Gonna reference @lukestark.bsky.social like I always do. Facial recognition is the “plutonium of ai.” There’s no “benign” use, particularly where Facebook is involved.

⏰Dernier jour pour s'inscrire au #PrivacyResearchDay 👉 www.cnil.fr/en/privacy-r...

Surprisingly, the US embassy in the UK supports End-to-end Encryption (and also VPNs) uk.usembassy.gov/u-s-governme...

Ofcom’s study of VPN use by teenagers has been published a few weeks ago (www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...). I encourage you to read the full results of this survey that looks at the use 2167 children between 11 and 17 and to draw your own conclusions.

Le législateur Californien propose d'introduire une exemption pour Linux pour la vérification d'âge : www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

Cox, la société qui proclamait écouter les conversations des personnes pour cibler les publicités, sanctionnée par la FTC pour ... tromperie vis a vis des annonceurs : www.theverge.com/policy/93702...

There are a few problems in this note: some links are mixed-up, making it hard to follow the argument. Most importantly, it means that the note may not have been correctly reviewed before publication. www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud... e.g. the two links in this sentence have been permuted 1/4

🔞📱 Hearing on age verification to protect minors online Agenda: link.europa.eu/gYHYFX Panel 1 ⏲️15.00 🗣Yvo Volman @ec.europa.eu, @vtoubiana.bsky.social (🇫🇷 Data Protection Authority), Francisco Pérez Bes (🇪🇸 Data Protection Authority) 6/11

New @citizenlab.ca report with an incredibly sophisticated analysis of covert surveillance operations with a focus on location tracking, which target phones by exploiting global 3G/4G telecom networks and sending invisible SMS while acting as trusted telecom operators: citizenlab.ca/research/unc...

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Intuitively, I'd have: -list all the kid-activities before comparing the cities for a family trip - decided which city i'd visit before drafting the itinerary I'm probably getting old about.fb.com/news/2026/04...

Meta's smart glasses make it easy to secretly film people. It's mostly women bearing the fallout. "...a stranger had secretly recorded her using smart glasses and uploaded the video to Instagram and TikTok, where it amassed more than 30,000 views in the span of a week." www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

At 2pm Paris time today I'll be testifying in the French Parliament about digital sovereignty. Watch it live at videos.assemblee-nationale.fr/direct.php!

Quelle angoisse : le site britannique Videogamer a licencié tous ses rédacteurs la semaine dernière, et depuis le site ne publie plus que du contenu IA (avec de faux profils de faux rédacteurs), dont des tests de jeu ??? kotaku.com/resident-evi...

📢 The 5th Privacy Research Day will take place on June 24 📅 The call is open until March 22 Topics: 🧒 Vulnerable Users 🗺️ Internationalisation of privacy 🤖 AI 🕶️ Wearables/IoT 🧑‍🔬 Science & regulation 💳 Digital economy 🛡️ PETs 🔓 Usable Security & Privacy More information: www.cnil.fr/en/call-pape...

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Finally a home for Grok-generated CSAM the EU doesn't want you to see

Google "provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024 while attending Cornell University in New York"

🎧COSIC reveals hundreds of millions of earbuds & speakers need a patch to prevent wireless hacking & tracking. Flaws in 17 models using #Google’s #FastPair let attackers hijack devices, eavesdrop, and track users. Watch our demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j45... #cosic #kuleuven

My point here is that many of the data brokers trafficking in consumer data are not registered in California, many are fly-by-night operations, and frankly, aren’t paragons of integrity. Asking—only the ones known about—to delete data post hoc is closing the barn door after the horse has left. 9/

We were able to reidentify 97% of the individuals in the dataset (showing it’s not anonymous). None of that required IRB approval (i.e., humans weren’t the subject of the experiment). Emailing the reidentified humans to ask about their recollections of consenting to these sales, however, did. 3/

Those in California can now go here to request that data brokers delete their data: privacy.ca.gov/drop/ This is a good thing, however, it’s far from a complete solution. 🧵 1/

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Imagine the possibilities. Such an opportunity for everyone from meddling foreign intelligence to your bog standard chaos agent, with zero friction.

