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Daniel Whooley
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Stop, DROP, and Roll – How California is delivering data protection rights the EU promised
Seven years in, and the average person’s experience of European data protection is clicking “accept all” on a cookie banner. It’s become a bit of a joke, and overall it has meant that whenever I mention I work in the privacy space, people do not ask questions about how GDPR has resulted in billions in…
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Missing the Forest for the Trees: X v Russmedia and Inform Media Press (Case C-492/23)
Law is complicated. Privacy is complicated. But I feel like in the case of X v Russmedia and Inform Media Press (Case C-492/23)1, we’ve worried so much about the details that we’ve forgotten about the principle underpinning GDPR, the right to privacy. The case’s ironic outcome is that the same organisations that have a history…
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How to opt out of Meta (Facebook and Instagram) using Your Personal Data for AI Training
You’ve likely seen notifications or heard that Meta intends to use the public content shared by adults across the EU and UK – think posts, comments, photos – to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Meta have also said that private messages, and people under 18 will not have their data processed for training purposes…