Data Protection assessment of Privacy Sandbox's Protected Audience API
Data protection assessment of Privacy Sandbox's Protected Audience API. It can be deployed and designed in compliance with GDPR.…
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GDPR fines, how does this system work? Part two.
Some time ago I wrote about “how GDPR fines work”, be calculated, including what technical aspects may be considered during such a calculation, the article is here, and it is quite a case study. It’s still good and all, but this time, finally, EU data protection authorities agreed on…
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Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
User tracking technologies are ubiquitous on the web. In recent times web browsers try to fight abuses. This led to an arms race where new tracking and anti-tracking measures are being developed. The use of one of such evasion techniques, the CNAME cloaking technique is recently quickly gaining popularity. Our…
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Analysing the Council of the EU ePrivacy Regulation - is it obsolete?
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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Privacy and freedoms consideration of Covid-19 health passports or certificates
This post describes some of the technologies that are or may be used, as well as the ideas of improving the privacy stance of such a certificate/passports technology. Treat it as a standardisation and food-for-thoughts consideration, with a view towards privacy-preserving Covid19 health certificates or ‘passports’. It seems that…
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