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🚀 Big news: we’ve acquired @MCPManagerAI, extending our Privacy‑Led Marketing Suite to AI. Now businesses can scale #AI with #consent, control & auditability across websites, apps & AI agents. Read the announcement: brnw.ch/21wZ542

@TechGDPR Anonymisation was never a guarantee. 🔍 The question was always whether it would hold up as re-identification techniques improved. Spoiler: it didn't. Consent at collection still matters most.

Can your “anonymised” data really not be traced back to individuals? 🛡️Privacy + data value can go hand in hand: techgdpr.com/consultancy/an… #GDPR #DataPrivacy #Anonymisation #ePrivacy

@BrettBodofsky Knowing how long your campaign data is stored, and why, is part of getting your data governance right too.

Starting June 1, 2026, Google Ads will implement a new data retention policy. Hourly, daily, and weekly performance data will be retained for 37 months, while monthly, quarterly, and yearly performance will remain available for 11 years. #ppcchat

@singularityblog She was right. 💙 Privacy by Design isn't a framework anymore. It's the best answer to a world where surveillance became the default business model.

13 years ago, the architect of #PrivacyByDesign warned me: protect privacy globally or nowhere. #Surveillance is now the business model. The #AI you use feeds on data you'll never see. She saw it all coming. How does it land in 2026? snglrty.co/4mMaAsh

@svnee Ah yes, the retinal scan to watch someone make pasta. Proportionality left the chat...

Future internet: “Are you over 18?” uploads passport, retinal scan, blood type, and three utility bills just to watch a cooking tutorial 🍳😭

@kuriharan GDPR and CCPA were supposed to answer this. Turns out giving people rights over their data and actually resolving who owns it are two very different things. 🤔

Learn out. The legal fight over who owns the data platforms collect about you qz.com/data-ownership… #tech #digital #privacy #crypto #ai

@montezumachavez Always good to see regulators making privacy practical. 🤖 Most people skip question 1 entirely. Knowing what you're signing up for before you use a tool shouldn't be a niche habit.

Generative AI and Privacy: the PIPC and the CNIL jointly produced a poster to raise awareness among AI users about data protection.

@mailspec When every action leaves a trace, consent becomes the only real check on that power. Without it, profiling and prediction just happen to you. 🫥

Data privacy compliance destruction.

@nym Consent! 🔑

The difference between Digital ID and a surveillance system is _________

@MyStartMail Monitoring for security is one thing. Feeding every mouse movement into an AI model is another. 🖱️ Employees are data subjects too and that line matters.

Meta employees are protesting after the company decided to start tracking their mouse movements to train AI models. Should employers have the right to track their employee's device activity that closely?

@svnee The goal is protecting kids, the side effect is a national ID database for everyone. Those two things deserve separate conversations.

A national social media age limit sounds simple on paper, until you realize it would require millions of users to hand over identity documents just to access online platforms. That creates a dangerous surveillance precedent.

@SecurePrivacyAI The app was the front door. 🚪 The data was already on its way out before you even thought about deleting it.

"Deleting the app removes your data." Uninstalling removes it from your phone. Not from their servers. Not from their backups. Not from the brokers they already sold to. The app was just the interface. The extraction already happened.

@Didomi_io @axeptio_eu @iubenda Europe's consent rules are being rewritten right now, and we are proud to not be watching from the sidelines. 🇪🇺 #ECMPA

Didomi is a founding member of the European CMP Association (ECMPA), alongside @axeptio_eu, @iubenda, and @usercentrics 🇪🇺 CMP providers speaking with one voice in EU privacy discussions. Read more: didomi.io/blog/didomi-eu… #DataPrivacy #ECMPA #GDPR

@Pirat_Nation The encryption might work. The explanation didn't. 💬 If users don't understand the exceptions, that's not informed consent, but a gap between the promise and the fine print.

Texas has sued Meta Platforms and WhatsApp, claiming the company misled users about the privacy protections of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. The lawsuit argues that while WhatsApp promotes itself as a platform where “no one except the sender and receiver can read messages,” user data may still be accessible through cloud backups, reported messages, metadata collection, or internal moderation systems. Texas officials claim users were given the impression that all WhatsApp communications were completely inaccessible to Meta or third parties, while actual privacy limitations and exceptions were not clearly explained. Meta says the claims are wrong and insists WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption is secure. According to the company, regular private messages cannot be read by WhatsApp itself.

@montezumachavez GPC replacing consent banners is an interesting idea. 🔄 But a browser signal and a valid GDPR consent aren't the same thing yet, the gap between technical standards and legal requirements is where it gets complicated.

There were two discussions at CPDP: one on reforming the definition of Personal Data and another on Cookies. To understand how the GPC standard will be implemented in the EU, please read further here lnkd.in/g4HFfV6s.

@nym 🍪✅🔒👤➡️🛡️

Describe your privacy stack using emojis only 💀

@privacyint Annoying AND dodgy is a tough combo. 🙄 The good news? Advertising doesn't have to work this way. Consent-based marketing exists and it actually performs better.

Besides being super annoying, online adverts are mostly fuelled by a dodgy and secretive data industry. But don't despair! Here are a few simple actions you can take right now to fight back. 👇 privacyinternational.org/guides

@CalPrivacy @CAgovernor As AI reshapes work, the data governance questions get bigger. 🤖 Who decides what AI knows about workers, and did anyone actually consent to that? Good to see regulators asking the same thing. 🙏

CalPrivacy thanks @CAgovernor for today’s Executive Order on AI’s workforce impacts. We appreciate the recognition of our ADMT regulations and remain committed to safeguarding Californians’ personal information.

@privacyint Monitored at work is one thing, having that data fed into an AI model is another. Employees are data subjects too, consent doesn't stop at the office door.

Meta is installing an app to track how its employees use their computers and using that data to train its AI models. No one should feel watched while they work.

@Oliviacoder1 Absolutely! Trust is built in the architecture, not the about page, especially when the data is this personal. What you do with it matters more than what you say about it. 😉

Voice-first AI only works long term if users actually trust the system. And trust doesn’t come from marketing pages. It comes from: strong security standards privacy-first architecture transparent data policies real infrastructure decisions Good to see more companies building voice AI with that mindset from the beginning.

@tonitrades_ @mert A banner that makes rejecting harder than accepting isn't consent. 🍪

@mert Most people don't know that GDPR fines haven't changed behavior much. Companies still collect everything - they just added a cookie banner. The choice was always fake when it's opt-out by default.

many people misunderstand what "privacy" is the essence of privacy is not that you never share your information, but that you have a choice to not share it capitalism is a system of voluntary exchange and it can not function without the 'voluntary' part