An article in the NYT today revealed Meta’s plan to take advantage of current political turmoil to sneak facial recognition into their smart glasses without enforcement bodies or privacy advocates noticing. But EPIC has noticed—and is ensuring that enforcers do, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Yesterday, the FTC announced it had reached a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon over the company’s manipulative subscription tactics. The $2.5 billion penalty, however, falls far short of Amazon’s gains from its unfair Prime subscription practices.
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It is an absolute myth that humans want to be invasively monitored around the clock in exchange for the pleasure of being force fed commercials
Read more about Google’s RTB as an urgent national security threat here. @johnnyryan.bsky.social and I filed a complaint with the FTC asking them to investigate this national security crisis as Google continues to broadcasts Americans’ sensitive data to foreign adversaries
Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem
We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website
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From our new complaint v Google under new U.S. national security law. Para 50 has a table of sample Google segment IDs available for purchase: health, sexuality, finances, active military status, etc.
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🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵
Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
