NEW: Press «ACCEPT» to make your location data available for sale. Two lawyers tell NRK that the consent @huq_industries shared with the Danish Data Protection Authority is illegal under the #GDPR.

Story in Norwegian: nrkbeta.no/2021/10/07/try… “I would never advice my client to use such a solution,” says one of the lawyers about the consent.

Huq has not responded to our repeated requests for comment.

My Phone Was Spying on Me, so I Tracked Down the Surveillants

THREAD on the location data industry and how European personal data ended up at a U.S. government contractor. There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. So I decided to figure it out by using the power of the GDPR - or the more lame name of subject access requests (SAR).

Uncovering the Disqus data machine pt.2: This figure shows the difference between the regular European experience of using a site with @disqus and the American one. (LONG THREAD) My reporting on @disqus started with a tip - the consulting company @conzentio thought it was weird that the comment section widget from Disqus could share so much data. They had a fair point, and it turned out that it breached the #GDPR

https://twitter.com/martingund/status/1207327696272986113?s=20

Uncovering the Disqus data machine: @disqus shared the personal data of tens of millions of users without them or the websites knowing about it. thread - 1/13 During reporting for @NRKbeta I found that several well-known sites appear to send user data through @disqus . Some of them are: @wirecutter, @9to5mac, @ZDNet, @pcgamer. Political sites were also affected: @thehill, @BreitbartNews, @realDailyWire, and @gatewaypundit 2/13