The Digital Transparency Lab
@globalprivacy.bsky.social
Canadian Non Profit based out of Toronto and Montreal who is the OG champion of Canadian Digital Consent.
There is incredible confusion between consent as a legal basis and permission to digitally identify/infer an identifier to an individuals device without notice. (which is not valid consent). #1 Rule to govern/reclaim rights from data Barons. A sign before entry to the (digital)Forrest Charter 1217
Well, consent can be the most unethical of all legal bases, as it allows a company to run counter to the nature of a particular context by simply tricking people into accepting what they do not understand. Medical research owes a lot to legitimate interest and data repurposing (with guarantees).
October 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
There is incredible confusion between consent as a legal basis and permission to digitally identify/infer an identifier to an individuals device without notice. (which is not valid consent). #1 Rule to govern/reclaim rights from data Barons. A sign before entry to the (digital)Forrest Charter 1217
Ah, i think what you are referring to is actually permission. Consent for a legal basis is very heavily confused with permission to process / created PII. Its a dark pattern confusing human consent with online permission to process data.
Well, consent can be the most unethical of all legal bases, as it allows a company to run counter to the nature of a particular context by simply tricking people into accepting what they do not understand. Medical research owes a lot to legitimate interest and data repurposing (with guarantees).
October 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Ah, i think what you are referring to is actually permission. Consent for a legal basis is very heavily confused with permission to process / created PII. Its a dark pattern confusing human consent with online permission to process data.
The Digitally Transparent Society - is a two way street.
US House Democrats release Epstein schedules showing plans to meet Musk, Thiel reut.rs/42ezKb9
US House Democrats release Epstein schedules showing plans to meet Musk, Thiel
U.S. Congressional Democrats released on Friday daily schedules belonging to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2014 to 2019, which show Epstein had plans to meet with Republican donors Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and conservative commentator Steve Bannon.
reut.rs
September 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Digitally Transparent Society - is a two way street.
The President Wears No Clothes - This Weeks South Parkis incredible - stripping the emperor.
I think what Big-Tech doesnt get - is that Transparency is now a 2 way Street, Recommend South S27e05 - the best episode ever.
I think what Big-Tech doesnt get - is that Transparency is now a 2 way Street, Recommend South S27e05 - the best episode ever.
The task of promoting Digital Transparency for data control is now a lot easier. As the President and all his men become emperor's without clothes to the rest of the world.
How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?
How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?
The list of guests at the memorial for Charlie Kirk on Sunday included President Trump, high-ranking members of his administration and far-right media personalities. Here is a look at who was in attendance.
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The President Wears No Clothes - This Weeks South Parkis incredible - stripping the emperor.
I think what Big-Tech doesnt get - is that Transparency is now a 2 way Street, Recommend South S27e05 - the best episode ever.
I think what Big-Tech doesnt get - is that Transparency is now a 2 way Street, Recommend South S27e05 - the best episode ever.
The task of promoting Digital Transparency for data control is now a lot easier. As the President and all his men become emperor's without clothes to the rest of the world.
How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?
How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?
The list of guests at the memorial for Charlie Kirk on Sunday included President Trump, high-ranking members of his administration and far-right media personalities. Here is a look at who was in attendance.
The Conservative Figures That Attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial
Led by President Trump, the list of guests included high-ranking members of his administration, conservative influencers and far-right media personalities.
nyti.ms
September 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The task of promoting Digital Transparency for data control is now a lot easier. As the President and all his men become emperor's without clothes to the rest of the world.
How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?
How fragile is this bubble of subverted American Belief? Can the mythical line dividing red and blue hold up? Bets anyone?
There it is - what Trump is doing with social media - Racketeering -
Trump said he had discussed a racketeering investigation against those backing leftist protest efforts.
Trump and JD Vance Vow to Probe Groups on the Left After Kirk’s Death
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance pledged to investigate left-leaning organizations following the killing of Charlie Kirk, amplifying efforts to memorialize the conservative activist and laying the groundwork for federally scrutinizing political opponents that some administration officials and supporters have blamed in part for his death.
bloom.bg
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
There it is - what Trump is doing with social media - Racketeering -
Ultimately, if differential privacy was on the "users' side, before the service collects the data, then it is ethical - its truly differential privacy. When on Service side - Its Differential Security (not privacy), and requires a legal basis and transparency to be legitimate and ethical.
If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)
September 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Ultimately, if differential privacy was on the "users' side, before the service collects the data, then it is ethical - its truly differential privacy. When on Service side - Its Differential Security (not privacy), and requires a legal basis and transparency to be legitimate and ethical.
I am enjoying your podcast - and really like the technology, but there is a clear ethical issue, in that the purpose is specific to processing - using Diff Privacy - for a secondary purpose of use without consent or permission is not ethical.
If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)
September 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am enjoying your podcast - and really like the technology, but there is a clear ethical issue, in that the purpose is specific to processing - using Diff Privacy - for a secondary purpose of use without consent or permission is not ethical.
We work on differential transparency - which is a differential privacy tool for individuals, in which two digital receipts (like cookies) are compared prior to a session so the individual can see if the state of privacy is as expected. And can apply differential privacy prior to pii collection
Ethically, we have the option, the use of Differential Privacy without permission, and record of the purpose (aka a receipt) is considered a Secondary Purpose of use, and used as a way to legitimise mass / deceptive surveillance practices (illegal data) like mar-tech / cookies.
If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)
September 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We work on differential transparency - which is a differential privacy tool for individuals, in which two digital receipts (like cookies) are compared prior to a session so the individual can see if the state of privacy is as expected. And can apply differential privacy prior to pii collection
Ethically, we have the option, the use of Differential Privacy without permission, and record of the purpose (aka a receipt) is considered a Secondary Purpose of use, and used as a way to legitimise mass / deceptive surveillance practices (illegal data) like mar-tech / cookies.
If data remains personal and you are out of the scope of the original purpose yes. But diff privacy could very well result in anonymization. Check out the Next episode :)
September 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ethically, we have the option, the use of Differential Privacy without permission, and record of the purpose (aka a receipt) is considered a Secondary Purpose of use, and used as a way to legitimise mass / deceptive surveillance practices (illegal data) like mar-tech / cookies.
@mastersofprivacy.bsky.social (listening to your latest pod-cast)
Could you clarify - does the creation of synthetic data, or the use of differential privacy on data constitute a secondary use o this data?
Could you clarify - does the creation of synthetic data, or the use of differential privacy on data constitute a secondary use o this data?
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
@mastersofprivacy.bsky.social (listening to your latest pod-cast)
Could you clarify - does the creation of synthetic data, or the use of differential privacy on data constitute a secondary use o this data?
Could you clarify - does the creation of synthetic data, or the use of differential privacy on data constitute a secondary use o this data?
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The Governor of California has given a terrifying prediction about President Donald Trump, explaining exactly why he thinks the country is at risk of a dictatorship.
Gavin Newsom shares terrifying Trump prediction after latest move
ebx.sh
August 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Governor of California has given a terrifying prediction about President Donald Trump, explaining exactly why he thinks the country is at risk of a dictatorship.
Consumer protection is security, not privacy, Consumes are already digitally identified. Consumer protection is just surveillance and permission governance without consent.
EFF made this dumb argument before with Google Privacy Sandbox.
No, microtargeting is not fine just because it’s confidential. Confidential manipulation is not okay. Confidentiality is not a get out jail free card. It’s a nice to have but we must not miss the point about what is at stake.
No, microtargeting is not fine just because it’s confidential. Confidential manipulation is not okay. Confidentiality is not a get out jail free card. It’s a nice to have but we must not miss the point about what is at stake.
August 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Consumer protection is security, not privacy, Consumes are already digitally identified. Consumer protection is just surveillance and permission governance without consent.
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This is a stupid argument.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
Zero‑Knowledge Proofs let users prove they are over 18 without exact birth dates, but they don’t stop verifiers from collecting information like your IP address. These alone aren’t enough to protect privacy and shouldn’t be pushed forward without proper protections in place.
Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...
www.eff.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is a stupid argument.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
Digital Transparency is required to scale consent and personal data control for Digital Consent and permissions for AI to be standardised. The authoritative international instruments are Convention 108+ (Ratified in March) and ISO/IEC 29100 - free and open access security and privacy framework
[EN] What in the world is Privacy #UX? Could transparency and control requirements be seamlessly integrated within delightful customer journeys? We asked Ansuman Acharya, who has already helped implement some of the discipline’s best practices at #Airbnb open.spotify.com/episode/0KSU...
Ansuman Acharya (Airbnb): What is Privacy UX?
Masters of Privacy · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Digital Transparency is required to scale consent and personal data control for Digital Consent and permissions for AI to be standardised. The authoritative international instruments are Convention 108+ (Ratified in March) and ISO/IEC 29100 - free and open access security and privacy framework
This week, Kantara ANCR WG, has put up for ballot - the Transparency Performance Indicators- for reporting on Valid Consent for identification content, and knowledge banking AI systems. kantara.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...
