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Key takeaways from a great lunch discussion on the Digital Fairness Act with European Commission officials and representatives from consumer rights / industry / SME organisations: – Businesses of all sizes should start gathering data to show to the Commission the impact that personalised advertising has had on their growth, if applicable. – The Commission […]
The European Commission’s announcement that it will consider simplifying regulatory regimes, notably in relation to data and technology, seems to open Pandora’s box. Is it a chance to draw lessons from what works well and what works less well? In this series on “Better Regulation” in relation to the digital economy, I will be exploring […]
The European Commission’s announcement that it will consider simplifying regulatory regimes, notably in relation to data and technology, seems to open Pandora’s box. Is it a chance to draw lessons from what works well and what works less well? In this series on “Better Regulation” in relation to the digital economy, I will be exploring […]
Time to talk about what can be done to improve the “cookie” rule! In Part I of this series on the opportunities and difficulties of today’s ePrivacy regime, I discussed the underappreciated and seemingly-easy-but-really-complex world of the anti-spam rule, Article 13 of the ePrivacy Directive (or ePD). This Part II is about a provision that […]
Now that the Commission has withdrawn its proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation, where does that leave the ePrivacy Directive and the issues organisations face? Over the past 7-8 years, a lot has been said about the proposed ePrivacy Regulation. Intended as both a modernisation of the ePrivacy Directive and a manner of getting to (more) […]
AI-powered adtech = prohibited AI? Interesting perspective, though I have my doubts as to whether the typical adtech-related AI systems we encounter in Europe would be classified as “manipulative” (let alone harmful) under the EU AI Act – once we look at how things work in practice. After all, manipulation and influence are not the […]
Wasn’t FOMO manipulation / “trick wording” a darkpattern? Why then do some critics thereof use them? Genuinely curious. Not all do so, far from it (and some of the most prominent ones are very good at *avoiding* such techniques), but it seems that some enjoy labelling everything as “Breaking” (even information that is more than […]
The Belgian Data Protection Authority just published a “cookie checklist” with its position on a number of issues regarding cookies. I’m attaching an unofficial machine translation (losing lots of its layout too), but here are some first thoughts: – Some of these topics might be subject to litigation, so while they may reflect the newest […]
1.000 registered – and counting. The “Future of User Consent” webinar of 24 Sept., where I am speaking alongside Max Schrems of noyb.eu, Romain Gauthier of Didomi and Willy Mikalef of Bird & Bird looks set to have a broad range of attendees. On the agenda are some of the top data protection, GDPR, ePrivacy […]
No “reject all” button? Different colours in a cookie banner? Belgian DPA orders a change, based on “dark pattern” allegations and lack of freely given consent. Readers know I have my doubts on this, due because “in the physical world” we are led to make choices all the time based on product colours (some of […]
