iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Reinhold Kesler

Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) @dice.hhu.de · 12/12/2025

🚨 NEU! #BeiAnrufWettbewerb 🎙️ @rkesler.com @hhu.de zu Gast! @haucap.bsky.social & @podszun.bsky.social packen mit ihm zusammen die @ec.europa.eu Geschenke aus: #Google #AdTech, #Apple App-Tracking, #Meta KI/WhatsApp & #Compliance-Daten. Digital-Regulierung pur! #DSA open.spotify.com/episode/2fmc...

open.spotify.com

Big Tech unterm Baum: Google, Apple, Meta, X– und was die Daten sagen (mit Reinhold Kesler)

174

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 30/01/2025

Freue mich auf die 4. Bonner Streitgespräche zum Daten- und Datenschutzrecht, veranstaltet von der ForTech e. V. am kommenden Mittwoch, und den Austausch mit @kkaesling.bsky.social, Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider und Klaus Müller über das EU-Digitalrecht. Mehr Infos gibt es hier: lnkd.in/eP2sDm96

lnkd.in

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

020

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 10/01/2025

* Of course, location could have been inferred alternatively, e.g., WIFI, IP etc. The links can be found here: [1] www.wired.com/story/gravy-... [2] bsky.app/profile/fs0c...

000

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 10/01/2025

Interestingly, the Play Store privacy labels of these apps reveal that only 3 in 4 apps state they share data with third parties and less than half disclose the sharing of location (i.e. GPS) data*.

100

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 10/01/2025

As headlines already suggested, the list contains renowned apps with many users – predominantly belonging to the games category. It is apparent that all are ad-based and thus many pinpoint to the ad ecosystem being the origin of the user’s location info.

100

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 10/01/2025

Reports are coming in about an apparent data breach of a large location seller [1]. Researchers like @fs0c131y.com had a look at a sample and extracted apps involved [2]. I looked into many of these apps on Google's Play Store and their privacy disclosures.

162

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 08/01/2025

Comeback on Bluesky with a podcast I took part in on Temu and how the EU may intervene under the Digital Services Act (DSA), highlighting that the moderation of illegal products on Temu has increased significantly since the investigation launched in October.

020

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 11/10/2023

Fully agree, there are many challenges and my impression is that it is getting worse over time (e.g., restrictions, outages, and removals). Let’s keep in touch!

010

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 11/10/2023

You're absolutely correct and I do observe additional targeting parameters to go down a lot. It is just interesting to observe that lesser personalization and/or profiling doesn't seem to affect the amount of ads targeted to that group. Looking forward to your analysis!

120

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 11/10/2023

EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) does not permit targeted advertising based on profiling toward children (<18y) and TikTok said it would restrict types of data used to show ads. Data from TikTok’s ad library suggests no change with the enactment in the share of ads targeted toward users aged 13-17.📉📈

192

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 28/09/2023

If and how to regulate digital platforms. Quite some interesting policy shocks going on/coming up.

031

Reinhold Kesler @rkesler.com · 26/09/2023

What’s happening on TikTok’s ad library? Almost all “top” ads first shown shortly after the official release do not display info on the size of targeted audience anymore. It seems like most of these ads do not use additional parameters (excluding gender/age) to target users, too. 📉📈

040