If company A has certain information on you and company B has different information, should they be allowed to merge? Big Tech companies can amass colossal datasets through mergers and acquisitions – and the European Commission could rule these moves …
For the past decade, Joe McNamee has headed up EDRi, the European Digital Rights organization in Brussels. Often the sole voice of civil society in the room, his dry wit has influenced lawmakers and public discourse about privacy rights across …
Last October, a British Court of Appeal suggested that organizations should buy data breach insurance. But how easy is it to do that? There are a few problems, among them whether insurers can accurately price the risk.
Explaining why Articles 11 and 13 have caused the copyright reform to crash.
Privacy-intrusive default settings, misleading wording, and design that obscures privacy-friendly options are just a few of the tactics employed by many websites to manipulate users into giving consent.
Quitting ain’t easy and I suppose it says something that it wasn’t the data tracking, the endless scandals, the cavalier approach to laws or fundamental rights, that tipped me over the edge, but basic frustration.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation has given a new impetus to codes of conduct. But what are the big benefits of codes over certification? How will they work, and who is most in need of them?
Even the UK’s own ICO isn’t so sure. On Oct. 23, Margot James, the U.K.’s digital minister, finally admitted to a House of Commons select committee that she could not categorically guarantee an EU adequacy agreement.
Jennifer Baker is on the sofa to talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s failure to show up to a UK parliamentary hearing on Facebook.
For the agenda: #CJEU hearing on #Google case related to the Framework Dir to be held on March 13. Most questions cover core issues of the ongoing #ePrivacy reform (and confirms the need for an update!) : ads, "paying with data", transmission, etc
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Today I am doing, officially, the WORST job in media: Vox Pops! Actual contact with the great unwashed general public *shudder*
This week's Friday fun: #EUTweets of the week. Shock and awe at latest Parliament poll, Commission scores #copyright own goal, and Hungary’s #Fidesz party is playing the troll.
The Belgian kids might all be out marching every week for climate change, but their parents are all sat on their own in cars that the government encourages by offering tax breaks for company cars. #Brussels is snarled up tonight. #Youth4Climate #YouthStrike4Climate @GretaThunberg
