Notices by Alexander Hanff (thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social)

European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of #E2EE - a death knell for #ChatControl

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/?i=001-230854 (para 76 onwards)

#privacy #security #confidentiality #humanrights #fundamentalrights #surveillance

@iquaanyin @aral @echo_pbreyer @EDPS @euractiv_politics

@ErikJonker it doesn't matter where it rolls out, EU persons communicate with people outside of the EU all the time, which is why I have called on the DPC to issue a global ban, because even in jurisdictions where all party consent is not required (such as jurisdictions which only require single party consent) Eu persons messages will be intercepted and as such their rights will still be subject to a breach.

As such, today, I filed an open letter complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission calling for an immediate global ban on Alphabet's plans in order to protect the confidentially of hundreds of billions of private communications.

Sadly I cannot post the letter here as my Mastodon instance doesn't allow for pdf attachments, but you can read it here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexanderhanff_open-letter-to-irish-dpc-over-alphabets-bard-activity-7157651449101877251-xAds

#privacy

cc @eu_edpb @echo_pbreyer @EDPS @euractiv_politics

In what can only be seen as Alphabet's blatant refusal to obey EU law, it was announced over the weekend that they would introduce Bard to Android Messages App and intercept all messages (past and future) for the purpose of training it - in breach of EU's rules on interception of communications under Article 5(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC.

To make it worse Alphabet know this is illegal after they were caught intercepting WiFi communications in 2010 with their Streetview cars.

#privacy

Lot's of people asking me why I filed a complaint against #YouTube for their illegal deployment of #spyware to detect #adblockers instead of simply paying for YouTube Premium.

The answer is simple - YouTube Premium has no ads but Google still use it to profile you for advertising on their other products.

I refuse to pay for *any* service which doesn't respect my fundamental rights.

And so should everyone else, because until they do, Alphabet will continue with their illegal #surveillance.

You can help by filing your own complaint here:

https://forms.dataprotection.ie/contact

The more complaints the DPC receives - the quicker they will act.

You can use my complaint to help write your own (attached).

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #cookies #consent #law

I cannot stress enough how important it is for you all to take the 5-10 minutes it takes to file this complaint.

If the Irish DPC receives only my complaint they will likely not pay it any attention for at least 18 months if at all - but if they receive 10 000 complaints it will seriously eat into their budget (it costs money to handle complaints) and will "motivate" them to act much faster.

If they receive 100 000 complaints - YouTube will be forced to stop this very quickly indeed.

@AlgorithmWolf I am not asking what they are doing - I know already what they are doing from a technical perspective; and I am not asking if it is illegal, I already know it is illegal as I am an expert on this particular law, helped to write its replacement and already had confirmation from DG Just (EU Commission) that the law applies in the way I have stated.

I also never said anything about GDPR - this is not a GDPR issue.

But thanks for your input :)

Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies.

Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.