This is what Facebook earns per user
❗️❗️"These companies store enormous amounts of data about us," commented Warner. "If you're an enthusiastic Facebook user, chances that Facebook knows more about you than any government agency are pretty good. Users don't realize how much data is being collected and what it's worth."
Source:
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article195828873/Tech-Konzerne-Jetzt-sollen-Nutzer-erfahren-wie-viel-ihre-Daten-wert-sind.html
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❗️❗️"These companies store enormous amounts of data about us," commented Warner. "If you're an enthusiastic Facebook user, chances that Facebook knows more about you than any government agency are pretty good. Users don't realize how much data is being collected and what it's worth."
Source:
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article195828873/Tech-Konzerne-Jetzt-sollen-Nutzer-erfahren-wie-viel-ihre-Daten-wert-sind.html
📡 @NoGoolag
#DeleteFacebook #OurData #why
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Selling Your Private Information Is a Terrible Idea
We don’t allow people to sell their kidneys. We shouldn’t let them sell the details of their lives, either.
“Claim Your 31st Right,” declares the #My31 app’s splash screen. “Review, share, and confirm your HUMAN right to your data as your property.”
(The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights currently has 30, so a right to data would presumably come next.)
That’s why #My31 doesn’t bill itself as a business so much as a cause. “Join the movement by staking a claim to data you’ve produced, declaring it your personal property,” proclaims the App Store description. Sign up, the app says, and “get a title of ownership for your personal data.”
The idea is that once you own your data, you can sell it. Many companies seem convinced that this is the future. PatientSphere, a platform for health care information, purports to offer patients “the ability to not only share” data on their own terms, “but also get paid for it.” PatientTruth similarly bills itself as a health record system and a way for patients to “own” and “monetize” their health data. SUPA, which markets smart exercise bras to Gen Z, offers money in exchange for data. “SUPA is tokenizing the body,” the company website declares.
All of these apps, platforms and services use blockchain — a technology first used by bitcoin, a type of digital money — to store health information. Because the term “blockchain” has become so nebulous, it’s difficult to pin down the actual upsides to storing health data this way. In most situations, blockchain is not any more secure, reliable or usable than its alternatives. But it does have one distinct advantage: A data-sharing platform can double as both database and cryptocurrency. Behold, the data pays for itself.
There’s just one small wrinkle. There’s no legal property right to personal data.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/opinion/health-data-property-privacy.html4
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https://telegra.ph/Selling-Your-Private-Information-Is-a-Terrible-Idea-07-09
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We don’t allow people to sell their kidneys. We shouldn’t let them sell the details of their lives, either.
“Claim Your 31st Right,” declares the #My31 app’s splash screen. “Review, share, and confirm your HUMAN right to your data as your property.”
(The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights currently has 30, so a right to data would presumably come next.)
That’s why #My31 doesn’t bill itself as a business so much as a cause. “Join the movement by staking a claim to data you’ve produced, declaring it your personal property,” proclaims the App Store description. Sign up, the app says, and “get a title of ownership for your personal data.”
The idea is that once you own your data, you can sell it. Many companies seem convinced that this is the future. PatientSphere, a platform for health care information, purports to offer patients “the ability to not only share” data on their own terms, “but also get paid for it.” PatientTruth similarly bills itself as a health record system and a way for patients to “own” and “monetize” their health data. SUPA, which markets smart exercise bras to Gen Z, offers money in exchange for data. “SUPA is tokenizing the body,” the company website declares.
All of these apps, platforms and services use blockchain — a technology first used by bitcoin, a type of digital money — to store health information. Because the term “blockchain” has become so nebulous, it’s difficult to pin down the actual upsides to storing health data this way. In most situations, blockchain is not any more secure, reliable or usable than its alternatives. But it does have one distinct advantage: A data-sharing platform can double as both database and cryptocurrency. Behold, the data pays for itself.
There’s just one small wrinkle. There’s no legal property right to personal data.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/opinion/health-data-property-privacy.html4
👉🏼 Read without ads n shit:
https://telegra.ph/Selling-Your-Private-Information-Is-a-Terrible-Idea-07-09
#OurData #privacy #My31 #thinkabout
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Privacy International study shows your mental health is for sale
A new study by Privacy International reveals how popular websites about depression in France, Germany and the UK share user data with advertisers, data brokers and large tech companies, while some depression test websites leak answers and test results with third parties. The findings raise serious concerns about compliance with European data protection and privacy laws.
