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At the beginning of this year Privacy News Online wrote about how people were waking up to the dangers of micro-targeted advertising<\/a>. Despite that, nothing much happened \u2013 until now. One reason for the shift is the heightened awareness of the role of social media in politics and elections. Twitter has said it will drop all political ads<\/a>. Facebook has refused to do the same, and has even gone so far as to exempt political ads from a ban on making false claims<\/a>. A recent open letter<\/a> from Mozilla and others called for Facebook and Google to stop hosting political ads in the UK until after the General Election currently underway there. The signatories said this was because \u201cthe online advertising model, which depends on vast collection of data and opaque ad targeting systems is not fit for purpose\u201d. British political parties are already actively trying out multiple versions of ads on Facebook<\/a> to see which will be most effective in the General Election campaign that is now underway in the UK.<\/p>\n

The Internet giants know that they cannot ignore these new concerns about advertising. The incoming head of the European Commission has made it clear that she will increase scrutiny of online companies<\/a>. One area that is likely to come in for criticism is micro-targeted ads. Last year, Facebook\u2019s former security chief, Alex Stamos, was one of the first people to call for their use in political campaigns to be banned<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re moving towards a world that is not good for U.S. democracy where the campaigns and the PACs [political action committees] are splitting the electorate into these tiny, tiny little slices,\u201d Stamos said. \u201c\u200bThey\u2019re giving a completely different story to each of them. They look very, very different to each person. And I just don\u2019t think that\u2019s good for our democracy, even without Russians interfering.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recently, backing for the idea of a ban came from the US professor David Carroll, who is best known for crowd-sourcing legal action against Cambridge Analytica<\/a>. He explained why micro-targeted political ads can be so dangerous to democracy<\/a>, reported here by Fast Company:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of democracy is that communities can debate issues among themselves, and if two neighbors are seeing entirely different political messaging that has been targeted to them based on their commercial data and is mixed with their political inferences, they can\u2019t even have a reasoned debate,\u201d he said in a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He notes that the situation is even worse when messages contain misleading information or outright lies, both perfectly acceptable under Facebook\u2019s rules. Zuckerberg has said that Facebook users should debate among themselves to expose any misinformation in political ads. \u201cBut if the false ads are being targeted to only select voters that they can predict won\u2019t challenge them and are not seen by the ones that would challenge them, then that argument falls apart,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n

Support for the idea of banning micro-targeted political ads<\/a> has come from an important quarter: Ellen L. Weintraub, chair of the Federal Election Commission. In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post, she notes that making micro-targeted ads illegal offers important benefits beyond simply increasing transparency. It would also:<\/p>\n

Deter and flush out disinformation. Malicious advertisers, foreign and domestic, would be less likely to say to an entire state what they have been willing to say to a small audience targeted for its susceptibility.<\/p>\n

Unite us. Political advertisers, who would have to appeal to a wider audience, would have incentive to avoid fueling the divisiveness that pulls us apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She has a helpful suggestion for how a ban would work in practice:<\/p>\n

A good rule of thumb could be for Internet advertisers to allow targeting no more specific than one political level below the election at which the ad is directed. Want to influence the governor\u2019s race in Kansas? Your Internet ads could run across Kansas, or target individual counties, but that\u2019s it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Partly as a result of this growing pressure from many sides, Facebook is rumored to be considering dropping micro-targeted political ads<\/a> \u2013 as is Google.<\/a> There is another incentive for Facebook and Google to move in this direction. The Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland, Helen Dixon, has started a formal investigation into whether micro-targeting is compatible with the EU\u2019s GDPR<\/a>. If, as seems quite likely, the investigation decides that the gathering of information for this purpose is unlawful, Internet platforms would have to stop using micro-targeting in the EU in the future, or face huge fines. Dropping micro-targeted political advertising now on a voluntary basis would allow companies to argue that they are already addressing the problem, and that further action by the authorities is unnecessary. However, an adverse GDPR ruling would not be limited to political ads, but would apply to any kind of micro-targeting. That would mean Facebook and Google might need to go further, but a ban in the political realm would at least be a step towards that.<\/p>\n

There may not be so much resistance to dropping micro-targeted ads as many might think. As an earlier article pointed out, anecdotal evidence<\/a> suggests that paying for targeted ads doesn\u2019t really add much value for advertisers, so abandoning them wouldn\u2019t be a huge loss. A recent article in The Correspondent even suggested that all<\/i> online advertising may be far less valuable than its practitioners like to believe<\/a>. Whether that\u2019s true or not, it is incontrovertible that micro-targeted advertising involves gathering huge stores of highly-personal information about billions of people. Dropping it would represent an important win for privacy, and probably cause very little harm to the platforms that sell advertising, or the companies that use them. Given that kind of extreme cost-benefit skew, there really should be no question about dropping micro-targeted ads \u2013 and soon.<\/p>\n

Featured image by Max Pixel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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