John Cavanaugh: Privacy as a grassroots movement
06/10/24 • 32 min
John Cavanaugh is a founding member of the Plunk Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to empowering individuals and communities so they have autonomy over their digital identities and protect their sensitive information. John is helping promote digital data privacy for women, children, veterans, and marginalized communities.
Our mission today: exploring a grassroots approach to privacy or data protection.
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John Cavanaugh is a founding member of the Plunk Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to empowering individuals and communities so they have autonomy over their digital identities and protect their sensitive information. John is helping promote digital data privacy for women, children, veterans, and marginalized communities.
Our mission today: exploring a grassroots approach to privacy or data protection.
References:
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Adrian Doerk: digital identity, digital wallets and data protection
Adrian Doerk is co-founder of Lissi GmbH and co-coordinator of the IDunion research project. He has extensive experience in the rollout of digital wallets, specializing in the European digital identity wallet (EUDI-Wallet) under the eIDAS 2.0 Regulation.
Adrian has helped us answer a few important questions on this topic:
- How much of our lives will soon be intermediated through digital wallets or digital identities?
- What is “selective disclosure”?
- What are the privacy risks?
- What are the challenges of decentralization?
References:
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Newsroom: Spring 2024
We are closing this season with a Spring Newsroom before we officially kick off the summer, summarizing everything that’s happened in the past quarter across our usual five sections: ePrivacy (enforcement, regulatory updates), MarTech/ AdTech, AI/ Competition/ Digital Markets, PETs/ Zero-Party Data, Future of media.
This includes:
- EDPB’s ChatGPT Task Force report
- EU Digital Wallets
- Privacy Sandbox news
- EU Commission vs. Apple’s App Store
- LLM updates (Llama3, GPT 4o, Gemini, Apple Intelligence)
- Meta AI *not* training on EU user data
- Mozilla’s acquisition of Anonym
- Oracle’s exit from AdTech
- Revolut ads
- Microsoft Copilot+ Recall retreat
- The Trade Desk’s curated list of publishers
- FCC fines to telecom operators for the sale of location data
- Consent or Pay news
- TikTok ban.
A full transcript with links and additional resources can be found on the PrivacyCloud blog.
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