Presentation of Diego Naranjo from European Digital Rights (EDRi) at the Public Policy Exchange event held in Brussels on 20 November 2018. Title: Consent or go away: Forced consent, data portability and breaking monopolies

1. www.edri.org/diego/

2. We draw avery important
conclusion here with a merely
dark image behind it, so the text
is white...
I. What is EDRi?
II. I have nothing to hide
III. Data Protection and Digital/Consumer
Rights

3. I. What is EDRi?
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European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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Founded in 2002
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Brussels ofce in 2009
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39 NGOs in 21 European countries

4. 4 key priorities:
• Data protection and privacy
• Surveillance
• Network neutrality
• Copyright reform
I. What is EDRi?
We promote, protect and defend
digital rights
Lower priorities :
• Privatised enforcement issues
• Trade agreements
• Internet governance

5. I. What is EDRi?
Advocacy and lobbying in Brussels

6. II. I have nothing to hide
Ever read the Terms of Service of your app?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/201
5/jan/12/shopkeepers-permissions-apps-s
martphone-privacy

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II. I have nothing to hide

8. 8
II. You have nothing to hide?
Online dating – Tracking at first
sight
● 3 March 2017: journalist Judith Duportail
asked Tinder to send her all her personal
data they had collected.
● 27 September 2017: Judith reported that
she received 800 pages about her online
dating-related behaviour.

9. 9
EDRi Data Protection & Privacy
– Dating must be Private by Design and by Default:
app messages, sexual tendencies, relationships
– Stop spying me and my date(s)! Internet of
Sexual Toys (IoT), massive surveillance and
more and more e-communications
– Don’t tell me you love privacy, show it to me!→
Encryption, security measures against breaches
Online dating – Tracking
at first sight
GDPR & ePrivacy

10. III. Advocacy and lobbying on
data protection in Brussels

11. III. Advocacy and lobbying on
ePrivacy in Brussels
LOBBY GROUPS AND “THINK-TANKS”
Example: During GDPR Google, Microsoft and
Facebook did not lobby directly (*):
Industry Coalition for Data Protection: Microsoft is a
member of 9 of the associations that are part of this
“coalition”
Chamber of Commerce: US lobby organization.
Other ways: think tanks, research groups…
(*) Data from the Netherlands from EDRi member association Bits of
Freedom: https://edri.org/the-lobby-tomy-3-who-are-lobbying/

12. III. Advocacy and lobbying on
data protection in Brussels

13. When lobbying goes nuts:
Liberate Slaves thanks to Big Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6vwPyIAns
III. Advocacy and lobbying on
data protection in Brussels

14. III. Advocacy and lobbying on data
protection (ePrivacy) in Brussels
Civil Society Groups
EDRi
Access Now
La Quadrature du Net
Consumer Groups
BEUC
EDPS
WP29
Companies:
Google
Microsoft (Skype)
Facebook
Publishers/advertisers:
IAB Europe,
Axel Springer
Privacy-
friendly
Businesses:
Page Fair,
Qwant

15. Main arguments:
Pro-strong ePrivacy Regulation
- We need to ensure protection of confidenciality of
communications (Art. 7 CFR)
- Online tracking, offline tracking, tracking walls
- Encryption needs protection
Anti-ePrivacy Regulation
- GDPR is great (although we didn’t like it months ago)
- This would be the end of the Internet
- Advertisement will disappear online
- People with disabilities will be discriminated
III. Advocacy and lobbying on
ePrivacy in Brussels

16. III. Advocacy and lobbying on
data protection: GDPR

17. III. Advocacy and lobbying on
data protection: GDPR

18. We draw avery important
conclusion here with a merely
dark image behind it, so the text
is white...
Questions?
@DNBSevilla
@edri
diego.naranjo@edri.org
https://edri.org