Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU(datatilsynet.no)

385 points by aleksanb 3 years ago | 197 comments

Norwegian Data Protection Authority news release saying the EDPB made Norway's ban on Meta's behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram permanent and extended it EU/EEA-wide.

Switzerland: Data Protection Officers Impose Broad Cloud Ban for Authorities(heise.de)

72 points by TechTechTech 11 months ago | 38 comments

LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall(noyb.eu)

16 points by doener 5 months ago | 1 comments

LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions(browsergate.eu)

1823 points by digitalWestie 6 months ago | 731 comments

Advocacy site "BrowserGate" alleging that LinkedIn runs hidden code scanning visitors' installed browser extensions and sharing results with third parties.

Denmark wants to push through Chat Control(netzpolitik.org)

225 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 116 comments

Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram(datatilsynet.no)

168 points by matsemann 3 years ago | 134 comments

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data(therecord.media)

40 points by ilamont 1 month ago | 27 comments

The Record news article reporting that LinkedIn obtained a court order blocking a company from mass scraping its user data.

German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews(the-decoder.com)

893 points by ahlCVA 4 months ago | 489 comments

The Decoder article reporting on a German court ruling that treats Google's AI Overviews as Google's own statements, making it liable for false answers.

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request(404privacy.com)

398 points by un-nf 5 months ago | 172 comments

A 404 Privacy blog post reporting that LinkedIn probes for 6,278 browser extensions and encrypts the results into requests, and how the data is used.

A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website(lina.sh)

705 points by shaunpud 1 year ago | 356 comments

Blog post alleging German ISP Telefónica/O2 altered its DNS to return NXDOMAIN for the author's site after she exposed an organization it belongs to.

LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees(npr.org)

341 points by cebert 3 years ago | 285 comments

NPR business article from October 16, 2023 reporting that LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees.

EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal(old.reddit.com)

343 points by nickslaughter02 1 year ago | 205 comments

Reddit r/europe discussion thread about the EU Commission refusing to disclose who authored its mass surveillance (chat control) proposal.