Norwegian DPA echoes Denmark in warning that Google Analytics 4 does not appear to solve Google Analytics 3's GDPR compliance issues. This is despite the additional safeguards Google has put in place regarding IP address collection More detail in reply datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/aktuel…

Just Published: 'What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?' is a state-of-the-field review essay that asks what does it mean to critique technology today. It is a part of this wonderful, all-star special issue of American Literature Journal Duke University Press edited by @ritaraley and @j_s_rhee.

An important tech point re: the woman sentenced to 28 months in prison in England for procuring abortion pills to end a pregnancy beyond the legal limit. She said she didn’t know how long she’d been pregnant. But police gathered web searches and messages which disputed this.

Happy to see my survey published! My survey "of user studies as evidence for dark patterns in consent banners" on LINC CNIL analyzes 10 user studies that measured the impact of consent banner designs on the outcome of consent decisions! linc.cnil.fr/survey-user-st…

📢🔒 Protection des internautes : une expérimentation du pôle sciences comportementales Transformation publique confirme l’impact considérable du design des bannières « cookies » sur le choix des internautes. 👇

Great session yesterday at the EC #DSA stakeholders event in Brussels, on questions at the interface between #DSA & EU data protection law, with The DSA Observatory Joris van Hoboken, @[email protected], Irish DPC Helen Dixon, Karolina Iwańska, Alberto Di Felice, moderated by Suzanne Vergnolle (@[email protected]) 👏

Ok for those of you that haven't figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren't gentle about it- so there's not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can't so we're just going to follow the new rules and

As of August, Facebook and Instagram will be temporarily banned in Norway from tracking users online to target them with advertising. politico.eu/article/facebo…

Dutch gov benefits office used IP addresses and cookies to track location of visitors and find out their identity, supposedly to detect fraud. So using a VPN to protect against commercial tracking can now get you in trouble because of government tracking.

The Court of Justice was crystal clear. Norway’s authorities are crystal clear. What else to expect than that Didier Reynders will also be crystal clear euractiv.com/section/data-p…

The The New York Times just reported that YouTube and Google might be tracking and targeting children on their platform without parental consent—violating their consent decree and my law, COPPA. This is egregious behavior and Sen. Marsha Blackburn and I are calling on the FTC to investigate.

💥💯the Norwegian DPA requests a binding decision from the European Data Protection Board in the Meta case, asking that the Norwegian temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram be made permanent and extended to the entire EU/EEA: datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuel…

📢 New case studies booklet! The DPC has put together 126 case studies from the first five years of GDPR into one handy booklet. To download the booklet, go to: dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidanc…

🥳 Postdoc Position available to work with me at @Inria_Sophia next to beautiful #Nice (France) on Detecting Privacy Violations and/or Dark Patterns in Web/mobile/IoT applications. Ideal candidate should be interested in transdisciplinary studies! DM is open for more details!

Need to know what to do about third-party cookies on your site? We've got concrete steps for you to audit, test, update, and migrate before the end of the #cookiecountdown 🍪⌛ and the end of third-party cookies in Chrome. Let me know what else you need! developer.chrome.com/blog/cookie-co…

The EDPB's opinion on the cookie pledge has just been published! Notably, it states that tools to automate consent refusals (e.g. software settings) can "help to reduce cookie fatigue", but that automating affirmative consent is more complicated, bc consent should be specific

Interested in exploring how to use data rights in education for understanding digital infrastructures and their impacts? Join us for a 1-day workshop in BXL, 9feb lsts.research.vub.be/call-for-parti…

How is our capacity to assess algorithmic systems changing now that they are becoming a mass market product? Organised by toezicht_AP with @[email protected], michael veale UCL Faculty of Laws, Karin Bruinenberg, Felix Reda GitHub, Raziye Buse Çetin AI Forensics #CPDPai2024 #CPDPconferences

So the lesson to the Chrome team is unless we're about to be regulated or iPhones are flying off shelves because people think iPhones are so much better than Android at privacy then do not proactively announce anything costing Google billions of dollars. /10