I’ve worked in data protection for years, but until now I had never filed a GDPR or PECR complaint. The only time I contacted the ICO previously was when their own website was dropping Google cookies without consent back when ePrivacy first came into force. I’ve never complained about another ...

Over the past few months, I’ve been investigating something that should concern all of us when we surf or buy online — especially when we’re using online pharmacies. What started as a suspicious targeted advert referencing one of my prescription medicines led me to uncover what I believe are serious, ...

California's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform

The Calfornia Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides people the right to direct a business to not sell or share information about them, and to honor opt-out signals from their browser.indiacating that effect. There have already been this year several actions by the California Privacy Protection Agency to enforce this right ...

California Asembly Bill AB-56, after in the State's Assembly and Senate 2 weeks ago was signed by Governor Newsom today, and becomes law. It means that companies than develop or maintain browsers, i.e. any "interactive software application that is used by consumers to locate, access, and navigate internet websites", must ...

The recent a nnouncement of multi-state investigations and actions by the CPPA (California Privacy Protection Agency) show that that US enforcement of laws to protect online privacy are catching up with Europe, and could even soon surpass it. On top of the large fines imposed on companies such as Honda ...

The UK's Data Use and Access Act has been agreed by Parliament and will soon become law From the Data Protection Act 2018:

In 2019, in an attempt to sideline decades of widespread demands for online privacy, Google agreed to sunset third-party cookies. They said this would be complete by 2022, but then proceeded to postpone it 3 times - till last July. They then they announced a changed plan to keep the ...

It’s tough for poorly funded enforcement agencies to take on monopoly power. Lina Khan has pointed out the hard work & dedication needed when outnumbered 20:1 by corporate defence teams. https://lnkd.in/gk3AJzQT Online, an alternative to complex litigation is to leverage the gatekeeper role of obligatory software systems such as browsers ...

This week the European General Court ordered the European Commission pay €400 damages to a European individual who had visited one of their websites, resulting in their personal data, i.e. their IP address, being sent to a US website server. This is important because it signals an acceptable value for ...