Why the public debate around high-risk AI safety is ignoring structural privacy

Suddenly general audiences in the EU are hearing about AI legislation in the news, and high-risk systems present a risk to… privacy (really, that’s the only angle being put forward in some news outlets). As if the GDPR didn’t contain anything that can be (and is) used to manage the data protection aspects of AI […]

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Webinar recording: contextual versus behavioral ads and consent or pay

Consent or Pay” again – this time a recorded webinar! Behavioural vs contextual ads, freedom to conduct a business, flaws in the EDPB’s approach, lots of ground covered in this webinar! With Eva Jarbekk, Miko?aj Barczentewicz and Rob Corbet GDPR data protection ePrivacy privacy

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What is next after three intense speaker panels at CPDP2024 in Brussels?

What a week! So what’s next? After 3 speaker slots at CPDP2024 (featuring some of the most heated exchanges of the entire conference), one webinar, and loads of really good discussions on the biggest data protection topics (“Pay or OK”, “Advertising, data protection and AI”, “balancing of fundamental rights: protection of personal data vs/with freedom […]

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How a systemic lack of appeals is emboldening European data authorities

Data protection “case law” suffers from a lack of appeals, which emboldens authorities to reuse a questionable position and make it seem like the law. Case in point? Today the Belgian DPA published yet another decision with a warning about keeping a mailbox active after a person has left a company, this time for just […]

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Daring to question the absolute primacy of personal data protection rights

?? Let’s dare to question the primacy of the right to the protection of personal data, and see what comes of it. A little pragmatism, perhaps, given that data protection is not absolute? Here’s my summary for the “too long; didn’t read” crowd: (but really, read the whole article!) – GDPR compliance is the justification […]

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Op-Ed: Who dares question the primacy of data protection?

Let the name-calling begin. Companies looking to leverage data are now told that it is just like they are responsible for oil spills, cancer and drug cartel violence. As a lawyer working for some of the companies facing these absurd comparisons, I thought I would tackle another controversial stance now: just how absolute (or relative) […]

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Can individuals legally waive their data subject rights under the GDPR?

Very interesting (and non-dogmatic) outcome here of a question on the extent to which a person can waive data subject rights. Self-determination and the non-absolute nature of data protection rights are topics that will very likely give rise to more discussion in the future! gdpr data protection privacy Thanks Dr. Carlo Piltz for highlighting it!

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Join our panel discussion on recent European adtech enforcement trends

Join us on Tuesday 7 May, with Dr. Sachiko Scheuing and Joe Jones, for a discussion on the Adtech takeaways of recent EU developments. PayOrConsent, DMA, DSA, etc. 4pm CET / 10am Eastern US / 7am Pacific US Free registration: https://lnkd.in/eK3SiiZy GDPR data protection IAPP – International Association of Privacy Professionals

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Why the Dutch DPA guidelines on web scraping are fundamentally flawed

So, about the Dutch DPA scraping guidelines: based on my experience, they are just wrong. I know they have gone viral in the data protection & AI circles, but they are based on premises about scraping that might not align with best practices. Why? First, much in the scraping guidelines of the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) […]

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Empirical study reveals the massive economic drop in ads without tracking

Important read! Empirical study shows a significant reduction in value of ads without tracking. Anyone promoting tracking-free contextual ads over profile-based advertising (such as the EDPB) really needs to consider the fact that *this doesn’t work for everyone* and it will have massive repercussions for the digital economy. Let’s look at some of the findings […]

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