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If you're at CPDP in Brussels, come by our booth and say hi!
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@noybeu At least one exhibitor that enjoys a good (and deservedly good!) reputation among data protectionists. I've just stumbled across Aral Balkan's reference to the “platinum sponsors” and “premium sponsors” of the CPDP conference yesterday: Google, TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Uber [edit] and Mozilla among them - which sounds a bit like turning the buck into the farmer to me.
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Aral’s toot: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/114544459745776261
@moskitokoenig @noybeu Yes, folks with good reputations are essential for such whitewashing operations. Their reputations, sadly, are what is being used to launder the reputations of Google, Microsoft, etc.
If NYOB doesn’t see a problem, who am I to criticise CPDP for being funded and organised by people farmers?
@aral No need to convince me, I see it the same way you do. That's why I think it's so weird that noyb is there. Yet I'm not ignoring its reputation, because thanks to Detlef Schrems (noyb), Meta has so far repeatedly been "kicked in the teeth" legally in Europe. Not to mention the „data protection“ agreements between the EU and the US that were overturned by the ECJ following his complaints. There’s no ideological consensus as in your (accurate) examples.
@noybeu
@moskitokoenig @noybeu I don’t think you understand my point: NOYB being there is invaluable to the organisers because of their stellar reputation and work. It says CPDP is a legitimate conference about privacy and data protection. And that it’s perfectly OK for Google, Microsoft, TikTok etc., to be involved in funding and organising it.
