At a conference held by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, the panelists repeated over and over again that Europe cannot keep up with the United States in terms of generative AI and big tech companies.
That got me thinking. Why should we even want to? If we‘re lagging
behind on tech bubbles and monopolies, that‘s a plus in my book.
Instead of desperately wanting to imitate what we see across the pond, we should use our resources to find our own way.
— #technology#economy#politics#Europe#EU
#KI Dilemma.
Einerseits bin ich wegen #Datenschutz und Machtkonzentration bei Konzernen beunruhigt, andererseits ist das die Zukunft, an die man sich anpassen werden muss.
So, wie damals die Menschen, die nicht mit Computern und später dem Internet umgehen konnten und daher beruflich angehängt waren.
@GambaJo Eines schließt das Andere nicht aus. Wir sollten jetzt an einer Zukunft arbeiten, in der wir solche Technologien ohne Monopole und Verlust der Privatsphäre verwenden können. Das klingt aus heutiger Sicht einigermaßen utopisch, ich weiß. Was uns bevorsteht, wenn wir uns jetzt nicht anstrengen, ist umgekehrt aber ziemlich dystopisch.
I just remembered an episode from my childhood. When I was five or maybe six, I wanted to sign up for a „free“ raffle. When I asked my father if he‘d allow it, he remarked that they asked a lot of questions. He asked me whether I was comfortable with the fact that they would give that information to people I had no chance of knowing. And he told me that it may even be dangerous to disclose too much personal information. More than thirty years ago, but the lesson still sticks.
— #privacy
Have any of you first-hand experience with Pay-As-You-Want pricing in a professional training setting (either as a seller or as a buyer)? Did it work for you, and if so, why (or why not)? I‘d be very grateful for anything you‘d like to share!
— #business#economics#pricing#ProfessionalTraining#PWYW
It‘s on! I just filed a complaint against the Austrian subsidiary of a German data broker.
My first claim is that they have violated my right to information by, well, not providing any when they began scraping and selling my personal data, thereby effectively depriving me of my other data subject rights.
My second claim is that they have also violated my right to data protection by processing my personal data unlawfully and intransparently.
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#DataBrokers#BigData
There‘s no rest for the privacy-minded! 🤓
Today: Teaching GDPR-basics to the nicest group of mediators-to-be.
Tomorrow: Teaching GDPR-basics to a data broker by filing another
complaint.
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR
Being kind of a freelancer myself, I gladly refrain from using generative AI for any task my business requires. That‘s because I want to value and honour the work of others as I wish my own work to be honoured and valued.
— #GenerativeAI#ArtificialIntelligence#LLMs#business#freelance
A big recruiting platform just answered my demand for access to my personal data (which was presumably given to them by a data broker) by sending me a screenshot of the data broker‘s job ads with no further explanation.
Do they want me to apply?!? I don‘t think the data broker would hire me though. They already know me and I‘m quite sure they do not like me very much. 😆
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#DataBrokers#BigData#EveryDayIsPrivacyDay
News about significant data breaches appear to break on a daily basis now. Yet some (business) people still give me strange looks when I tell them that the best way to protect data is to not have it stored. 🙄 You can‘t lose what you don‘t have. It‘s that simple. 🤷♂️
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#InfoSec#InformationSecurity#DataBreach#DataBreaches
If I had a Euro for every time a company tried to convince me that the GDPR is valid only as long as it does not interfere with their respective business model, I‘d have MANY Euros. 🤦♂️🙄 Of course, the exact opposite is true: Their business models are valid only as long they are not interfering with the GDPR!
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#EnforcementNeeded#EveryDayIsPrivacyDay
I just filed a complaint against the Austrian subsidiary of a credit rating agency for allegedly violating my GDPR-access-rights. Other than a copy of the (extensive) data they have on me, they have provided almost no additional information on its processing. This makes it virtually impossible for me to exercise my data subject rights and therefore contradicts the GDPR‘s principles. Now, the data protection authority will have a say.
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#BigData#DataBrokers
A well intentioned piece of advice for all the data brokers out there: If you offer the personal data you‘ve amassed to a privacy professional, they might hit you with everything the GDPR has in store. And yes, that just happened. 🤦♂️😆
— #privacy#DataProtection#GDPR#BigData#DataBrokers
@rysiek I will be kind of live-tickering here on Mastodon. A little teaser: I‘m currently preparing the first (of many) complaints and will file with the DPA this week.
The whole story will follow as soon as I have my website up and running. 🤓 I’m looking forward to telling all of you how a giveaway-pen started it all. 🙃
I‘m shocked by the response I got from a data broker today. And not because they didn‘t give me any information on what they are doing with my data (which they didn‘t), but because of the copy of my data, which they did give me.
The amount of data they have is - for a lack of a better description - surprising. They must have scraped every single bit of information for years and never deleted any of it. Oh, we‘re going to have fun.
— #GDPR#privacy#DataProtection#DataBrokers
Them: "If you are interested in applying for the position of [POSITION], please submit your resume, cover letter, completed application form, home address, phone number, IP address, 5-page application essay, 3-hour technical test, completed app development test app, successfully completed 50-step CTF challenge score, GPA, all original school transcripts even if it was 30 years ago, advanced background check, credit score, most recent facial print, keystroke pattern, and search history for the past 15 years to be considered for this position."
Me: sigh
Them: "Note that Applicants who are not selected for the first round of interviews will not be contacted. You will never know why and never be able to improve. Don't contact us or we will be angry at you."
@Em0nM4stodon Remember the good old times when they „only“ demanded that you had a master‘s degree, ten years of practice - preferably three of them abroad - and were not older than 23? 🙄
What new word should be
created to describe the specific angst of a privacy professional having their own data harvested left and right by HR third-party software while ironically applying for jobs in the privacy field? :dumpster_fire_gif:
Me: „I request full access according to Article 15 GDPR.“
Data Broker: „We do not have any of your personal data!“
Me: „Here‘s a screenshot of my personal data on your website. Also, I‘m insisting on my access rights.“
Data Broker: „Yes, well, we can delete that if you like.“
Me: 🤦♂️
@steve I can’t comment on how these cases are treated by the British DPA now the United Kingdom has decoupled from the GDPR.
But in the European Union, it seems that we are finally making some progress in the right direction. Some recent ECJ and DPA decisions have scrutinized data broker‘s practices. Now it’s important to keep the pressure up, not necessarily for the penalties as such, but to make such problematic business models as uncomfortable as possible.
