what i read this week - week 46 2026

Haven't done these posts since August! I've also generated quite the backlog since end of September probably, now I'm working that off :) papers and other pdfs [EN] EDPB Statement on Smart Glasses - 8 page statement of the European Data Protection Board on smart glasses. Among the usual known issues around them like consent, data minimization and transparency obligations, they also point out the difficulties around identifying the controllers (in the sense of Article 4 Nr. 7 GDPR) of the data processing - depending on the process and context, it couldn't just be the owner or wearer of the glasses, it could also be the producer of the device (like Meta), or the provider of a linked application or service (like OpenAI, if ChatGPT was used), which means joint controllership is possible. The document also discusses the GDPR's household exemption and when it stops applying to the recording via smart glasses. [EN] EDPB Guidelines 03/2026 on web scraping in the context of generative AI - 23…

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