Meta must change its surveillance advertising model.

Until they do so, you can use your legal right to object to targeted adverts based on your personal data.

Use our tool to make this request (UK residents) and take control of your privacy

Act Now to #StopStalkerAds

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

To stop Meta from using the migrant crisis as a marketplace to line their pockets, ORG calls for:

A clear and explicit OPT-IN for targeted advertising.

Full transparency on how ads are targeted in Meta's public ad library.

Proper resourcing for pre-publication ad moderation — to catch fraud and harmful content before it reaches users.

#StopStalkerAds

Previous research funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research found that Meta’s profiling tools allowed the UK Home Office to build ‘patchwork profiles’ of likely refugees.

This stitches together interests, behaviours and language categories to target them with scare campaigns.

https://www.sipr.ac.uk/news/influence-policing-published/

#StopStalkerAds

Meta’s profiling and microtargeting means it profits from all aspects of the global migrant crisis.

Its vast surveillance-based infrastructure is also being used by the UK Home Office to target refugees with fear-based advertising to deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats.

Either way, Meta profits from stalker ads

#StopStalkerAds

Meta harvests personal data to track users' behaviour and make assumptions about them, so it can sell targeted adverts.

Surveillance-based advertising conceals a predatory marketplace behind a facade of personalisation.

This is being weaponised to deceive, divide and inflict harm, simply by disguising criminal adverts behind harmless-looking pages.

#StopStalkerAds

ORG's report shows that Facebook pages disguised as gaming communities are being used to target migrants with illegal services.

These findings expose a stark reality:

Even after public scandal and media scrutiny, Meta's systems are still enabling fraudsters to prey on migrants.

#StopStalkerAds

5 Ways #Trump Is Sabotaging the #UnitedStates
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/01/the-five-ways-trump-is-sabotaging-the-united-states/

" #USAID is just the most substantiated example of the sheer waste #DOGE is creating... similarly stupid decisions in the firings of critical personnel (some of whom get hired back), but also the elimination of long-term maintenance or #safety programs that will cost far more when those protections are gone...

possibility that Elon’s DOGE boys are doing something else w/the #data they’re accessing"

DOGE Is Not Here to Help With Your Taxes

The financial #data of millions of #Americans is at risk as #Musk and his "team" bring their unlawful breaches of privacy to the IRS
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/doge-is-not-here-to-help-with-your

"the #Privacy Act and the #IRS tax privacy laws were enacted in the 1970s...

If a private sector #accounting or #tax preparation firm behaved this way, they would (rightly) get dragged into #court by their customers."

There’s no federal methodology for studying complications that arise during a pregnancy loss. To understand how Texas’ abortion ban is impacting maternal health, we consulted with researchers to craft one.

Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World

Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191580/elon-musk-doge-classified-us-intel-data-website

"this incident doesn’t speak well of the pseudo-agency’s #security procedures. The website has already been hacked by Thursday evening thanks to #coding vulnerabilities. And since #DOGE has gotten into all kinds of sensitive #data, every #American could be at risk."

Inside The ‘Bizarre’ Meeting Where DOGE Requested ‘Extensive System Access’ At IRS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-irs-extensive-system-access

#DOGE staffer #GavinKliger

"Their interest... included the operation of enforcements, it included #taxpayer service in terms of function & the personnel footprint, & they wanted extensive system access...

Levels of data protection at #IRS are higher than other agencies. … Not only is improper disclosure #illegal, but improper inspection of #data internally is illegal"

DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone

DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/doges-gov-site-lampooned-as-coders-quickly-realize-it-can-be-edited-by-anyone/

"DOGE appears to have skipped #security steps that are expected of #government websites. That pattern is troubling some federal workers...

makes it possible for bad actors to alter official databases of government information."

DOGE software approval alarms Labor Dept employees

Elon Musk’s #DOGE subordinates received approval to use #software at the Labor Dept that could be used to transfer large amounts of #data...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583

"The approval for Musk’s team to use the remote-access and file-transfer software, known as PuTTY, has alarmed... #Labor Dept’s career employees...

“This is completely opposite of what we’d do to protect #privacy.”"

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-s-doge-posts-classified-data-on-its-new-website/ar-AA1z4LWL

"Elon Musk’s team... has posted classified information about the size & staff of a #US intelligence agency on its new website...

#Musk can’t claim he wasn’t aware that the National Reconnaissance Office is one of the nation’s #intelligence agencies. His company, #SpaceX, has a $1.8 billion contract with #NRO to build hundreds of spy satellites."

US Judge Extends Order to Block #DOGE From Treasury Department Data

A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the #data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the #US Treasury Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-treasury-department-data-access-denied/

"When Vargas asked... the #DOJ attorney representing #Trump... whether any DOGE-accessed information had been shared outside of the #Treasury Department, he said: “The short answer on that is we don’t presently know.”"