Gateklons
@gateklons.bsky.social
EU digital policy nerd | data protection & privacy | competition | platform & media regulation | identity | cybersecurity
Focus: consent-or-pay & (messaging) interoperability
https://gateklons.substack.com/
🐘 @[email protected]
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Focus: consent-or-pay & (messaging) interoperability
https://gateklons.substack.com/
🐘 @[email protected]
🐦 @gateklons
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Gateklons
@gateklons.bsky.social
· May 14
NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24)
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The old political spectrum: Left/right/center
The actual current political spectrum: Progression/regression/stagnation
The actual current political spectrum: Progression/regression/stagnation
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The old political spectrum: Left/right/center
The actual current political spectrum: Progression/regression/stagnation
The actual current political spectrum: Progression/regression/stagnation
No one intervening I guess? A real missed opportunity for CSOs I fear. We're gonna be stuck with CJEU's very bad case law on consent-or-pay, just as we are now that it has not adopted an absolute approach to the definition of personal data (taken up by the Commission itself 🤮🤮🤮).
Meta's annulment action against the Commission's consent-or-pay decision (T-435/25) has been published in the OJ today.
This starts the 6 week clock to file for a leave to intervene! Happy to offer my very extensive knowledge on this topic to any CSO that does.
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
This starts the 6 week clock to file for a leave to intervene! Happy to offer my very extensive knowledge on this topic to any CSO that does.
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
EUR-Lex - 62025TN0435 - EN - EUR-Lex
eur-lex.europa.eu
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
No one intervening I guess? A real missed opportunity for CSOs I fear. We're gonna be stuck with CJEU's very bad case law on consent-or-pay, just as we are now that it has not adopted an absolute approach to the definition of personal data (taken up by the Commission itself 🤮🤮🤮).
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BREAKING: EU attempting last minute resurrection ChatControl client-side scanning & message surveillance under vague “mandate… all reasonable mitigation measures” figleaf; FightChatControl.EU to be rea[…]
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119783
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119783
BREAKING: EU attempting last minute resurrection ChatControl client-side scanning & message surveillance under vague “mandate… all reasonable mitigation measures” figleaf; FightChatControl.EU to be reactivated…
Quote Patrick Breyer: A perfidious trick? The EU Council Presidency wants to introduce mandatory #ChatControl through the backdoor: An Art. 4 amendment would MANDATE “all reasonable mitigatio…
alecmuffett.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
BREAKING: EU attempting last minute resurrection ChatControl client-side scanning & message surveillance under vague “mandate… all reasonable mitigation measures” figleaf; FightChatControl.EU to be rea[…]
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119783
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119783
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I wrote about how law defines personal data, and why - in context of multi-party supply chain architectures and the information economy - CJEU decisions (incl EDPS v SRB) mark a major misstep with bad(!) effects for data protection law's purpose and framework
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A relative mess: Identifying data subjects in multi-party processing
Data about people has become a key form of capital in information economies. The legal definition of personal data-as any information relating to an identified
papers.ssrn.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about how law defines personal data, and why - in context of multi-party supply chain architectures and the information economy - CJEU decisions (incl EDPS v SRB) mark a major misstep with bad(!) effects for data protection law's purpose and framework
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Russian government will reportedly add a law allowing the FSB to have individual subscribers cut off by their telecom companies in order to protect the public or the State from threats.
www.agents.media/vlasti-sobra...
www.agents.media/vlasti-sobra...
Власти собрались легализовать шатдауны и уполномочить ФСБ отключать россиян от связи • «Агентство»
Минцифры разработало поправки в закон о связи, согласно которым, операторы связи должны будут отключать услуги связи по запросу от ФСБ, пишут «Ведомости» и «Интерфакс». Изменения позволят властям лега...
www.agents.media
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Russian government will reportedly add a law allowing the FSB to have individual subscribers cut off by their telecom companies in order to protect the public or the State from threats.
www.agents.media/vlasti-sobra...
www.agents.media/vlasti-sobra...
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Hearing EU figureheads talk constantly about AI but not cloud infra leaves me with no faith in their judgment or strategy. Zero.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hearing EU figureheads talk constantly about AI but not cloud infra leaves me with no faith in their judgment or strategy. Zero.
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"Rules set by Google were more important than the rules set by the GDPR" so true @robin.berjon.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Rules set by Google were more important than the rules set by the GDPR" so true @robin.berjon.com
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Social media's interoperability: the EC says that it is willing to discuss it "further" [Halleluya]
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Social media's interoperability: the EC says that it is willing to discuss it "further" [Halleluya]
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Interoperability of social media services - a scandal that the Council killed it (still hurting) - study commissioned by the EC, what are the results I wonder
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Interoperability of social media services - a scandal that the Council killed it (still hurting) - study commissioned by the EC, what are the results I wonder
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The Court of Justice decided to grant Meta leave to intervene in Cases Bindl/European Commission in support of the form of order sought by the European Commission. This includes reviewing Meta's SCCs.
Please read Thomas Bindl's thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
Please read Thomas Bindl's thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Court of Justice decided to grant Meta leave to intervene in Cases Bindl/European Commission in support of the form of order sought by the European Commission. This includes reviewing Meta's SCCs.
