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   noyb.eu (noybeu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 21:45:53 JST noyb.eu

   👉 If you're at CPDP in Brussels, come by our booth and say hi!

   🍪🍪🍪 We have cookies!

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 21:45:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

     @moskitokoenig @noybeu Yes, folks with good reputations are essential for such whitewashing operations. Their reputations, sadly, are what is being laundered.

     If NYOB doesn’t see a problem, who am I say criticise CPDP for being funded and organised by people farmers?

     https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

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     Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯 (moskitokoenig@dizl.de)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 21:45:52 JST Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

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     • Aral Balkan

     @noybeu At least one exhibitor that enjoys a good (and deservedly good!) reputation among data protectionists. I've just stumbled across Aral Balkan's reference to the “platinum sponsors” and “premium sponsors” of the CPDP conference yesterday: Google, TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Uber among them - which sounds a bit like turning the buck into the farmer to me.

     @aral
     Aral’s toot: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114544459745776261

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 22:12:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

     @moskitokoenig @noybeu I don’t think you understand: NOYB being there is invaluable to the organisers because of their stellar reputation and work. It says the CPDP is a legitimate conference about privacy and data protection. And that it’s perfectly OK for Google, Microsoft, TikTok etc., to be involved in funding and organising it.

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     Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯 (moskitokoenig@dizl.de)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 22:12:10 JST Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral No need to convince me, I see it the same way you do. That's why I think it's so weird that noyb is there. Yet I'm not ignoring its reputation, because thanks to Detlef Schrems (noyb), Meta has so far repeatedly been "kicked in the teeth" legally in Europe. Not to mention the „data protection“ agreements between the EU and the US that were overturned by the ECJ following his complaints. There’s no ideological consensus as in your (accurate) examples.
     @noybeu

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 22:21:32 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

     @moskitokoenig @noybeu 👍

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     Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯 (moskitokoenig@dizl.de)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 22:21:34 JST Clu | #RipNatenom 🕯

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral I actually do understand what you mean and it is exactly what I thought, too. That‘s why I said I think it‘s strange to see noyb there.

     @noybeu