Buena la música de Nicolás Jaar para el viernes.

I love @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/03/07/g... and @apc.org AI policies. www.apc.org/en/apc-polic... Currently working on a policy to guide @okfn.bsky.social and I am learning a lot from them.

Tan feliz de volver siempre a #Barcelona para las conversaciones necesarias. Y con Toret!

Ban cruises. Really. Nothing good comes out of them. Sea pollution. Sound pollution. Light pollution. And all the health and safety issues they lead to.

Can we protect our brainwaves through openness? Can it serve as a governance tool to help guarantee and ‘future-proof’ rights in neurotech, through open technical standards, open modular hardware components, transparent system design, auditability, portability, and user control?

No tolerance for biometric mass surveillance! Hamburg’s DPA has been sitting on a complaint against #PimEyes for five years www.ccc.de/en/updates/2...

No therapist should be working online for a company that saves those transcripts to a model ; if they do they should be at least suspended from any professional association they belong to. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

The #Volkswagen Group: „Corporate Snoop“ award for misusing sensitive data (VW, Audi, Seat, Škoda brands) through #Cariad edri.org/our-work/cze...

Someone should FOIA the US State Dep to understand a bit what really happened with RightsCon in Lusaka.

No government genuinely committed to national sovereignty would tolerate a foreign company operating within sensitive public systems while declaring explicit allegiance to another nation, writes James Görgen, who queries what Palantir is doing inside Brazil.

The plug for #RightsCon.

Are mobile phones replaceable devices? Can we imagine a future without them? What would a different tech architecture look like for people, one that is not controlled by two companies and is based on surveillance, data extraction and control disguised as convenience?

Good morning, #Brussels!

Valiosísimo e imprescindible proyecto de las compañeras La Mar de Citas para acabar con la mafia de las citas de extranjería. ➡️ Una app que te notifica cuando hay citas disponibles para tu trámite de extranjería:

We’ve been learning a lot about #AI lately, along with our communities. 👇🏾 In this text, @okfn.bsky.social's Tech Lead @pdelboca.me consolidates some of these thoughts and offers his sharp views on one of today's most pressing challenges. #TheTechWeWant #TheAIWeWant buff.ly/MUH9FjB

Which corporations will have to comply with the CSDDD following Omnibus I? 📢 The updated SOMO CSDDD Datahub is out today and reveals: - the 1,450 corporate groups covered by the CSDDD - the companies meeting the thresholds - their sectors - their HQ countries (1/2)

📚🌱 Estamos anunciando um projeto em parceria com a @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social para proteger o futuro do nosso conhecimento comum. Junte-se a nós: buff.ly/xOi2IlC

📚🌱 Anunciamos un proyecto conjunto con @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social para salvaguardar el futuro de nuestro conocimiento común. Únete a nosotras: buff.ly/Sd5YNUU

📚🌱 We are announcing a joint project with @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social to safeguard the future of our global knowledge commons. Join us: buff.ly/9VZbWHD

A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Knowledge IS infrastructure. Thrilled of starting the discussion with the fantastic team and community around @wikimediapolicy.bsky.social

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: “It Seems Like Blind American Ignorance”: The New US War on Iraq In the shadow of its wars in Iran and Lebanon, the US has conducted devastating attacks on the security forces of its Iraqi ally. Story by Nir Rosen & Hajar al Obeidi www.dropsitenews.com/p/iraq-us-wa...

Our statement.

El mejor regalo.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Do not take access to information and public data for granted. Keep access to public information and knowledge a priority in our public agendas. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

Almost exactly four months ago, I wrote about how the Trump administration was preparing to ban TP-Link routers, citing the company's alleged links to China. Now, the FCC has decided to ban *all* new models of foreign-made routers, even though many U.S.-made routers are also full of security flaws.

NEW | Hundreds of companies are pitching shady surveillance tech to EU migration agencies through industry events that evade lobbying transparency rules. See the 450+ companies involved ⬇️ www.accessnow.org/companies-po...

We are starting our #OpenDataDay event at @okfn.bsky.social Join us! okfn.org/en/events/th...

A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado Rincón, Simone Ruf and Jürgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why it’s a major step for researcher data access.

Do we really have full, free, open access to knowledge without anonymity? I do not think so. I will tell you why at the very inspiring gathering in Lisbon ps.logos.co#day-1-agenda together with Harry Halpin and Iness Ben Guirat. See you soon!

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online. Full stop. "Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name We have to stop this. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Learning.

DHS calls whistleblowers a “threat to national security.” But without leaks to the press, the public wouldn’t know that ICE is entering homes without warrants, labeling protesters “domestic terrorists,” building surveillance tools, or pushing propaganda.

Investigative journalists needed!

45 years ago, we were discussing the same.

We need open, accountable systems safeguarding cognitive freedom. What would they look like? @okfn.bsky.social seeks investigative journalists willing to engage in a paid collaborative storytelling exercise. Pitches by Mar 5, 2026. okfn.org/en/jobs/tech... #Neurotech #BCI #openness

#Europe is a good place to plant the seed of #TheTechWeWant. Check the study by Allianz Foundation next-generations-study.com/explore/myth...

Understanding how AI works and applying it to practical work builds confidence in the communities we work with. It is improving their caution in how and when they apply AI to their work. And also, rapidly, opening new paths to adoption with clear boundaries and trustworthy.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

What do we want? Fossil databases! 🐚🦕 When do we want them? Forever! 🗓️ Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is very hard to claim "AI sovereignty" without owning and fully governing the data centres that power it. Thinking about the unfortunate influence of Big Tech lobbyists around well-intentioned projects like #LatamGPT. I doubt it will ever migrate to nationally owned, sovereign infrastructure

Do you know of anyone using automation and AI creatively to monitor corporate accountability?

"Charting AI’s development within its proper economic and geopolitical context...Srnicek’s guide can help us maintain a long-term, realistic perspective of the technology’s likely trajectory.” @jacobinmag.bsky.social review @nsrnicek.bsky.social's 'Silicon Empires' jacobin.com/2026/02/ai-b...

Seeds are resistance. Seeds are memory. Seeds are future🌱 Don't let industrial agriculture erase them.

Every seed holds✨Generations of selection & adaptation ✨ Culinary traditions passed down through families ✨ Spiritual connections to the earth ✨ Community identity and autonomy When we defend peasant seeds, we're defending: 💪 The right to food 💪 Cultural survival 💪 Biodiversity 💪 Self-determination

🌾 Seeds Carry More Than DNA—They Carry Memory, Resistance, and Identity. Peasant and native seeds are more than what we plant in the soil. They are living archives of culture, knowledge, and belonging. When traditional seeds are lost, we lose entire worlds. 🌍💔

The 3 forms of academic content assetization we explore are: - universities enclosing educators' content for use in platformized learning programs - edtech companies building databases of academic assignments and manuscripts - publishers licensing academic papers to AI companies for LLM training.

New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We cannot aim at Digital Sovereignty or even some degree of digital autonomy if both students and workers are trained to serve the interests of Big Tech. And they are influencing every curricula and capacity building program in private, public and social sector!