Thread by @finnmyrstad

Historic!

Dating app @Grindr will be fined €10 million, 10% of global turnover for sharing personal data with commercial third parties in breach of the #GDPR, as a result of our legal complaint & report. forbrukerradet.no/news-in-englis… #privacy #adtech

2/ For context, see our work that led to this historic decision:

https://twitter.com/finnmyrstad/status/1216988370632695809

3 / working with, @noyb_eu & @MaxSchrems, we filed a complaint in January 2020. The decision by the DPA clearly states that Consent must be unambiguous, informed, specific and freely given. This is not the case with Grindr noyb.eu/en/gay-dating-…

4/ 40+ consumer & human rights group took action when we published our report last year. Nine filed a legal complaint with the @FTC. It is clear to anyone who looks at the adtech industry, it violates basic human rights, and have to change: citizen.org/article/popula…

5/ This decision should have enormous consequences for digital services that rely on behavioural advertising, as they can no longer deny access to their service if users don’t want share personal data with #adtech.

6. This "establishes strict legal requirements on a whole industry that profits from collecting and sharing information about our preferences, location, purchases, physical and mental health, sexual orientation and political views.”

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1353870293962547201

7. Read this take on the decision:

https://twitter.com/ErnaniCerasaro/status/1353967756354482176

8. Also, doing advanced, technical analysis of apps, is very difficult, & is closed to impossible to do for "normal" consumers. We had invaluable help from security firm mnemonic, researcher & adtech experts @WolfieChristl & @thezedwards

9. Again, international networks are key to create awareness, sharing of knowledge & to do concerted actions. Credit to @beuc @TACD_Consumers @Consumers_Int @LibertiesEU @privacyint

10. To be clear, this is a notification of a decision to Grindr from the DPA. They will have until the 15th of February to respond. But reading the decision, it will be hard to see what they can say that will reverse the assessment.

11. @johnnyryan, expert on adtech in particular, is analysing the decision:

https://twitter.com/johnnyryan/status/1354002622827679744

12. Would like to add, that we are really happy that we have a data protection authority that show that action speaks louder than words when it comes to the #GDPR. Thank you @Datatilsynet for enforcing our fundamental rights!

13. Great to see media covering this important decision. Here are some more links:
@BBCWorld: bbc.com/news/technolog…

@guardian: theguardian.com/technology/202…

TechCrunch / @riptari : techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/gri…

Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Politico: politico.eu/article/norway…

14. Read this analysis of the Grindr decision and its potential impact at the adtech system as a whole, and the RTB process in particular.

https://twitter.com/BuggeErik/status/1354004718369050624