#cpdp2026 — Public Fediverse posts

🎙️🎶 Im Mai waren wir bei @CPDPconferences und haben dort Avatar.fm entdeckt.

Mitten im Konferenztrubel hat Avatar.fm junge Stimmen zu Wort kommen lassen und Themen diskutiert, die die digitale Gesellschaft aktuell prägen: von Social-Media-Verboten bis hin zum Fediverse, Voice Cloning, FemTech und digitaler Souveränität.

🎧 Zum Nachhören: https://www.privacysalon.org/avatarfm-at-cpdpai-1-1

ℹ️ Das gesamte Programm ist auf Englisch.

#TeamDatenschutz #CPDP2026 #Privacy #DigitalRights #DataProtection

🎙️🎶 Im Mai waren wir bei @CPDPconferences und haben dort Avatar.fm entdeckt.

Mitten im Konferenztrubel hat Avatar.fm junge Stimmen zu Wort kommen lassen und Themen diskutiert, die die digitale Gesellschaft aktuell prägen: von Social-Media-Verboten bis hin zum Fediverse, Voice Cloning, FemTech und digitaler Souveränität.

🎧 Zum Nachhören: https://www.privacysalon.org/avatarfm-at-cpdpai-1-1

ℹ️ Das gesamte Programm ist auf Englisch.

#TeamDatenschutz #CPDP2026 #Privacy #DigitalRights #DataProtection

🎥 Recording available now! 🎥 @maxschrems recently took part in a panel discussion on the #DigitalOmnibus' compatibility with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. #CPDP2026 #Schrems

👉 https://youtu.be/hL-1XIDHXuM

🎥 Recording available now! 🎥 @maxschrems recently took part in a panel discussion on the #DigitalOmnibus' compatibility with the Charter of Fundamental Rights. #CPDP2026 #Schrems

👉 https://youtu.be/hL-1XIDHXuM

🎙️ One of our data protection lawyers, Lisa Steinfeld Leiser, recently took part in the #CPDP2026 panel about rights of access to corporate documentations and the trade secrets defence.

The recording is now available on Youtube! 👉 https://youtu.be/WzEMO06CjDA

🎙️ One of our data protection lawyers, Lisa Steinfeld Leiser, recently took part in the #CPDP2026 panel about rights of access to corporate documentations and the trade secrets defence.

The recording is now available on Youtube! 👉 https://youtu.be/WzEMO06CjDA

The recording of our #cpdp2026 panel on DMA 6(7) has been released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7fEXSUEILU

The recording of our #cpdp2026 panel on DMA 6(7) has been released https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7fEXSUEILU

🎙️ #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

🎙️ #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

🤖💕 When AI becomes emotionally close, new questions emerge.
At #CPDP2026 in Brussels, Dr. Jessica Szczuka discussed intimacy, trust, privacy, and governance in human-AI relationships together with partners from Ruhr University Bochum, University of Kassel.
🔗 https://rc-trust.ai/news/news-detail/governing-intimacy-in-the-age-of-ai

🇪🇺 At @CPDPconferences #CPDP2026, we had the pleasure of hosting the panel “Informed consent: The breakthrough in Art. 88b GDPR / Digital Omnibus and current initiatives in the field of PIMS and technical standardisation”.

The discussion made one thing clear: informed consent online is currently more fiction than reality.

🇪🇺 At @CPDPconferences #CPDP2026, we had the pleasure of hosting the panel “Informed consent: The breakthrough in Art. 88b GDPR / Digital Omnibus and current initiatives in the field of PIMS and technical standardisation”.

The discussion made one thing clear: informed consent online is currently more fiction than reality.

Aktuell Panel zum Thema „Privacy Preserving Eyetracking in Computer Gaming“ bei der #cpdp2026 Murat Karaboga, Theresa Krampe, Christian Geminn und Michael Raschke vom #PRETINA Projekt auf dem Podium. #PlattformPrivatheit

Here are my takeaways from day 2 (and my last one) of #CPDP2026 :

1. Everyone hates the #simplification and #deregulation #Omnibus but the @EUCommission defends it regardless.

2. Experts propose very nuanced approaches for how to best protect minors online. So much expertise that #VonDerLeyen and many other lawmakers simply ignore.

