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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Remember, if it's free, your personal data is the price". If you use the browser extension 'Urban VPN Proxy' in conjunction with AI platforms, you MUST read this. www.koi.ai/blog/urban-v...

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8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Is this only exploitation if the data is ‘personal’. Perhaps this is a question about the technical ability (and financial motivation/desire) to anonymise health data?

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I believe this will only grow. I think RayBan may ‘woe the day’ they jumped into bed with Meta.

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today’s 120 million euro fine against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will be spun as a decision against “free speech.” It’s not. (1/7) #digitalservicesact #dsa #dsa ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I missed this decision. The General Court ruled that the controller’s employees cannot be regarded as ‘recipients’, as referred to in Article 15(1) of the GDPR. See curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

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CURIA - Documents

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

How does this work when some countries are banning social media for U16s? Perhaps we should teach children the benefits of ‘avatar’ accounts and uBlock Origin?

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 30/11/2025

Viral social media posts have made a number of claims about how pension contributions are saved and spent. But their sums are wrong, and they misunderstand how the state pension works.

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Viral Facebook pension posts get maths wrong again – Full Fact

Widely shared social media posts about state pensions misunderstand how they work and get their sums wrong.

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Digital Omnibus Day! If you're a DPO spanning UK and EU digital realms, DUAA statistical cookies will have been giving you a headache. Now, it looks like we can co-ordinate on deployment of our #CMP and have one set of #analytics cookies drop regardless of where the site visitor is from.

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Jeff Chester @chesterj1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

EU about to trash its digital human rights legacy; even trades see Digital Omnibus as "not just a tune-up — it is a broad re-opening of Europe’s privacy framework...[will] Accelerate AI-driven optimization and targeting...more processing could occur without explicit consent." bit.ly/4pfJZou

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Ad Tech Briefing: Digital Omnibus is about to land — here’s what it means for GDPR, and the future of ad targeting

Europe's Digital Omnibus could redefine data rules — and shift power in digital advertising.

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

“I wish I had done that”. Can I recommend the podcast ‘Masters of Privacy’. I’d be churlish not to :) Great content that resonates with my ‘world’ and perhaps yours too. Now to think about some great content to get invited on to the show. www.mastersofprivacy.com?utm_medium=p...

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Masters of Privacy | Sergio Maldonado | Substack

Interviews and updates at the intersection of marketing, data, privacy, and technology. With an eye on a human-centric, demand-led future in which transparency, control, and personal agency play a cru...

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A long road ahead, but promising?

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

UK House of Lords debate this month very clear that Copyright and AI was an opt-in issue, not opt-out. Is the UK set to become a global safe-haven for creative development?

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EPIC @epic.org · 04/02/2025

"The national conversation has rightly focused on affordability. But these conversations are incomplete without addressing one of the root causes: the unchecked collection, use and sale of our personal data" @caitrionafitz.bsky.social & @mepriestley.bsky.social's op-ed: vtdigger.org/2025/02/04/r...

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Opinion — Rep. Monique Priestley and Caitriona Fitzgerald: Why data privacy is the key to unlocking affordability

We need to demand transparency, accountability and, ultimately, control over our data.

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Baroness Kidron doing a great job of protecting children’s IP in the #DUABill No forced EdTech consent please!! Heaven forbid my ‘scribbles’ on the ‘Wyf of Bathe’ ends up in a GenAI tool 🤣

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House of Lords @houseoflords.parliament.uk · 24/01/2025

📃 In bills, members asked the government to think again on data collection by public bodies, cyber security, and scientific research exceptions for data reuse. 🔽 Find out more about the #DataBill www.parliament.uk/business/new...

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Further checks of Data (Use and Access) Bill on Lords agenda

Members discuss digital identification documents as report stage begins. Catch up

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

ICO’s just published its guidelines on “Consent or Pay” models. See ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

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Duncan Smith @icompli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It's a little off topic (privacy and all that) but those who know; know. Mishell's thread was a genuine 'uplift' in my day. Maybe in yours too?

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Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye @yvesalexandre.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🚨 In a new paper in @NatureComms, we propose a scaling law for identification technologies, from browser and device fingerprinting 🌐 to facial recognition 📸 and stylometry ✍️. A thread 🧵:

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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Caitriona Fitzgerald @caitrionafitz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Exciting #privacy news out of the MA State House this week! Numerous legislators introduced strong privacy bills, including some based on model bills EPIC has released. #mapoli epic.org/massachusett...

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Massachusetts Legislators Introduce Strong Comprehensive Privacy Bills

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Sensible statement, from a former Meta Trust & Safety lead. Amplification is an algorithm issue. Which means it's a data issue, because recommender algorithms need intimate data about users. We need GDPR Article 9 enforced. Explainer-> www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I can’t be bothered to wade into the Musk-Kier sewers yet because of the insane & mostly unhelpful coverage of what is going on but I will point you towards this piece I wrote in November

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