EC plans to simplify 2009 rule causing cookie consent banners, aiming to cut regulatory burdens. www.politico.eu/article/euro... #eudatap #privacy
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EC plans to simplify 2009 rule causing cookie consent banners, aiming to cut regulatory burdens. www.politico.eu/article/euro... #eudatap #privacy
Ever since Google et al. forced publishers to act as data processors (rather than controllers as they ultimately are), GDPR became a busted flush... and that was a week after implementation.
edri.org/our-work/whe... #dataprivacy #eudatap #data #privacy
Targeted with 700 inferred characteristics!
"After a three-year David-and-Goliath battle with Meta, the company has agreed to turn off the ad targeting of O’Carroll in the first such agreement for a non-paying consumer."
www.thetimes.com/article/ae70... #privacy #eudatap #gdpr #surveillance
If "homomorphic encryption" and "legitimate interests" are enough to get you excited, have a look at this job posting:
www.linkedin.com/posts/hugoro...
#eudatap #Apple #ePrivacy #GDPR #privacy #jobsearch
Meta to run roughshod over privacy provisions #eudatap #privacy
Memo: Meta's privacy teams will have less authority to delay product launches and Meta will review prior decisions, as some practices have become risk-averse." www.theinformation.com/articles/met...
7) 🐴 My dark horse prediction ( 🤫 it is about the #GDPR, but you’ll have to look inside the article to see it 🤭)
As I’m taking off today for Brussels for #CPDPDataProtectionDay: see you soon, #EUDataP bubble!
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It might be that the predictions’ game is a fools’ game, but look at our round-up of what to expect in Global Privacy in 2025 as “attentively reading the landscape” 😉 - So what are we looking at? A short 🧵 ⬇️ fpf.org/blog/what-to...
#Privacy #EUDataP #DataProtection #DataPrivacyDay
Who are the four contenders to be the next EU privacy chief? #eudatap #dataprivacy
www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...
Spain. Employers.
Posing for a picture & providing data from a CV did not meet the criteria necessary for valid consent. The controller (employer) was fined €5,000 for unlawfully publishing an employee’s image & personal data on the company’s website. gdprhub.eu/index.php?ti...
#EUdataP
An Austrian 'court held that a cookie banner that nudges users to accept cookies by using a more prominent "Accept" option violates the transparency principle and is insufficient to obtain users’ consent'
gdprhub.eu/index.php?ti...
#ePrivacy #EUDataP
This should make many in big tech worry … and hopefully drive much needed change …
Collective actions where supported by law are, imo, much needed in the absence of effective enforcement by data protection authorities.
#EUDataP
TLDR - a controller is exempt from providing a data protection notice when data is obtained indirectly, where the exemption is laid down in member state law
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
HT Petruta Pirvan on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/petrut...?
#EUDataP
Paper: The European Data Protection Board -a (non)consensual & (un)accountable role?
"This paper examines whether the EDPB is sufficiently independent when drafting guidance & whether it can be held accountable through political, legal, administrative, or social oversight" #EUDataP @gzf.bsky.social
Making cross-border #GDPR enforcement work better for consumers: BEUC recommendations for the trilogue negotiations on the GDPR cross-border enforcement regulation
www.beuc.eu/sites/defaul...
#EUDataP
into #dataprotection CJEU case law? join us tomorrow for a DPSN/LSTS Digital Coffee on C-768/21 (Land Hessen), about DPAs' exercise of corrective powers under Art 58(2) #GDPR 🗓️ online event Wed 27 Nov 2025 at 1.30 pm CET, all info dataprotectionscholars.network/post/monthly... #PrivacySky #EUdatap
3/ What of the right to be free from torture or arbitrary arrest? (I've met with activists betrayed by their data).
So, yes, please do think about human rights by design, especially as the GDPR is not a privacy law.
#EUDataP #PrivacySky
Paper: Does the end justify the means? The European Commission’s proposed regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse
academic.oup.com/ijlit/articl...
#ChatControl #EUDataP
An image of a notice Meta is presenting to users, giving them a choice of paying with money to use their Facebook or Instagram accounts or to 'use free of charge with ads'. Use free of charge with ads does not mean it is free of tracking and an erosion of privacy
Just a reminder as the European Data Protection Board appears to buckle on the issue of #PayorConsent #ConsentOrPay that in July 24 the @ec.europa.eu sent preliminary findings to Meta over its “Pay or Consent” model for breach of the Digital Markets Act ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
#EUdataP
Finalising the edits on the 2nd @seriousprivacy.bsky.social podcast episode from Jersey tonight, with multiple questions interviews we held during #GPA46. Should be out in the next 24 hours. #EUDataP
The European Data Protection Board adopts its first report under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and a statement on the recommendations on access to data for law enforcement
www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/20...
#EUDataP
I skimmed through the Draft GPAI Code of Practice yesterday. The taxonomy of systemic risks, the ways to give effect to
Copyright provision in art. 53(1)(c) and the energy consumption aspects stood out to me.
I have more to say here, are bluesky threads a thing?
#EUdatap #EUAIA
I rarely use LinkedIn (for a range of reasons) … I think this place would be great to boost #EUDataP
@ggf.bsky.social is also here :) also @missiggeek.bsky.social @privacat.bsky.social @daraghobrien.bsky.social
Oh to my #privacy and #EUdatap pals, I’m in Brussels next week too, speaking on the role of the AI officer and what this even means. Should be a good one, looking forward to seeing many of you. Let me know if you’re going to be around
As Inwas typing earlier the #EUDataP hashtag, my heart skipped a beat 💃 🪩 💗
will impact Cross-Border Data Flow policies. I already spotted 3 trends developing in response to this question and I will share my thinking in the panel, scheduled on Thursday next week. See you there!
#IAPPDPC24 #DPC24 #EUDataP #Privacy
Really enjoying all the footnotes in this piece, if only because of the subtle editorializing and digs at #EUdataP, @gabrielazanfir! #GDPR data minimization language "is weak."