Data Protection Commission report 2021 just published: dataprotection.ie/sites/default/…

BREAKING: Nearly 4 years after our complaint and 2 after starting their investigation, the French data protection authority CNIL finds breaches in Criteo's activities, and proposes a fine of €60 million. Why did this happen and why does it matter? 👇 privacyinternational.org/advocacy/2426/…

Johnny Ryan on what is to be done with the Irish Data Protection Commission: irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/0…

For those who asked, my eulogy for my dearest friend Peter Eckersley: dreamofmachin.es/peter

DPC decision invalidating Facebook/Meta's legal basis (cotractual necessity) for behavioural advertising published: noyb.eu/en/meta-advert…

A Privacy Hero's Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect #AI's Future wired.com/story/peter-ec… via @wired Thank you, Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places), for capturing the legacy of Peter Eckersley and our mission at AOI.

The ad industry surveils users behaviour on/offline to classify them in 'segments' which can be sold to advertisers. This process includes observation and inference on sensitive health, political and financial data. Wolfie Christl found the dirt: themarkup.org/privacy/2023/0…

Arbeitslos? Krebs? Schwanger? Ein Dokument gibt Einblicke in den globalen Datenhandel und zeigt, wie hunderte Firmen mit 650.000 digitalen Listen von Menschen mit bestimmten Eigenschaften handeln. Große Recherche von netzpolitik.org und The Markup (USA): netzpolitik.org/2023/microsoft…

In this thread, I want to share some additional details about what the file from Xandr/Microsoft, which was reported yesterday (themarkup.org/privacy/2023/0…), reveals about how hundreds of consumer data brokers trade personal information on billions of people at a global level.⬇️

If you're in London, check this out. Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy is an incredible achievement. I never met him and Máiréad, but once west of An Cheathrú Rua, his voice is in my head, helping me to look more deeply, and listen more carefully.

to allow Criteo to not, in a blanket way, provide data on probabilistic matching as it may implicate other users. As Jef Ausloos (@[email protected]) Reuben Binns @[email protected] and I point out here, this is a legal loophole commonly used. academic.oup.com/idpl/article/8…. Expect Criteo to rely more on this!

Personalized advertising: French SA fined CRITEO EUR 40,000,000 Here's the decision in English: lnkd.in/eMr3HCCq.

Varian is behaving very hostile to the DOJ, despite his damning testimony. Here was a good exchange: Dintzer/DOJ: Defaults are powerful, are they not? Varian: I don’t know if I’d say that. Dintzer: You coined the phrase “power of defaults,” did you not? #USvGoogle