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Johnny Ryan

@johnnyryan
82 posts
2025-09-02
If true, this update is astonishing.  —  The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Google's ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump.  —  This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.  [image]
2025-09-02 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the EU delayed a planned September 1 fine against Google over its ad tech practices due to fears it could provoke Trump to unravel EU-US trade progress

The European Union paused its immediate plans to punish Alphabet Inc.'s Google for abusing its dominance over advertising technology amid fears …

2025-08-30
The reporting about the European Commission decision on Google adtech sounds shameful.  The Commission had previously made it known that it was going to break Google up.  We do not know yet if it is accurate, however. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
2025-08-30 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Google is set to face a modest EU antitrust fine over adtech practices, in an investigation triggered by a complaint by the European Publishers Council

Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google is set to face a modest EU antitrust fine in the coming weeks for allegedly anti-competitive practices …

2025-08-26
The U.S. knows that trade ain't just about trade.  Just as Brussels should now understand that Competition and Data Protection are not just about markets and privacy.  —  www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
2025-08-26 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on EU or member state officials that implement the DSA, after US tech company complaints

President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible …

2025-05-15
The ruling  —  Dutch original language www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...  English (machine translation) www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
2025-05-15 View on X
Irish Council for Civil Liberties

The Belgian Court of Appeal rules that the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the ad industry, is illegal across Europe

Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet  —  Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X …

Big news this evening  —  This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making  —  www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
2025-05-15 View on X
Irish Council for Civil Liberties

The Belgian Court of Appeal rules that the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the ad industry, is illegal across Europe

Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet  —  Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X …

For background and a chronology of how we got here  —  www.iccl.ie/RTB/#chronol...
2025-05-15 View on X
Irish Council for Civil Liberties

The Belgian Court of Appeal rules that the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the ad industry, is illegal across Europe

Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet  —  Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X …

2024-11-20
“Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany” Yet another scandal about the giant RTB data breach (RTB explicitly highlighted in the article) https://www.wired.com/...
2024-11-20 View on X
Wired

An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …

2024-09-28
It is good to see the DPC enforce the security principle (GDPR Article 5(1)(f)) today. But it is shocking that an issue voluntarily disclosed by Meta to the DPC in 2019 has taken more than 5 years to result in enforcement. https://dataprotection.ie/...
2024-09-28 View on X
Engadget

The Irish Data Protection Commission wraps up an investigation into a 2019 breach, fining Meta €91M for violating GDPR rules by storing passwords in plain text

#privacy #Facebook #HaveIBeenPwned #DataBreach #Instagram  —  https://9to5mac.com/... X: Brian O'Donovan / @brianod_news : Breaking: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram...

2024-07-20
Settlement news today: Oracle to stop data harvesting and pay $115 million. Congratulations to @mlacabe @jengolbeck and @LieffCabraser. [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
Reuters

Oracle agrees to pay $115M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties

Oracle (ORCL.N) agreed to pay $115 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the database software and cloud computing company …

2024-06-16
The DPC's intervening in Meta's AI data grab at the request of other EU authorities and of our colleagues at Noyb may be a positive sign of things to come for the DPC under its new leadership.
2024-06-16 View on X
Reuters

Meta will pause the launch of Meta AI in EU after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using adult EU users' public Facebook and Instagram content

Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe due to Irish request | … @finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social : 💪🙌💥Public pressure works! #meta delays implementing their AI training of users person...

2024-06-15
The DPC's intervening in Meta's AI data grab at the request of other EU authorities and of our colleagues at Noyb may be a positive sign of things to come for the DPC under its new leadership.
2024-06-15 View on X
Reuters

Meta will pause the launch of Meta AI in EU after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using adult EU users' public Facebook and Instagram content

Meta Platforms (META.O) will not launch its Meta AI in Europe for now following a request from the Irish privacy regulator, the U.S. social media company said on Friday.

2024-04-18
The EDPB opinion on “pay or OK” is very odd. It starts by asserting that personal data are non-transactable, but by paragraph 85 is arguing for lower prices.
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 …

2024-03-08
People across Europe have been plagued by fake “consent” popups every day on almost every website and app since the GDPR was introduced almost six years ago. IAB Europe has sought to evade its responsibility for this charade. But the European Court of Justice has set it straight. [image]
2024-03-08 View on X
Euronews

After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR

Cynthia Kroet / Euronews :

Significant news, after many years of fighting... This morning the European Court of Justice has ruled that IAB Europe is responsible for “TCF” consent spam popups the Internet https://www.iccl.ie/...
2024-03-08 View on X
Euronews

After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR

Cynthia Kroet / Euronews :

2024-03-07
Significant news, after many years of fighting... This morning the European Court of Justice has ruled that IAB Europe is responsible for “TCF” consent spam popups the Internet https://www.iccl.ie/...
2024-03-07 View on X
Euronews

After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR

After clarification from Luxembourg, the Belgian Court of Appeal will now rule on the case.  —  IAB Europe's online advertising …

People across Europe have been plagued by fake “consent” popups every day on almost every website and app since the GDPR was introduced almost six years ago. IAB Europe has sought to evade its responsibility for this charade. But the European Court of Justice has set it straight. [image]
2024-03-07 View on X
Euronews

After IAB Europe appealed a 2022 decision, the EU's highest court rules that IAB's online advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR

After clarification from Luxembourg, the Belgian Court of Appeal will now rule on the case.  —  IAB Europe's online advertising …

2023-11-14
New report: how data about Europe's political leaders, judges, and military personnel flow to foreign states and non-state actors. RTB's security problem is a national security problem. https://www.iccl.ie/...
2023-11-14 View on X
Financial Times

Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs

Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail

Our investigation highlights a widespread trade in data about sensitive European personnel and leaders that exposes them to blackmail, hacking and compromise, and undermines the security of their organisations and institutions. [image]
2023-11-14 View on X
Financial Times

Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs

Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail

2023-11-02
Bravo to @Datatilsynet. EDPB has voted to extend the Norwegian ban on Metas behavioural advertising without proper consent to the whole EU, and directed Ireland to implement the ban. Norwegian authority says it's doubts Meta's new consent or pay is legal. https://www-datatilsynet-no.translate.g oog/ ... [image]
2023-11-02 View on X
IAPP

The EDPB instructs the Irish DPC to ban Meta's use of Facebook and Instagram users' personal data for behavioral ads in EU and EEA countries within two weeks

An unprecedented shakeup in the advertising technology space has arrived in Europe.  Changes are coming to adtech's approach …

2023-09-06
Vestager is gone. Replaced by Reynders. A reminder of what I wrote in The Economist about Reynders' mishandling of the data agenda. [image]
2023-09-06 View on X
Financial Times

Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as the EU's competition chief to run for a job at the EIB, and justice commissioner Didier Reynders will now assume the role