👉🏼 Story
https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/long-read/3194/privacy-international-study-shows-your-mental-health-sale
👉🏼 Report
https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/report/3193/report-your-mental-health-sale
#privacy #study #report #DataBrokers #ourdata #why
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A new study by Privacy International reveals how popular websites about depression in France, Germany and the UK share user data with advertisers, data brokers and large tech companies, while some depression test websites leak answers and test results with third parties. The findings raise serious concerns about compliance with European data protection and privacy laws.
👉🏼 Story
https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/long-read/3194/privacy-international-study-shows-your-mental-health-sale
👉🏼 Report
https://privacyintyqcroe.onion/report/3193/report-your-mental-health-sale
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‼️ Boycott Facebook ‼️
#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit #mydata #ourdata #thinkabout
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NordVPN makes data transfer to law enforcement agencies official
In a revised data protection statement, the VPN provider NordVPN admits that the processed customer data will be passed on to the authorities as of July 1, if the available data allows them to identify a criminal.
‼️ Privacy Policy - NordVPN
https://my.nordaccount.com/legal/privacy-policy/
#NordVPN #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
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In a revised data protection statement, the VPN provider NordVPN admits that the processed customer data will be passed on to the authorities as of July 1, if the available data allows them to identify a criminal.
‼️ Privacy Policy - NordVPN
https://my.nordaccount.com/legal/privacy-policy/
#NordVPN #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
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When Google listens to you breathe
The world's largest data company could soon gain access to millions of fitness trackers by purchasing Fitbit. The NGO Privacy International explains why it wants to prevent this.
How much does Google know about us? In other words: Is there anything that Google doesn't know about us? Through our searches on Google and YouTube, the company knows our interests. It potentially knows what we think. And through applications like Google Maps, it may even know where we are at all times.
On 15 June, the Google Group informed the European Commission of its plan to acquire Fitbit, a manufacturer of smart watches and fitness trackers. The Commission now has until 20 July to examine the transaction.
Google buys health data treasure
The planned acquisition of Fitbit could give Google access to health data of millions of people. The processing of sensitive data is strictly regulated by EU law - actually. The takeover could violate the rights of billions of people, although many of them have never heard of Fitbit.
Fitbit's products range from simple pedometers to devices that record calorie consumption, breathing and heart rate. Fitness data provides detailed analysis of, for example, sleep patterns, and the devices also allow users to know if they are menstruating or have had unprotected sex. A large part of Fitbit's value lies in this health data.
In the past, Fitbit has constantly expanded its database through new acquisitions. The company has also recently entered into lucrative partnerships with health insurance companies.
💡 Read more 🇬🇧 🇩🇪:
https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3962/pass-notes-proposed-google-fitbit-merger
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/fitbit-uebernahme-wenn-dir-google-beim-atmen-zuhoert/
👉🏼 BLOCK THE GOOGLE/FITBIT MERGER!
https://action.privacyinternational.org/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=7&reset=1
#google #DeleteGoogle #Fitbit #healthdata #Datenschutz #ourdata #thinkabout
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The world's largest data company could soon gain access to millions of fitness trackers by purchasing Fitbit. The NGO Privacy International explains why it wants to prevent this.
How much does Google know about us? In other words: Is there anything that Google doesn't know about us? Through our searches on Google and YouTube, the company knows our interests. It potentially knows what we think. And through applications like Google Maps, it may even know where we are at all times.
On 15 June, the Google Group informed the European Commission of its plan to acquire Fitbit, a manufacturer of smart watches and fitness trackers. The Commission now has until 20 July to examine the transaction.
Google buys health data treasure
The planned acquisition of Fitbit could give Google access to health data of millions of people. The processing of sensitive data is strictly regulated by EU law - actually. The takeover could violate the rights of billions of people, although many of them have never heard of Fitbit.
Fitbit's products range from simple pedometers to devices that record calorie consumption, breathing and heart rate. Fitness data provides detailed analysis of, for example, sleep patterns, and the devices also allow users to know if they are menstruating or have had unprotected sex. A large part of Fitbit's value lies in this health data.
In the past, Fitbit has constantly expanded its database through new acquisitions. The company has also recently entered into lucrative partnerships with health insurance companies.
