Ich war im FEMPOEM-Podcast von Romina Achatz und wir haben mehr als 1 Stunde über meine Arbeit und den digitalen Kapitalismus gesprochen.
Es geht u.a. um die Echtzeit-Versteigerung von Verhaltensdaten, den Kauf von Werbedaten durch Sicherheitsbehörden, toxische Socialmedia-Algorithmen, digitale Kontrolle am Arbeitsplatz, Überwachung als Machtfrage, KI-Kult, kalifornische Ideologie, den Aufstieg des Tech-Faschismus & Tech-Oligarchen als existenzielles Risiko.
Hier lang:
https://cba.media/695691
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I believe that AI toothbrushes will eat the world aka AI toothbrush takeover, also known as genius X singularity.
Just so you know.
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Here's one of my slides on 'two flavors of techbro AI cultism' 🤖
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I prepared a 45-60min lecture for the workshop.
I guess I could also do this elsewhere in the art context or for related audiences, either as a talk or as a 2-3 hour workshop with discussions ... preferably in the physical space & with some funding :)
...this is much less about precise tech and policy analysis than my usual work—it's more political and a mix of educational effort with big-picture reflections. And it's a work in progress, feel free to suggest additional/better resources.
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The workshop was quite a ride, and so is the reading list 🤖
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So yesterday I held this workshop on "everything artists and cultural practitioners need to know about this strange thing called AI", titled "debunking the tech-bro AI cult", in the Brut Vienna theatre, and here's the 5-page reading list I compiled for participants:
https://crackedlabs.org/dl/TechbroAICult_Readinglist.pdf
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The @netzpolitik_feed article has more detail.
In total, it's about 40,000 different apps, people from 137 countries and 380 million location records that include advertising/device IDs.
Apps that apparently shared exact mobile location data include Wetter Online (most popular weather app in Germany, 100m downloads), Focus Online (large German news outlet), Kleinanzeigen and FlightRadar24.
@sebmeineck and @roofjoke even found people whose data was affected:
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-neuer-datensatz-enthuellt-40-000-apps-hinter-standort-tracking/
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Plus, there's another angle. Google and Apply are responsible for this to happen, together with Gravy Analytics, adtech intermediaries and app vendors. The evidence from this incident can be the starting point for DPAs to hold them accountable as joint controllers of illegal processing linked to advertising IDs at scale.
https://bsky.app/profile/thezedwards.bsky.social/post/3lfe3oo232e2s
...not to mention their role as beneficiaries from app store platform intermediation on multiple levels while don't giving a f*ck.
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What stops GDPR regulators from systematically taking action against all these apps?
Ask app vendors about the legal basis for Gravy's data processing (whether location is based on IP or GPS), make them explain in detail how this could happen.
They can still try to explain how their advertising 'service' providers might have misled them. If they fully cooperate and offer regulators detailed info about how intermediaries and Gravy accessed and sold the data, they’ll receive a reduced fine.
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Here's the full list of apps [Google doc]:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ukgd0gIWd9gpV6bOx2pcSHsVO6yIUqbjnlM4ewjO6Cs/edit
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So, there's evidence that a few thousand mobile apps shared location data with the data broker Gravy Analytics (Unacast), whose subsidiary Venntel sold to ICE, CBP, FBI, DEA and other US govt agencies, probably via intermediaries and RTB, including data on Europeans:
https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/
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The workshop is part of the accompanying programme for the piece "JUSTITIA! Data Ghosts" by Gin Müller, Laura Andreß & co, on show in Brut Wien theatre 15.1.-22.1.:
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2025/01/Gin-Mueller-Laura-Andress
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I'll do a workshop next week in Vienna on "everything artists and cultural practitioners need to know about this strange thing called AI", titled "debunking the tech-bro AI cult".
I'll start with a little lecture, then we discuss how we can engage or play with ‘AI’ in artistic practice without feeding the industry hype (if at all).
Fr 17.1.2025, 14:00-16:00, brut Wien, please spread & register here:
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2025/01/Data-Ghosts-Wolfie-Christl
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Of course, digital profiling is even much more problematic on mobile than in the web browser. Google is responsible for systematic data misuse for commercial and other purposes at a massive scale by providing hundreds of thousands of companies with persistent device identifiers ('advertising IDs').
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Google didn't only announce that it will be 'less prescriptive with partners in how they target and measure ads', but it even stated that 'the ecosystem should invest in and develop solutions that are effective and measurable in an incredibly fragmented environment'.
Put differently, Google is ordering the 'ecosystem' to build more intrusive tracking and profiling tech.
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Now Google suddenly claims that IP addresses 'are already commonly used in the broader ads ecosystem to help marketers reach people', and with 'new innovations' like (pseudo) privacy-enhancing technologies, it's basically just fine to use them for fingerprinting in the future.
https://support.google.com/marketingplatform/answer/15732590?hl=en
https://support.google.com/platformspolicy/answer/15610408
https://support.google.com/platformspolicy/answer/15738904
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To make things worse, Google also made a policy u-turn on digital fingerprinting.
Since at least 2019, it had a 'strict policy' against fingerprinting, as it doesn't allow 'user control and transparency'.
In December 2024, Google stated that it will no longer prohibit it, which made even the ICO angry:
https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/12/our-response-to-google-s-policy-change-on-fingerprinting/
Once again, regulators, policymakers and civil society organizations did no longer focus much on fingerprinting, as Google's prohibition has long been very clear.
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I still think the UK competition regulator CMA, together with the UK data protection authority ICO, played right into Google's hands by telling them to delay the end of third-party cookies rather than banning Google from certain data processing and other business practices :/
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Google has been misleading everyone for years, making regulators, policymakers and an entire industry think tracking based on third-party cookies will soon go away.
Even civil society organizations stopped most strategic litigation regarding digital profiling across sites and vendors based on browser identification.
Plus, everyone wasted so much time following Google's ever-changing 'privacy sandbox' plans.
Highly effective distraction.
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