[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.

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[Link] RIAA Criticizes ICANN for ‘Hindering’ Its Anti-Piracy Efforts

Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

The RIAA is helping U.S. music companies to fight piracy, which isn't always an easy task. One of the major frustrations is that, due to hidden or shielded Whois information, it's often hard to identify the people who run sites and services.

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[Link] Looks Like Facebook Found a Way to Bypass Europe’s Privacy Rules

Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com

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[Link] Ireland fails to enforce EU law against Big Tech

Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Ireland is failing to apply the EU’s privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98 percent of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved by its regulator.

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