Please read Thomas Bindl's thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
Please read Thomas Bindl's thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
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mainly boggling at the idea that any British media organisation has $1billion to be sued for (did Elon not tell him that we are but a simple land of hobbits, going about our hobbit business in the shires?)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1billion
President Trump has set a deadline of 5pm EST (10pm in the UK) this Friday to 'comply' with his demands.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
mainly boggling at the idea that any British media organisation has $1billion to be sued for (did Elon not tell him that we are but a simple land of hobbits, going about our hobbit business in the shires?)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
If the Commission was truly just frightened of the US admin (they're not, they actually believe in these "reforms"), they'd try to do as much as possible with temporary exemptions and delays. What the Commission is doing will leave permanent scars, shatter citizen trust and dismantle the digital
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If the Commission was truly just frightened of the US admin (they're not, they actually believe in these "reforms"), they'd try to do as much as possible with temporary exemptions and delays. What the Commission is doing will leave permanent scars, shatter citizen trust and dismantle the digital
I hope it's not only the *financial* AI bubble that burts but also the one in the heads of politicians and other leadership that thinks it can deliver completely unreasonable economic growth (and all we need to achieve that is bulldoze over a decade of protections that have been built up).
a woman in a red suit stands in front of a flag with the words " mistakes were made " on the bottom
ALT: a woman in a red suit stands in front of a flag with the words " mistakes were made " on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I hope it's not only the *financial* AI bubble that burts but also the one in the heads of politicians and other leadership that thinks it can deliver completely unreasonable economic growth (and all we need to achieve that is bulldoze over a decade of protections that have been built up).
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Great setting for a mad max sequel, IMO
Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Great setting for a mad max sequel, IMO
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EU countries oppose @ec.europa.eu's plan for telecoms rules reset
🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇵🇱, and 🇳🇱 are among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act
- @euractiv.com
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...
🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇵🇱, and 🇳🇱 are among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act
- @euractiv.com
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...
EU countries oppose Commission's plan for telecoms rules reset | Euractiv
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Netherlands among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act
www.euractiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
EU countries oppose @ec.europa.eu's plan for telecoms rules reset
🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇵🇱, and 🇳🇱 are among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act
- @euractiv.com
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...
🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇵🇱, and 🇳🇱 are among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act
- @euractiv.com
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...
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New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
heatherburns.tech
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
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GDPR has its problems but privacy is good actually for business that aren't cancerous middleman operations that sticks like a tic to the bidstream and executes data enrichment of unproven providence, usefulness, or accuracy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
GDPR has its problems but privacy is good actually for business that aren't cancerous middleman operations that sticks like a tic to the bidstream and executes data enrichment of unproven providence, usefulness, or accuracy.
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If true, this is absolutely not someone suited to lead digital sovereignty in the EU, especially at this critical moment.
"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If true, this is absolutely not someone suited to lead digital sovereignty in the EU, especially at this critical moment.
You want to know what EU laws annoy Big Tech the most? It's the ones they are gunning for all the time: the DMA and GDPR. Nothing else comes close to challenging their power.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
You want to know what EU laws annoy Big Tech the most? It's the ones they are gunning for all the time: the DMA and GDPR. Nothing else comes close to challenging their power.
"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
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EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the #GDPR - noyb.eu/en/eu-commis... "remote access to personal data on PCs or smart phones without consent of the user would be enabled." #EU wrecking its greatest legislative achievement
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the #GDPR - noyb.eu/en/eu-commis... "remote access to personal data on PCs or smart phones without consent of the user would be enabled." #EU wrecking its greatest legislative achievement
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I've signed this too. AI reaching parity with humans next year!? Maybe Altman et al aren't impartial predictors ...
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I've signed this too. AI reaching parity with humans next year!? Maybe Altman et al aren't impartial predictors ...
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I profoundly dislike this new wave of uncertainty! It’s already tough to ask lawyers to step up in #Media today 🤬 However this will look like when the ink is once again dry, the amount of disinformation we’ll have to sift through to define risk & mitigating measures has already risen 📈 #ePrivacy
There is a very large loophole in that controllers claiming to be "media organisation" would not be required to respect the signal, so data subjects would not have the right to refuse their online activity being processed for behavioural advertising purposes (paragraph 3).
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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When GDPR simplification was just a glint in the EU Commission's eye.
From the September 2024 Mission Letter: commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
From the September 2024 Mission Letter: commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
When GDPR simplification was just a glint in the EU Commission's eye.
From the September 2024 Mission Letter: commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
From the September 2024 Mission Letter: commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
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European gvts are using Pegasus #spyware. Its vendor NSO will now be run by a close Trump ally. NSO and the Israel gvt have access to ALL the data acquired with #Pegasus. Do you still think national authorities will handle this perfectly well @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu?
⚠️ David Friedman, Trump's former ambassador to Israel and one of the key architects of the Abraham Accords, has been appointed head of #spyware vendor NSO Group.
www.themarker.com/technation/2...
www.themarker.com/technation/2...
שגריר ארה"ב לשעבר דיוויד פרידמן מונה ליו"ר NSO, שעוברת לבעלות אמריקאית
המהלך מגיע לאחר חודשים של מאמצים לבטל את הסנקציות מארה"ב על החברה, ואחרי שפאראגון, המתחרה הגדולה, עברה גם היא לבעלות אמריקאית ■ לא ברור מי הבעלים החדשים, איך ניירת חושפת כי עו"ד שייצג בעבר את שר המשפט...
www.themarker.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
European gvts are using Pegasus #spyware. Its vendor NSO will now be run by a close Trump ally. NSO and the Israel gvt have access to ALL the data acquired with #Pegasus. Do you still think national authorities will handle this perfectly well @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu?