Donald Trump said he’ll “be involved in” deciding if Netflix can buy Warner Bros. Is that an open invite for CEOs to curry favor with Trump in exchange for merger approvals? It should be an independent decision by the Department of Justice based on the law and facts.

"For my part, I recently quit my job as a software engineer at Google. I couldn’t in good conscience continue to contribute to a company that is trying to bring about a future that will be worse for everyone. No amount of blood money was worth being a part of that" medium.com/@kenbayer/we...

3 years ago, when I recommended a massive organised switch away from X/Twitter, the EU Commission’s argument was “but our audience is there.” Since then, that argument has become less valid by the day. #DefendDemocracy #DSA #HandsOffMyEU

If European Digital Sovereignty is to mean anything, it ought to mean NOT posting on a platform owned and run by a fascist intent on undermining the EU! And don't give me the bullshit you have to be there for "balance" or "reach" - the rules are stacked against you from the outset

The true scandal here is that the @ec.europa.eu has an advertising account on X. Why are our taxes used to finance Nazi propaganda? www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...

Europe’s failure to produce globally competitive tech firms should be attributed not to excessive regulation, but rather to weak enforcement, writes @maxvonthun.bsky.social. bit.ly/3Meln1z

🚨 Given the significant changes the #GDPR is facing, we will need to dedicate more and more resources to ensure that your fundamental #rights are preserved and that #enforcement remains feasible. 👇 Want to help? Learn how 👇 #LetsMakePrivacyReality

Europe wake up!! www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Much of this may be silly chest-beating, but Trump is clearly coming for Europe. A strong Europe is an obstacle to his goal of world domination. National politicians opposing a strong EU should realise they are Trump's useful idiots in his plan

"target identifiers or selectors could include a known advertising ID, an email address, a geographical location or an IP address", i.e. "identifiers supported by the ad network or [DSP] used in the Aladdin system" Deploying spyware via digital advertising: securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...

"Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s Ribera says. The European Commission’s No.2 official criticized a “Trumpist” approach to EU #deregulation." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

Behind the rhetoric of “competitiveness,” the Digital Omnibus embeds deregulatory changes that weaken GDPR, narrow ePrivacy, fragment protections, and tilt the ecosystem further toward powerful actors, writes Itxaso Domínguez de Olazábal.

& here is the full episode of the Monopoly Report podcast, in conversation with @achapell.bsky.social, dispelling some of the GDPR Omnibus proposal! I had such a great time talking to Alan, I hope you all enjoy! #GDPR #GDPROmnibus #Privacy #AdTech www.monopolyreportpod.com/episode-57-t...

Please let your colleagues know, @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu!

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

For et år siden i dag fikk jeg publisert et essay i Samtiden om hvordan ta styring over tek-gigantene. Siden det har vi kommet inn i "The Endgame", slik jeg forutså, der lovene blir endret til slik tek-gigantene vil ha dem, slik det når skjer med "omnibus"-pakken til EU.

This is the doomsday scenario of digital exclusion from US based tech which we glimpsed in the sanctioning of Wikileaks back in Assange days, but can now be used capriciously and silently.

It increasingly seems like the deregulatory push in the EU is entirely driven by the dumbest losers in German high society who have access to von der Leyen, who in turn has the Commission locked down. The Digital Omnibus is just as dumb as this.

““The study makes it clear that even small algorithmic interventions measurably shift feelings towards the political ‘other’. That supports the basic statement: sorting a feed is not neutral, since it impacts on emotions and thus on affective polarisation”” www.techcentral.ie/researchers-...

@dwj88.bsky.social and I tried to get at some of this here. www.techpolicy.press/republican-b...

Many journalists are tracking the procurement and deployment of new technologies and tactics, but it's hard to get the entire picture. A generational threat to civil liberties that I suspect future governments will struggle (or refuse) to roll back. Dramatic reform/abolition will be required.

The government handed an NHS data contract to Palantir – a spy-tech firm with links to war crimes and deportations. We’re demanding that the NHS stops using Palantir’s toxic tech. Find out if your local NHS Trust is using the software and say no to Palantir 👇 https://goodlaw.social/658abc

Never come across 'WindowsCentral' as a media outlet but this piece is powerful and dense and absolutely spot on about where we are with AI and business models right now. Putting bigger outlets to shame. www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Brussels is too slow in its handling of probes into American Big Tech companies due to U.S. pressure over the EU’s digital laws.

