Cambridge Analytica has finally responded (past deadline, after some threatening emails) to requests by individuals all over Europe and the United States for a copy of their data. I give here some advice on how to go further, and…
Facebook now tells each of its users which advertisers are tracking them individually through so-called Custom Audiences. This change was most likely brought by my legal actions against Facebook, conducted through…
Over the past couple months, PersonalData.IO has helped at least a dozen individuals exercise their right of access to data processed by Cambridge Analytica, with great difficulty. We even wrote a guide…
We present here some of the evidence that didn’t make it into a recent series of Guardian articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (full disclosure: the author of this piece is credited for additional research on 1 and 3 and has provided some help on the others).
I copy-paste below an email I just addressed to Facebook. You can prepare your own, through this convenient tool, then send it directly to them.
To: datarequests@support.facebook.com
I just participated in a crowd-annotation event of Slack’s Privacy Policy. This event’s social discussion was conducted through the Twitter hashtag #digciz (digital citizenship), while the final output was collated through…
How platforms a la Google organize a huge market failure in a model using our privacy as a currency
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