Masters of Privacy

Most ChatGPT users probably don’t know you can be specifically targeted on the platform by advertisers based on your email, phone number, or unique phone identifier.

[EN] What are the ultimate consequences of data marketplaces and out-of-control data brokers? What is the connection between delete requests, local data processing, and data repurposing? It is always fun to listen to Heidi Saas. www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/heidi-saas... #privacy #US #AI

[EN] How can you govern a set of #AI hiring tools that have already infiltrated the organization? Who takes care of the #DPIA when required? Do we accept open sub-processors lists? What to do about “shadow AI”? www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/shannon-ya...

[EN] From #UETA and #LegalXML in the 90s to Agentic contracts and #LegalQuants in 2026, Dazza Greenwood has been riding an amazing wave at the wildest intersection of law and tech. It is here that individual empowerment and seamless automation live, too. www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/dazza-gree...

[EN] How to walk the thin line between being a neutral/real #DPO and reporting to a Chief Legal Officer? When does a data processor become an independent controller? Are our #DPIAs recycling “mitigation measures” shamelessly? We sat down wiith Julian Gage www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/julian-gag...

[EN] We had Amy Lawrence (SuperAwesome) with us to discuss the Meta settlement, age appropriate design, context-based controls, privacy-centric age verification, and more. www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/amy-lawren... #advertising #privacy #adtech #socialmedia #children #dataprotection #coppa #GDPR

[EN] Will there always be room for human-in-the-loop protections as we enter an agentic world? Should we regulate every single AI-driven decision? Listen to @eustaran.bsky.social here, always a joy. www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/eduardo-us...

[EN] @Rosalia Anna D’Agostino is a young Italian lawyer that seems born to master comparative law (speaks five languages, holds a degree in the subject matter, works across borders…). Combine that with a very good understanding of data protection... www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/rosalia-an...

[ES] Guillermo Lazcoz acaba de publicar el libro “Decisiones Automatizadas en el Reglamento General de Protección de Datos” y nos acompañó para hablar del tema aquí www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/guillermo-... #IA #GDPR

[EN] @carissaveliz.bsky.social is back on the show. In the quest of a proper balance in the growing use of #AI, we went from Descartes, Hume, and Kant to Symbolic AI, LLMs, and ontologies. Also into #ADMT and the bridge between "Prophecy" and "Privacy is Power". www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqA4...

I had a great chat with Sergio Maldonado about consent and privacy on his podcast, Masters of Privacy @mastersofprivacy.bsky.social www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/daniel-sol...

EN] It is time to shift our focus (from personal data in training datasets) to the real #privacy of our conversations with #AI chatbots - with Prof. Theodore Christakis www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/theodore-c...

[EN] "And because Everyone is responsible, No one is responsible" - Mark Webber shed some light on the law firm's perspective of #AIgovernance www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/mark-webbe... #US #EU

[EN] We’re back with a #Newsroom update (Spring 2026). Key topics: Age-verification fines (insufficient controls, too much data collection) in the #UK and #Spain, #EDPB age-verification guidelines, #California’s upcoming age-verification requirements www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/newsroom-s...

[EN] Here’s a fresh update on the DROP platform, universal opt out signals, and the latest proposal for a federal #privacy law in the US, with #CalPrivacy’s Tom Kemp. open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #AdTech #California #CCPA

[EN] Do you know what #MyTerms is? How about finding the missing universal #optin signal to close the gap in #ePrivacy? We asked Iain Henderson open.spotify.com/episode/1cX9... #marketing #adtech #martech #dataprotection

[EN] Join us next week for another fun, healthy breakfast (with proper coffee, if you care). Topic: upcoming #privacy law updates in #California - limited seating www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/breakfast-...

[EN] You may have missed this one with Shoshana Rosenberg, plenty of hands on experience and leaving us a few gems… on #AIGovernance open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

[EN] This was thought-provoking. Mirena is a lawyer and, well beyond compliance, she has been exploring the consequences of our interactions with AI systems.. substack.com/@sergiomaldo...

[EN] The Confidence Advantage (Amy Worley) is now available - and we had a great talk about its many insights and practical tools with the author open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #aigovernance #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #US #law

[ES] Después de hablar de tanta gobernanza de la #IA resulta que el gremio legal está tan perdido como cualquier otro. Con @jgarciaherrero.bsky.social hemos abordado el problema (IA legal, abogados IA, clientes IA…) de frente. open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

Here’s a summary of everything that we cared about in the now gone winter, including EU, UK, and California fines (Free, Reddit, Disney, PlayOn), key CJEU cases, DMA/DSA enforcement, OpenClaw, Moltbook, Manus and WebMCP. Just for the record. #Newsroom open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

Join us in New York City next month for another breakfast #workshop. Very limited seats, guaranteed fun - and maybe some valuable insights for all. open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #privacy #martech #adtech #law #AI

[EN] In case anyone missed this, John Harman (NBC Universal) gave us a very good perspective of practical #AI governance measures in the context of recent scandals (Amazon Ring, Meta glasses with face-tagging…). open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