💡 Read more 🇬🇧 🇩🇪:
https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3962/pass-notes-proposed-google-fitbit-merger
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/fitbit-uebernahme-wenn-dir-google-beim-atmen-zuhoert/
👉🏼 BLOCK THE GOOGLE/FITBIT MERGER!
https://action.privacyinternational.org/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=7&reset=1
#google #DeleteGoogle #Fitbit #healthdata #Datenschutz #ourdata #thinkabout
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Pass Notes on the proposed Google / Fitbit merger
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PimEyes - A Polish company just abolishes our anonymity
Research by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. All of whom have photos on the Internet could already be part of their database.
Dylan smiles into the camera, arm in arm with the other guests of a queer boat party. Behind them, glasses glisten on the shelves of a bar. Eight years ago a party photographer uploaded this snapshot on the internet. Dylan had already forgotten it - until today. Because with a reverse search engine for faces, everyone can find this old party photo of Dylan. All they have to do is upload his profile picture from the Xing career network, free of charge and without registration. But Dylan wants to keep his private and professional life separate: During the day he works as a banker in Frankfurt am Main.
The name of the search engine is PimEyes. It analyses masses of faces on the Internet for individual characteristics and stores the biometric data. When Dylan tests the search engine with his profile picture, it compares it with the database and delivers similar faces as a result, shows a preview picture and the domain where the picture was found. Dylan was recognized even though, unlike today, he did not even have a beard then.
Our research shows: PimEyes is a wholesale attack on anonymity and possibly illegal. A snapshot may be enough to identify a stranger using PimEyes. The search engine does not directly provide the name of a person you are looking for. But if it finds matching faces, in many cases the displayed websites can be used to find out name, profession and much more.
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 PimEyes - A Polish company just abolishes our anonymity
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/pimeyes-face-search-company-is-abolishing-our-anonymity/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪: https://netzpolitik.org/2020/gesichter-suchmaschine-pimeyes-schafft-anonymitaet-ab/
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53007510
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://petapixel.com/2020/06/11/this-creepy-face-search-engine-scours-the-web-for-photos-of-anyone/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Automated face recognition -
Enforce our data protection rights at last!
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/automatisierte-gesichtserkennung-setzt-unsere-datenschutzrechte-endlich-auch-durch/
#PimEyes #facialrecognition #searchengine #privacy #anonymity #ourdata #thinkabout
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Research by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. All of whom have photos on the Internet could already be part of their database.
Dylan smiles into the camera, arm in arm with the other guests of a queer boat party. Behind them, glasses glisten on the shelves of a bar. Eight years ago a party photographer uploaded this snapshot on the internet. Dylan had already forgotten it - until today. Because with a reverse search engine for faces, everyone can find this old party photo of Dylan. All they have to do is upload his profile picture from the Xing career network, free of charge and without registration. But Dylan wants to keep his private and professional life separate: During the day he works as a banker in Frankfurt am Main.
The name of the search engine is PimEyes. It analyses masses of faces on the Internet for individual characteristics and stores the biometric data. When Dylan tests the search engine with his profile picture, it compares it with the database and delivers similar faces as a result, shows a preview picture and the domain where the picture was found. Dylan was recognized even though, unlike today, he did not even have a beard then.
Our research shows: PimEyes is a wholesale attack on anonymity and possibly illegal. A snapshot may be enough to identify a stranger using PimEyes. The search engine does not directly provide the name of a person you are looking for. But if it finds matching faces, in many cases the displayed websites can be used to find out name, profession and much more.
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 PimEyes - A Polish company just abolishes our anonymity
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/pimeyes-face-search-company-is-abolishing-our-anonymity/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪: https://netzpolitik.org/2020/gesichter-suchmaschine-pimeyes-schafft-anonymitaet-ab/
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53007510
👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://petapixel.com/2020/06/11/this-creepy-face-search-engine-scours-the-web-for-photos-of-anyone/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 Automated face recognition -
Enforce our data protection rights at last!
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/automatisierte-gesichtserkennung-setzt-unsere-datenschutzrechte-endlich-auch-durch/
#PimEyes #facialrecognition #searchengine #privacy #anonymity #ourdata #thinkabout
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PimEyes: A Polish company is abolishing our anonymity
An investigation by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. Whoever’s photos have been published on the Internet could already be part of their database.
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Google offers data pledge in bid to win EU okay for Fitbit buy
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns about its proposed $2.1 billion acquisition, the U.S. tech company said late on Monday.
The bid, announced in November last year, would help Google take on market leader Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung (005930.KS) in the fitness-tracking and smart-watch market, alongside others including Huawei [HWT.UL] and Xiaomi (1810.HK).
“This deal is about devices, not data. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the European Commission on an approach that safeguards consumers’ expectations that Fitbit device data won’t be used for advertising,” Google said in an emailed statement.
Reuters reported last week that such a data pledge may likely help Google secure EU approval for the deal.
With just 3% of the global wearables market as of the first quarter of 2020, Fitbit is far behind Apple’s 29.3% share and also trails Xiaomi, Samsung and Huawei, according to data from market research firm International Data Corp.
👀 👉🏼 When Google listens to you breathe
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/1003
👀 👉🏼 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive-idUSKCN24E2X5?taid=5f0cf7d82841fc000146e530
#google #DeleteGoogle #Fitbit #healthdata #advertising #ourdata #thinkabout
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Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns about its proposed $2.1 billion acquisition, the U.S. tech company said late on Monday.
The bid, announced in November last year, would help Google take on market leader Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung (005930.KS) in the fitness-tracking and smart-watch market, alongside others including Huawei [HWT.UL] and Xiaomi (1810.HK).
“This deal is about devices, not data. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the European Commission on an approach that safeguards consumers’ expectations that Fitbit device data won’t be used for advertising,” Google said in an emailed statement.
Reuters reported last week that such a data pledge may likely help Google secure EU approval for the deal.
With just 3% of the global wearables market as of the first quarter of 2020, Fitbit is far behind Apple’s 29.3% share and also trails Xiaomi, Samsung and Huawei, according to data from market research firm International Data Corp.
👀 👉🏼 When Google listens to you breathe
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/1003
👀 👉🏼 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive-idUSKCN24E2X5?taid=5f0cf7d82841fc000146e530
#google #DeleteGoogle #Fitbit #healthdata #advertising #ourdata #thinkabout
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When Google listens to you breathe
The world's largest data company could soon gain access to millions of fitness trackers by purchasing Fitbit. The NGO Privacy International explains why it wants to prevent this.
How much does Google know about us? In…
The world's largest data company could soon gain access to millions of fitness trackers by purchasing Fitbit. The NGO Privacy International explains why it wants to prevent this.
How much does Google know about us? In…
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Google sued for 'blatant lies' about user privacy
A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps.
In its second suit against Google in as many months, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner is accusing the search giant of illicitly gathering user data from mobile users. Where the previous suit was specifically regarding the use of Google Chrome, this one concerns the use of many apps on the Android platform — and potentially on iOS, too.
"Google is always watching," the suit, seen by Law360, says. "Even when it promises to look away, Google is watching. Every click, every website, every app — our entire virtual lives. Intercepted. Tracked. Logged. Compiled. Packaged. Sold for profit."
As the suit notes, Google has an optional setting to prevent tracking of "web & app activity," but it alleges that this and other reassurances about privacy are "blatant lies."
👀 👉🏼 https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/15/google-sued-for-blatant-lies-about-user-privacy
👀 👉🏼 https://www.law360.com/articles/1292121/boies-schiller-files-new-privacy-suit-against-voyeur-google
#DeleteGoogle #lies #android #ios #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
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A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps.
In its second suit against Google in as many months, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner is accusing the search giant of illicitly gathering user data from mobile users. Where the previous suit was specifically regarding the use of Google Chrome, this one concerns the use of many apps on the Android platform — and potentially on iOS, too.
"Google is always watching," the suit, seen by Law360, says. "Even when it promises to look away, Google is watching. Every click, every website, every app — our entire virtual lives. Intercepted. Tracked. Logged. Compiled. Packaged. Sold for profit."
As the suit notes, Google has an optional setting to prevent tracking of "web & app activity," but it alleges that this and other reassurances about privacy are "blatant lies."
👀 👉🏼 https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/15/google-sued-for-blatant-lies-about-user-privacy
👀 👉🏼 https://www.law360.com/articles/1292121/boies-schiller-files-new-privacy-suit-against-voyeur-google
#DeleteGoogle #lies #android #ios #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
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Google sued for 'blatant lies' about user privacy
A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps.
