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In Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability, we took a thorough look at the privacy implications of various kinds of...
... actually have. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a powerful , far-reaching , and comprehensive (if ... of interoperability, prompting two questions: Does the GDPR mean that the EU doesn’t need interoperability in order to protect Europeans’ privacy? And Does the GDPR mean that interoperability is impossible, because there ...
To the extent that 260-page regulations can ever be said to be “famous,” Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment...
... Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment in limelight in 2018. When it ... that marketed itself (presumably in compliance with the GDPR) by offering to lull its users to sleep with spoken excerpts from the law. Did the GDPR live up to the year’s hype, good or bad? As Premier ...
Almost three years ago, the global domain name authority ICANN chartered a working group to consider how to build a replacement for the WHOIS...
... Europe's General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR on May 25, which will make the continued operation of ... the Board regarding how this WG will be affected by the GDPR compliance efforts." ICANN Board Cookbook With ... bringing the legacy WHOIS system into compliance with the GDPR. The ingredients of this so-called "Cookbook" proposal ...
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in May 2018, and with it, a new set of tough penalties for companies that...
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in May 2018, and with it, a new ... the blame on ICANN, either for their liability under the GDPR if they complied with their WHOIS obligations, or for ... protection law. Three Interim Options Finally, with the GDPR deadline hard approaching and with the work of the ...
Browser fingerprinting is on a collision course with privacy regulations. For almost a decade, EFF has been raising awareness about this tracking...
... European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which entered into force on May 25th, is intended to ... Europe-wide law. This leads to a key question: Will the GDPR require companies to make fingerprinting as visible to ... “personal data processing” and will be covered by the GDPR. What is browser fingerprinting and how does it work? ...
Europe is very close to the finishing line of an extraordinary project: the adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a single,...
... adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a single, comprehensive replacement for the 28 ... data” as a separate and equal right to privacy. The GDPR is intended to update and maintain that high standard of ... its enforcement. The battle over the details of the GDPR has so far mostly been a debate between advocates ...
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy on Facebook.”...
... part of the company’s efforts to comply with the GDPR, the new EU data protection law going into effect in ... did mention the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to all companies that process any ... will shut off in the EU on May 25, 2018—the day the GDPR goes into effect—and at the end of September for the ...
The European Union’s controversial new copyright rules are on a collision course with EU data privacy rules. The GDPR guards data protection, privacy...
... are on a collision course with EU data privacy rules. The GDPR guards data protection, privacy, and other fundamental ... that steer clear of automated filters that violate the GDPR by censoring and discriminating against users. Platforms ... plead their case. Can’t See the Wood For the Trees: the GDPR There’s something awfully familiar about the idea of ...
Join EFF at the Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco! We’ll be joining community members, builders, and experts to discuss how core civil...
... O’Brien, International Director: How do we deal with the GDPR and Data Protection in the Decentralized Web? ...
France’s data protection authority is first out the gate with a big decision regarding a high-profile tech company, and every other enforcer in...
... for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is about 57 million U.S. dollars. The decision ... accounts for Google services on Android devices. Since the GDPR came into effect on May 25, 2018, many companies have ... to users. The Complaints from Privacy Advocates Under the GDPR, processing of personal data is only allowed where there ...
Anyone looking at their inbox in the last few months might think that the Internet companies have collectively returned from a term-of-service...
... due to Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on May 25th. Most companies ... terms of service to avoid breaking this new EU law. The GDPR strongly encourages clarity in "information addressed to ... out their data use. But the additional penalties of the GDPR (with fines of up to 20 million euro, or 4% of global ...
One conception of the Internet -- and rapidly-changing technology in general -- is to claim that it is beyond effective regulation, because its...
... a look at Australia's new anti-encryption law, the EU's GDPR and Article 13 and 11 of the proposed Copyright ...
Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal last summer, consumer data privacy has been a hot topic in Congress. The witness table has been dominated...
... back. The Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing called GDPR & CCPA: Opt-ins, Consumer Control, and the Impact on ... top Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein, asked if the GDPR was bad for business. CDT’s Michelle Richardson responded by saying that because the GDPR is so new, we don’t yet know its effects. Richardson ...
Twitter greeted its users with a confusing notification this week. “The control you have over what information Twitter shares with its business...
... users differently depending on whether they are subject to GDPR. Previously, anyone in the world could opt out of Twitter’s conversion tracking (type 1), and people in GDPR-compliant regions had to opt in. Now, people outside of ... and Facebook is a new phenomenon. For people protected by GDPR, type-1 data sharing remains opt-in, and type ...
The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer privacy this morning was exactly what we and other privacy advocates expected: a chorus of big tech...
