Sergio Maldonado

Accountability and third-party vetting in the age of wild automation Cutting through the noise of third-party vendor credentials

More ideas on third party audits open.substack.com/pub/privacyc...

How about law firms becoming software providers (instead of being replaced by them)? (Part I) An investment in external tools could hamper a firm's ability to compete

A few thoughts on the future of legal services. Buying pre-packaged #AI solutions may be the wrong way to go. Also, I would avoid #OpenAI et al open.substack.com/pub/privacyc...

Tony Fish: Navigating a constant state of transition What vehicle do we need to enable us to start working with AI?

Tony Fish, always inspiring. Fantastic conversation. On #AfterTheMagic

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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).

YouTube video by After The Magic Angel Maldonado: How Agentic AI reshapes Ecommerce

How will #AI Agents affect #Ecommerce? Have LLMs reshaped keyword-based product search? How can leading retailers ensure proper governance of their AI stack while maintaining their competitive advantage? We have asked my brother Angel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BJ0... #afterthemagic (limited series)

Masters of Privacy Hoping to better understand a human-centric, demand-led future, we have spent a few months interviewing entrepreneurs and pioneers at the intersection of Marketing, Data, Privacy, and Technology. This...

[EN] Can we move beyond “dark patterns” to define Manipulative Design or Interface Interference? How could we expand website and mobile app monitoring to a company’s ad stack? We asked Christine Desrosiers (Boltive) in the 5th installment of our #PrivacyTech series.
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WeTransfer ToS adding 'machine learning' caused freakout Analysis: WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably

[EN] Here goes another ToS change to make room for #AI training (user content/files), followed by the predictable backlash. This time it is #WeTransfer ’s turn - Solicitor Neil Brown argues in favor of an “implied copyright license” in the UK. In TheRegister www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/l...

OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues Artificial intelligence start-up has shown brands a prototype of its new checkout feature

This gets really interesting. A particular kind of query would incorporate “intent” and beat the opposite flow (a conversation/search that starts on Shopify), and whoever owns the query can commoditize everyone else. “OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues” - on FT #retail

Julian Wilson: Self-Sovereign Data meets Open Banking - Masters Of Privacy Julian Wilson began his career at Apple in the late 80s. Here he worked on projects such as the world’s first set top box, hybrid CD / internet games console and as part of the...

In 2021 I interviewed the great Julian Wilson, who sadly has just passed away. We covered the interplay between Self-Sovereign Data and Open Banking. His ideas remain as relevant as ever mastersofprivacy.com/julian-wilso... May he rest in peace.

Well, hard to avoid the boxes if you live in the US, but I also wonder why they still exist.

Buenísimo:) que sea leve

I’ve had it with useless chatbots. The FTC should ban them under unfair/deceptive practices. Ok, one exception, against all odds: the NC DMV’s, maybe because their website was hopeless to begin with

Bold move. I hear some EU companies are even switching to Alibaba’s cloud, which sounds wild - but I am surely missing a lot

Y todavía no sabía la que se nos venía soportando a Pedro Sánchez y su séquito, solo insultando categóricamente a quien se atreve a cuestionar sus motivos o principios. No ha habido mayor servilismo.

I really enjoyed this one.

Great point, really well articulated.

Yet again. Expecting a probabilistic system to produce an accurate output #AI

Depth of reasoning can now be determined on the fly, rather than responding to an on-off switch. #AIAgents

Two Paths for A.I. The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control.

Researchers have wildly variable views about what the future of A.I. will bring. “Which is it: business as usual or the end of the world?” Joshua Rothman writes.

No need for an explanation, Luis! It’s all there in clear Mandarin :)

EU takes action against TikTok over online content rules Ad transparency investigation is one of several ongoing European cases against social media platform

Possible #DSA fine over TikTok’s missing “ad library”. It really will get interesting once people start getting their hands on these repositories (creative+target audience)… and how does it work with black boxes? “EU takes action against TikTok over online content rules” www.ft.com/content/6fee...

Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

Kenya’s high court recently ruled that Worldcoin, the biometric startup co-founded by Sam Altman, has to delete the personal data of over 300,000 Kenyans.

Learn more about how Worldcoin operated in Kenya and other developing countries in this story from 2022.

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As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe.

But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

Mostly happening in opposition-run regions (in a very decentralized country) -Baleares first?- but this is also dismissed by pro-Government media. And yet I doubt anyone can claim victory over the growth of tourism or long term stability.

I had published this article in the UK's Privacy Laws & Business back in February. In essence, pondering server-side solutions, Conversion APIs, Data Clean Rooms and synthetic data as an alternative to the #ePrivacy trap after the EDPB's latest guidelines... www.privacylaws.com/reports-gate...

I found it to be a very weak argument: multiparty computation across the two universities, and: why so much data to simply tell a human apart from a robot? Humans could attest to each other’s “humanity” through zero-knowledge proof directly. Was it really the place for that sales pitch?

Bertrand du Marais (CNIL), Stephen Almond (ICO), Des Hogan (DPC) discuss “Consent or Pay” models at #GPS25. Given the clear overlap with competition concerns (pricing!), yesterday’s DMA enforcement actions against Apple and Meta provide the ideal backdrop. @iapp.bsky.social #privacy #dataprotection

Google Chrome will now continue to use third-party cookies Google decided that companies can still use the targeting technology in the world's most popular web browser.

wtf google digiday.com/media/google...