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Your personal data is going on a journey
The EU is constructing a number of new systems for the screening, monitoring and tracking of international travellers that places them under an increasing veil of suspicion. Justified primarily in the name of ensuring security, all non-EU citizens attempting to visit the Schengen area will have their biometric and biographic data registered in large centralised databases, where it will be cross-referenced against a host of other systems and used to feed new databases, profiling tools and watchlists...(...)
👀 👉🏼 Your personal data is going on a journey
https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-travel-surveillance-initiatives/conclusions-your-personal-data-is-going-on-a-journey/
#ourdata #BigData #eu #screening #monitoring #tracking #biometric #biographic #profiling #watchlist #surveillance #thinkabout
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The EU is constructing a number of new systems for the screening, monitoring and tracking of international travellers that places them under an increasing veil of suspicion. Justified primarily in the name of ensuring security, all non-EU citizens attempting to visit the Schengen area will have their biometric and biographic data registered in large centralised databases, where it will be cross-referenced against a host of other systems and used to feed new databases, profiling tools and watchlists...(...)
👀 👉🏼 Your personal data is going on a journey
https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-travel-surveillance-initiatives/conclusions-your-personal-data-is-going-on-a-journey/
#ourdata #BigData #eu #screening #monitoring #tracking #biometric #biographic #profiling #watchlist #surveillance #thinkabout
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Web sites shared over 100 trillion pieces of our personal data last year: time to stop real-time bidding’s blatant disregard of privacy
Last week Privacy News Online wrote about developments in the long-running battle between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook. One of the key issues there is the failure by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) to act on the initial complaint made by Schrems seven years ago.
That matters, because under EU law, Ireland is effectively the data protection agency for the whole of the European Union. Like Facebook, Google too has its European headquarters in Dublin. That means complaints against the company must also be dealt with by Ireland’s DPC. As this blog reported two years ago, just such a complaint was submitted to both the UK and Irish data protection authorities, regarding the use of real-time bidding systems (RTB) by Google. The problem of RTB, and how it goes against core requirements of the EU’s GDPR legislation, was first discussed here three years ago, with updates noting the serious implication for privacy.
The UK’s Information Commission Office published the preliminary results of its investigation into RTB (since paused because of Covid-19) last year, and they didn’t look good for Google. The Irish DPC has been very slow to take action. As a result, one of the people involved in the initial complaint, Johnny Ryan, has released new evidence of how serious the problem is:
👀 👉🏼 https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/web-sites-shared-over-100-trillion-pieces-of-our-personal-data-last-year-time-to-stop-real-time-biddings-blatant-disregard-of-privacy/
👀 👉🏼 https://www.iccl.ie/news/dr-johnny-ryan-takes-up-new-privacy-role-at-iccl/
#privacy #data #ourdata #urdata #rtb #dpc #thinkabout
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Last week Privacy News Online wrote about developments in the long-running battle between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook. One of the key issues there is the failure by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) to act on the initial complaint made by Schrems seven years ago.
That matters, because under EU law, Ireland is effectively the data protection agency for the whole of the European Union. Like Facebook, Google too has its European headquarters in Dublin. That means complaints against the company must also be dealt with by Ireland’s DPC. As this blog reported two years ago, just such a complaint was submitted to both the UK and Irish data protection authorities, regarding the use of real-time bidding systems (RTB) by Google. The problem of RTB, and how it goes against core requirements of the EU’s GDPR legislation, was first discussed here three years ago, with updates noting the serious implication for privacy.
The UK’s Information Commission Office published the preliminary results of its investigation into RTB (since paused because of Covid-19) last year, and they didn’t look good for Google. The Irish DPC has been very slow to take action. As a result, one of the people involved in the initial complaint, Johnny Ryan, has released new evidence of how serious the problem is:
👀 👉🏼 https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/web-sites-shared-over-100-trillion-pieces-of-our-personal-data-last-year-time-to-stop-real-time-biddings-blatant-disregard-of-privacy/
👀 👉🏼 https://www.iccl.ie/news/dr-johnny-ryan-takes-up-new-privacy-role-at-iccl/
#privacy #data #ourdata #urdata #rtb #dpc #thinkabout
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Web sites shared over 100 trillion pieces of our personal data last year: time to stop real-time bidding's blatant disregard of…
More developments in the long-running battle between the privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook.