CSI-COP

EU Horizon2020 SwafS Citizen Science project
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[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

How do parents juggle making the wonders of the internet available to their children while protecting them online?
Read Dr. @TiberiusIgnat interview in CSI-COP's #5 Newsletter :
https://t.co/8SajtI6PWy
#ChildSafety #Internet #DataProtection #GDPR #Privacy

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: Today, the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) comes into force for gatekeepers (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft). These are some of their obligations:

- "Allow end users to easily un-install pre-installed apps or change default settings on operating systems, virtual assistants or web browsers that steer them to the products and services of the gatekeeper, and provide choice screens for key services;

- Allow end users to install third-party apps or app stores that use or interoperate with the operating system of the gatekeeper;

- Allow end users to unsubscribe from core platform services of the gatekeeper as easily as they subscribe to them;

- Allow third parties to inter-operate with the gatekeeper's own services;

- Provide the companies advertising on their platform with access to the performance measuring tools of the gatekeeper and the information necessary for advertisers and publishers to carry out their own independent verification of their advertisements hosted by the gatekeeper;

- Allow business users to promote their offers and conclude contracts with their customers outside the gatekeeper's platform;

- Provide business users with access to the data generated by their activities on the gatekeeper's platform;

- Ban on using the data of business users when gatekeepers compete with them on their own platform;

- Ban on ranking the gatekeeper's own products or services in a more favourable manner compared to those of third parties;

- Ban on requiring app developers to use certain of the gatekeeper's services (such as payment systems or identity providers) in order to appear in app stores of the gatekeeper;

- Ban on tracking end users outside of the gatekeepers' core platform service for the purpose of targeted advertising, without effective consent having been granted by the end user."

Will they comply?

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

How valuable is #CitizenScience ? CSI-COP's Dr. Huma Shah talking to UCL students 8.3.24 about the EU Horizon2020 funded CSI-COP #GDPR compliance project.
#cookies #websites #apps #Transparency #InformedConsent #OnlinePrivacy

[Privacy Matters  @PrivacyMatters]

The poverty of privacy. Supermarket loyalty cards.

For many families, these savings are crucial.

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

What do you say about @elonmusk taking @OpenAI to court ?

[EDPS @EU_EDPS]

The Supervisor and #EDPS office met with @OpenAI today in Brussels. Models like the one of Open AI will have great impact on humankind, and this must entails a high set of responsibility. Shared principles and values between regulators and industry will be key.

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

Dear @EU_EDPS recommendation from the successfully completed Horizon2020 funded #citizenscience #gdpr compliance in #websites and #apps project: please ask the EU ORE website to remove the cookie wall and be more transparent about any 3rd party access to visitor data:

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: ANOTHER lawsuit against @OpenAI - will they survive intact? @elonmusk has just filed a lawsuit against @sama, @gdb & OpenAI with juicy legal arguments. If you work in AI, you can't miss it. READ THIS:

My general comment here is that from a legal perspective, Musk's requests are extremely interesting, especially "a judicial determination that GPT-4 constitutes Artificial General Intelligence and is thereby outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft" (see item 3 below). Quick summary of main allegations, causes of action, and requests below:

1. Main allegations:
A. Mr. Musk’s Concerns Over AGI Falling Into The Wrong Hands
B. OpenAI, Inc.’s Founding Agreement
C. Mr. Musk’s Crucial Role In Getting OpenAI, Inc. Off The Ground  
D. Mr. Altman And Mr. Brockman Repeatedly Reaffirm The Founding Agreement 
E. OpenAI’s Shifting Corporate Structure
F. The Development Of OpenAI’s Technology—From AI To AGI
G. The Founding Agreement Is Breached In 2023
H. November 2023 To Present: Altman’s OpenAI

2. Causes of action:
A. Breach of Contract
B. Promissory Estoppel
C. Breach of Fiduciary Duty
D. Unfair Business Practices - Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200 et seq.
E. Accounting

3. Musk's legal requests:
A. For an order compelling specific performance of Defendants’ repeated contractual promises including, without limitation:

A.i. An order requiring that Defendants continue to follow OpenAI’s longstanding practice of making AI research and technology developed atOpenAI available to the public;

