The Digital Transparency Lab

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It is not legitimate, if its not transparency by default. services dont provide a notice of identified across borders. Littlerally using 'user-id' in the header.
All legal instruments and human/legal consent requires transparency first, its not legal - MFA breaches ph# and contact security.

Transparency Mis-Information -
Opt-Out is not a privacy right. Global Privacy Control is a security control.
Data brokering is secondary use of data without Consent, privacy rights would ban the use of data without out proof of permission and where required consent.

Hmmm,, How does that compare to the 24.5 billion IAB Canada fleeced from the Market as Googles Proxy, while Google Cars map your streets, devices, to broadcast via data breach to advertisers - and data brokers. -- Google made 100 Billion last year. Now its legitimized.

What ever.. OPN AI steals your data and sells it back to you. Wait, thats right - its the USA - where the land is already stolen. The externalised costs of American Bullshit - on Canadians. At least we have a politicians with balls. @mark-carney.bsky.social Unregulated AI kills Canadians

As a Canadian, its horrible to watch the Trump admin steal and defraud the people of the US. And to see this, while they firesale the US government, and make an illegal federal army. -- We know that when Trump goes to war, its going to become a pretty tense place in Canada

Discord pushes back age verification after security risks revealed Discord’s halted rollout exposes the inherent privacy risks of biometric and ID‑based checks.

Discord pausing its age verification rollout emphasises what privacy advocates have been saying about the technology: it creates a honeypot for malicious individuals, with no guarantees for users that the company they’re uploading their face to is safe.

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Its the obvious Dictator Play Book - steal the elections - using big tech partnerships - create a federal police force, declare a state of emergency - close down the elections. Its pretty Obvious that this is the plan.

IDMerit data breach: 1 billion records of personal data exposed in KYC data leak A massive global data leak linked to IDMerit has exposed 1 billion personal records, including national IDs and emails, across the US, Europe, and Asia.

A global digital identity verification provider for the fintech, financial, and insurance industries exposed a billion personal records including national IDs, phone numbers, and addresses.

But don't worry, they'll delete your ID... at some point.

Am selling a number of domains I do not need, given my retirement, a change of direction, & an interest in some new camera gear & adventures.

These are the first few. Pls do reach out if you’re interested.

privacymatters.ie
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privacybydesign.org
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"the Commission recalls that as far as the dominant position of IBM in the European market is concerned ... will be vigilant to ensure that there is no use of such a dominant position"
From 1974
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Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church and state. It’s just the beginning | CNN Politics A series of faith initiatives championed by the White House has led to a systematic religious revival within the government’s operations, culture and policy.

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Happy Flag Day, Canada 🇨🇦

Lots of govt tech policy has been somewhat inexplicable this last year. The role of TBI is well known and something we all took for granted, and while ofc Palantir's relationship with the UK public services pre-dates this administration, there are some big Qs to be answered about Global Counsel

The CUSMA moment: Canada can take digital sovereignty back CUSMA normalized cross-border data flows without requiring Transparent First disclosure. That gap is now a sovereignty and national security liability. Canada does not need “more trust.”

CUSMA normalized cross-border data flows without requiring Transparent First disclosure. That gap is now a sovereignty and national security liability. Canada does not need “more trust.”
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New survey research by Vian Bakir & Andrew McStay with teens in the UK shows that 56% believe AI companions can “think” (and a significant minority believe they can “feel”) emotionalai.org/companions

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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This morning, former Prime Ministers urge Ursula von der Leyen to use EU trade bazooka against Trump

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Refine, Don't Reset: Convention 108+ Chair on Building Data Protection Infrastructure For 0PN Lab Blog + Technical Community At the European Commission's Data Protection Day 2026 conference, the central question was: Reset or Refine? Beatriz de Anchorena, Chair of the Convention 108 ...

A notable week for Convention 108+ as the world starts to wake up to why international democracy is so important. Together we are strong.

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The government enforces transparency by default, then parents and even kids can govern how tech uses them Government surveillance disinter-mediates parental, community governance with only one way governance.

EU Omnibus Submission: Permission Masquerading as Consent 0PN-lAB ANCR White Paper Author: Mark Lizar, ISO/IEC 27560-1 Profile Editor, Kantara Consent Receipt Editor, ANCR - Transparency Performance Indicators Editor, Executive Director, Digital Transparenc...

The 0PN Lab - is coming out of stealth mode this week and starting its enterprise as the global champion of Digital Public Transparency Infrastructure. Today we submitted comments on EU Omnibus: Permission Masquerading as Consent. lab.0pn.org/eu-omnibus-s...

The method which we are recommending, is that technologies are required to be provide notice before an application can profile you, which if you are a child requires a parental consent token and a log which tracks children data disclosure relationships. baked in security by default.

The Council of Europe has lowered both the European and Spanish flags to half‑mast until 22 January.

Our thoughts are with the victims of the tragic train accident in Andalusia, as well as their families and loved ones.

This is not a new practice - developed by Google cars that drive around your neighbourhood. Extracting your device-ids and routers so they can broadcast you to advertisers. Across borders - its no surprise this is now a US Gov app. digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08...

The Transparency Lab, is very curious to know how enforcement agents are allowed to cover their faces while doing a public service. @404media.co Can you clarify the lack of transparent accountability in enforcement is constitutional? Why is this not a big deal?

The truth of the matter is, there is a significant difference between ones self-assertion o identity, and digital identification. A government that doesnt know the difference is incompetent. In addition, digital-id technologies have advanced, We dont need to carry it anymore. (Consent Tokens)

Had a milestone week finally presenting transparency performance research focused on Google Chrome. Findings 100% non-compliant. Identifier created upon install with no notice of cross-boarder tracking. 'Necessary Cookie' literally means placed on device without notice, permission or consent.

Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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A lack of Digital Identification Transparency means no-one ca trust Age Assurance Technologies