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GDPR and the Intersection of Security and Privacy | JJ Katz | …corporate Deep Packet Inspection vs: GDPR, reconsidered… https://alecmuffett.com/article/113527 #DeepPacketInspection #encryption #gdpr #privacy

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"WhatsApp owner Meta announced the launch of new features in WhatsApp's "Updates" tab on Monday, including targeted advertisements and a subscription model" DMA 🔥

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According to today’s statement of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, WhatsApp is not rolling out ads in EU until 2026 www.mlex.com/mlex/antitru...

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Opening up Twitter now:

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The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage and a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.

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"Today, connected TV (CTV) OSes are largely built around not just gathering user data, but also creating ways to collect new types of information about viewers in order to deliver more relevant, impactful ads."

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#Google should lose its appeal of €4.124 billion Android abuse of dominance fine, per Advocate General in opinion. Full judgment yet to come.

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My to-do list is creeping up so much, it feels like Article 114 TFEU

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the UK along with a bunch of other European countries want to dilute the ECHR. The irony in all of this is that after sustained pressure on the Court, several papers have shown that it has already become much more accommodating towards national governments www.politico.eu/article/left...

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How long until so-called law enforcement starts using tools, en masse, to try to identify pseudonymous online accounts of a particular person? The text-matching techniques already exist, can they be effectively deployed at scale? I often feel like I'm overly paranoid with all the precautions I

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"The State Department is restarting interviews for student visas and installing stricter social media guidelines, including a requirement that all applicants have their accounts set to public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the United States, according to a State Department cable..."

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Both of these people will accurately state that AI has made them more productive and saved them time.

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Going through it now... For starters, I really like that it's stated precisely to what conduct Art. 5(2) DMA applies to. Moreover, the Commission has actively been engaging with the DPC (which has of course done fuck all on the consent-or-pay front).

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And... it's gone for some fucking reason. Copy of the version that is now gone: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Live from the #fediverse… has the #DMA failed? So far, lackadaisical policing by @filomenac.bsky.social and friends means Article 7's very hard fought #interoperability provisions are going nowhere fast 😭 PS Shame the @ec.europa.eu doesn't have much of a presence on #Mastodon 🧐

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Today in a European Parliamentary debate, MEPs condemned Hungary’s ban on LGBTI public assemblies. Despite clear breaches of EU law confirmed by the CJEU Advocate General, the European Commission has yet to take action.

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Every time I log into Bluesky, I see posts about court cases the Trump administration is losing. It reminds me of this classic tweet.

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Since the decision is now published, I believe this starts the 2 month deadline within which Meta can (and will) appeal. Civil society should absolutely be intervening in the proceedings (otherwise EC and EDPB's nonsense might end up in case law). Would love to help out if anyone is.

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Wow, we finally have the consent-or-pay DMA decision against Meta!

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Wrong take by the German court. Art. 5(2) DMA explicitly mentions "specific choice" and ties it to GDPR consent, which is quite clearly purpose-specific (as anyone vaguely familiar with it knows). Still, @johnnyryan.bsky.social argued for stronger language here but legislators knowingly decided to

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Whoa. Even OVHcloud now considered preferable.

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retvrn

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In @aiforensics.org’s last study authored by @paulbouchaud.com we depict how advertisers use political and other sensitive user data to target ads on X aiforensics.org/work/sensiti...

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Striking that last week's ruling approving pull backs by Libya - which one could obviously interpret as a concession by the ECtHR to RW critics of its immigration case law - has not satiated those critics

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Gotta give it to the Hungarian winning coalition (in PoliSci terms), they are endlessly legally inventive when it comes to protecting their rule. A break in legal continuity seems like a given if the Hungarian opposition wins next year's parliamentary election. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-cons...

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Being a woman on the internet.

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To make investigations more effective, MEPs are pushing for the possibility to conduct undercover investigations and employ covert surveillance methods.

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Looking forward to all of these features being fully open and interoperable to third parties in the EU under the #DMA!

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AI is useful for tons of bad stuff though. Generating bombing targets? Check. Automating managerial oversight? Check. Political surveillance? Check. Suppressing wages? Check. None of these depend on the model working well, just well enough to be well above chance. Which they are.

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It’s a hard pill to swallow but people really do trust ChatGPT as a definitive source of authority. Not everyone. But enough that this week I saw a ChatGPT quote on a subway ad and a salesperson told someone next to me they could ask ChatGPT their question and get the same answer

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zero indication in this presentation that AV (one of the bluesky investors) has had any consideration on how bluesky plans to make money and on how AV hopes to get a return on investment literally only point for investing was the massive organic user growth in second half of 2024

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Meta's AI discover feed is (still!) leaking user conversations with its AI. With its scale/import in shaping people's perception of reality, it is hard to think of a worse actor in the AI space than Meta, or to imagine a more invasive, user-hostile product than this www.404media.co/meta-invents...

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US Senator Ron Wyden & Rep. AOC: 'We write to demand information regarding reports that #Palantir Technologies… is enabling and profiting from serious violations of Federal law by the #Trump Administration, which is amassing troves of data on Americans to create a government-wide, searchable […]

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