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Mark your calendars:

• Opening Night: Monday, 8 March 2027
• Conference: Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11 March 2027

📣 Contribute: All CPDP 2027 calls (Panels, Workshops, Papers and Culture club) open in mid-September and close in November

More announcements coming soon - stay tuned!

#CPDP2027 #CPDP

Save The Date: #CPDP turns 20 in 2027!

We're excited to announce the first details of the 20th edition of CPDP, taking place 8–11 March 2027 in Brussels

For two decades, CPDP has brought together an international community on privacy, data protection, AI and digital governance

#CPDP2027

This week's net.wars, "The sovereignty paradox", goes to Computers, Privacy, and Data Proetction 2026 #cpdp and finds a lot of discussions of European values: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/05/29/the-sovereignty-paradox/ #privacy #NetWars

🎙️ #Recap of last week's @CPDPconferences - thank you to everyone who stopped by and took part! 🩷 Recordings will be made available by #CPDP in the coming weeks. #CPDP2026 #Brussels #Privacy #DigitalOmnibus @maxschrems

RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@privacyint/116611390751602426

At #CPDP2026, sponsored by Google (Alphabet) and Microsoft, companies complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people according to the UN:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they

If you can’t even abide by #BDS to show solidarity with the people of Gaza are you truly an ally?

https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft

https://bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppression-apartheid-or-genocide

If you’re anti genocide you would be boycotting Microsoft and Google and thus boycotting #CPDP2026 which is sponsored by them.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #privacyInternational #CPDP #BDS #complicity #privacy #humanRights #tech

Pleased to speak about the #Fediverse at #CPDP today!
Tune in 17:30 at @CPDPconferences' Avatar.FM when I talk with EDRi’s @edri’ Jan Penfrat @ilumium and Katarzyna Szymielewicz from @panoptykon. We will talk about how to reclaim democratic discourse with the open social web and how it made me actually enjoy social media again.
Stream here: https://gimicradio.com/

When you hear that someone is a “privacy professional”, you know two things about them:

1. That they work in the field of privacy
2. That someone pays them to do that

So ask:

Who is paying you?

(Always follow the money.)

Based on the answer, you’ll know whether their job is to protect your privacy or to find ways of legitimising their employer’s business model that’s predicated on violating your privacy.

Also, ask yourself: who has the most money?

Then you’ll know who can afford to hire the largest number of “privacy professionals.” Hint: trillion-dollar corporations are called trillion-dollar corporations for a reason.

(Wait a minute, am I really saying that most “privacy professionals” are hired to help corporations violate your privacy, not protect it? That’s a yes.)

Finally, have a little read up on “revolving doors” to understand that for some of these “privacy professionals”, a job is just a job and they will happily flip between the two because, really, it’s all just a game to some people when you have a certain level of privilege.

I was once censured by the Nordic Privacy Arena – a conference that “aims to be part of the privacy professional’s journey” where I was presenting a keynote – for criticising the keynote by a Facebook employee (a lawyer who was a “privacy professional”). What was that Facebook employee’s previous job, you ask? Oh, he worked at the French data protection office (CNIL). And that, kids, is what we call a revolving door.

(Last year, Nordic Privacy Arena had four speakers from Google as well as a speaker from Capgemini – whose US subsidiary has a contract to provide surveillance and tracking services to ICE* – and Salesforce**. Not to mention a representative from the Irish Data Protection Commission. You know, the folks who enforce GDPR to the extent that they’re sued by @noybeu to do so. If you don’t know how corrupt Ireland is on this, read the excerpt from the Facebook whistleblower’s book, Careless People, that I quote in this post: https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/)

And none of this is going to change if we continue with the framing of “data protection”. We must make this whole business model illegal.