... shouldn’t adopt standards along the lines of the EU’s GDPR or California’s CCPA. None of this was surprising . ... while the company representatives present claimed that GDPR and the CCPA imposed unreasonable burdens, they all ...
A new year often starts with good resolutions. Some resolve to change a certain habit, others resolve to abandon an undesired trait. Mobile app...
... data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and consumers have no practical option to avoid being ... into exploitative practices in contradiction to the GDPR, the report says. While the research was carried out in ...
With the passage of last year's Copyright Directive, the EU demanded that member states pass laws that reduce copyright infringement by internet...
... Meanwhile states are also required to uphold the GDPR, which safeguards users against mass, indiscriminate ... impossibility of squaring the Copyright Directive with the GDPR's rules protecting Europeans from "general monitoring," ...
RightsCon Panel #7909American PII and the United State(s) of privacy law
RightsCon; 12:45pm -1:45pm PT
The debate around state and federal data...
RightsCon; 12:45pm -1:45pm PT
The debate around state and federal data...
... not—including how to build on current laws like the GDPR. Speakers will engage in a discussion about likely next ...
2018 may be remembered as the Year of the Facebook Scandal, and rightly so. The Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony...
... On May 25, Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) took effect . The law includes some of the most ... impact of the regulation has been a mixed bag. On paper, GDPR prohibits tracking unless the user has opted in. In ... like ICANN, made some privacy-positive improvements under GDPR, but did not take the opportunity to go far enough . And ...
In terms of technical approaches to protecting user privacy online, 2018 has certainly seen its ups and downs.
On a positive note, we added a ton of...
On a positive note, we added a ton of...
... industry failed after seven years. The advent of the GDPR promised better protection for those covered by it at ... optimistic about the future. With the advent of the GDPR this year, we think browser fingerprinting companies ... cookies, which are easy for users to block and remove. The GDPR unequivocally states that this kind of personal data ...
Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Council of Europe's "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Automatic Processing of...
... laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as similar laws in Canada, Australia, India, ... as a term, at least before companies started sending those GDPR update e-mails in 2018. And because the U.S. model of ... authors paid little attention to compatibility with the GDPR. But, looking at the two side-by-side , what is clear is ...
Update, June 11, 2021: Today, we updated this paper with a new appendix, "The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly," which analyzes the legal benefits of...
... Today, we updated this paper with a new appendix , "The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly," which analyzes the legal benefits of interoperability under the GDPR, where a regional privacy law creates a sturdy privacy ... jurisdictions. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) both ...
We're proud to announce a new updated version of The State of Communications Privacy Laws in eight Latin American countries and Spain. For over a...
... the EU's 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Since 2018, several countries, including Barbados and Panama have led the way in adopting GDPR-inspired laws in the region, promising the beginning of ... In fact, the privacy protections of Brazil ’s new GDPR-inspired law took effect last week, on September 18, ...
ETICAS Foundation’s second ¿Quien Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?) report on data privacy practices in Spain shows how Spain’s leading...
... under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s data privacy law that sets ... practices and conduct. In light of the adoption of the GDPR, this year’s report assessed companies against several ... earning partial credit in 2018. The implementation of the GDPR has had a positive effect on privacy policies at only ...
WhatsApp users have recently started seeing a new pop-up screen requiring them to agree to its new terms and privacy policy in order to keep using...
... by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The GDPR prevents WhatsApp from simply passing on user data to ... violates the “coupling prohibition” under the GDPR. The Problems with Messenger Monetization Facebook has ...
The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users' phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to...
... is unchecked, too.) Unless you are in the EU, where the GDPR requires that features like this be opt-in, these are ...
Against all the odds, but with the support of nearly a million Europeans, MEPs voted earlier this month to reject the EU's proposed copyright reform—...
... Net-savvy MEPs and activists that wrote and fought for the GDPR put their names to challenge the idea that these laws ... tradition of producing a rich supply of amendments (the GDPR had thousands). We'll need to coalesce support around a ...
Yesterday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer data privacy was a welcome improvement. The last time the Committee convened around this...
... have made plans to pull out of Europe after the watershed GDPR went into effect earlier this year is proof that ... also called for stiffer financial penalties, as under the GDPR, explaining that even a $22.5 million fine is only a few ...
The way we design user interfaces can have a profound impact on the privacy of a user’s data. It should be easy for users to make choices that...
... the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by tricking the consumer into giving Google access to ... Google’s consent and transparency practices violate the GDPR. The CNIL fined Google 50 million Euros (equivalent to ...
What if we allowed some people to patent the law and then demand money from the rest of us just for following it?
As anyone with a basic...
As anyone with a basic...
