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As the US-EU Privacy Framework for cross-border data transfers depends upon FTC enforcement, this is likely the death knell for such transfers. Based on Schrems II and the moves by Trump (including firing folks from PCLOB), data transfer to the US under any mechanism might not be valid anymore.

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NEWS: A federal judge barred the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on transgender peopel serving in the military, saying it was "soaked in animus," unconstitutional and justified by mischaracterizing data. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 7 hours ago • 37 comments

Trump fires Democrat FTC Commissioners— Alvaro Bedoya & Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. The FTC is the federal agency in charge of consumer protection and closest thing U.S. has to a privacy protection agency. There are usually 5 commissioners, 2 from opposing party: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/t...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

There used to be incredible deference to highly qualified DOJ attorneys, whether you agreed with that or not. Not likely to be the case going forward. At least with seasoned jurists.

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This is one problem for DOJ with acting the fool in front of Judge Boasberg - other judges will start concluding the Government cannot be trusted in litigation.

submitted 11 hours ago • 31 comments

NEW: President Trump has reportedly fired Democratic FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, according to a post by Bedoya on X (screenshots below). Reuters reports both Demoractic FTC Commissioners - Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter - have been fired.

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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

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They erased Ira Hayes. If Johnny Cash were alive to see this, he’d punch Pete Hegseth in the mouth. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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NEW: DOJ asks Judge Boasberg to vacate his TROs against the gov't, calling them "an affront to the President’s broad constitutional and statutory authority to protect the United States from dangerous aliens who pose grave threats to the American people." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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Horrifying breaking news out of Texas: www.oag.state.tx.us/news/release...

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Translation: all of your data will be given away at any time to whomever we please, including lawful and not lawful officers and officials. As X can also track location, even if you don’t delete your account be sure to remove it from your device.

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After tests confirmed that Brendan Costello had no chance of regaining consciousness, a wrenching decision was made. His family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

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www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/03/16/f...

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#3vinylrecords first Bluesky post #deee-lite #grooveisintheheart ❤️ please repost and let’s get this thing going 😃

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Whether it’s to protect sensitive conversations while attending a protest or simply to keep your communications private, here's our guide to using the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal. wrd.cm/4irf9Gg

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Join us for a fireside chat with Meg Leta Jones to discuss The Future of Family Privacy: Children, Social Media, Parental Consent, EdTech, and Genetics. May 7-9, 2025: www.privacysecurityacademy.com/psf-spring-a... #privsecforum #PrivacyMatters

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The Heart Nebula, a cosmic beauty of stardust pulsating in a shimmering constellation, radiates with the warmth of a celestial embrace. "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." — Carl Sagan, from Cosmos (1980)

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I don’t think we need another season of Black Mirror, it’s basically our reality now.

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Folks can donate to @privacyint.bsky.social to help them in this challenge against the UK government’s secret TCN powers that forced Apple to withdraw their advanced data protection service from the UK market for new users action.privacyinternational.org/civicrm/cont...

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RIP Mark Klein. The man who worked for AT&T as a technician and was later largely responsible for blowing the lid off the AT&T / NSA spying scandal of the mid 2000's has passed away. He was 80 years old.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

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🚨 Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf

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Disinformation is the biggest threat to Canada’s next election. It is malicious, it is intentional, and it is relentless. Please access www.snopes.com, a fact checking site. You can enter information and it analyzes accuracy. mediabiasfactcheck.com checks the bias of over 9200 media sites.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

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Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy.

submitted 6 days ago • 404 comments

Nebula are the new clouds

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Black Mirror was meant to be a warning.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

WW2 poster from the United States Sabotage, Bigotry, Foreign Propaganda, pushing over America's pillars: Justice, Equality, Unity, and Liberty

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A heavy dose of surveillance is sure to fix those lagging sales.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board. The last section on “How to respond” is the most important. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Balko has some really good ideas here on what Democrats should be doing. I particularly like the daily briefings idea. People who aren't plugged in to politics have no idea about the scale of Trump's looting and lawlessness!

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 38 days ago • 875 comments

😂😅

submitted 11 days ago • 585 comments

Every possible orifice in every conceivable institution is being stuffed with sycophants, criminals and grifters.

submitted 11 days ago • 746 comments

I did. Because it does. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

submitted 12 days ago • 516 comments

In "On Tyranny," Timothy Snyder advises, "Do Not Obey In Advance." And Dean Treanor of Georgetown Law now shows what it means to stand up for freedom of speech and for religious freedom. Bravo!

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One way to think about this administration is: Trump's last full year in office was a global pandemic with no known cure that filled hospitals with dying patients and shut down the entire in-person economy. And firms think the current business environment has more uncertainty.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Attn: DC #lawsky: FYI, Trump/Bondi loyalists are currently making a bid to take over the DC Bar: Her brother is running for President and Alicia Long (who I believe is US Attorney Ed Martin's chief deputy right now) is running for Treasurer.

submitted 13 days ago • 95 comments

Stand up for Science - March 7th Washington and elsewhere standupforscience2025.org

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Look forward to publishing “State Constitutional Rights to Privacy” in the Georgia Law Review!

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BREAKING: MSPB member Cathy Harris (who trump tried to fire) GRANTED the stay requested by Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger (who Trump tried to fire) REINSTATING 5000 USDA employees (who Trump tried to fire.) osc.gov/News/Pages/P...

submitted 13 days ago • 125 comments

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns.

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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