Seen in that light, it’s no surprise that Big Tech is refusing to comply with the rules. If the EU successfully forces tech to play fair, it will serve as a starting gun for a global race to the top, in which tech’s ill-gotten gains - of data, power and money - will be returned to the users and workers from whom that treasure came.
The architects of the DMA and DSA foresaw this, of course. They’ve announced investigations into Apple, Google and Meta, threatening fines of 10 percent of the companies’ global income, which will double to 20 percent if the companies don’t toe the line.
It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea, and the pending enforcement action in the UK."
Today ORG joined Big Brother Watch, 38degrees, Organise and other groups to deliver a 270,000+ strong petition to 10 Downing Street.
We say NO to powers in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill that’ll let the UK government spy on the bank accounts of ANY benefit claimant.
Nu har jag ett utkast till Stockholms Stads Dataskyddsombud om problematiken med verksamheter som nyttjar Facebook och Instagram som den främsta informationskällan om vad som händer i deras verksamheter.
Ni är välkomna att ge feedback innan 19e maj, då jag avser att skicka iväg den kort därefter.
Amedia har følgende tekst på sin nettside:
«Vi benytter informasjonskapsler (cookies) for å gi deg en bedre brukeropplevelse. Fortsetter du å bruke nettstedet aksepterer du dette.»
Her har vi ingen mulighet til å velge bort kapslene. Er dette lovlig? #personvern#datatilsynet
@bjarnejullum Det kan ikke være lovlig utfra #GDPR. Men det er heller ikke det de fleste norske medier gjør, hvor du enten må si ja eller velge hvilke du godtar. Det skal, så vidt jeg forstår, være like enkelt å si nei som ja.
📣Today, EDRi & @accessnow published recommendations on how the @EU_Commission's #GDPR Procedural proposal can be improved.
To ensure GDPR enforcement is done right, we need clear rules, deadlines, transparency, accountability & rights for parties.
🚨It's urgent to enhance legal certainty & prevent actions undermining GDPR enforcement effectiveness & trust. People must regain control over their data.
The rule would require cloud service providers to collect & retain sensitive data about foreign users, including email, phone number, & payment info. This raises privacy concerns & may conflict with #GDPR.
Another data broker is telling me that they have a „legitimate interest“ in scraping and selling my data because they need to for their business. 🙄 That is not enough.
When someone claims legitimate interest, they have to show that your rights and freedoms do not outweigh their interests. „We want to because money!“ does not quite do that!
Idk why not at this point. The #BridgyFed critics got like everything they wanted. Everything is pretty much #optin. And because of that it's difficult to follow from here the artists I follow at #Bluesky. :satsuki_sadge:
You could say "just ask each one of them to follow you then", but that's easy for you to say. I don't like looking like an unsolicited jerk asking if they want to hear the words of Jesus Christ or something. Which is how I see some of you here on fedi btw. Damn evangelists. No different from techbros or FOSSbros
Now I do think the early stages should be opt-in like a beta as it is right now to iron out the bugs (and there are plenty) before being available fully to the public. But I have a feeling this is never gonna go #optout as it should've been because of the harshness of those ignorant IANALs who do not really understand the #GDPR and other #privacy laws... :reisensweat:
#Mastoaiuto
Ci sono plugin per #wordpress davvero gratuiti per la "cookies compilance"?
Dopo 1000 visite dicono che non basta più la versione base, e vogliono che passi alla versione Pro a pagamento. #GDPR
There was a time I was not happy about #GDPR but by now I consider those who made this law to be visionaries: #ChatGPT provides false information about people, and #OpenAI can’t correct it
#openAI « refused to correct or delete wrong answers, and won't disclose any information about the data processed, its sources or recipients. »
"If a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way around" #chatgpt#gdpr@lamdba
Now, from May 18, 2024, we, European citizens, are left with no public access to European institutions, since all their communications will go through US-based private companies that the #EU fined repeatedly for breaking the European Law.
What kind of political power is that? Submitting #GDPR protected citizens to the global surveillance of NSA through USA's "National Security Exception to GDPR"?
"It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea."