Julia Krämer

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Can more resources for regulators improve firms' compliance?

@jgambato.bsky.social @juliakraemer.bsky.social & I demonstrate how expanding regulators' resources can backfire when the success of detecting firms' noncompliance varies for different regulatory targets.

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💻⚖️ Great time at the #Lawtomation Conference at @ieuniversity.bsky.social in Madrid - presented parts of my PhD on #mHealth app store governance, exploring how app store rules align with the #GDPR and how apps comply. Also joined a panel on #interoperability across EU frameworks! 🌐

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

How was this app able to slip through the strict review process of the app stores? 🤔

Quite ironic, as Apple also claims today that the DMA is the reason for having problems with privacy compliance

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

Blur In 2013, London's Royal Court Theatre mounted a production of Jennifer Haley's play The Nether. (Spoiler alert!) In its story of the relationship between an old

This week's net.wars, "Blur", goes to #gikii 2025 and finds its surrealism struggling to keep up with the weirdness of real life: netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/19/b...

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📘 I am happy to share my latest publication “EU Data Protection Law in Action – Introducing the GDPR”

This chapter describes data protection law to non-legal audiences and explores how GDPR provisions have been studied through empirical research ⚖️📊

🔗 www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...

Regulating the Regulators: Can App Stores Strengthen Privacy in the Mobile Ecosystem? — The Digital Constitutionalist The influence that Apple and Google have in the mobile ecosystem is unambiguous: both companies control the major app stores, the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, as well as the main mobile ...

📱🛡️ Can app stores help enforce data protection law and tackle the problem of mobile tracking?

In a new blogpost published by The Digital Constitutionalist, I explore the potential (and limits) of app stores as privacy regulators 👇

🔗 digi-con.org/regulating-t...

If we want better compliance (with the rules in place), giving regulators more resources is one way to get there (yes, good regulation is costly).

Check out this 10-minute video with findings from a large-scale study using German firm-level data

lt.org/publication/...

#gdpr #EconSky #regulation

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Balancing #Privacy and Platform Power in the Mobile Ecosystem: The Case of Apple's App Tracking Transparency

This article investigates how App Tracking Transparency (ATT) affects EU privacy and #dataprotection compliance.

Author: Julia Krämer

Read More: http://spkl.io/63326fLsWr

In which city is this taking place? 🤔

On strike today against the budget cuts in higher education 🟥 #doehetniet @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social

🚀 Last Friday, we launched “Digital Governance: Confronting the Challenges Posed by Artificial Intelligence” 📖
I had the privilege of moderating a great panel featuring Jan van Staalduinen, Eugerta Muci, Sem Nouws, Lucas Costa Dos Anjos.

Check out the book here:
🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This week marked the beginning of my time at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, where I‘ll be spending January and February as a visiting research fellow in the research group Norm Setting and Decision Processes.

If you are in Berlin, I am happy to connect! 🌨️

Security in the digital age The Erasmus Center of Law and Digitalization (Erasmus School of Law) and the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) invite submi...

📢 Call for Papers: Security in the Digital Age

Join us for a workshop on security, digital infrastructure and fundamental rights in June in Rotterdam! 🚲

www.eur.nl/en/esl/event...

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🎄 An early Christmas gift! "Digital Governance: Confronting the Challenges Posed by Artificial Intelligence" just got published. It's the perfect holiday read for those passionate about AI governance! 📚✨

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#aiact #digitalgovernance #legaltech #airegulation

Vandaag in Den Haag 🌧️🟥 #woinactie

Exploring the interaction between the enforcement of and compliance with difficult-to-enforce rules in the context of data regulation, from Jacopo Gambato, Bernhard Ganglmair, and Julia K. Krämer https://www.nber.org/papers/w32913