TLS is the fundamental protocol facilitating secure web browsing. Simply speaking it identifies the server identity and establishes an encrypted connection. That’s how we may securely use banking, do shopping, and do other things we take for granted. Establishing such a connection comes with a performance footprint because computation…
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Data protection assessment of Privacy Sandbox's Protected Audience API. It can be deployed and designed in compliance with GDPR.…
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The last and final version of the ePrivacy Regulation was finally delivered by the Council of the European Union. The work will finally move forward.
I tracked all relevant ePrivacy events since 2016. I also directly participated in the works as an expert and advisor. While this is likely the…
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Imagine tens of millions of users potentially receiving a popup asking the user to grant permission to be tracked, in September 2020.
The striking news emerged from this year’s Apple WWDC conference. Apple will limit the use of the IDFA “tracking identifier”. This identifier allowed advertisers to track the…
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In 2009, as people grew concerned over the pervasiveness of web tracking, the idea of adding Do Not Track (DNT) to browsers gained traction across the web. By enabling the setting, the browser attaches “DNT: 1” to a web request, effectively telling the site that user does not wish to…
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