Meta and Me: Holding tech companies to account with SARs

Tech companies are harvesting a terrifying amount of personal data from users all the time – and the practice is opaque by design. This talk will look at routes to discovering what data they hold. In particular, we’ll explore how to use subject access requests (SARs) combined with data analysis and other journalistic techniques to paint a picture of how tech and social media companies see and categorise us all.

Read the story: Every scary thing Meta knows about me – and you by Matilda Davies for The Times, 16 March 2024.