... with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation , or GDPR, saying they infringe its patent. Netherlands-based ... on websites, a now-common method of complying with the GDPR, violate its patent. The lawsuit against Faktor notes ...
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has...
... be drawn-out, and chaotic. Unlike EU Regulations like the GDPR, which become law on passage by the central EU ... legal challenges in Europe’s courts. Again, unlike the GDPR, which gave existing regulatory bodies the clear power ...
A data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, 2SSB 6281 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received...
... Cambridge Analytica scandal and Europe’s adoption of the GDPR , legislators across the U.S. are newly interested in ... Act (CCPA) or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe. While 2SSB 6281 addresses some issues, such ... far short of the protections provided by the CCPA and GDPR. Washington can—and must—do better. After passing ...
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the winners of its 2018 Pioneer Awards: fair use champion Stephanie...
... was instrumental in the bruising lobbying battle over the GDPR, the “General Data Protection Regulation” that ...
Despite waves of calls and emails from European Internet users, the European Parliament today voted to accept the principle of a universal pre-...
... is moving on; Jan Philipp Albrecht, the MEP behind the GDPR, has already left Parliament to take up a position in ...
Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal...
... their hands on it despite explicit requirements under the GDPR that a company give users a “ right to know ” what ...
Since academics and investigative journalists first reported last year that Facebook was using people’s two-factor authentication numbers and “shadow...
... their hands on it despite explicit requirements under the GDPR that a company give users a “ right to know ” what ...
During the Article 17 (formerly #Article13) discussions about the availability of copyright-protected works online, we fought hand-in-hand with...
... a decision based solely on automated processing under the GDPR. EFF represents the interest of Internet users in the ...
As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding...
... already have a right to data portability under the GDPR, this right comes with limits. It is not encompassing ... shared. This means that key principles underpinning the GDPR and other applicable legislation—such as data ...
We’ve all heard the expression, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” We might hope that what we do and where we go will only be known to those...
... (DPA) imposed a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fine of approximately 20,000 euros on a municipality ... sensitive biometric information, as required under the GDPR, indicating that “consent was not a valid legal basis ...
With numbers of COVID-19 infections soaring again in the United States and around the world, we have to learn how to manage its long-term...
... do not. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an employee's personal data concerning their health ... or release personal data. In the European Union, under the GDPR, consent can't be a valid legal ground to process the ...
Special thanks to former legal intern Hinako Sugiyama, who was a lead co-author of this post.
Technology users around the world are increasingly...
Technology users around the world are increasingly...
... data under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) refers to things that are "online identifiers." GDPR guidelines specifically mention that cookie identifiers ...
After grilling Mark Zuckerberg for ten hours this past week, the big question facing Congress is, “What’s next?” The wide-ranging hearings covered...
... implements the EU’s General Data Privacy Protections (GDPR) for their non-European users. But if Congress tries to ...
In exactly one week, the European Parliament will hold a crucial debate and vote on a proposal so terrible, it can only be called an extinction-level...
... started enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a seismic event that eclipsed all other Internet news ...
Your rights go with you when you go online. That’s the simple premise that has guided EFF’s work for 28 years. To make this premise real in 2018, we...
... Pushing Back Against Backdoors The Year of the GDPR Congress Censors the Internet, But EFF Continues to ...
Thanks to the success of projects like Let’s Encrypt and recent UX changes in the browsers, most page-loads are now encrypted with TLS. But DNS, the...
... people to help others understand the rights that GDPR has brought to Europeans,” he said, “and to give ...
Foreign police often want to investigate a crime by gathering potential evidence from Internet companies located in another country. What if police...
... due to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ISPs are also subject to an even stricter legal ...
For most of us, social media has never been more crucial than it is right now: it’s keeping us informed and connected during an unprecedented moment...
... are notoriously inaccurate and prone to overblocking. The GDPR provides users with a right not to be subject to ...
EFF turned thirty this year. In our three decades of work, we’ve seen huge shifts in the way technology and the Internet help, harm, and otherwise...
... each and every one of us, and privacy laws like the GDPR, and the passage of the Copyright Directive in the EU, ...
Last week, the New York Times highlighted the Trump 2020 campaign’s use of deceptive web designs to deceive supporters into donating far more money...
... for email opt-ins. Likewise, the European Union’s GDPR has banned the use of pre-selected checkboxes for ...
EFF Legislative Intern Suzi Ragheb wrote this blog post
Antitrust has not had its moment since the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil. But this past year,...
Antitrust has not had its moment since the 1911 breakup of Standard Oil. But this past year,...
... EU, data privacy standards have been established by the GDPR in 2016, codifying it as a fundamental right with high ...
