Digital Privacy
Webinar: Taking on Meta – What next for our data?
Join us for a discussion about the right to object to your personal data being collected and processed for targeted advertising, aka stalker ads.
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- When
Wednesday 16 April 2025
6–7.30pm BST
- Where
Zoom
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Four years ago, human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll took on social media giant Meta when they refused to stop collecting and processing her personal data for targeted advertising.
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In March 2025, Meta settled and agreed to honour O’Carroll’s right to object. But what does that mean for the rest of us? Will Meta try and get around GDPR by forcing people in the UK to ‘consent or pay’? Just how harmful is Meta’s data collection. And, what does this mean for other social media platforms?
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Join the Open Rights Group webinar and find out what next for our data.
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Chaired by James Baker, Platform Power and Free Speech Programme Manager at Open Rights Group, the panellists include:
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Tanya O’Carroll is an independent advisor, strategist and leader focused on tech accountability, human rights and social justice.
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Dr James Riley is an independent researcher specialising in the relationships between science, technology, and society.
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Swee Leng is an independent consultant advising on legal strategy and tech policy. She sits on the grants committee for the Power and Accountability programme at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Policy Institute of King’s College London.
Meet the Panel
Tanya O’Carroll
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Tanya O’Carroll is an independent advisor, strategist and leader focused on tech accountability, human rights and social justice.
James Riley
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Dr James Riley is an independent researcher specialising in the relationships between science, technology, and society. His work interrogates Big Tech practices that exploit, harm and disempower the public.
His most recent research, in collaboration with Open Rights Group, investigates how Meta’s advertising infrastructure is used to spread targeted disinformation, division, and fraud.
Swee Leng Harris
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Swee Leng is an independent consultant advising on legal strategy and tech policy. She sits on the grants committee for the Power and Accountability programme at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Policy Institute of King’s College London.
From March 2020, Swee Leng worked for four years at Luminate, an international philanthropic organisation, establishing and leading a new litigation programme on accountability of big tech platforms.
Previously, Swee Leng created a new policy program at The Legal Education Foundation, funding civil society working on the Brexit legislative process as well as government use of tech. Prior to this she instituted and led the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rule of Law in Westminster. She began her career as a lawyer in Australia working in environment and planning, and business and human rights.