Looks like Waymo cars are trying to drive more like humans drivers. Not sure it's a good thing techmeme.com

New N.Y. law requires retailers that use personalized pricing to post the following disclosure: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

"After months of litigation, we are no longer under a legal order to retain consumer ChatGPT and APl content indefinitely. Our obligations under the earlier order ended on September 26, 2025." openai.com/index/respon...

"Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that 'present higher legal risk,' the [Meta] document says, such as those falsely claiming to represent a consumer brand...That figure almost certainly exceeds 'the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.'”

No we have not. Most of us use the great, precise, yet very clear, metric system and know exactly when we must turn right. Only the US, Liberia and Myanmar use the "Imperial system" and rely on traffic lights and restaurants to know where they should turn😏 blog.google/products/map...

I cannot emphasize enough how much the folks at Census are *obsessed* with doing the right thing for both representative data collection and privacy. (I say this as someone who nearly didn’t get to tenure because of all the frictions involved in using restricted-access Census data.)

🗨️ "Austrian privacy group noyb said on Tuesday it has filed a criminal complaint in Austria, accusing U.S.-based Clearview AI of illegally collecting photos and videos of European Union residents to build its facial-recognition database." More Info: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This idea from @esquiring.bsky.social is totally doable but has minimal chance of being embraced by Meta.

Sur ce sujet, lisez le dernier Cahier Innovation et Prospective de la CNIL, sur les données post mortem et notamment les "deadbots" : Article : linc.cnil.fr/cahier-ip10-... Pdf : linc.cnil.fr/sites/defaul...

"The watchdog said the option to keep the cheaper plan was only revealed after consumers began the cancellation process, a design it argued breached Australian consumer law by failing to disclose material information and creating a false impression of available choices."

Thanks! I thought there could be some rationals beyond "collecting more data". There are several things that I find very inconvenient and/or misleading. First, in many instances the *URLs are not shorter*, so to call that a shortener is misleading. Second, all shortened URLs look the same... [1/3]

Brought to you by the company who discontinued its "goo.gl" URL shortener in 2019 and killed it in 2025.

from said monstrosity, just under the share button in the hamburger menu, there is an "Open in Chrome" option, and from there you can share the raw link. extra friction i'm sure <1% of people do, but hey, if you are on a phone you can't reconfigure...

This seems to be happening since June 2025 on specific apps according to 9to5google.com/2025/06/26/g... and it can be disabled in the Google app support.google.com/websearch/an... For the reason, I'm pretty sure you already know why 😅

Why (and since when) does Chrome replace shared URLs by "share.google" URLs?

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today at 3:45pm Dublin time

"U.S. trade authorities also say that, by protecting consumer data that PIX collects, the Brazilian government is hurting American companies that use such information to make business decisions and develop new products"

👉 De la mort à l’immortalité numérique : quelles pratiques ? quels enjeux éthiques ? 👉 Des données personnelles à la mémoire collective : quels enjeux éthiques pour la conservation du patrimoine numérique ? Ne tardez pas à vous inscrire pour le savoir ! www.cnil.fr/fr/air2025

👉De la mort à l’immortalité numérique : quelles pratiques ? quels enjeux éthiques ? 👉Des données personnelles à la mémoire collective : quels enjeux éthiques pour la conservation du patrimoine numérique ? Le programme de l'événement éthique de la #CNIL est en ligne : www.cnil.fr/fr/air2025

"Introducing new data controls" => Opting you in to something you never asked and providing a way to opt-put

Une variante de " blueberry "

This article sadly reminded me an XKCD: xkcd.com/937/

In light of Columbia's capitulation to the Trump regime's illegal and extortionate demands, I have resolved not to write for Columbia publications, speak at Columbia events, or perform other free labor for a university that has repudated its values. 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed