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Feb 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Who hacked The DAO? My exclusive investigation ... appears to point to Toby Hoenisch, a 36-year-old programmer who grew up in Austria and was living in Singapore at the time of the hack"

Oh, another 'crypto' entrepreneur from Austria! 🤖
forbes.com/sites/laurashi…
Btw. In 2017, Hoenisch raised $80m in an ICO for TenX, which never delivered (Wirecard, oh my), together with another Austrian, who left TenX after reports on his "past affiliation with an Austrian multi-level marketing scheme", as Forbes put it, and poses now as the clean guy. Image
Here's one of these media reports, and I want to emphasize that do not claim that anything written in this article is true, because of reasons. Anyway, it makes me a bit sad that the embedded video is not available online anymore.
ccn.com/80-million-ico…
As the clean guy was seen as a 'popstar' in the Austrian startup community and even shared the stage with Harald Mahrer, now president of the Austrian National Bank, it would be interesting to know more about the other guy's networks+affiliations in AT.
brutkasten.com/krypto-popstar…
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Feb 22
NL forced Microsoft to provide its software for govt and universities under data terms that prohibit MS from exploiting personal/behavioral data for its own purposes.

✅ It's possible
➡️ This is what everyone in the EU deserves, including Home/Pro users
privacycompany.eu/blogpost-en/ne… Image
When everything from operating systems to Office sw to files to communication essentially becomes cloud-based services, we cannot let private companies exploit data how they see fit.

Of course everyone deserves this, not only in the EU. But the EU could realistically enforce it.
I admit, a single buyer of hundreds of thousands of licenses has better leverage than hundreds of thousands of home and business buyers, customers, citizens scattered across the 'market'.

MS has many ways to divide+conquer from fait accompli via lock-in to darkpattern 'choice'.
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Feb 18
Die ORF-Website will die "Einwilligung" in die Übertragung personenbezogener Verhaltensdaten an 46 Drittparteien, viele davon reine Datenhandelsfirmen.

Nicht cool, dass viele Medien-Websites sowas machen. Gar nicht cool, wenn der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk das macht. ImageImage
Die Gestaltung der "Einwilligung" ist unklar und manipulativ. Es geht nicht um "Cookies", sondern um Datenübertragung an Dritte. Es gibt nicht mal einen gleichwertigen "Ablehnen" Button. Allein das macht die Einwilligung ungültig. Ohne diese ist die Datenverarbeitung nicht legal.
Aber selbst wenn ein "Ablehnen" Button vorhanden wäre, wäre die Datenübertragung nicht legal.

Die EU-Datenschutzbehörden haben das Pseudo-Einwilligungssystem "TCF", das auch auf der ORF-Website genutzt wird, vor zwei Wochen für unrechtmäßig erklärt:
netzpolitik.org/2022/datenschu… Image
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Feb 15
Google's "infamous 'Web & App Activity' controls for paid users of Google Workspace" is "split up into two settings" …HOWEVER, "Google is taking advantage of this settings split to re-enable some tracking features, even if users have previously opted out"
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0…
"The crux of those earlier privacy lawsuits was that having privacy settings bizarrely split across two switches was unnecessarily confusing. Now, with Search History, privacy settings are split across three switches" 🤡
"Regarding the promise to not use data from 'Workspace core services', Google's statement doesn't cover Google Search ... which is the primary vector for Google ads and data for Google ads. That's right—the 'Search History' setting from Google doesn't cover Google Search history"
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Feb 14
In a few cases, it is perhaps possible to discuss the 'value' of personal data in itself, e.g. data sets to train and validate ML models.

In many cases, however, the value an organization can extract from data depends on its capacity to directly or indirectly apply it to people.
I think, the value an organization can extract from personal data depends on its direct or indirect control over a sociotechnical system's capacity to *act on* individuals and groups, to decide about how to treat people, target them, mediate their choices or behaviors etc.
The most direct form of such a capacity to act on people based on personal data is the 'customer relationship', e.g. with loyalty program members, magazine subscribers, bank customers ...or users who registered at an online service, downloaded an app or bought a networked device.
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Jan 31
I want to share some more details about what we found in our investigation into gambling data that are highly relevant to GDPR enforcement and privacy regulation at large.

For example, this is how companies share personal data with each other during a bunch of 'cookie syncs'. Image
I guess rarely anyone has ever analyzed the data flows during only a few 'cookie syncs' at such a level of detail.

It's not about 'cookies' but about an ongoing exchange of personal identifiers that many data companies use to recognize, track and follow everyone across websites.
The chart shows data transmissions we observed during only a few visits to skycasino.com, which initiated requests to the adtech firm MediaMath, which shared the ID it uses to recognize a user with many other firms and initiated further personal data processing by them. Image
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Jan 31
We observed that a Sky Bet gambling site transmitted extensive personal data on gambling activities to FB, Google, Microsoft, Adobe and to the TransUnion subsidiaries Signal and Iovation.

When asked about it under the GDPR, they mostly failed to disclose what data they process.
For example, when a user deposited cash at Sky Bet, the website immediately informed FB, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, MediaMath and Signal (TransUnion) about the exact amount deposited.

Several third-party data companies including Google and FB received data on almost every click.
In total, we observed 2,154 data transmissions to 44 third-party companies during only 37 visits to Sky Bet gambling sites.

The TransUnion subsidiary Signal created an extensive digital profile about a person who was a heavy Sky Bet user and lost a lot.
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