[EN] How does Google Consent Mode affect ePrivacy compliance, opt-in signals, traffic sampling, marketing performance, and CIPA claims? We asked Phil Pearce from #Measureminds - and he offered a few extra tools. On your favorite player www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/phil-pearc... #eprivacy #CIPA

[EN] it doesn’t get much more practical than this if you want to look at private and public enforcement affecting your #AdTech stack in #California - with Taylor Bloom open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

SACRAMENTO, CA — The California Privacy Protection Agency Board has issued a decision requiring PlayOn Sports to pay a $1.10 million fine and change its practices following a settlement reached by CalPrivacy’s Enforcement Division. See privacy.ca.gov/wp-content/upl…

[EN] Don’t miss the great Adam Greco on the future of #analytics, #CDPs, #CXM and an “agentic” internet - it should help many lawyers understand the business logic behind pixels, cookies, and more open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

[ES] Elena Gil nos ayudó a entender lo que está pasando con la prohibición de redes sociales para -16 en España, y cómo aterriza de nuevo Tools for Humanity en Europa. Con la última ocurrencia de La Liga de postre. open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

Why Consent Is Broken for Privacy and AI danielsolove.substack.com/p/why-consen...

[EN] Anu Bradford has joined us to add a well-needed geopolitical (and international trade) angle to the analysis of EU Digital Policy, cross-border enforcement, and competition concerns. #DMA #DSA #AIAct #GDPR #TikTok #US #China #Meta youtu.be/FBNEr-qCoX0?...

[EN] @gzf.bsky.social joined us last week to discuss proposed changes to the EU legal framework for #AI and digital services open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #GDPR #AIAct

[ES] Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal (EDRi) nos acompañó para revisar por dónde pierde agua el #DigitalOmnibus open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #RGPD #GDPR #ePrivacy #GPC

[EN] We had Sam Kaplan from Palo Alto Networks on the show, covering #Cybersecurity concerns in the age of AI Agents open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

There’s still a few seats available at NYC’s La Nacional for next week’s #LIVE recording session (on universal opt-out signals and #ePrivacy compliance across the US and the EU) with Alan Chapell open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

[EN] In case you missed them in our last quarterly update, all of the references and notes used in our recording are available in the Newsroom section. www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/newsroom-n... Happy End of the Year to all and best wishes for #2026 🙂

[ES] Vamos con unos días de retraso en este resumen de noticias del último trimestre del año en castellano. En las secciones de siempre... Feliz Fin de Año :) open.spotify.com/episode/0efk...

[ES] ¿Qué datos puede recabar un videojuego para evitar trampas? ¿Es ficticio el conflicto entre la propiedad intelectual y el ejercicio de derechos?¿Qué rol asume la plataforma/hardware frente al editor? Hemos preguntado a Darío López Rincón #gaming #GDPR www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/dario-lope...

[EN] It is time for a seasonal update at the intersection of Marketing, Data, Privacy and Technology. And this is it for us in #2025. Happy Holidays to all :) www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/newsroom-f...

[EN] Who hasn’t heard of the #DigitalOmnibus.. but it’s time to dissect it, and we started with the #AI block, with Oliver Patel open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #EU #AIAct

[EN] Zino Rost van Tonningen took us through the journey that led #mobile ad platforms to embrace first-party data for “addressability” and LLMs for data minimization open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #privacy #adtech

[EN] Stefano Bennati joined us a few days ago to discuss privacy risks in #GenAI open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

[EN] We had some fun with the special effects here, but the topic was too dense to keep it dry - an intro to CIPA and VPPA claims. Why consent is not a silver bullet and how an Opt-Out system can actually be more respectful + provide stronger protections open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

Time for another breakfast #workshop- Anyone around the #Charlotte area in early December? open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #privacy #law #martech #adtech

[EN] We revisited 🇨🇦Canada to better understand what’s happening with the planned update to the country’s #AI and #dataprotection laws - with Mélissa Mraidi-Kechichian open.substack.com/pub/masterso...

[EN] Did you know that South Africa’s personal data protection law grants rights to legal entities? We went through it with Adv Dirontsho Mohale open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #privacy #law

[ES] ¿Cómo repartimos responsabilidades en la gestión del acceso de los menores a servicios digitales? Nos acompaña Catalina Betancourt open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #DSA #RGPD

[EN] Did someone fix the coffee machines in Sacramento? The past few days have witnessed a tsunami of new #privacy and #AI laws in #California. All of it covered here in our second update with John Pavolotsky, a partner at Stoel Rives in San Francisco. www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/john-pavol...

[EN] Can we escape never-ending assessments as a core activity of a privacy management program? Does built-in know-how become the most crucial moat? We asked Pádraig O’Leary, co-founder and CEO at #TrustWorks, in a new installment of our #PrivacyTech series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ie...

FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION: The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy, 113 California L Rev 1521 (2025) with Prof Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....