August 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This week, Kantara ANCR WG, has put up for ballot - the Transparency Performance Indicators- for reporting on Valid Consent for identification content, and knowledge banking AI systems. kantara.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...
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AI - Agents require Digital Consent, which is not permission, but the legal/sovereign authority to process personal data.Standard digital transparency (Notice records for safety, security, privacy and consent.
August 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
AI - Agents require Digital Consent, which is not permission, but the legal/sovereign authority to process personal data.Standard digital transparency (Notice records for safety, security, privacy and consent.
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The #Trump economy is here and it doesn't look good - boingboing.net/2025/08/01/t... "The market is tumbling as analysts learn they can not trust the Government's jobs and unemployment numbers. "
The Trump economy is here and it doesn't look good
The market is tumbling as analysts learn they can not trust the Government's jobs and unemployment numbers.
boingboing.net
August 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The #Trump economy is here and it doesn't look good - boingboing.net/2025/08/01/t... "The market is tumbling as analysts learn they can not trust the Government's jobs and unemployment numbers. "
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Kids Online Safety Act will silence LGBTQ voices www.washingtonblade.com/2025/07/31/o...
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Kids Online Safety Act will silence LGBTQ voices www.washingtonblade.com/2025/07/31/o...
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🫥 Not knowing whether the data controllers have ever even been served with our complaints, we were asked by the DPA if we're still interested in them.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🫥 Not knowing whether the data controllers have ever even been served with our complaints, we were asked by the DPA if we're still interested in them.
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Exciting to get closer to - standardised transparency for security and privacy that meets Canada's high bar of Digital Consent.
August 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exciting to get closer to - standardised transparency for security and privacy that meets Canada's high bar of Digital Consent.
+100 Very nice to see some pushback and hopefully a new round of innovation can be had,
- Digital Age verification is essentially a (know your customer) device, back door digital identification verifications, using terms and conditions, which is not consent !
- Digital Age verification is essentially a (know your customer) device, back door digital identification verifications, using terms and conditions, which is not consent !
I wrote about how the UK's age-gating debacle is coming to America — and what we could do differently www.platformer.news/age-assuranc...
July 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
+100 Very nice to see some pushback and hopefully a new round of innovation can be had,
- Digital Age verification is essentially a (know your customer) device, back door digital identification verifications, using terms and conditions, which is not consent !
- Digital Age verification is essentially a (know your customer) device, back door digital identification verifications, using terms and conditions, which is not consent !
Where are we at now?
5 more ratifications of 108+ required for it to come into force. Maybe this year.
Conv 108+ Ratification - Looking forward to the June update. Reading the latest minutes: 46 signatures
out of which, 33 ratifications. Greece 5 March 2025
and Monaco on 6 March 2025 Amending Protocol CETS No. 223 @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social will it happen?
rm.coe.int/abrrep-63nd-... @coe.int
out of which, 33 ratifications. Greece 5 March 2025
and Monaco on 6 March 2025 Amending Protocol CETS No. 223 @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social will it happen?
rm.coe.int/abrrep-63nd-... @coe.int
June 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Where are we at now?
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5 more ratifications of 108+ required for it to come into force. Maybe this year.
Conv 108+ Ratification - Looking forward to the June update. Reading the latest minutes: 46 signatures
out of which, 33 ratifications. Greece 5 March 2025
and Monaco on 6 March 2025 Amending Protocol CETS No. 223 @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social will it happen?
rm.coe.int/abrrep-63nd-... @coe.int
out of which, 33 ratifications. Greece 5 March 2025
and Monaco on 6 March 2025 Amending Protocol CETS No. 223 @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social will it happen?
rm.coe.int/abrrep-63nd-... @coe.int
rm.coe.int
May 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
5 more ratifications of 108+ required for it to come into force. Maybe this year.
Incredible news for #PrivacyWeek - Consent Receipt, that became an ISO technical Specification 27560 - is now open and free to access, Specified to open IS)/IEC 29100 privacy framework and Convention 108+ (Expected to be ratified as global privacy policy this year!!) @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Incredible news for #PrivacyWeek - Consent Receipt, that became an ISO technical Specification 27560 - is now open and free to access, Specified to open IS)/IEC 29100 privacy framework and Convention 108+ (Expected to be ratified as global privacy policy this year!!) @grahamgreenleaf.bsky.social