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Lukasz Olejnik

I write about security, privacy, Web, technology and tech policy matters.

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30 Nov 2020 on cookies, foresight, privacy, privacy engineering, research, w3c, web, web browser

Are we reaching privacy preserving digital advertising? Historical view

We may be in the middle of a  process of redesigning how the web economy functions. Considerations include web advertisements. Such works involve many actors. Some big platforms. Some web browser vendors. Some ads companies, with a modest list of analysts or researchers keeping a close eye. I believe it’…

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28 Sep 2020 on privacy, advisory, foresight, strategy

Web advertising moving towards more privacy - is it possible? Six issues to consider

Web advertising moving towards privacy - is it possible? Six issues to consider In 2016 I argued that 2017 will be the year of privacy. It was but we did not stop there. We are still in the cycle of transforming technologies into processes with privacy in mind. This process…

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24 Aug 2020 on web, privacy, anonymisation, fingerprinting, foresight, gdpr, research

Web browsing histories are private personal data - now what

The user’s Web browsing history is usually defined as a list of websites the user has visited, such as “google.com, facebook.com, reddit.com, bbc.co.uk, random-site.org, etcetc.org.uk”. On its own, it may seem innocuous. It turns out browsing history can be processed to…

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13 May 2019 on privacy, data protection, brussels, foresight

Advising at the European Data Protection Supervisor is not about chocolate

We live in times of profound technological impacts and accelerating history. Technology is increasingly influencing fundamental aspects of societies. Some technologies have great potential but their impact in the long term is difficult to imagine in advance by most. My background is compounded. I have experience in security engineering, walked…

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