Hey!

I’m looking for NGO’s / activist movements or non-centralised movements that fight for internet privacy, against surveillance, etc in Europe / Belgium.

I don’t know if much can be done but i want to be active!

Let me know if you know any :)

Thanks

Hi! Maybe a naïve question but you surely have seen the recent EU laws about driver monitoring: the new mandatory driver-facing camera to track attention for example, or the fact that the car will constantly track tour speed and match it against GPS data.

I get really worried about all the privacy issues that these news mandatory devices and components could create. As far as I know, the privacy aspect of these laws have been hugely tuned down because "it's for safety".

So, what is your opinion on that and do you have ideas or solutions to keep our privacy in our vehicles?

Hello All,

As a lawyer I am hired in a company as a DPO. I would like to hear your advices, courses, recources from which I could learn more and prepare for this.

I would also like to hear your experience if someone worked or is working as a DPO.

Any help advice would be much appriciated.

Thank you all and cheers!

Today I was tracking my shipment from Japan, couple of hours later my package reached customs in Milano Italy, what happened next:

Random business number from Singapore sends me a message to whatsapp which is a first, considering I barely use whatsapp, barely anyone outside family circle has this number, nevertheless I report and block the number in question, thought I was done for the day, but I was so freaking wrong.

Random number tied to Tim calls me, close call, recalls me, search for it's number, doesn't show up on Tellows.

One hour later, another unknown number calls me, instantly cut the call off, recalls me a second later -> blocked

Not even an hour later, another one, same story, calls me three times in a row, block it after the third call.

I go and check spam call history, realized that everytime one of my packages went through the customs, callcenters would start to harass me, go a tad more deeper cause I have a supposed throwaway gmail account still active, that mail was used for SDA/DHL shipments as I didn't want them to spam my primary account, said mail was never linked with Tenso or any other warehouse in Japan, if anything I should receive tons of spam through the mail I'm using with Tenso, but in 14 years no spam mail was ever delivered, on this supposed throwaway gmail account I receive warnings through false email addresses about packages stuck in customs, and, and I do only receive them when a real package reaches the custom offices, I don't even know how this is possible, I suspect it's through SDA database, I should dig a bit deeper and go through other accounts I used for SDA shipments even if those were used to ship my items outside Italy

What to do?

Can anyone please share the list of EU laws applicable to ask websites / brokers to remove my data from internet?

Hey all. I need access to a database of data retention periods globally by country. Will need an API integration to track changes in regulation.

I know filerskeepers offer this but do you know any others? Just want to understand what’s out there. Thanks a lot

As text says, I would like to see a site like this, where there are many topics represented, with a wide variety of users, and which follows GDPR so I can control how much data they retain about me or what others can see about me.

If you don't know, reddit has in the past "undeleted" the posts of some people who deleted their posts in protest at reddit policies, and it's impossible to know what data they're tracking about you so I don't think they are GDPR compliant.

As mentioned in the title, here is a template I found for Belgian and or Dutch citizens to contact their MEPs and make them understand that mass surveillance is never the answer.

If you're Dutch or from any other European country, you can find your members of parliament and their email address here:

and use this version adapted into English to email your MEPs:

STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

On Wednesday the EU council will vote on Chat Control and it would be great if people especially from France wrote a letter (eMail) to their Permanent Representatives Committee:

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So I know GA collects data like browser info, device info, geolocation etc.
Let's say a website or app, like Discord or Reddit uses GA to collect this information, and a user has multiple different profiles, can they tell, if they looked at the data, that it's all the same person?
Or does it not work like that?
As GA say that it does not create user profiles, just collects data to show how users are interacting with the site/app.
Thanks!

Hi all,

So, I just recently discovered what a Browser Fingerprint actually is.

I don't know if anyone can answer this:

If I used an account in let's say 2017, used my email address etc, but deleted that account. Then in 2018 I made a new account, on the same device, but different email address, would the browser fingerprint be the same?

Now the website say that they delete email address and all that data when you delete your account.

Also, if you had multiple accounts, but deleted them, would they be able to like search their database for a browser fingerprint to tie them all to one person?

Thanks!