由于大规模数据收集和外国剥削威胁,技术巨人在加拿大的广告技术支配地位增加了国家安全风险。
Tech giants' ad tech dominance in Canada raises national security risks due to mass data collection and foreign exploitation threats.
新报告警告说,像Google、Meta和Amazon这样的技术巨头控制着加拿大90%的在线广告市场,由于他们在收集大量个人数据的自动拍卖中占据主导地位,因此对国家安全构成严重风险。
A new report warns that tech giants like Google, Meta, and Amazon, which control over 90% of Canada’s online advertising market, pose serious national security risks due to their dominance in automated ad auctions that collect vast amounts of personal data.
这些系统在毫秒内运作,收集敏感信息,包括地点、保健、财政和政治观点,使人们能够对个人——特别是政府官员——进行详细的貌相分析,使他们容易受到外国行为者的监视、讹诈或造谣。
These systems, operating in milliseconds, gather sensitive information including location, health, finances, and political views, enabling detailed profiling of individuals—especially government officials—making them vulnerable to surveillance, blackmail, or disinformation by foreign actors.
报告敦促加拿大限制数据收集,并打破主要技术公司集中的权力,这些公司的商业模式依赖于技术控制。
The report urges Canada to restrict data collection and break up the concentrated power of major tech firms, whose business models rely on ad tech control.
虽然谷歌否认反竞争行为,但加拿大竞争局和美国司法部的法律挑战仍在继续,凸显了对高额广告成本、出版商收入减少以及市场竞争削弱的关切。
While Google denies anticompetitive behavior, legal challenges from Canada’s Competition Bureau and the U.S. Justice Department continue, highlighting concerns over inflated ad costs, reduced publisher revenues, and weakened market competition.