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A leak from the @EU_EDPB reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning #surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:
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In some ways, this is unsurprising. Since the #GDPR's beginning, it's been crystal clear that the intention of the landmark privacy regulation was to extinguish commercial surveillance and ring down the curtain on #ConsentTheater. 3/
In "The New Antitrust/Data Privacy Law Interface," @TempleLaw's Erika M Douglas presents a fascinating look at the tensions between privacy and competition.
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It's only fitting that Douglas published her paper in the @YaleJREG, as that's the same journal that kickstarted the modern antitrust revolution when it published @linakhanFTC's "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," while she was a law student.
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The lockdown was a chaotic time for "smart cities." On the one hand, the most prominent smart city project in the world - Google's Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto - collapsed thanks to the company's lies about privacy and land use coming to light.
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On the other hand, the standalone vendors that promise smart city SERVICES that you can graft onto your "dumb" city saw their fortunes surge, as the world's great metropolises sleepwalked into a surveillance nightmare.
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From license plate cameras to facial recognition to fake cellphone towers to location data harvested from vehicles and mobile devices, city governments shoveled billions into the coffers of private-sector snoops in the name of crimefighting and technocratic management.
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Arizona AG @GeneralBrnovich is suing Google for lying to its users about location privacy, tracking them even after they opted out. A newly released set of unredacted Google records are explosive evidence of the company's deception.
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The documents show that Google deliberately engineered its products so that you couldn't get your own location, or share it with an app, without also giving your location data to Google, too.
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They reveal a system so deliberately tangled that even senior Google product managers WHO WORKED ON LOCATION SYSTEMS didn't understand how they worked.
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