Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies.
Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.
In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.
I’m happy to report that the vote was postponed because they did not have the votes for the proposal to pass. I know it is not a definitive victory because they will simply try to do it again, but it’s good that they failed once again.
Apart from the Orwellian scale and invasiveness of the whole thing, I also find the automatic inclusion of cops extremely troubling.
In most if not all countries, you don’t have to have done anything wrong in order for any interaction with cops to potentially harmful up to and including the risk of being murdered by them. And they’re just gonna automatically call them on every false positive of a likely extremely flawed algorithm 😬🤬
And then we have Chat control V2…
I’m happy to report that the vote was postponed because they did not have the votes for the proposal to pass. I know it is not a definitive victory because they will simply try to do it again, but it’s good that they failed once again.
Good to know, actually
You linked a webpage as an embedded image. If you meant to make a link, use:
Chat control V2
If you meant to embed:
Thanks
Apart from the Orwellian scale and invasiveness of the whole thing, I also find the automatic inclusion of cops extremely troubling.
In most if not all countries, you don’t have to have done anything wrong in order for any interaction with cops to potentially harmful up to and including the risk of being murdered by them. And they’re just gonna automatically call them on every false positive of a likely extremely flawed algorithm 😬🤬