#76: The one that got us banned from a country we cannot mention

In this episode, Jyri and Pilvi have been fished out from the pool and summer vacays to discuss privacy–and they desperately try to be optimistic, it’s summer, after all. Whippii.

In this episode, we wallow in the following cases:

• TikTok Class Action in Germany (2000€ for the innocence of a child? How does that work? )
  
  

• What is happening in the USA… (DOGE access to personal data, Palantir, migrant children’s data collected in data banks…Privacy and Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in crisis?)
  
  

• …and should folks in the EU be taking steps to prepare for the fall of DPF and should the EU start to become independent from the US tech giants? Denmark is leading the way?
  
  

• Spotify SEK 58 million fines remains, no luck with appeals.
  
  

• Japan gets a new AI law – with no penalties – innovation first.
  
  

• Meta replaces people with AI to oversee privacy
  
  

• A Dentist in France gets 50 000€ in damages from Google as they failed to remove negative reviews and their classic argument based on freedom of expression fails.

So crack open a cold one, forgive us for our damaged personalities, and hit play.

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LINKS:

USA (below or open any news site):
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/supreme-court-restores-doges-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-dna-migrant-children-fbi-codis/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

Denmark says no more:

https://www.thelocal.dk/20250603/danish-cities-drop-microsoft-over-trump-policies-and-financial-concerns

Spotify fines:
https://www.imy.se/tillsyner/spotify-ratten-till-tillgang/

Japan and new AI law:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/28/japan/japan-ai-law/

META and AI:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5407870/meta-ai-facebook-instagram-risks

Dentist got dough out of Google:
https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=CA_-_RG_n%C2%B0_22/01814&mtc=today