The technologies being promoted inside the summit fuel racism, enable unchecked policing power, and threaten all our rights. They must be stopped.

Together we can build safety rooted in dignity, not surveillance.

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Relaxing cookie consent rules is unlikely to leverage change. There must be:

⚫ More effective and dissuasive action by the ICO to remove illegal advertising.

⚫ Enforce data protection.

⚫ Protect law-abiding market players from the unfair competition of adtech companies who violate our privacy.

Cookie consent rules aren't the biggest barrier to privacy-preserving advertising technologies being widely used.

Ads without personal data are often blocked from being traded by intermediaries in the market.

So deregulatiing instead of enforcement isn't the answer to tackle intrusive tracking.

Trying to nudge the adtech industry into more privacy-preserving models of online tracking by cutting our need to consent is flawed.

The ICO is terrible at enforcing consent rules for adtech providers that run behavioural tracking as it stands.

So the ICO is offering a carrot with no stick 🤷‍♂️

Baked into cookies are what we do on any given site. Trackers can then make guesses about who we are and what we're interested in.

These behavioural profiles are then auctioned off to advertisers in real time.

And so ads for what you've just looked at start to haunt you through the Internet.

Message scanning powers are sleeping on the statute book. They must never get used.

The government has already tried to make Apple put a backdoor in its encrypted services. It's clear they want to recklessly dismantle our cybersecurity protections.

We must save encryption to #PracticeSafeText 💬