Happy this is finally out in #CLSR 🎉 I argue that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency reduces certain privacy risks, but also lets a powerful platform like Apple redefine key privacy concepts like tracking, reinforcing walled gardens and reshaping the mobile ecosystem 📱 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

Wir haben mit den #DatabrokerFiles einen riesigen Markt für illegale Daten aus der Online-Werbeindustrie aufgedeckt. Eine Frage konnten wir bisher nicht beantworten: Kaufen auch deutsche Sicherheitsbehörden solche Daten? Transparenz darüber verweigert die Bundesregierung nun selbst dem Parlament. 1/

Kann mehr Aufsicht schaden? @jgambato.bsky.social, @ganglmair.bsky.social und @juliakraemer.bsky.social zeigen in #ZEW DP 25-050: #Unternehmen priorisieren leicht kontrollierbare Vorgaben. Dies kann die Einhaltung von Regeln erschweren, die schwieriger durchzusetzen sind. www.zew.de/PU95685/?twt=1

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨 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. 1/4

💻⚖️ 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! 🌐

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...

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

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...

🚨 PhD Conference Attendance Grants Are you a PhD member of the NNHRR attending a conference relevant to your human rights research? We are offering conference attendance grants of up to €1,000 to cover your conference fee, travel and hotel. 🗓️ Apply by 30 September www.asser.nl/nnhrr/grants...

📘 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...

📱🛡️ 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

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

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! 🌨️

📢 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... @nnhrr.bsky.social

🎄 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