[ [link removed] ]Photo from European Parliament of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook,
looking at what someone is writing to his right.

It’s one of Big Tech’s most harmful practices – and now we have a chance
to ban it. Sign here to back Norway's request to ban Mark Zuckerberg's
spying behavioural ads:


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John,

Billionaire companies like Google and Meta are breaking the law to grab
deeply private and personal information from us and sell to anybody
willing to pay.

Now we have a real chance to end this: the highest European authority on
data protection (EDPB) was called to decide if stealing people's data for
money must end once for all, and this is HUGE!

European data protection can have worldwide impact, as companies cannot
operate drastically different across continents as the internet has no
borders, so if they are forced to respect European laws this will
inevitably protect people worldwide - from the US to Brazil, from India to
Germany!

We have to put pressure on them to make sure they decide on favour of the
people, not the billionaires! Our data is ours - let's end this nonsense:

[ [link removed] ]Sign now to stop billionaires spying on us

When we innocently do a search on the web, watch a video, or scroll our
social media accounts, companies like Google, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok
and Instagram are actively stealing personal information and selling them
off. They secretly know your sexual orientation, where and who you've been
with, what you bought, the websites you visited, substances you're
taking…the list is literally endless. Stealing our private life is their
business model. And this is not ok.

But this can change - this historical decision now lies with the European
Data Protection Board (EDBP), the highest authority in Europe on the
subject, where they can force companies to ask for our consent before
collecting any private information from us, so we need to show people
around the world are standing up to billionaires stealing from us:

[ [link removed] ]Sign now to stop billionaires spying on us

We’ve taken on Big Tech before and won. The Ekō community lobbied hard to
pass the Digital Services Act - a tough new European law which curbs some
of Big Tech’s worst excesses, and halted WhastApp from stealing people's
data globally.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Flora, Vicky, Eoin and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe The
Register. 29 September 2023.
[ [link removed] ]Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal
information Fast Company. 3 February 2019.

 

 

Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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