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Inside the RAID panel debate with the EDPB Chair and national DPAs

Fun day! After moderating a RAID panel with as panelists EDPB Chair Anu Talus, Luxembourg CNPD President Tine A. Larsen, Deputy Head of Data Protection Unit at the Commission’s DG Justice Karolina Mojzesowicz, MEP Brando Benifei and Gibson Dunn Partner Ahmed Baladi, I then was a speaker in a debate alongside Max Schrems of noyb.eu, […]

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European Parliament members challenge Meta over its pay or OK strategy

PayOrOkay [I’ll surely get shot for writing this:] 39 members of the European Parliament write to Meta to say that the right to privacy is “no” [I assume “not”] “something you should have to purchase” and that “[s]tudies” [citation needed] “suggest that contextual advertising is nearly as profitable as surveillance-based advertising”. Honestly, I preferred the […]

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Can you actually afford a free alternative tier under pay or OK rules?

Pay or OK: can you afford to have a “free alternative without behavioural advertising” next to a version of the service funded by profile-based advertising? Meta has just launched its own implementation of the European Data Protection Board’s requirement (see press release by Meta and article in the Wall Street Journal, linked to hereunder), and […]

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Speaking with Max Schrems on the future of user consent networks

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 […]

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Join my upcoming webinar with Max Schrems on the future of tracking consent

This should be fun! Didomi has invited me to share the floor with Max Schrems during a webinar on 24 Sept. on the Future of User Consent. I don’t always agree with Max or noyb.eu, whether in my personal conviction or through my professional work (in fact, I have/had a few litigation cases where we […]

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