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Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna

@gabrielazanfir
22 posts
2024-04-18
I just started reading the big EDPB Opinion on “Consent or Pay” models. First para of the Exec Summary in & already 2 interesting points: - the Bundeskartellamt CJEU decision was🗝️ - EDPB leaves out of the scope the omnipresent newspaper paywalls huh! 1/ https://www.edpb.europa.eu/...
2024-04-18 View on X
Reuters

The European Data Protection Board says large online platforms like Meta should give users an option to use their services for free without behavioral ads

Meta Platforms (META.O) and other large online platforms should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising …

2024-04-09
I am reading the American Privacy Rights Act #APRA and it confers rights to... individuals (residing in the US) 🥹 It's not a “consumer” privacy law. The US has gone a long way since 2016 when I moved here along my #GDPR 💫
2024-04-09 View on X
The Spokesman-Review

US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more

🔒 In a significant bipartisan move, two key lawmakers … Yuliya Slesareva Godoy : Exciting development in the US Privacy space: Over the weekend, we witnessed a significant leap for...

2024-04-08
I am reading the American Privacy Rights Act #APRA and it confers rights to... individuals (residing in the US) 🥹 It's not a “consumer” privacy law. The US has gone a long way since 2016 when I moved here along my #GDPR 💫
2024-04-08 View on X
The Spokesman-Review

US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more

WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the internet age, tech companies have developed increasingly sophisticated ways to collect …

2023-07-11
Safe to say: the framework will be challenged by the end of this summer. At this point, I do read the EU-US data transfers saga as a modern times Odyssey. What matters is that along the journey we get better frameworks to protect fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law. https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-11 View on X
Bloomberg

The EU and the US agree to a new data transfer deal, which is likely to face a legal challenge given EU judges threw out two prior pacts over privacy concerns

they even forgot to rename the link in the footer: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/... [image] Eric Mamer / @mamereric : Today we adopted the 🇪🇺 EU-US...

2023-07-05
Momentous CJEU judgment today, creating new jurisprudence at the intersection of antitrust & data protection law by deciding that an abuse of dominant position in digital markets can be found by an antitrust authority due to a breach of the #GDPR https://curia.europa.eu/... 1/
2023-07-05 View on X
Bloomberg

The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling

This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 4 … Wall Street Journal : Meta's Facebook Faces Fresh Threat to Sending Personalized Ads in EU Javier E...

This is a case concerning a decision by the Federal German Antitrust regulator against Meta. The case refers to the combined processing of on-platform and off-platform data to create profiles relied on for targeted advertising without valid GDPR consent. 2/
2023-07-05 View on X
Bloomberg

The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling

This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 4 … Wall Street Journal : Meta's Facebook Faces Fresh Threat to Sending Personalized Ads in EU Javier E...

Momentous CJEU judgment today, creating new jurisprudence at the intersection of antitrust & data protection law by deciding that an abuse of dominant position in digital markets can be found by an antitrust authority due to a breach of the #GDPR https://curia.europa.eu/... 1/
2023-07-05 View on X
TechCrunch

For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking

Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day …

This is a case concerning a decision by the Federal German Antitrust regulator against Meta. The case refers to the combined processing of on-platform and off-platform data to create profiles relied on for targeted advertising without valid GDPR consent. 2/
2023-07-05 View on X
TechCrunch

For Europeans, CJEU's Meta ruling could potentially close this chapter on surveillance capitalism, which relies on denying users a free choice over its tracking

Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day …

2023-07-04
Momentous CJEU judgment today, creating new jurisprudence at the intersection of antitrust & data protection law by deciding that an abuse of dominant position in digital markets can be found by an antitrust authority due to a breach of the #GDPR https://curia.europa.eu/... 1/
2023-07-04 View on X
Bloomberg

The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling

Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …

This is a case concerning a decision by the Federal German Antitrust regulator against Meta. The case refers to the combined processing of on-platform and off-platform data to create profiles relied on for targeted advertising without valid GDPR consent. 2/
2023-07-04 View on X
Bloomberg

The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling

Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed …

2023-01-05
In the DPC's words “it is not open to the EDPB to instruct and direct an authority to engage in open-ended and speculative investigation” 💣 “the direction is problematic in jurisdictional terms”; “the DPC is considering an action for annulment at the CJEU” 18/
2023-01-05 View on X
Politico

The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over GDPR breaches related to its ad and data handling practices, giving the company three months to comply; Meta plans to appeal

quickly — find a new legal basis for its sprawling targeted advertising empire. 🧵 https://pro.politico.eu/... @maxschrems : So, @noybeu (that the @DPCIreland calls “an [unspecified...

The final Irish DPC decision in these two cases had to include the findings of the EDPB. Therefore, a breach of Art 6 was also found. Plus, the EDPB directed the DPC to start an investigation into the use of sensitive data across Facebook and Instagram. And here comes a bomb 17/
2023-01-05 View on X
Politico

The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over GDPR breaches related to its ad and data handling practices, giving the company three months to comply; Meta plans to appeal

quickly — find a new legal basis for its sprawling targeted advertising empire. 🧵 https://pro.politico.eu/... @maxschrems : So, @noybeu (that the @DPCIreland calls “an [unspecified...

2022-11-20
The Digital Data Protection Bill of #India just dropped! No localization requirements at first glance - with a transfers framework seemingly based on “whitelisting”. And it creates a Data Protection Board of India #DDPB - https://www.meity.gov.in/...
2022-11-20 View on X
TechCrunch

India's new draft data protection bill proposes allowing cross-border data transfer with certain countries, unlike an earlier version which imposed restrictions

India has proposed a new comprehensive data privacy law that will mandate how companies handle data of its citizens …

2022-10-08
And it is LIVE. Let's dig in: https://www.whitehouse.gov/...
2022-10-08 View on X
CNBC

Biden signs an EO to implement Privacy Shield 2.0, the EU-US data transfer framework seeking to address EU concerns of surveillance by US intelligence agencies

- President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement a new framework to protect the privacy of personal data shared between the U.S. and Europe.

2022-09-06
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Instagram €405 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation re: children/teens data. The text of the decision is not yet available. Meta disclosed it is about old defaults, which were changed in the past year. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-06 View on X
Politico

Ireland's DPC fines Meta €405M, saying Instagram violated children's privacy under GDPR, the second-highest fine under the law and DPC's third for the company

2022-08-03
This judgment is groundbreaking and may have substantial impact. Disagreement between DPAs has emerged on this question - the Norwegian DPA took the same extended interpretation in its #Grindr case, but the Spanish DPA took the opposite interpretation in the same case 5/
2022-08-03 View on X
TechCrunch

A CJEU ruling in a Lithuanian case involving the use of sensitive personal data could have implications for online services that use background tracking for ads

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 1 August 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling … Tweets: Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna / @gabrielazanfir : Very significant judgment toda...

Very significant judgment today from the #CJEU Grand Chamber on the interpretation of special categories of personal data under the #GDPR: processing personal data liable to disclose indirectly sexual orientation constitutes processing of special categories of personal data 1/
2022-08-03 View on X
TechCrunch

A CJEU ruling in a Lithuanian case involving the use of sensitive personal data could have implications for online services that use background tracking for ads

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT (Grand Chamber) 1 August 2022 (*) (Reference for a preliminary ruling … Tweets: Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna / @gabrielazanfir : Very significant judgment toda...

2022-06-18
UK Gov published the response to the public consultation on #UKGDPR reform. The good news is that Art 22 stays, but... “as a right to specific safeguards, rather than as a general prohibition on solely automated decision-making”. #ADM #GDPR https://www.gov.uk/...
2022-06-18 View on X
TechCrunch

The UK publishes its final response to a data reform consultation to diverge from EU rules, including replacing cookie consent pop-ups with browser opt-outs

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :

2022-06-17
UK Gov published the response to the public consultation on #UKGDPR reform. The good news is that Art 22 stays, but... “as a right to specific safeguards, rather than as a general prohibition on solely automated decision-making”. #ADM #GDPR https://www.gov.uk/...
2022-06-17 View on X
TechCrunch

The UK publishes its final response to a data reform consultation to diverge from EU rules, including replacing cookie pop-ups with browser-based opt-outs

The UK government has published its final response to a data ‘reform’ consultation it kicked off last year, laying out how it intends …

2022-01-14
Keir is onto something here. The TLDR Act may be my favorite ever name of an US Bill in our data world🤠 https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-14 View on X
Washington Post

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces the TLDR Act, which would require sites and apps to offer easy-to-digest, nutrition label-like summaries of their TOS

Happy Thursday!  Below: The FCC proposes new data breach rules for telecom and the White House meets with tech leaders on cyber.