James Boyle

Technology lawyer at Taylor Vinters, focussing on privacy & data protection. CIPP/E

[@johnnyryan.bsky.social @johnnyryan]

Big news.
Google and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which will now be found to be illegal.
#TCF #GDPR
@ICCLtweet @panoptykon @bitsoffreedom @Jausl00s @PiDewitte
https://t.co/yDWptBhI6V

[Daniel Jones @DanielJonesDPL]

Quite the update - particularly when we began the month with @ICOnews declaring they were hopeful it would all go to plan. Well.

[ashkan soltani @ashk4n]

Great example how to quantify the degree to which 'dark patterns' dominate privacy consent interactions online (from @PrivoltaAds):

@Google GDPR consent
- opt-in takes: 1 click (2seconds)
- opt-out takes 17 clicks (72 seconds)

https://t.co/cL31OjPIU9

[James Boyle @JA_Boyle]

Favorite line from the @PrivacyPros summit so far, as part of @ICOnews research from an 8 year old: “I should only need to provide data that the app actually needs. It is nosey and rude to ask for more.” #DPC19

[James Boyle @JA_Boyle]

A federal judge just ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when crossing the U.S. border are unconstitutional.

I'm proud to support public interest legal work as an EFF member https://t.co/oPFE8xGTm3

[Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais @OireachtasNews]

#OireachtasTV - A short clip of Johnny Ryan's, from Brave, opening statement at today's International Grand Committee on Disinformation and ‘Fake News’ - Thurs, 7 Nov 2019. #seeforyourself @johnnyryan @Brave https://t.co/0hCs7edcDw

[EFF @EFF]

This news may be discouraging, but *it is not a reason to turn off or avoid 2FA.*

The problem isn’t 2FA—the problem is companies misusing your information with no regard for your security and privacy expectations.
https://t.co/St9UHJQpzs

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

Shorter encryption debate:

Them: Terrible things are terrible

Us: Yes they are

Them: Stop the terrible things

Us: We don't know how to do that without side effects that would be even more terrible.

Them: Just do it without causing the side effects.

[EFF @EFF]

Anyone on the path from your network to your DNS resolver (where domains are converted to IP addresses) can collect info on what sites you visit—potentially blocking content or spoofing your DNS to return an incorrect, even dangerous result.
DoH can help. https://t.co/fFqChxqF8h

[James Boyle @JA_Boyle]

I had fun writing this: https://t.co/0qokVoZQCu and thanks to @The_Pi_Hole for their input!

[James Boyle @JA_Boyle]

@neil_neilzone Yep!

[EFF @EFF]

Independent security audits of VPN practices are no guarantee you’re completely safe using them, says EFF's @jenuhhveev. “It doesn’t mean I can recommend them,” she says. “And it doesn’t mean you can trust them." https://t.co/N1nSavstKM

[EFF @EFF]

Knowing some arbitrary “value” of our personal information won’t fix our privacy problems. Requiring companies to respect everyone’s privacy rights, and giving individuals the power to hold those companies accountable when they don’t, will do much more. https://t.co/MtFWg2bInm

[Owen Blacker @owenblacker]

I've just managed to photograph some of the awesome live-tooning that's been going on. These are the images from @Snowden's talk: #ORGCon2019

[Adam Rose @adam_rose]

A remarkable admission from @ICOnews - its #cookies consent process has been wrong (‘doesn’t meet the required GDPR standard’) and it’s being urgently changed. [In fact, it’s probably not been to the required standard since 2011.] #gdpr #pecr

[James Boyle @JA_Boyle]

This decision is a warning to data scrapers. Rely on Article 14 at your peril! https://t.co/1qe8tmGoMb

[James Boyle @JA_Boyle]

@garethdickson I like to think of it as setting an ethical framework for innovation in many ways

[EFF @EFF]

Whether you're a novice or a pro VPN user helping others get started, our new lesson plan on censorship circumvention and encrypting your traffic with a VPN has answers to some of the most common VPN questions. https://t.co/90I8cS7hyd