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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, i think what you are referring to is actually permission. Consent for a legal basis is very heavily confused with permission to process / created PII. Its a dark pattern confusing human consent with online permission to process data.

Sergio Maldonado @sergiomaldo.bsky.social · 23d

Well, consent can be the most unethical of all legal bases, as it allows a company to run counter to the nature of a particular context by simply tricking people into accepting what they do not understand. Medical research owes a lot to legitimate interest and data repurposing (with guarantees).

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 12d

The Digitally Transparent Society - is a two way street.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12d

US House Democrats release Epstein schedules showing plans to meet Musk, Thiel reut.rs/42ezKb9

US House Democrats release Epstein schedules showing plans to meet Musk, Thiel

U.S. Congressional Democrats released on Friday daily schedules belonging to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2014 to 2019, which show Epstein had plans to meet with Republican donors Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and conservative commentator Steve Bannon.

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 12d

The President Wears No Clothes - This Weeks South Parkis incredible - stripping the emperor.

I think what Big-Tech doesnt get - is that Transparency is now a 2 way Street, Recommend South S27e05 - the best episode ever.

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 17d

The task of promoting Digital Transparency for data control is now a lot easier. As the President and all his men become emperor's without clothes to the rest of the world.

How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

The list of guests at the memorial for Charlie Kirk on Sunday included President Trump, high-ranking members of his administration and far-right media personalities. Here is a look at who was in attendance.

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 17d

The task of promoting Digital Transparency for data control is now a lot easier. As the President and all his men become emperor's without clothes to the rest of the world.

How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

The list of guests at the memorial for Charlie Kirk on Sunday included President Trump, high-ranking members of his administration and far-right media personalities. Here is a look at who was in attendance.

The Conservative Figures That Attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial

Led by President Trump, the list of guests included high-ranking members of his administration, conservative influencers and far-right media personalities.

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 23d

There it is - what Trump is doing with social media - Racketeering -

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23d

Trump said he had discussed a racketeering investigation against those backing leftist protest efforts.

Trump and JD Vance Vow to Probe Groups on the Left After Kirk’s Death

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance pledged to investigate left-leaning organizations following the killing of Charlie Kirk, amplifying efforts to memorialize the conservative activist and laying the groundwork for federally scrutinizing political opponents that some administration officials and supporters have blamed in part for his death.

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 23d

Ultimately, if differential privacy was on the "users' side, before the service collects the data, then it is ethical - its truly differential privacy. When on Service side - Its Differential Security (not privacy), and requires a legal basis and transparency to be legitimate and ethical.

Masters of Privacy @mastersofprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 23d

I am enjoying your podcast - and really like the technology, but there is a clear ethical issue, in that the purpose is specific to processing - using Diff Privacy - for a secondary purpose of use without consent or permission is not ethical.

Masters of Privacy @mastersofprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

We work on differential transparency - which is a differential privacy tool for individuals, in which two digital receipts (like cookies) are compared prior to a session so the individual can see if the state of privacy is as expected. And can apply differential privacy prior to pii collection

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

Ethically, we have the option, the use of Differential Privacy without permission, and record of the purpose (aka a receipt) is considered a Secondary Purpose of use, and used as a way to legitimise mass / deceptive surveillance practices (illegal data) like mar-tech / cookies.

Masters of Privacy @mastersofprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

Ethically, we have the option, the use of Differential Privacy without permission, and record of the purpose (aka a receipt) is considered a Secondary Purpose of use, and used as a way to legitimise mass / deceptive surveillance practices (illegal data) like mar-tech / cookies.

Masters of Privacy @mastersofprivacy.bsky.social · 26d

If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · 27d

@mastersofprivacy.bsky.social (listening to your latest pod-cast)
Could you clarify - does the creation of synthetic data, or the use of differential privacy on data constitute a secondary use o this data?

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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · Aug 28

The Governor of California has given a terrifying prediction about President Donald Trump, explaining exactly why he thinks the country is at risk of a dictatorship.

Gavin Newsom shares terrifying Trump prediction after latest move

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Aug 3

Consumer protection is security, not privacy, Consumes are already digitally identified. Consumer protection is just surveillance and permission governance without consent.

michael veale @michae.lv · Aug 3

EFF made this dumb argument before with Google Privacy Sandbox.