A.ii. An order prohibiting Defendants from utilizing OpenAI, Inc. or its assets for the financial benefit of the individual Defendants, Microsoft, or any other particular person or entity;

B. For a judicial determination that GPT-4 constitutes Artificial General Intelligence and is thereby outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft; 

C. For a judicial determination that Q* and/or other OpenAI next-generation large language models in development constitute(s) Artificial General Intelligence and/are outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft;

D. Injunctive relief consistent with and to effectuate items A through C above;

E. For an award of restitution and/or disgorgement of any and all monies received by Defendants while they engaged in the unfair and improper practices described herein, in addition to prejudgment interest and penalties, pursuant to Business &Professions Code § 17200 et seq.;

F. For an accounting of funds donated by Plaintiffs and others to OpenAI, Inc., and of intellectual property or derivative works funded by same, and of Defendants’ use of the same for personal benefit or the benefit of any individual or third-party entity;

G. For general, compensatory, and punitive damages to be proven at trial, each of which Plaintiff will contribute to a non-profit or charity;

H. For attorneys’ fees pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure § 1021.5;

I. For pre-judgment and post-judgment interest at the maximum legal rate; 

J. For such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.  

Read the full lawsuit below.

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

The @EU_Commission Open Research Europe (ORE) website has a cookie wall! Lacks #transparency about any #ThirdParties having access to visitor data - screenshot just now.

@PrivacyMatters @privacyint @futureofprivacy @REA_research
#GDPR #cookies #informedconsent #OpenAccess

[noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @NOYBeu]

You thought paying for your seat was annoying? If Meta's "Pay or Okay" approach is legitimised by the @EU_EDPB , paying an extra fee for your privacy will become a standard for other services as well.

⏩ https://t.co/L79HKgzGNA

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

Dear MIT @techreview please include an extra option to reject #LegitimateInterest #ThirdParty claims to gather #PersonalData - this should not be a default option.
#InformedConsent #dataprotection #OnlinePrivacy #gdpr

[Wolfie Christl @WolfieChristl]

LiveRamp, formerly known as Acxiom, maintains comprehensive identity records about everyone in many countries.

We examined LiveRamp's identity surveillance system, which facilitates digital tracking and profiling across many companies. New 60-page report:
https://t.co/hEN3leDZVA

[Robert Bateman @RobertJBateman]

New California privacy law definition that will never catch on just dropped
https://t.co/1ioSF0uPjV

[Turing2014 @Turing2014]

@cop_csi

[Privacy Matters  @PrivacyMatters]

Seems like there's a lot of work to be done by the ICO.

Very much worth looking through the research results

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

Wondered about the different types of #cookies and what they do? See CSI-COP's cookies classification
'Taxonomy of Digital Cookies and Online Trackers':
https://t.co/AfExvhx3d9
@REA_research @CovUniResearch #citizenscience #GDPR #OnlineTracking

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

“Facebook abused its dominance by making users give it their data from non-Facebook products, including Meta-owned Instagram and other third-party sites.”

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

This posted last night. Meta has placed 40+ insurance companies on notice that they may be liable for Meta’s defense against state attorneys general for harming children…

[Privacy Matters  @PrivacyMatters]

The Bavarian Data Protection Authority has checked the cookie banners of about 1000 websites and found numerous violations. The criterion for the selection was that the pages used the technology of a widely used consent management platform of a Bavarian provider.<who was the CMP?

[Privacy Matters  @PrivacyMatters]

Oh @Meta seriously? You disable a @instagram account for dubious reasons & point people to site 'account integrity and authentic identity' that presents what is an unlawful cookie notice in the EU and UK.

"We take your privacy, seriously"

[CSI-COP @cop_csi]

CSI-COP Guidelines to improve compliance of #GDPR in #websites and #apps recommends reviewing #LegitimateInterest and #transparency about #cookies and other #OnlineTracking techniques:
https://t.co/jZy1gUGgFh

[Privacy Matters  @PrivacyMatters]

More #PovertyOfPrivacy and supermarket loyalty schemes ..

‘The chief executive of @sainsburys has defended its decision to sell data on the shopping habits of his customers to TV and consumer goods manufacturers looking to target their advertising.’
https://t.co/me3hFFCq8T