When trying to improve competitiveness, EU leaders should avoid policies being captured by existing companies protecting their current business models. High environmental standards and investering in skills is better for the economy than deregulation. / #AldenBiesen

@ec.europa.eu selling European citizens and values out to Big Tech. ❗83% meetings top Commission officials with industry representatives. ❗47 meetings individual companies,28 with business lobby groups. ❗Less than 14% meetings with NGOs and trade unions. www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/1...

New @corporateeurope.org report on #BigTech lobbying has found EU Commission officials met lobbyists 100+ times on the Digital Fairness Act since Dec 2024. 83% of meetings were w/ companies + business lobby groups, while less than 14% were with NGOs + trade unions corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

"researchers argue Big Tech is spreading its message through articles on Euronews by organisation EU Tech Loop operated by Consumer Choice Center Europe, an organisation that, according to EU’s transparency register, receives all of its funding from Meta and Google" euobserver.com/201452/revea...

"EU Tech Loop is operated by the Consumer Choice Center Europe, an organisation that, according to the EU’s transparency register, receives all of its funding from Meta and Google"

Huge interest in the trial against the son of the Norwegian crown princess. Almost 300 articles published in January alone - that are read a *lot* for a country of 5 mill people.

The European Commission is brokering a deal to exchange information about travelers, including fingerprints and law enforcement records, so the U.S. can determine if they “pose a risk to public security or public order,” www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...

Democracy Dies by Database www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/...

👋 @eurosky.social 😁

"Google breached its own policies that barred use of artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in 2024 by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone video footage, a former Google employee alleged in a confidential federal whistleblower complaint reviewed by The Washington Post."

If anyone doubts how prescient and important the German Constitutional Court‘s 1983 decision on self-determination regarding information was - the US offers a powerful example of how things can go wrong

The EU "Leaders' Retreat" on 12/2 will address #deregulation demands proposed by Italian Prime Minister Meloni and German Chancellor Merz Virtually all of these proposals are longstanding demands of industry #lobbyists, promoted by BusinessEurope and the European Round Table for Industry (ERT)... 😤

🎉 Happy Data Protection Day! We took today as an opportunity to debunk five common misconceptions about data protection and the GDPR. Read all about it here: noyb.eu/en/data-prot...

Let's get our Digital Dignity back! @eurosky.social

I think Apple should (re)introduce the Web Eraser in Safari. That seems to be the only way to get rid of all those f***ing annoying AI tools that pollute every Google web application these days. Saying no for the hundred time is just not enough it seems.

Norway's largest bank DNB newsjacking through the Kobler ad platform in a matter of minutes 😂😂🤣 ("Jeg slutter" = "I quit")

It’s worth noting that even if you don’t explicitly share this information, it can often be inferred from things like your likes, friends/followers, etc. This has been shown for decades now by researchers; companies are clearly doing this internally for ad targeting. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A spark of action from the European Commission on social media recommender algorithms at long last ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

@spacecowboy17.bsky.social My For you feed has the last week been overtaken by Norwegian posts. I only follow a few Norwegian accounts, so not sure why this is happening. It happened a few times before, but normally only for a day. Now it seems to be stuck.

So why can't this happen on Twitter or Threads? It's not a technology problem. It's a structure problem—the system isn't built for you to create, it's built for you to consume. Now that there's a viable alternative, the decline of traditional social is inevitable. Centralized networks always lose.

Portlanders: Here are two ways to have a say in our city government's tech & data use: -Write now or give verbal comments on Thurs Jan 29 on establishment of a City Data & Privacy Office -By Feb 14, comment on the police Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) policy in review. Links in my comment

The latest evidence that broadcasting people’s movements and intimate data in the Real-Time Bidding online advertising system is truly dangerous. www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

The EU should urgently reconsider its law enforcement cooperation with DHS, FBI, DOJ. No more data sharing, no more access to EU data bases, no more extraditions until respect for the law and fundamental rights has been restored.