3. The state of #DSA / #DMA enforcement is so dire that even orgs with 1st hand evidence of noncompliance don't bother to send it to regulators anymore. /fin 🧵

Here are my takeaways from day 2 (and my last one) of #CPDP2026 :

1. Everyone hates the #simplification and #deregulation #Omnibus but the @EUCommission defends it regardless.

2. Experts propose very nuanced approaches for how to best protect minors online. So much expertise that #VonDerLeyen and many other lawmakers simply ignore.

3. The state of #DSA / #DMA enforcement is so dire that even orgs with 1st hand evidence of noncompliance don't bother to send it to regulators anymore. /fin 🧵

Felix Bieker bürstet mit einer launigen Einleitung das Thema des #cpdp2026 Panels "Rhetoric over rights: the Digital Omnibus, competitiveness, and the end of European values?" gegen den Strich. Auf dem Panel Maria Magierska, Itaxso Dominguez und Midas Nouwens #DatenTrafo #PlattformPrivatheit

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

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

Yay, day 2 of #cpdp2026 starts with a fiery speech by @finnmyrstad at the Norwegian Consumer Council in favour of proper enforcement of tech regulations to create a "level playing field" for everyone: companies and consumers 🔥

Yay, day 2 of #cpdp2026 starts with a fiery speech by @finnmyrstad at the Norwegian Consumer Council in favour of proper enforcement of tech regulations to create a "level playing field" for everyone: companies and consumers 🔥

Rolling my eyes at #EU tech industry lobbyist claiming that what Europe needs is #simplification and a "data economy" because without it we can't train #AI and then we cannot do all those "amazing elements" AI can supposedly do. 🙄 #CPDP2026

Rolling my eyes at #EU tech industry lobbyist claiming that what Europe needs is #simplification and a "data economy" because without it we can't train #AI and then we cannot do all those "amazing elements" AI can supposedly do. 🙄 #CPDP2026

Okay, turns out I don't manage to participate in many panels after all, but still wanted to highlight @cdteurope's excellent panel "Beyond age gating" about how to _really_ protect minors online (hint: it's not by banning them from social media). 👏 #CPDP2026

Okay, turns out I don't manage to participate in many panels after all, but still wanted to highlight @cdteurope's excellent panel "Beyond age gating" about how to _really_ protect minors online (hint: it's not by banning them from social media). 👏 #CPDP2026

Morgen (21/5) 16:00 gestaltet das #SENTIMENT Projekt einen Content Cluster im Rahmen des Radioprogramms Avatar.fm bei der #cpdp2026. Themen sind Voice cloning; Intimacy, Trust & Control; Data Sonification about the Psychological Effects of AI Usage and The Outer Limits https://gimicradio.com/

#SENTIMENT ist das nächste #PlattformPrivatheit project mit einem panel bei der #cpdp2026 . Lisa Mühl, Jessika Szczuka und Christian Geminn sprechen zu "Intimacy-by-Design: Governing Human-AI Relationships". Mit auf dem Panel Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere und Megan Leal Causton

Visiting a Workshop of the #SmartGov project at #cpdp2026 on the „accuracy“ of LLMs with a shocking report by Martin Berklau as being defamed for sexual abuse #PlattformPrivatheit

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

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

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

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

I know there is #rp26 but I'm at #CPDP2026 in Brussels from now until the end of the week. Will post some thoughts about what I hear and see in this thread 🧵

Expect rants, celebrations and half-baked hot takes. (And PM me if you're here and think we should talk :)

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@CPDPconferences/116534326342403263

🎟️ Are you attending #CPDP2026? You might want to consider checking out this panel, in which one of our data protection lawyers, Lisa Steinfeld, will be taking part. See you there! 👋

👇 Find out more below 👇

Sandboxing Governance Models for Trustworthy AI and Data Use

Organised by University of Florence with Fabio Seferi, Filippo Bagni, Andrea Simoncini, Erik Longo

Attention: 10:30 - 13:05

More information: https://cpdp.be/145554

#CPDP2026 #CompetingVisionsSharedFutures #CPDPWorkshops

Techno-legal Manifesto – A Path Toward Trusted Data Exchanges

Organised by Ghent University - imec with Beatriz Esteves, Marlin Udo Kisia

Attention: 10:30 - 13:05

More information: https://cpdp.be/145565

#CPDP2026 #CompetingVisionsSharedFutures #CPDPWorkshops

Designing Fairness: Power, Manipulation and Responsibility Online

Organised by EDRi

More information: https://cpdp.be/144971

#CPDP2026 #CompetingVisionsSharedFutures #CPDPWorkshops