Robert Bateman is a data protection writer, trainer, and consultant. He has published innumerable articles on the topic, as well as led panel discussions and interviewed key well-known figures in the space on stage, at well-known privacy conferences. Besides freelancing as content creator, he is an associate with Act Now Training and a Subject Matter Expert with Heward Mills, a data protection consultancy. 

With Robert we have addressed the recent public outcry about Instagram and Facebook becoming paid services for whoever does not want to see ads or consent to the data processing involved in running them. Given that we have already got used to seeing cookie walls on European news websites (in Germany, France, or Italy), we have aimed to open the wider debate around “Consent or Pay” business models.

References:

• Le Conseil d’État annule partiellement les lignes directrices de la CNIL relatives aux cookies et autres traceurs de connexion
• Victor Morel, Cristiana Santos, Viktor Fredholm, Adam Thunberg: “Legitimate Interest is the New Consent – Large-Scale Measurement and Legal Compliance of IAB Europe TCF Paywalls”
• Report of the work undertaken by the EDPB Cookie Banner Taskforce
• IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework 2.2 (stops conflating legitimate interest and consent)
• EDPB Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679
• Robert Bateman on Twitter
• Robert Bateman on LinkedIn
• Giovanni Buttarelli (former EDPS), “Privacy 2030: A Vision for Europe”
• Google Privacy Sandbox