A little-known feature in your phone is probably doxxing you right now. It's called advertising ID, and for today's WTFriday, we're breaking down what you need to know about it.
Check My Ads Institute
Think Tanks
Washington, DC 5,486 followers
We're the adtech industry's only watchdog. Current mission: dismantle the disinformation economy.
About us
We cut disinformation off at the source. Check My Ads Institute is an independent watchdog reshaping the digital adtech industry from within its ranks — and building a new sustainable standard in digital advertising. We're holding the surveillance adtech industry accountable for abuses against advertisers and consumers, and spearheading the development of a transparent, efficient and privacy-focused digital advertising marketplace.
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- Think Tanks
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- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2021
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Check My Ads Institute reposted this
You have a right to know where your money is going. Together, we have the power to make that happen. Join Friends of Canadian Media and Check My Ads Institute to Keep Ad Tech in Check. Learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3O0RHlO Rachel Gilmore #StaySafeOnline, #Cndpoli #keepadtechincheck
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"Advertisers don't know where their ads are going when they work with Google." Claire Atkin appeared on Luke Szkudlarek's Fixing the Game podcast to talk about how Google warps the advertising industry.
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Did you know that Google might have suppressed potentially incriminating documents during its recent antitrust trial? For today's WTFriday, we're talking about the complaint we submitted with our partners the American Economic Liberties Project and the Tech Oversight Project about exactly that:
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“There still is a lot of money being made from MFA by ad-tech companies, agencies and other vendors paid on volume. And if brands do not or are not able to confirm where their ads ran, this runs the risk of being another empty/false assurance.” — Arielle Garcia All the fancy AI tech in the world won't save brands from appearing on MFA sites if brands can't audit where their ads are going. https://lnkd.in/ehJKjsz7
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"The middlemen are totally out of control. They have seized control from the advertisers. They have seized control from news publishers, certainly. And they are making a lot of money creating all this chaos." Claire Atkin talked about how we're taking on adtech to fix our broken Internet on the Black on White podcast with Rihards Bambals Ph.D. as part of #Disinfo2024! https://lnkd.in/eDjWEF_9
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Google and other adtech companies keep profiting from climate change lies, and we and over 40,000 others are sick of it. Global Witness, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Union of Concerned Scientists, ourselves, and many, many others are demanding that Google demonetize climate change misinformation. https://lnkd.in/etyzZrtE
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"If Tony Soprano was around today... he'd be in the ADTECH business." Check My Ads Institute's Claire Atkin tells it how it is - adtech is the second biggest funder of organised crime behind the drugs trade. This brilliant panel with Conscious Advertising Network's Jake Dubbins, Charlotte Scaddan and Rupen Desai is worth a watch for anyone interested in what's wrong with advertising today, and why we need to regulate it. https://lnkd.in/ey6ZNgFP #Marketing #Advertising
Advertising and Information Integrity - SDG Media Zone, 79th Session of the UN General Assembly
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Check My Ads Institute reposted this
Flew to Latvia to record a podcast! Honored to be next to some of the most impressive minds in the business of democracy. Listen or watch at the links below! If you want to see pics from Riga my insta is catthekin and they’re up now. The Paris of the Baltics might be one of my favorite cities.
We have just launched S03E01 of the podcast "Melns uz balta" (Black on white). It was recorded during the #Disinfo2024 international conference in #Riga #Latvia a few weeks ago, and I had the honor to discuss #disinformation, #advertisement, #AI, and influence operations with four brilliant speakers: 🔷 Claire Atkin (CEO of Check My Ads Institute, a digital advertisement watchdog) shared her views on the biggest problem of the internet being advertisers' lack of control over where their ads are published. 🔷 Melissa Fleming (Undersecretary General of United Nations) underlined how disinformation undermines trust in institutions. This polarises societies and, therefore, creates significant delays in progressing in the global development and security agenda. 🔷 Carl Miller (DEMOS) argued that one should change the term 'disinformation' to 'illicit influence operations' (or shadow influencing), which is more precise and operational, therefore enabling governments to disrupt their chains of command similarly to kill-chains being applied to the cyber domain. 🔷 Uldis Elksnitis (EUvsDisinfo) underlined the need to apply a lens of national security and societal cohesion when dealing with disinformation rather than leaving it at the hands of communicators. Furthermore, training media literacy is a skill that requires continuous self-work to stay fit, a process comparable to going regularly to a gym. 📽️Watch the full episode on #Youtube https://lnkd.in/dqDJ6XCU 🔉Listen on #Spotify https://lnkd.in/dpm4gHNN Please support us by sharing and subscribing!
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