Sara Geoghegan
@sarageoghegan.bsky.social
She/ her
Senior Counsel @EPIC.org
Focused on repro privacy, health privacy, and commercial surveillance. Views are my own
Senior Counsel @EPIC.org
Focused on repro privacy, health privacy, and commercial surveillance. Views are my own
Reposted by Sara Geoghegan
Yesterday, the FTC announced it had reached a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon over the company’s manipulative subscription tactics. The $2.5 billion penalty, however, falls far short of Amazon’s gains from its unfair Prime subscription practices.
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PRESS RELEASE: FTC Settles With Amazon Over Manipulative Subscription Practices Identified Years Ago by EPIC, Partner Orgs
epic.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Yesterday, the FTC announced it had reached a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon over the company’s manipulative subscription tactics. The $2.5 billion penalty, however, falls far short of Amazon’s gains from its unfair Prime subscription practices.
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Reposted by Sara Geoghegan
It is an absolute myth that humans want to be invasively monitored around the clock in exchange for the pleasure of being force fed commercials
“Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.” 🙄
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
techcrunch.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It is an absolute myth that humans want to be invasively monitored around the clock in exchange for the pleasure of being force fed commercials
Read more about Google’s RTB as an urgent national security threat here. @johnnyryan.bsky.social and I filed a complaint with the FTC asking them to investigate this national security crisis as Google continues to broadcasts Americans’ sensitive data to foreign adversaries
NEW: Last year, @johnnyryan.bsky.social made a website for a fake company using a photo of Russian soldiers to purposely elicit suspicion. A US data broker offered him access to thousands of lists of American devices anyway. Many lists targeted US leaders and defense contractors.
Our latest:
Our latest:
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Read more about Google’s RTB as an urgent national security threat here. @johnnyryan.bsky.social and I filed a complaint with the FTC asking them to investigate this national security crisis as Google continues to broadcasts Americans’ sensitive data to foreign adversaries
Reposted by Sara Geoghegan
Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem
We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website
www.wired.com/story/google...
We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website
www.wired.com/story/google...
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem
We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website
www.wired.com/story/google...
We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website
www.wired.com/story/google...
Reposted by Sara Geoghegan
From our new complaint v Google under new U.S. national security law. Para 50 has a table of sample Google segment IDs available for purchase: health, sexuality, finances, active military status, etc.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
From our new complaint v Google under new U.S. national security law. Para 50 has a table of sample Google segment IDs available for purchase: health, sexuality, finances, active military status, etc.
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Reposted by Sara Geoghegan
🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵
Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
January 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵
Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...
Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...