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What data does Spotify hold about you?

Last week I read a very interesting Twitter thread by Jack Edwards in which he made a subject data request to Spotify. Amongst all the data about your listening habits there’s a file called inferences.json, which contains a trove of inferences about you as a consumer. Inspired by the thread Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearApril 3, 2021 ago
Image rights

Revamp image rights to fight deepfakes

If you are paying attention to technology news, you may have come across deepfakes. In case you haven’t, a deepfake has become an umbrella term for various types of image and video manipulation in which a realistic computer rendering of a person can be constructed, seemingly looking and sounding exactly Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 1 yearDecember 29, 2020 ago
Privacy

Should we have any expectation of privacy in public spaces?

Some time ago I was going through my social media feeds when something caught my eye. A person I barely knew posted a selfie with himself and partner, both facing the camera and making a surprised face, with an older lady in the background fanning her face and clearly suffering Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 yearsJuly 16, 2018 ago
Privacy

Facebook did not kill privacy, it was already dead

The death of privacy is a chronicle of a death foretold. One of my favourite cartoons is the 1970 Newsweek cover that depicts the end of privacy, to me it clearly portrays our fears about loss of control and technologies designed to keep track of our every move. Time Magazine Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 4 yearsMarch 22, 2018 ago
Popular Culture

Book Review: The Circle by David Eggers

[SPOILERS] After languishing for more than a year in my “to read” pile, I finally got around to reading The Circle by David Eggers. This is an important, yet flawed book, and while I loved many of the concepts and loathed the dystopian present that it describes, I believe that Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 5 years ago
Privacy

Extending data protection rights to virtual spaces

I have been thinking about augmented reality a lot in the last few days for reasons explained in the last blog post. While most of the discussion in the next few weeks will be about cute pocket monsters, an interesting legal question has arisen, who owns virtual spaces around real Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 6 years ago
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Privacy

Can you ever remove nasty internet content about yourself?

Andres Guadamuz, University of Sussex For the last couple of years, journalist Dune Lawrence has been subject to constant harassment. She wrote several articles about an investment firm, and the owner initiated an online defamation campaign against her and other targets. He posted images of her to his website and Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 6 years ago
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Privacy

EU Commission adopts Privacy Shield

The European Commission has finally published the text of the programme called Privacy Shield, the name of the agreement reached with the United States to safeguard the export of personal data from European citizens across the Atlantic. This is in response to the CJEU case of Maximiliam Schrems v Data Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 6 years ago
Cookie Monster
Cybersecurity

Could European cookie law be a threat to cybersecurity?

The history of Internet Law is littered with bad legislation and legislative proposals. From the infamous SOPA and PIPA, to the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, there is no shortage of badly-conceived legislation dealing with the Internet. Sometimes the bad law is the result of powerful lobbying, sometimes it is caused Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 6 yearsFebruary 25, 2016 ago
Privacy

First thoughts on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill

One of the most long-lasting effects of Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 was that they presented strong evidence that national security agencies in the US and the UK were involved in serious indiscriminate mass surveillance programmes. Furthermore, one of the most revealing aspects was the fact that some of these Read more…

By Andres Guadamuz, 7 yearsNovember 5, 2015 ago

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