Post by Frank Pallas

An urgent appeal from academia to European regulators, calling for a strong, rights-first approach in regulating technically mediated consent across digital infrastructures. In particular, the open letter postulates 9 commitments in the further process around the digital omnibus proposal and, in particular, the proposed novel article 88b GDPR on automated, machine-readable privacy preferences: 👉 Adopt Article 88b with an ambitious scope 👉 Protect children and vulnerable users 👉 Avoid creating opt-out mechanisms similar to those in the United States 👉 Ensure legal coherence across the EU rights framework 👉 Prevent standardisation capture and new domination 👉 Guarantee human empowerment, inclusive participation and open competition 👉 Ensure real enforcement to foster real change 👉 Build on EU technology readiness 👉 Improve and adopt through inclusive, public-interest lawmaking and standardisation — do not adopt Article 88b tel quel So much insightful research done across Europe throughout the past years – now is the time to implement results and harvest benefits for citizens and societies! 📃 Whole open letter available at: https://lnkd.in/dH2D6x_b ✍ Sign at: https://lnkd.in/dGicaUKa /cc Heleen Janssen, Arianna Rossi, Claudia Negri Ribalta, Elias Grünewald, Dr. Aleksandra Sowa, PD Dr. Sebastian Pape, Diana Baumann, Soheil Human