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NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24) open.substack.com/pub/gateklons/…

Forget about switching off "Share Analytics Data" in Pages settings. Keynote, Numbers, and Pages share it regardless of your choice. #Privacy #Apple

Starting in iOS 26, Apple apps seem to access contacts more aggressively. A new app/process called "ShortcutsActions" sticks out. It accesses contacts very frequently, even when the #iPhone is locked. #iOS built-in apps can access protected resources without user's permission.

How are apps still doing this? Companies: stop asking users to upload their address books. And everyone else: refuse to upload your address book to random apps and social media platforms. The contacts in your phone are not your data. It’s other people’s data.

Technical Committee members for Epic v Google

And this week's EU buzzwords combo winner is... commission.europa.eu/european-citiz…

I had written some of my thoughts about what GDPR supervisory authorities can do about controllers trying to avoid the consequences of enforcement. This attempt by noyb has never crossed my mind. floort.net/posts/supply_c…

Grammy-winning artist Ed Sheeran, on collaborating within Taylor Swift’s information security requirements.

Bitly links are now just throwing up ads as like a mid-click interstitial. Truly wild. WTF

Just documenting what shows up in my notifications these days. I cannot imagine anything in my history as a user that indicates an interest. This is just X trying to pick winners in the culture wars.

🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service #DNS4EU because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privac… There are government-free services that do not log: privacyguides.org/en/dns

I like how the DPO for gov.uk accounts is apparently the ICO, but at a misspelled address. This service is making me feel really comfortable… signin.account.gov.uk/privacy-notice

NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24) open.substack.com/pub/gateklons/…

@MrPunk87 Nothing happened because it's a scam. They have nothing.

Today begins the final chapter for this historic litigation. The Court has already decided liability, and Judge Mehta has made two things clear: 1) Google is a monopolist. 2) Google broke the law.   It illegally monopolized the online search and online search text ads markets.  We are not here to relitigate the case, we are here to ask the Court to fix the harm from Google’s unlawful conduct.

@LeoLct037 “This is how close we got, hope that helps, Ursula. Back soon.”

"Tu vois la mauvaise commission, elle est prélevée par l'intermédiaire pour financer sa plateforme, ça fait monter les prix. Alors que la bonne commission, elle est prélevée par l'intermédiaire pour financer sa plateforme, ça fait monter les prix mais c'est une bonne commission"

Living in a dark blue country is a gift. Defending functioning democratic institutions is a worthy use of your time. Strengthening democracy in the light blue countries is a must too. Establishing a democracy in a light or dark red country is a massive challenge since autocracies use technology to great avail.

So @EURLex just made internal references to other legislation clickable and people still believe EU tech champions are a myth ????

These stunts are performed by trained professionals, DO NOT try this at home #DMA #Google