Policy Expert, data protection. Collaborator with EU civil liberties and consumer orgs. Previously EFF, Brave.
Joined October 2019
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Alan Toner retweeted
12 Sep 2023
Varian is behaving very hostile to the DOJ, despite his damning testimony. Here was a good exchange:
Dintzer/DOJ: Defaults are powerful, are they not?
Varian: I don’t know if I’d say that.
Dintzer: You coined the phrase “power of defaults,” did you not?
#USvGoogle
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Alan Toner retweeted
Personalized advertising: French SA fined CRITEO EUR 40,000,000
Here's the decision in English: lnkd.in/eMr3HCCq.
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14 Jun 2023
If you're in London, check this out. Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy is an incredible achievement. I never met him and Máiréad, but once west of An Cheathrú Rua, his voice is in my head, helping me to look more deeply, and listen more carefully.
5 Jun 2023
Celebration of Tim and Máiréad Robinson at Goldsmiths. Susan Stenger presenting Pat Collins' evocative documentary film 'Tim Robinson: Connemara' (Harvest Films | 2011 | 57 mins) and book launch of Tim and Liam Mac Con Iomaire's 'Conamara Chronicles'.
eventbrite.com/e/remembering…
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Alan Toner retweeted
9 Jun 2023
In this thread, I want to share some additional details about what the file from Xandr/Microsoft, which was reported yesterday (themarkup.org/privacy/2023/0…), reveals about how hundreds of consumer data brokers trade personal information on billions of people at a global level.⬇️
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Alan Toner retweeted
8 Jun 2023
Arbeitslos? Krebs? Schwanger? Ein Dokument gibt Einblicke in den globalen Datenhandel und zeigt, wie hunderte Firmen mit 650.000 digitalen Listen von Menschen mit bestimmten Eigenschaften handeln.
Große Recherche von @netzpolitik_org und @themarkup (USA):
netzpolitik.org/2023/microso…
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8 Jun 2023
The ad industry surveils users behaviour on/offline to classify them in 'segments' which can be sold to advertisers. This process includes observation and inference on sensitive health, political and financial data. @WolfieChristl found the dirt: themarkup.org/privacy/2023/0…
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Alan Toner retweeted
6 Mar 2023
A Privacy Hero's Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect #AI's Future wired.com/story/peter-eckers… via @wired
Thank you, @a_greenberg, for capturing the legacy of Peter Eckersley and our mission at AOI.
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11 Jan 2023
DPC decision invalidating Facebook/Meta's legal basis (cotractual necessity) for behavioural advertising published: noyb.eu/en/meta-advertising-…
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Alan Toner retweeted
7 Sep 2022
For those who asked, my eulogy for my dearest friend Peter Eckersley:
dreamofmachin.es/peter
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Johnny Ryan on what is to be done with the Irish Data Protection Commission: irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/…
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Alan Toner retweeted
5 Aug 2022
BREAKING: Nearly 4 years after our complaint and 2 after starting their investigation, the French data protection authority CNIL finds breaches in Criteo's activities, and proposes a fine of €60 million.
Why did this happen and why does it matter? 👇 privacyinternational.org/adv…
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9 Feb 2022
Brian O'Kelley may not be familiar to privacy/data protection advocates, but he was one of the creators of programmatic advertising and founder of Appnexus. He's also unusually critical of the industry he midwifed into being. This blog from last year is worth checking out.
17 Jun 2021
Very upset that @Merck is using personal data to target cancer victims. bokonads.com/medical-targeti…
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9 Feb 2022
BOK's conclusion?
“The fact that I am still getting tracked and targeted is problematic. "The fact that I don't know why, or by whom - even as a 15-year veteran of ad tech - is unbelievable."
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9 Feb 2022
"Anyone who thinks that Chrome turning off third-party cookies is going to fix this problem is naive. Ad tech solutions aren't going to solve ad tech problems."