We must go beyond GDPR to GDMR: General Data Minimisation Regulation.

https://ar.al/2018/11/29/gdmr-this-one-simple-regulation-could-end-surveillance-capitalism-in-the-eu/

* https://www.surveillancewatch.io/entities/capgemini
** https://dpforum.se/nordic-privacy-arena/nordic-privacy-arena-2026/

#CPDP2026 #CPDP #NordicPrivacyArena #dataProtection #privacyWashing #institutionalCorruption #revolvingDoors #usefulIdiots #privacy #humanRights #GDPR #GDMR

Photo of “privacy professionals” having fun at #CPDP2026 sponsored by Google, Microsoft, and TikTok.

This is why you’re fucked.

#CPDP2026 #CPDP #privacyWashing #institutionalCorruption #usefulIdiots #privacy #humanRights #GDPR

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/116605748081603331

Big Tech loves to sponsor so-called “human rights” and “privacy and data protection” conferences for the same reason Big Tobacco loves to sponsor healthcare conferences.

As you can see, the European Conference on Tobacco or Health, for example, is sponsored by Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, and Altria Group*, just like #CPDP2026 is sponsored by Google, Microsoft, and TikTok**.

Oh wait, they’re not.

Because, unlike CPDP, they’re not a bunch of hypocrites and useful idiots working to legitimise the worst surveillance capitalists and people farmers – not to mention, these days, corporations complicit in literal genocide – for profit.

I wrote this ten years ago:

https://ar.al/notes/why-im-not-speaking-at-cpdp/

Nothing has changed. And nothing will change as long as people with legitimacy continue to normalise these scams by attending, promoting, and speaking at them.

* https://www.ectoh.org/sponsor/
** https://www.cpdpconferences.org/#sponsors

#CPDP #CPDP2026 #privacyWashing

👋 Want to see noyb at #CPDP? This is our team's programme - let's catch up! #Brussels

Find the complete list here: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/schedule

Time to try the "new" Eurocity Direct to Bruxelles. En route to #CPDP!

who else is at #cpdp?

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@CPDPconferences/116528281172195037

I'll be in Brussels next week. Who wants to meet?

@noybeu @Freiheitsrechte #brussels #cpdp #cpdp2026

Crossposting for an EU project that we're running. Sorry for the late notice, but you can still register (but please do so now so that we get catering for you)

‪PQCSA‬
How will post-quantum cryptography reshape privacy? PQCSA hosts a workshop on “Privacy in the Post-Quantum Era: Challenges and Migration Strategies” ahead of #CPDP.
📅 May 19 | Brussels
✅ Free
👉 Info & registration: https://cryptoexperts.com/pqcsa-workshop-2026/

I enjoyed last week’s big annual privacy conference in Brussels (#CPDP), as usual. It’s the best place to hear about the latest research and policy action, and to talk in person to many experts in the field.

The new venue is great — spacious and green. My fondness for the old one has been rather damaged by being assaulted near it yesterday, on the way for a lunchtime swim (which helps hugely with the at-times agonising spinal injury I’ve had for the last month) :catto:

A conference on digital society sponsored by Google & Tiktok?
@republica and #CPDP do exactly that. We think Big Tech sponsoring should have no place there. Instead of accepting Google sponsorship, let's build up pressure jointly to break up Google.
https://www.lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-digitalkonzerne/das-google-monopol-zerschlagen-120865/

This week's net.wars, "Dangerous corner", goes to CPDP and finds that privacy issues have expanded to include the electrical grid and farming. "Simplify!" says the EU. For whose benefit? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/05/23/dangerous-corner/ #NetWars #privacy #HumanRights #CPDP

Unsere Kritik am Big Tech Sponsoring für die Datenschutzkonferenz #CPDP in Brüssel wirkt: Am Freitag wird es erste interne Diskussionen über das Sponsoring geben.
Hier weitere Infos zur Kritik am Big Tech Sponsoring der CPDP:
https://www.lobbycontrol.de/pressemitteilung/cpdp-2025-big-tech-sponsoring-untergraebt-integritaet-von-eu-datenschutzkonferenz-121188/