Quick Notes

By Johannes Ernst

https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/

2020-02-13

Advertising is how big???
- advertising
- numbers
Global ad spending is expected to surpass $560 billion dollars in 2019. Say what?

Link to this and other ad numbers.
2020-02-12

Climate vs Capitalism, Varoufakis edition
He used to point out the EU’s internal contradictions, getting nowhere because people don’t like that – in particular when he is right. Now on the climate and capitalism:

“What Trump and Mnuchin understand: Climate-change denial is the only authentic defense of our absurd capitalist ideology”
2020-02-12

The Irish have teeth

Facebook wants to roll out dating but provides no documentation. The Irish data protection commission invades their office and takes docs. Facebook stops the roll-out. What a shot across the bow.

Link to press release.
2020-02-10

User-centric Scotland

A #digitalid prototype “reducing the need for further aggregation of identity data or growth of new centralized data structures.” Hear, hear. Mydex is involved.
2020-02-10

Personal Data Economy Trends

From Milton at the @luxuryinstitute. Link.
2020-02-08

Join, not rethink?
- privacy
- surveillance
European companies are behind Americans and Chinese in grabbing all of our data and surveilling everybody. Oh no! Let’s join them, grabbing! (What about a rethink putting the individual first whose data it is!)

Advertising is how big???