😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@maxschrems what's new, this is why left wing parties if they are really left wing must never use any political consultants.

[t_x@chaos.social]

@maxschrems initially I was like, you mean a 180° seat swap, not 360°, right? But then read it again, it really does sound like 360°.

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@maxschrems 360° mean she didn't change her direction ...

half turn = 180°

[derjoshder@bonn.social]

@Su_G @maxschrems
I don't think that there is a "long enough" in cases like that. Just decoupling it temporal ist not enough. Either you are for the people or against them , for public wellfare or for some company's wellfare.

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@maxschrems Alt text: social media post: Helen Dixon
Global Digital Regulatory Consultant; Independent Non-Exec...
4h • Edited

I just started in a really interesting new role!
I am delighted to join the team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP at a time when data and technology regulation along with digital platform governance are rapidly evolving.
Regulators are placing greater emphasis on accountability, transparency, and risk mitigation in online environments.
As the firm's Global Digital Regulatory Consultant, I look forward to helping clients develop practical strategies that enable them to operate confidently while meeting regulatory and societal expectations.
#MHCLaw #Leadership #Regulation

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@maxschrems You are confusing cause and effect. The DPC is not maliciously sabotaging GDPR because it made a bad hire. It made that hire because the Irish government's economic policy is to appeal to multinationals so they headquarter there, and sabotaging GDPR is a means to that end.

[bruce@darkmoon.social]

@maxschrems

It's amazing how oodles of cash can assuage a guilty conscience.

[davey_cakes@mastodon.ie]

@lexinova @maxschrems I think it's 2 x 180, which would add up

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@T_X @maxschrems not really since she never changed course, only lied like if she had.

[bminish@mastodon.ie]

@maxschrems she did a couple of years in comreg too. Where there, even by the standards of comreg commissioners she was clumsy & ineffective.

Comreg is another of Ireland's truly useless regulators.
Regulatory capture was baked in from it's very first days as ODTR.

Her predecessor in comreg is now chair of

Coimisiún na Meán | Ireland's media regulator

Coimisiún na Meán is Ireland’s agency for developing and regulating a thriving, diverse, creative, safe and trusted media landscape.

Coimisiún na Meán (www.cnam.ie)

Ireland's new media regulator.

The Gist: Coimisiún na Meán is Big Mad

Oh boy, Ireland's new Internet Regulator is super mad that their idea to get people to upload their passports and live selfies to porn sites is being criticised. This is the Gist.

The Gist (www.thegist.ie)

[liebach@mastodon.art]

@maxschrems I read the picture first and thought it was satire post over extreme corporate blandness, using comletely generic campany names. Apparently it wasn't.

[dejaeghere@mastodon.social]

@maxschrems why do you think this will make ireland the laughing stock of the EU? The EU does very well by itself thank you very much:
https://euobserver.com/204496/ngos-want-ex-meta-mep-removed-from-eu-digital-rules-relaxation/

[proscience@toot.community]

@maxschrems

Least surprising news, sadly.

[apenkop@mstdn.social]

@maxschrems She fell for 'double'.

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@dejaeghere @maxschrems She was elected by the citizens of Finland. Anybody voting for an EPP party is a laughing stock to me personally, but there's only one country in the EU which renders all economic stats in the EU useless to the point that we have to exclude it from calculations. It does so because it serves its American corporate masters, so yeah, we point and laugh at it.

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@maxschrems
I remain convinced that with political will there are imaginative and effective ways to clamp down on this revolving door regulatory capture.

[deixis9@beige.party]

@liebach @maxschrems

Looking up from the pub filled streets of Irish Disneyland, Dublin we can see the towers where plenty of this cringeworthy neoliberal culture exists.

[traecer@techhub.social]

@maxschrems
EU citizens: the USA is your cautionary tale!

Don't let this sort of revolving door between regulators and lobbyists continue to be legal!

Don't let the military/industrial complex eat your governments!

Act now to save your democratic institutions!

#politics #USPol #EUpol

[jrp@hub.kliklak.net]

@Max Schrems Ireland is poor, their economy isn't well since many years - they need the money from Big Tech. For that reason they've been extremely unresponsive to data privacy issues from the beginning on. I don't see any way to change that, the EU itself gets weaker and weaker regarding enforcing these issues. Most existing lies with some activists and as many as possible private parties writing eregular emails to EU commisions about this, emphasizing the need for privacy. On a political level there seems only apathy now.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@maxschrems Why should such people feel ashamed? Did you ever watch the comedy TV series Parlement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series)

I often found myself unable to laugh because these unscrupulous lobbyists were so authentic.