No, microtargeting is not fine just because it’s confidential. Confidential manipulation is not okay. Confidentiality is not a get out jail free card. It’s a nice to have but we must not miss the point about what is at stake.

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michael veale @michae.lv · Aug 3

This is a stupid argument.

ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.

Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.

Do better @eff.org.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Aug 3

Zero‑Knowledge Proofs let users prove they are over 18 without exact birth dates, but they don’t stop verifiers from collecting information like your IP address. These alone aren’t enough to protect privacy and shouldn’t be pushed forward without proper protections in place.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy

In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Aug 3

Digital Transparency is required to scale consent and personal data control for Digital Consent and permissions for AI to be standardised. The authoritative international instruments are Convention 108+ (Ratified in March) and ISO/IEC 29100 - free and open access security and privacy framework

Masters of Privacy @mastersofprivacy.bsky.social · Jul 19

[EN] What in the world is Privacy #UX? Could transparency and control requirements be seamlessly integrated within delightful customer journeys? We asked Ansuman Acharya, who has already helped implement some of the discipline’s best practices at #Airbnb open.spotify.com/episode/0KSU...

Ansuman Acharya (Airbnb): What is Privacy UX?

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Aug 3

This week, Kantara ANCR WG, has put up for ballot - the Transparency Performance Indicators- for reporting on Valid Consent for identification content, and knowledge banking AI systems. kantara.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Aug 3

AI - Agents require Digital Consent, which is not permission, but the legal/sovereign authority to process personal data.Standard digital transparency (Notice records for safety, security, privacy and consent.

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Aug 3

AI - Agents require Digital Consent, which is not permission, but the legal/sovereign authority to process personal data.Standard digital transparency (Notice records for safety, security, privacy and consent.

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · Aug 1

The #Trump economy is here and it doesn't look good - boingboing.net/2025/08/01/t... "The market is tumbling as analysts learn they can not trust the Government's jobs and unemployment numbers. "

The Trump economy is here and it doesn't look good

The market is tumbling as analysts learn they can not trust the Government's jobs and unemployment numbers.

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · Aug 1

Kids Online Safety Act will silence LGBTQ voices www.washingtonblade.com/2025/07/31/o...

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noyb @noyb.eu · Aug 1

🫥 Not knowing whether the data controllers have ever even been served with our complaints, we were asked by the DPA if we're still interested in them.

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Almost 5 years into procedures on illegal data transfers, the DPAs asked us, if we're still interested in the cases. This is the first ever communication of the Lithuanian lead DPA - we don't even know if the data controllers have ever been served with our complaints.

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Aug 1

Exciting to get closer to - standardised transparency for security and privacy that meets Canada's high bar of Digital Consent.

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Jul 30

+100 Very nice to see some pushback and hopefully a new round of innovation can be had,
- Digital Age verification is essentially a (know your customer) device, back door digital identification verifications, using terms and conditions, which is not consent !

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jul 30

I wrote about how the UK's age-gating debacle is coming to America — and what we could do differently www.platformer.news/age-assuranc...

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Where are we at now?

Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · May 13

5 more ratifications of 108+ required for it to come into force. Maybe this year.

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · May 12

Conv 108+ Ratification - Looking forward to the June update. Reading the latest minutes: 46 signatures
out of which, 33 ratifications. Greece 5 March 2025
and Monaco on 6 March 2025 Amending Protocol CETS No. 223 @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social will it happen?
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Graham Greenleaf @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social · May 13

5 more ratifications of 108+ required for it to come into force. Maybe this year.

The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · May 12

Conv 108+ Ratification - Looking forward to the June update. Reading the latest minutes: 46 signatures
out of which, 33 ratifications. Greece 5 March 2025
and Monaco on 6 March 2025 Amending Protocol CETS No. 223 @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social will it happen?
rm.coe.int/abrrep-63nd-... @coe.int

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The Digital Transparency Lab @globalprivacy.bsky.social · May 15

Incredible news for #PrivacyWeek - Consent Receipt, that became an ISO technical Specification 27560 - is now open and free to access, Specified to open IS)/IEC 29100 privacy framework and Convention 108+ (Expected to be ratified as global privacy policy this year!!) @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social