I’ve moved on.

The added benefit of this approach for advertisers would be that you can literally embed the ads in the page, making ad-blockers ineffective. They literally chose the worst method for everyone involved.

Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 14 May 21:26 collapse

Damn, I hadn’t even thought about the environment impact! Is there any research quantifying that?

Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml on 15 May 08:20 collapse
privacydingus@lemmy.ml on 14 May 09:37 next collapse

This would be a great thing to happen; under a Starmer gov’t (and any inbound Reform administration) it is not gonna.

Also petition.parliament.uk is a tool created by Westminister to divert energy from real action to signing a petition. If you wanna get involved with doing something like this then look to and support Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, Privacy International etc.

Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 14 May 21:22 collapse

I do support them already 😊

But you’re right about this government - they just got exposed for being corrupt with big tech archive.is/DlUeE

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 14 May 14:12 collapse

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Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 14 May 21:16 collapse

Thank you! The Vivaldi team are great 😁