⚠️ The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee @libe.europarl.europa.eu will hold a debate on 🇪🇺EU funding for #spyware, following our @ftm.eu investigation.

This report on platform transparency under the DSA in the Global South is excellent – both as a nuanced explanation of the DSA and for the significant, detailed considerations it adds from other regions. drive.google.com/file/d/1fpKY...

Remember this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUV...

In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts www.computerweekly.com/news/3666322...

I'll just print up this list and distribute it to all the colleges and universities nearby

Read this thread, please!

For this week’s podcast, I spoke with Mallory Knodel from the Social Web Foundation and the Internet Exchange and Burcu Kilic from CIGI. The conversation revolved around a post the two wrote for the Internet Exchange titled, “Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Heute vor 82 Jahren wurde Willi Graf, Mitglied der Weißen Rose, nach 8 Mo. Haft von den Nazis ermordet. Während seiner Haft schwieg er trotz fortwährender Verhöre durch die Gestapo. Er rettete damit vielen Gleichgesinnten das Leben. In ehrenvollem Gedenken.

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

NEW: Germany opposes mass scanning of private messages. "must be taboo in a constitutional state" "even the worst crimes don't justify giving up basic civil rights" Well said Minister Stefanie Hubig! Leadership we need from Europe's democracies. www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Why did they stop counting at 30? That’s just half a morning.

Germany. Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection opposes the EU #ChatControl proposal for the indiscriminate scanning of all private messaging to combat CSAM. “Private communication should never be under general suspicion.” www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Bundesjustizministerin Hubig zur #Chatkontrolle: "Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen. [..] Solchen Vorschlägen wird Deutschland auf EU-Ebene nicht zustimmen." www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Mehrheit am 14. Oktober für EU-Vorschlag kaum noch in Sicht: Bundesjustizministerium lehnt Pläne zur #Chatkontrolle ab www.handelsblatt.com/dpa/umstritt...

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New year, new thread — here's my 2025 reading log! 💙📚 Previous episodes: • 2020: tweets.berjon.com/121259142400... • 2021: tweets.berjon.com/134848568673... • 2022: tweets.berjon.com/147749837904... • 2023, before Xodus: tweets.berjon.com/161179872221... • 2024: bsky.app/profile/robi...

Trotz des immensen möglichen Schadens der #Chatkontrolle für Meinungsfreiheit, Pressefreiheit, Privatsphäre, Demokratie und IT-Sicherheit ist das Thema medial derzeit noch ganz schön unterberichtet. Hier steht, um was es eigentlich geht: netzpolitik.org/2025/fragen-...

Wer jetzt schweigt, riskiert den Verlust einer zentralen demokratischen Infrastruktur: der freien verschlüsselten Kommunikation. #Chatkontrolle bedroht auch Pressefreiheit www.djv.de/news/blog/bl...

Really interesting. With English subtitles: youtu.be/i-jjWQke37k?...

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

Neoliberalismus und Deregulierung bedeutete nie einfach „Bürokratieabbau“, im Gegenteil: im Alltag der Menschen gab es einen enormen Zuwachs an Bürokratie und Formularkrieg, wie die frz. Soziologin Béatrice Hibou dokumentiert.

Fast geschafft! 💪 Teilt diesen Post und helft uns, die 10.000 Follower*innen vollzumachen. Gemeinsam setzen wir uns für die #Grundrechte ein! #10YGFF

The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI must include social, environmental, and public perspectives in its work and membership, and public voices must have a formal, ongoing role in the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, write Tim Davies and Anna Colom.

A few months old but more important than ever.

I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.

The eternally threatened man…

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Today in German: I learned I can't ask for "a box" when I want to take my food to go because people are VERY LITERAL. It may not be a box - it might be a bowl! a carton! who knows! -- so you MUST ask for your leftover food "zum mitnehmen" and MAY NOT specify HOW it is leaving the building with you

Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with @icrc.org: our Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict game. trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org

2. No mention of the harms this can cause. Like policing generally, this tech is only being deployed a fraction of the time to address serious crime. What does it do the other 22 hours of the day and how will marginalized communities suffer for it?

A few weeks ago, I filed a Comment with @hutko.bsky.social and @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy in Bluesky’s TOS consultation. It urged them to build and maintain some key legal/content management infrastructure for distributed moderation on ATProto. 1/ cyberlaw.stanford.edu/content/file...

‼️Fresh off the press - major study on Development Finance Institutions and Digital Risks‼️ Based on a mapping of digital risks in 3,450 projects supported by nine major multilateral development banks. Check it out! www.ohchr.org/en/publicati...

AI content, however, “uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being,” Niederhoffer and her team argue.

Befürworter der #Chatkontrolle machen Druck und schlagen immer wieder das Gleiche vor. Wenn die Bundesregierung ihre Meinung ändert, könnten sie Erfolg haben netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

Ein geplanter Auftritt von Michel Friedman im Literaturhaus »Uwe Johnson« im mecklenburgischen Klütz ist von der Stadtvertretung abgesagt worden. Als Begründung für die Absage wurden mögliche Proteste von Rechtsextremen genannt. www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/mich...

Le projet de surveillance de nos messageries, Chat Control, revient en force. Pour nous et le Parlement européen, c'est NON. www.lesoir.be/700078/artic...

A few (early) thoughts on digital transnational repression and extraterritorial human rights obligations over at @bindinghook.bsky.social. Thanks for the opportunity to share my research (again!).

Wenn eines wichtig ist in diesen verstörenden, beängstigenden Zeiten, gerade auch für queere Menschen, dann das: dass wir nicht leiser werden. bsky.app/profile/claa...

"Die Gefahr ist, dass wir einen Überwachungsstaat schlüsselfertig bereitstellen." Leider wahr, was @netzpolitik.bsky.social bei unserem Sommerfest über das Risiko von #Palantir angesichts der rechtsextremen Bedrohung gesagt hat. Die Bundesregierung muss diesen Plänen endlich eine Absage erteilen.

New: The French government says Apple began notifying an unknown number of customers on September 3 that their devices were targeted in a spyware campaign.

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Beautifully said. 🙏

"using the ability of end-to-end encryption to reclaim that previous baseline expectation of privacy and ephemerality that we used to have in our communications, no matter how inconsequential and innocuous they are, is something that would benefit us all as a society." @riana.bsky.social

Googles „Cash Cow“ in Gefahr Folgt auf das Bußgeld von 3 Milliarden Euro nun die Zerschlagung des Konzerns? Unsere Analyse, was jetzt auf die Strafe folgt und worauf geachtet werden muss. digitalrechte.de/news/googles...

Important letter! www.heise.de/en/news/400-... In this context check out undocs.org/a/hrc/51/17: „Promote and protect strong encryption and avoid all direct, or indirect, general and indiscriminate restrictions on the use of encryption, such as … mandatory general client-side scanning.“

I have spent 18 years working with Cindy Cohn at EFF, defending digital rights. There is no one I would rather fight beside and I cannot imagine this place without her. www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...

Aktueller Vorschlag der EU-Kommission zur #Chatkontrolle – 400 Forscher aus 33 Ländern protestieren gegen das de-facto-Aus für verschlüsselte Chats www.heise.de/news/400-Wis...