Pre-print of our #pets24 paper on "What Do Privacy Advertisements Communicate to Consumers?" is available: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.13857 #PrivacyMatters #privacyawareness #privacy #privacyperception

The #Airbnb team was forced to build their own Consent Management Platform after verifying that off-the-shelf tools did not allow them to implement legal requirements in a consistent way. #CMP vendors would also fail at properly supporting different regions..#PEPR24 #eprivacy

Arthur Borem (U Chicago): Data Subject Access Requests result in a mostly poor experience: Individuals are both unable to explore the files they are given (Json!) and overwhelmed by their size and depth. It's very hard to obtain basic conclusions #PEPR24

Here’s our latest quarterly summary of everything happening in our little corner. The usual five sections (#ePrivacy, #MarTech/ #AdTech, #AI/ #Competition/ Digital Markets, #PETs/ #ZeroPartyData, Future of #media) privacycloud.com/2024/06/18/spr…

This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industry ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fu…

I'm super happy to announce that our paper on server-side tracking (SST) made with FOUAD Imane and Cristiana Santos was accepted at PETS! "The Devil is in the Details: Detection, Measurement and Lawfulness of Server-Side Tracking on the Web" PDF hal.science/hal-04617727v1… More info 🧵

🔔 European Commission sent today the preliminary findings to X under the #DigitalServicesAct. X is in breach of the #DSA in areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers. Read more ↓

🍪 In case you missed it: We have published our Consent Banner Report! 🎉 noyb.eu/en/noybs-conse… 👉 Below is an overview of the different positions taken by national DPAs compared to the recommendations of the EDPB taskforce:

I am very much looking forward to #PETS2024 in Bristol! If you attend PETS, do not miss Nurullah Demir's talk on the effect of cookie banner interaction tools. Our work analyzes the impact of different tools that automatically interact with cookie notices. PETS #Privacy

Apple introduces homomorphic encryption via Swift. A cryptographic technique that enables computations to be done on encrypted data without revealing the underlying unencrypted data in th process. For example during cloud computations. In short, the building blocks of

[#podcast] Tony Fish joined us on #mastersofprivacy to discuss the need for a consistent philosophy of #privacy as a precondition to ethical and compliance frameworks mastersofprivacy.com/tony-fish-is-o… #dataprotection #GDPR

(On our Medium channel) "Nobody was ready for the #PrivacySandbox, but deprecating #cookie banners is long overdue" by sergiomaldo.bsky.social link.medium.com/QvQ39VzTAMb #privacy #dataprotection #martech #adtech

For the first time, a Customer Data Platform (#Segment - now Twilio), is subject to a class action. What’s most surprising -to us- is that the data controller (Calm app) is apparently off the hook despite having determined the purposes of such SDK. More: mastersofprivacy.com/newsroom-summe…

We are sharing some of our takeaways from IAPP '#PSR24 in Los Angeles last week. Primarily: #MyHealthMyData Act and Third Party/ Vendor management (audits, DPAs...) medium.com/privacycloud/p…

The new #EDPB Guidelines will further postpone the adoption of #privacy-preserving digital #advertising solutions. If everything requires consent, why stop short at less intrusive practices? “Consent or Pay” choices? A natural side-effect. #dataprotection medium.com/p/5ec8db3e0168

[EN] What is propaganda? And misinformation? Can the #USElections2024 resist a major state-sponsored misinformation campaign? (eg., immigrants are voting illegally) We discussed it with Lukasz Olejnik (new book: Propaganda) mastersofprivacy.com/lukasz-olejnik…