# We’re in the Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising | Electronic Frontier Foundation

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/were-uncanny-valley-targeted-advertising>

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- Saved: May 9, 2018 (2018-05-10T02:51:05Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

The EFF calls out Facebooks use of AI in it’s targeting systems. It’s notable that everything written here could be applied to Google as well. 

> The concern that you’re being surveilled persists, essentially, because you are being surveilled…

Good call to action for running your own tools to defend against this [pervasive surveillance](http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance).

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT53: Weekly Thing #53 / May 12, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/53/), Notable Links 📌

## Mentions

- [Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6ae92dda7d7c/) (crackedlabs.org, June 10, 2017)

## Same host

- [California Legislature to Hear EFF’s License Plate Cover Bill | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7abb1efe06ef/) (eff.org, January 9, 2018)
- [A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fe2419b10004/) (eff.org, February 9, 2018)
- [Let's Encrypt Hits 50 Million Active Certificates and Counting | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3a643cbf1bbf/) (eff.org, February 14, 2018)
- [Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/59fe4f9ecae0/) (eff.org, October 4, 2018)
- [Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line | Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ec6d966cc94b/) (eff.org, November 4, 2018)

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- [One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong. - The Washington Post](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5c58a2095edb/) (washingtonpost.com, May 9, 2018)
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- [iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics | ElcomSoft blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7c044a8f4b8f/) (blog.elcomsoft.com, May 9, 2018)
- [Apple, Influence, and Ive](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a8bb9bdd47e5/) (hodinkee.com, May 9, 2018)
- [The Subtle Sexism Of Your Open Plan Office](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4f9022ae994d/) (fastcodesign.com, May 9, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/were-uncanny-valley-targeted-advertising