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1. 29 OctCapture the Code - visualising the scale of website surveillance
2. 25 SepShopify's own code treats silence as consent on every store it hosts, while its DSA filings leave the user numbers blank
3. 11 AugLocked In, Locked Out - Apple's Walled Garden Should Come With Liability
4. 10 AugUsing Claude to reclaim privacy by replacing mobile apps
5. 7 AugThe Opt-Out Illusion - Why US Privacy Law Cannot Technically Work
6. 6 AugIAPP doesn't respect its Members
7. 25 JulHow does ThatPrivacyGuy! use AI?
8. 16 JulChat Control in 9000 Words
9. 13 JulPsychology
10. 8 JulThe 415 - the MEPs who let Chat Control through, and the lobbyists in their diaries
11. 6 JulCSA Survivor Pleads with EU Officials to block Chat Control vote
12. 3 JulThe MEP investigating spyware was keeping his whole life on the phone that got hacked
13. 2 JulStrike III for EU-US data transfers
14. 30 JunI asked Google's AI who threatens the world - and watched it protect the one man actually doing it
15. 25 JunThe United Nations runs Google's ad-tech on its own website, without consent, while telling the rest of us to account for AI's footprint
16. 24 JunThe Maltese police have opened a criminal investigation into adtech surveillance, and the defendant is my own health insurer
17. 18 JunI told them forced consent was unlawful. Five years later it cost Elkjop €1.8 million
18. 4 JunAmazon Ring's Familiar Faces is a textbook example for ECD
19. 22 MayCIPA and the Environmental Crimes Directive: why forensic web evidence just became the most contested thing in privacy litigation
20. 9 MayMalta is in breach of the EU Treaties — the IDPC has confirmed in writing that no Maltese citizen is protected under the ePrivacy Directive against any tech company not established in Malta
21. 8 MayGoogle quietly removes the on-device AI privacy assurance from Chrome's Settings UI
22. 7 MayGoogle's "Boss" of Chrome gaslights on unlawful Nano push
23. 7 MayThe problem with Consent Management Platforms is they are unlawful by design
24. 4 MayGoogle Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
25. 27 AprBolt's ChatBot Runs Amok
26. 21 AprAnthropic issued with a Cease and Desist
27. 18 AprAnthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
28. 14 AprThe Beast behind the Browser: Every Privacy Vulnerability in Chrome and How to Catch It
29. 13 AprData Sovereignty in light of US uncertainty
30. 9 AprDigital Psychology: Why Privacy is so important for Self Determination
31. 9 AprWelcome to my Blog