Adtech is almost everything you do online. They’re using Adtech to track and investigate. Every little thing you do — shopping, browsing, checking health information, connecting on social, ChatGPT — is on Adtech.

“Newly filed internal documents show how [..] Google’s growing presence in schools — through Chromebooks as well as its learning platforms and YouTube — helped the company build a “Pipeline of future users.”” www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Dette er altså selskapet som lager systemet ICE bruker til å arrestere toåringer. Tolletaten, PST (antar jeg), Forsvaret: Har dere virkelig tenkt over hva dere gjør? Var det ikke dette vi mente da vi sa «aldri igjen»?

But why would you want to speak to a human when you get "personalized" help from a bot?? 🥴

“If you take a lot of selfies with ice cream, then it could curate recommendations for ice cream parlors.”

"Companies are offering law enforcement agencies the ability to track smartphone users through advertising data ... Le Monde attended confidential presentations of these new surveillance tools to learn more" ...feat Penlink, RCS, Wave Guard, Rayzone, Cognyte: www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/ar...

Håper og forventer at utenrikskomiteen benytter møtet med Palantir til å stille dem til veggs mtp rollen deres for ICE og for partnerskapet med israelske forsvarsdepartementet. De må ikke åpne døra for enda mer legitimering av dette selskapet fra øverste hold. Det er nok av det, foråsiresånn.

This is truly terrifying

21 January 1899 | A German Jewish woman, Olga Fürst, was born in Saarburg. During the war she lived in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 25 June 1943 in a transport of 1,018 Jews deported from Drancy. She was most probably murdered in the gas chamber.

Venezuela is yesterday's news! The mad king always manages to set the agenda for the news coverage. The graph shows read articles about Venezuela on 150 Norwegian newspapers. We are back to pre-intrusion levels.

Signer oppropet: www.opprop.net/palantir_ut_...

"Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has"

Starting a series on Open Social! Hoping to spotlight some of my favorite atproto projects :) And your favorites too, so tag them in the comments! There were a ton of logos in this video, so I've tagged everyone in the comments #tiktoksale #opensocial #atproto

This highlights how commercial data brokers have used law enforcement as a way to be shielded from necessary regulation. @bedoyausa.bsky.social was working on these issues more than a decade ago. Congress has failed to do its job.

CPPA requires Rickenbacher a Texas-based reseller of personal information for targeted advertising, to pay a $45,000 fine for failing to register as a data broker. The decision also orders the company to stop selling all Californians’ personal information. cppa.ca.gov/pdf/datamast...

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland are calling on An Garda Siochana to investigate X under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1988, after its Grok AI chatbot generated non-consensual and sexualised deepfake images of children and women. Read more ➡️ www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

While everyone is distracted by Circus Trump, European countries let his far-right sponsor and mentor of JD Vance in via the backdoor. No European government should work with Palantir. None.

The "head of office at US Big Tech lobby CCIA Europe, told Euractiv that he would warn EU lawmakers against efforts to decouple too sharply from US technology, as this would risk provoking countermeasures"

Nothing says you have quality products your customers love like threatening to kill their friends and family if they switch providers.

The Antwerpen Court of Appeal has handed down the first fine in Belgium for misusing AI in court proceedings. The fines and compensation orders imposed on plaintiffs for misusing AI amount to approximately EUR 25,000 www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Article in @financialtimes.com with this nonsense. I have no doubt this seems true from a management perspective, but it is still entirely possible to do things without US hyperscalers. You do need the guts to do it though: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Ruffling a few feathers for the New Year… the takes out there on #EuroStack are typically terrible, so here goes some weekend read…

"First, they identified the top keywords and celebrity names that Japanese Ad Library users employed to find the fraud ads. Then they ran identical searches repeatedly, deleting ads that appeared fraudulent from the library and Meta’s platforms." 😈