Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️
@Yuvalne@433.world  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

are you German?
do you browse the web?
are you interested in €5000?
then consider suing Facebook for violating your privacy.

"The ruling in favor of the plaintiff sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without 'explicitly demonstrating individual damages'."
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws | The Record from Recorded Future News
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

#privacy#GDPR#Facebook#Meta#Germany
Simon D.
@siltaer@piaille.fr  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
https://therecord.media/german-court-meta-tracking-tech

A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to large fines down the road over data privacy violations relating to pixels and similar tools.

The Regional Court of Leipzig in Germany ruled Friday that #Meta tracking pixels and software development kits embedded in countless websites and apps collect users’ data without their consent and violate the continent’s General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR.
Em :official_verified:
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

New[ish] Privacy Guides article 🪪🚫
by me:

Age verification laws have been multiplying in recent years. This is extremely bad news for your privacy rights.

While framed as a measure to
protect the children, collecting more data on every users of the internet endangers everyone, including the children.

This isn't a protective measure,
this is authoritarian policies normalizing mass surveillance and silencing dissidents.

It could very much become
the end of pseudonymity online,
if we do not push back against it.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/

#PrivacyGuides#Privacy#AgeVerification#GDPR#Biometrics#MassSurveillance
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@andytiedye@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I personally have moved to a #cloud provider in the #EU. The #GDPR is your friend. I am using #Nextcloud, which gives one a wide choice of ISPs in different countries, or one can self-host, as it is all open-source.

I have also downloaded "Organic Maps" which works offline and doesn't track you.

@focusedoninfinity

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just small circles 🕊
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Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?

New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.

Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.

Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.

https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/

#law #politics #economy#tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa#privacy #gdpr

Screenshot of the title and abstract of the blog post. The abstract says: 'What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology)? This blogpost, based on a new research paper, explores that question. The most controversial insight is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must — based on an analysis of the DSA’s definitions — be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA. Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.'
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the blog post. The abstract says: 'What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology)? This blogpost, based on a new research paper, explores that question. The most controversial insight is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must — based on an analysis of the DSA’s definitions — be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA. Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.'
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the blog post. The abstract says: 'What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology)? This blogpost, based on a new research paper, explores that question. The most controversial insight is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must — based on an analysis of the DSA’s definitions — be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA. Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.'
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech?

New blog post by Pieter Wolters and me.

Our most controversial claim is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA.

Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.

https://dsa-observatory.eu/2025/08/01/what-does-the-dsa-mean-for-online-advertising-and-adtech/

#law #politics #economy#tech #ai #platforms #advertising #marketing #dsa#privacy #gdpr

Screenshot of the title and abstract of the blog post. The abstract says: 'What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology)? This blogpost, based on a new research paper, explores that question. The most controversial insight is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must — based on an analysis of the DSA’s definitions — be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA. Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.'
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the blog post. The abstract says: 'What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology)? This blogpost, based on a new research paper, explores that question. The most controversial insight is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must — based on an analysis of the DSA’s definitions — be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA. Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.'
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the blog post. The abstract says: 'What does the Digital Services Act (DSA) mean for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology)? This blogpost, based on a new research paper, explores that question. The most controversial insight is that ad networks and some other adtech companies must — based on an analysis of the DSA’s definitions — be considered ‘platforms’ in the sense of the DSA. Hence, they must comply with the DSA’s general rules for platforms.'
Logan Grendel (they/them/she)
@focusedoninfinity@todon.eu  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Google is the feds, and the feds are fash. Things will disappear at best, and you may be in trouble for content in your Drive at worst. The best time to move your content is right tf now, darlings. Cryptpad.fr is a great alternative.

Getting off Google is literally imperative rn, for writers and artists but ESPECIALLY organizers.

Folks, we are in a time where feds are disappearing people from the street and posting supremacist content on official accounts. It's NOT a time to "wait and see" or recommend calm. Move now.

Organizers, PLEASE get your info off of Google right now. The safety of your communities may be at risk v soon. You can call it fear mongering if you want, but we're well past "wait and see" with this admin. Do not fafo with the safety of your folks. Cryptpad is right there. #deletegoogle
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@andytiedye@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I personally have moved to a #cloud provider in the #EU. The #GDPR is your friend. I am using #Nextcloud, which gives one a wide choice of ISPs in different countries, or one can self-host, as it is all open-source.

I have also downloaded "Organic Maps" which works offline and doesn't track you.

@focusedoninfinity
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@onepict @EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO

Come to think of it.. doesn't this indicate a missing right in the #GDPR? The right to be forgotten does not cover this.

The right to *exist* with ones true gender.

A person owns their gender. Gender rights allow one to embrace it, identify with it, and requires others to honor that. A person transitioning then entails gender is retroactively changed from birth and ideally IT systems would account for it. Pragmatically legacy systems and regulations can be patched.
My Joan Private Idaho 💐😷
@clickhere@mastodon.ie  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm so glad somebody is finally writing about this.

#HikVision Thousands of controversial Chinese surveillance cameras installed in public places across Ireland

https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-hikvision-surveillance-6755381-Jul2025/

via @TheJournal

#Surveillance#SurveillanceCapitalism#DataProtection#GDPR#MastoDaoine