Hi Everyone! Here’s a new article discussing how politics affect privacy rights as well as the privacy tools we use.
In this article, I examine the relationships between politics, law, technology, and data privacy. For this, I use 4 concrete examples: Government funding, the GDPR, Chat Control, and Age Verification.
I hope this encourages you to keep fighting for privacy rights!
Interesting work! Have you researched other data protection legislation in your research?
In one of my uni courses, I learned that the GDPR is uniquely comprehensive and human rights-oriented compared to its counterparts
Thank you! And excellent question! Yes, I have researched many other data protection laws. Not specifically for this article, but in my previous researches and privacy consultancy work.
Indeed, the GDPR is (or was) uniquely comprehensive, I agree. Recently however, some new privacy laws came into effect with even stronger protections for some data categories (biometrics, for example), and have a wider scope. One such example is the new Law 25 in the province of Quebec (Canada) that only came into full effect last year. It is definitely inspired from the GDPR but with some additional data protections.
As is the case for most new regulations, it will take some time before we can see the effect of these newer laws.
Another aspect that’s missing is ID enforcement by law (or in other words: anonymity not allowed), such as:
Another topic are key disclosure laws, e.g. in the UK you must give your password to the police or you get up to 5 years of jail. In Germany, police can force you (even with physical force) to unlock your phone with biometrics.
Em you are doing super good! Amazing post after amazing post! Keep it up, and thank you so much!