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Are privacy-enhancing technologies facing death by ePrivacy regulations?

Privacy-enhancing technologies: “death by ePrivacy”? PETs were on the agenda of the IAPP DPC24 in Brussels this week, but few talked about the dangers to PETs caused by evolving positions of regulators. PETs (for ads with less data, content-focussed analytics, etc.) are being worked on by companies of all backgrounds and sizes and touted as […]

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Meta and the DMA: a critical review of consent interpretations

Part 2 of critical review of the Commission’s PayorOK decision on Meta & the DMA: now for the more GDPR-related part, on consent. As mentioned in part 1 ( https://lnkd.in/dvNKkjWk ), the European Commission (EC) draws lots from the EDPB’s Consent or Pay Opinion. [I was *very* critical of that Opinion – see https://lnkd.in/eddQ4yW8 ] […]

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DMA compliance: the Commission’s flawed “equivalence” logic

Not impressed. PayorOK, Meta & DMA: EU Commission says paid service is not “equivalent” to ad-funded service. The reason? You need “access to an online payment service” [§91] + the user experience (UX) is different due to other access conditions. Basically, per the decision of the Commission (EC), a choice between “pay with your wallet, […]

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Watch our CPDP2024 panel debate on the friction in the EU data strategy

A must-watch: here is the recording of our fun CPDP2024 panel discussion on the EU data strategy (covering GDPR, DMA, AIAct, fundamental rights, PayOrOK and much more re data protection). The other panel participants were Patricia Vidal Martinez, Luca Bolognini and Rob van Eijk, and it was moderated by Cecilia Alvarez. Really fantastic stuff – […]

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