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

7️⃣ years ago, 7 of our members filed complaints against Google over its tracking of users’ locations. A lot can happen in 7 years: the GDPR was reformed, Europeans born in 2018 are now in primary school, and the people below joined our digital & enforcement teams! Yet, this case is still pending⏱️

🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency. Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...

"Thoma Bravo, the private equity fund that owns RealPage, hired well-connected lobbyists Ballard Partners, where Pam Bondi and a bunch of Trumpers used to work. So we know what happened next…" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-odd-set...

The fight against surveillance must include infrastructure that enables it. We can’t just oppose collection we must also fight storage, analysis, corporate relationships… As someone writing a book on the history of government data storage and its harms, I’ll say that people in the past knew this!

This does sound like a promise, right? Will you also make sure to restore competition in the advertising market, @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu, so that European publishers and innovative companies are allowed to flourish?

Such decisions "reinforce the tech industry’s sense of impunity — its belief that it is an untouchable sovereign above the control of any mere human" and with that Weltanschauung they come to Europe 😱 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

The video of the #EuroskyLive morning sessions is up! You'll find time to jump to specific sessions in the description. Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social vimeo.com/1140026673?s...

This isn't the largest data leak in history, but it's up there. I'm sure that the DPC, Ireland's data protection agency, already has a crisis team urgently looking at ways to do nothing about this.

Wow, how useful this is! We can now use the same AI that drives climate change and contributes to "extreme events"... to model and prepare for disasters! 🤦‍♀️ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame. They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are: 1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted) 2) x out — keeps chatting 3) "This was helpful" — what is this? 🧵

“To the company’s disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #DSA

The better thing to do is leave Chrome. I'm begging people, leave Chrome.

Nope. Consent-or-pay is just an affront to fundamental rights. (The appearance of) easier portability is just a way for them to further legitimize those models. Hopefully CJEU doesn't fall for it. (The largely ineffective DTI was founded by Big Tech, which uses it to deflect anti-trust scrutiny.)

"Critics...noted that previous experimental features—Copilot, for instance—regularly become default capabilities for all users over time. Once that’s done, users who don’t trust the feature are often required to invest time developing unsupported ways to remove the features"

Closing argument in Google Adtech today: TL;DR judge basically had no questions (and no bladder), prolly means no divest.

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When EU digital sovereignty started gained traction it was grounded to a different way of doing business, one bound by EU rules. With this week's #DigitalOmnibus ,the EU is sacrificing digital rules for the sake of an over-hyped AI race. Who wins? Big Tech of course www.somo.nl/the-real-win...

The Netherlands talks a big game about tech sovereignty, but is now about to allow the domestic cloud provider that underpins its national digital identity system and several other critical government services to be sold off to a new American owner. Incomprehensible. nos.nl/artikel/2591...

I recently testified in EU Parliament that “Fines on billionaires and fines on big tech companies and multinational corporations will do almost nothing for behavioural change.” @reuters.com @tomhals.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/zucker...

📰"The announced reform package is here, and the #EU Commission remains on a collision course: instead of simplifying data protection, it is eroding fundamental rights. Instead of helping European companies, it is accommodating #BigTech." (from German) 👉 netzpolitik.org/2025/digital...

Europe's gutting of its privacy rules would be yet another self-defeating capitulation to Trump. Instead, Europe should be ensuring that it can break free of American Big Tech. youtu.be/T4rC8x7WBf0

I was asked today at #EuroskyLive what @transrights.northsky.social needs. My immediate answer was developers as we’re 100% volunteer driven and getting deep into ATproto. It’s not just coding but also working together to design the service for the platform.

🤔 Impossible not to note the Commission’s desired power grab as GDPR regulator: approving pseudonymization & reidentification metrics; DPIA templates & harmonized lists for what requires & not a DPIA; data breach notification template & high risk contexts that require notifications #GDPR #Omnibus

Please stop referring to CCIA as "industry", journos. They do NOT represent European companies!

So that was what the Digital Omnibus was all about?? So that Virkkunen wouldn't have to click reject all the time? “I think we can all agree we have spent too much of our time accepting or rejecting cookies,” Virkkunen said. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...