Remember that time Mozilla said it was going to stop working with the personal data removal service Onerep after I published a story showing Onerep's CEO was actually running several people search sites at the same time? […]

Serious post, please boost... On #internationalmensday here's your periodic reminder, fellow AMAB prostate carrying people who are over 50: Go see your doctor. Don't put it off. Ask for a DRE or a PSA test. Yes, DRE means a finger up your bum, get over it. They probably won't find anything […]

🇪🇺EU governments are removing #chatcontrol from today's COREPER agenda because a majority has not yet been reached. For the reasons, see this leaked cable, especially regarding Spain's demand: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LEWP-Meeting_12-November-2025.pdf

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

Google stopped letting owners of early Nest themostats remotely control their devices last month. But it's still remotely collecting extensive surveillance data from them: https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection #privacy

Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/your-washing-machine-could-be-sending-37-gb-of-data-a-day The owner was puzzled […]

Council of the EU (not to be confused with the Council of Europe) adopts new EU law to speed-up handling of cross-border data protection complaints […]

Do you love Open Source? We are looking for ambassadors for @openuk We offer benefits to our ambassadors, like free invites to our exclusive events, including our annual Awards, and an opportunity to network with key figures and contributors to global Open […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115555810693189407 This is a very real problem.

Orwell is buried in a village nearby. 25 June is the birthday of Eric Arthur Blair I decided to go along & pay my respects - reflecting on the unprecedented surveillance that is eroding privacy & other fundamental human rights .. & of the increasingly authoritarian & fascist nature of the […]

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

Utterly joyful. ❤️❤️❤️ Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob with Julien Cohen. The full song… With 30 musicians and singers in the streets of Paris 😍 https://youtu.be/rfUEstWJUkA

Looking for recommendations for a portable SSD drive for photos, music and personal files …. Thx in advance 🙏

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

My dad who is 81 recently got into trouble cause the app where he pays his bills decided that his phone is too old. He has a fully functional phone that’s a couple of years old but he now needs to throw it away because of software. I think this is bullshit.

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

#apple again weaponises its dominant market position and influence over millions of users to undermine a democratically enacted law in Europe: Rumour has it that the #gatekeeper might rather disable its WiFi sync functionality than make it interoperable with competitors, as it's obliged to […]

My comment on plans to create a specific legal base in #gdpr which would declare the use of personal data for training #AI as justified by legitimate interest of corporations or governments […]

The Norwegian government hires Sherpas from Nepal to build mountain pathways. They pay them so well that one summer of work in Norway equals more than 10 years of earnings in Nepal. (They get paid normal Norwegian wages for the work they do)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/115474683466820063 👇

#apple, the @EUCommission and the #dma Why interoperability is at the heart of the battle? ⚖️🍏 Read the full story: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251015-01.en.html #softwarefreedom #freesoftware

President Trump's executive order requiring voter registration forms to include proof of citizenship has been blocked by a federal judge. https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/trump-immigration-citizenship-federal-judge

Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’. In a motion to dismiss filed earlier this week, Meta denied claims that employees had downloaded pornography from Strike 3 Holdings to train its artificial intelligence models https://archive.ph/mjlbZ

In a surprise development on #chatcontrol, the Danish government has sent out a press release that it will drop mandatory detection orders, and instead propose to make the current voluntary detection scheme permanent […]

🍁A lot of economists that had expected a sharp economic downturn for Canada are saying that increased domestic demand has at least blunted the effects of US tarrifs. That's you and I making a choice to support our fellow Canadians by buying Canadian goods and avoiding US goods. We need to keep […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/115458212325831556 And some govts, like in the UK, are desperate for a national digital identity system, that is open to such abuse.

I have two mastodon accounts on mastodon.social The official iOS app doesn’t seem to have a function to add another account. Any recommendation of an app that allows switching between accounts on the same server ?

Tech firms are spending more than ever on #lobbying the #eu amid mounting opposition to the bloc’s digital rules, according to @corporateeurope. The 733 digital #industry groups registered in #brussels now spend €151 million a year pushing their interests, up from €113 million 2 years ago […]

So cool how @bitsoffreedom keeps up the pressure against #meta #facebook #instagram in the Dutch courts to ensure compliance with the #digitalservicesact 💪 New compliance deadline to redesign the apps is 31 December! […]

THE SENSITIVE PERSONAL details of more than 450 people holding “top secret” US government security clearances were left exposed online, new research seen by WIRED shows. The people’s details were included in a database of more than 7,000 individuals who have applied for jobs over the last two […]

🤣🤣👏👏 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2ler3xnv8o

US Protester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/protester-who-played-star-wars-song-sues-after-arrest-in-washington.html

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC […]

Apple confirms it pulled controversial dating apps Tea & TeaOnHer from the App Store https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/apple-confirms-it-pulled-controversial-dating-apps-tea-and-teaonher-from-the-app-store/

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)

Following Rishi Sunak and Nick Cleggs' move to advising tech companies, let's all wish Liz Truss well on her first day at Amazon Web Services.

"True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020)

This looks like a very interesting webinar on Thursday with Venaya Yazzie, an artist of the eastern #Dinè (Navajo) and #Hopi. She will be presenting on her work for the Dooda Desert Rock resistance. https://www.incomindiosuk.co.uk/post/ihren-webinar-with-venaya-yazzie

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/115405502603710242 Internet of shit

New in Portland

RE: https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/115394534308882134 Communities should not be paying the price of AI that is shoved into every aspect of our lives

UK govt ‘Office for Digital Identities and Attributes’ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-for-digital-identities-and-attributes

Ouch, super problematic comment by Stephane Duguin, ex #europol now leading the CyberPeace Institute, arguing that to take down online speech that's classified as #disinformation they don't need to and cannot know if that content actually has had a harmful effect; as long as it's been published […]

There's 100,000 (or many more) Palestinian bodies under the rubble of a city the size of Manhattan, with 20 Israeli bodies, so Israel is cutting off aid to the starving www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Great news, consumer associations in Europe got Windows 10 users one more year to prepare and move their computer to GNU Linux. https://www.theverge.com/news/785544/microsoft-windows-10-extended-security-updates-free-europe-changes

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein completes a massive 30,000 employee migration to Open Source email systems Microsoft Booted Out #tech #foss #opensource #email #germany #digitalsovereignty news.itsfoss.com/schleswig-ho...

👀 A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests […]