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Mobile ecosystem issues aside, IRMA looks excellent. Could IRMA's decentralization and selective disclosure features somehow be combined with OpenID? For example, could the IRMA ap…

Warning: The privacy notice template on this site ( https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/ ) omits basic mandatory elements (e.g. retention periods, right to lodge a complaint). The templ…

At the time of writing the link to actual report in the blog post does not work. Here is the correct link: https://cdn.bitwarden.com/misc/Bitwarden%20Security%20Assess...

The legitimate interest has been around for a while. It was also a legal basis to process personal data under the 1995 Data Protection Directive which the GDPR replaced. If you are…

Should I care about free speech if I have nothing controversial to say?

A tracking link from the International Association of Privacy Professionals...

In addition to the GDPR concerns mentioned in sibling posts, this type of collection is likely covered by Article 5.3 of the EU ePrivacy Directive, which requires consent for stori…

cynicism == obedience

By removing bad options. Like cars without seatbelts, or toys with lead in them.

Why is moxie doing PR for WhatsApp?

Nobody mentions software freedom? [0] Arguably any software that restricts user freedom is the result of a moral failure somewhere in the process. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

The viability of this service is inversely proportional to income equality.

Debian Pure Blends are not derivatives. [0] [0] http://blends.debian.org/blends/ch02.html

I think FreedomBox is a Debian "pure blend" configured to provide self-hosted communication services such as blog, dav, tor, voip, vpn, wiki and xmpp on low-power open hardware suc…

Our dependence on technology enables new vectors of control and I am not as optimistic about the ability of laws to guarantee these will not be abused. Trust in government as an ag…

That's the press release, which is a good summary, but not the actual judgment. The judgment is available at: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-362/14