Newsroom: Fall 2023

Nov 28, 2023

Nina and Sergio run through the most relevant news of the past three months at the usual intersection of marketing, data, privacy, and technology - stopping at a few less commented and yet quite relevant fines, guidelines, or upcoming legal frameworks.

In particular, this episode covers: 

• Dark patterns in recent EU enforcement actions 
• EDPB Guidelines on the technical scope of the ePrivacy Directive
• The 23andMe data breach
• 40 states suing Meta over Insta/FB’s impact on the mental health of teenagers

Best of all, we managed to avoid OpenAI’s drama.

With Nina Müller and Sergio Maldonado.

References:

• [ES] AEPD fine resulting from the use of dark patterns in the acceptance of third party recipients (Expansion)
• Irish watchdog fines TikTok €345M for mishandling kids' data (The Register)
• 23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online (NBC News)
• EDPB Draft Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of ePrivacy Directive 
• Dozens of states sue Meta over youth mental health crisis (The Verge)
• Masters of Privacy - Arielle Garcia: How privacy awareness leads to respectful, effective marketing