Although it’s hard to believe, it's only a year since ChatGPT appeared and ignited the current frenzy over AI and large language models. As an article in the New York…
Back in August we wrote about Meta’s surprise announcement that it would seek consent from users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland before showing them behavioral advertisements. A few weeks…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is probably the best-known organization that's fighting for digital rights. It's just released a new report with a title that's certain to interest the readers…
It’s extraordinary to think that it's been six years since this blog started warning readers about real-time bidding (RTB), the system behind most online ads. In the few hundredths of…
It's old news that the exciting new generation of LLM-based AI chatbots posed a serious threat to people’s privacy. But nine months is a long time in the world of…
One of the most important and longest-running privacy battles has been taking place over Meta’s use of behavioral ads on Facebook and Instagram. As we shared back in August, the…
We've been discussing the privacy advantages of contextual advertising – a system that places ads based on a webpage’s content and not who's viewing it (also known as behavioral advertising)…
We discussed the EU’s plans to undermine end-to-end encryption, generally known as “Chat Control,” a year ago. The proposed law, which intends “to prevent and combat child sexual abuse,” is…
The European Union's important new law, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), is likely to have an impact well beyond the EU’s borders. Unfortunately, that impact will be negative in…
TikTok has officially come of age: it has joined an exclusive club of companies that have been hit with major fines for infringing on the EU’s main privacy law, the…