No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.

Cowards! “The Dutch government [is legally obliged] to ensure the security, safety and protection of people indispensable to the court, but the coalition government has done little in practice to defend the ICC.” www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

The Belgian data protection authority will now initiate criminal proceedings for certain serious breaches of the GDPR www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2135...

What's verification on the open social web for? With @gui.do and @emily.space we put together a draft statement and roadmap for democratic account verification. For everyone, without IDs. The draft is here, please contribute and comment. Open until 31 May tangled.org/sherif.euros...

Proud of this one: At @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we created an interactive timeline of linkages between the Trump administration, the US tech sector, and the transatlantic far-right. You can view it here: www.techpolicy.press/charting-the...

Ouh this is gonna be fun to watch from a GPC vs consent banners perspective ☺️ If CNIL starts to look a bit closer as not only Criteo in their own backyard?

New Google feature called "Contextual suggestions" provides suggestions for actions based on ongoing surveillance of what you do on apps, services, location, & other patterns. Google is the biggest adtech company so it can auction which actions to suggest to you-> www.theverge.com/tech/930318/...

If confirmed, this would be very good news: Germany turning away from #Palantir. After Switzerland did the same. Now all other European countries should follow, Palantir is a threat to our security and our democracy. www.dw.com/en/german-in... @deutschewelle.dw.com

" The European Commission has decided not to extend the Digital Markets Act's interoperability rules to social media, closing off a potential pathway for adoption for open social networks" why oh why connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

A good paper by Sebastian Zimmeck, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Cristiana Teixeira Santos, Konrad Kollnig and Robin Berjon evaluating the potential of GPC standard within the EU legal framework www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

Google and Apple's control over the smartphone world is about to increase from 99% to 100%

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

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Finn Myrstad, fagdirektør i Forbrukerrådet, om Schibsted som vil kreve betalt for personvern i kveldens #dax18 @finnmyrstad.bsky.social Se hele innslaget her (fra 26m11s): tv.nrk.no/se?v=NNFA560...

A German newspaper reports that @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has personally intervened to postpone the fine against Google for violating the Digital Markets Act. We call on the EU Commission president to enforce the DMA and fine Google without further delay. 🚨 static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449...

Takk til Forbrukerrådet som tar kampen mot dette på #dax18! Schibsted er Norges big tech, og må reguleres. Argumentet om at de «må» tjene penger på våre personopplysninger holder ikke.

– Men Norges Bank har utarbeidet forventningsdokumenter til selskapene. Hva er poenget med disse dokumentene hvis de ikke slår ut i stemmegivningen? www.nrk.no/urix/xl/hold...

“Under pressure to deliver in the fight against serious cross-border crime, Europol built and operated a shadow data analysis platform containing large volumes of sensitive information, which operated without key legal and technical safeguards.” www.computerweekly.com/news/3666425...

I f#$%ing hate the entitlement of tech companies when it comes to taking your company data and just use it without an explicit opt-in. Will this ever stop?

Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.

@atls.city !set NO-03-Oslo

Peter Caddle, the author of the piece, is linked to Free Speech Ireland, The European Conservative, and US/Hungarian think tanks. It's a stated policy goal of the Trump administration to undermine the EU's Digital Services and Market Acts' oversight of US big tech companies under the guise of...

I forbindelse debatten om aldersgrenser, deler jeg rapporten vår om hvorfor aldersverifisering er en dårlig idé, og at det finnes en rekke andre grep man heller bør ta for å beskytte barn og unge på nett. www.forbrukerradet.no/rapporter/ko...

Google is taking the position it should be able to see rivals’ business plans and strategy docs to challenge their ability to use any of the remedies the court ordered in the search competition case. DuckDuckGo believes this will create a chilling effect: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One surprisingly quiet project—if successful—would impact the entire ad-supported Internet. When a few large companies control the measurement of how effective advertising is, they're in a position to influence how all ad spending is allocated—which will mean more money for slop and disinformation.

Med Schibsteds nye greie om at man må betale dem for at de ikke skal selge persondataene dine føler jeg at vanlige folk må få kjempe tilbake på en eller annen måte. Hva kan man gjøre? Kan man forby salg av persondata?

I’ve Submitted a Formal Complaint to the ICO About Email Address Sharing by Online Platforms without Consent www.linkedin.com/pulse/ive-su...

God tråd som belyser viktige utfordringer av et forbud for barn under 16 år.

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Aftenposten meldte i dag, ikke med "du må tillate annonser hvis du ikke abonnerer", slik som f.eks The Guardian. De krever begge deler. At de OGSÅ får selge abonnenten (meg) som et produkt, med mindre jeg betaler dem 40kr ekstra i måneden. Kudos for å si det rett ut. Det er et enkelt valg

Perfect summary. 1) Googlers routinely assume that the research and services they provide in exchange for the rent they extract are God's Gift To Creation, even though they're very unimpressive for the actual cost. They also think the manage data well, which their own privacy team contradicts…

NEW @citizenlab.ca report uncovers two separate China-based cyber espionage campaigns targeting journalists, human rights defenders, exiled ethnic and religious groups and many others. citizenlab.ca/research/how...

useful summary of the geofence warrant case in the US today. expect this to extend semantically — which type of people were talking about this type of thing today to their chatbots... as soon as law enforcement discovers vector embeddings! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

Google using bot scraping free-for-all to further solidify infrastructural power, moving away from CAPTCHA puzzles (don't anyway work across languages, deafblind, AI solvers, etc) to a CAPTCHA QR code to scan w/ a mobile. Google's reCAPTCHA is already surveillance-heavy www.heise.de/en/news/Inst...

Epost fra Bergens Tidende nå. Schibsted *kan* respektere privatlivet mitt. Men det koster 39 kroner ekstra i måneden. Unnskyld meg, men hva i heiteste helvete er dette idiotiet her? Var det ikke dette Facebook prøvde på, men måtte stoppe fordi det var ulovlig? Denne tidslinja er så forbanna dum

Congratulations to heat pumps: a technology that has now hit the milestone of "PR guy with gas industry links is doing astroturfing campaigns against you" stage all clean technologies have to go through 🥂 🎉 www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

Palantir, dette gjennomkorrupte og galskapledede selskapet til Peter Thiel (ja, han gærningen og kompisen til Vance, som gjerne vil ha Grønland som sin lekestat), skal Norge altså eie aksjer for 52 milliarder i. Dvs alle nordmenn har hver 10000kr i aksjer i dette selskapet. Grøss!

Ny avtale med Palantir for å forlenge bruken av programvaren ble inngått våren 2025 og varer til 2030, med opsjon på ytterligere fem år, opplyser Tolletaten overfor Filter Nyheter: filternyheter.no/overvakingsg...

👇 This is why we need commercially viable advertising on open social media. And we need to start experimenting now. But we can't just plug today's dominant adtech infrastructure into projects we value and hope for the best, @bsky.app. www.linkedin.com/pulse/silenc...

The Norwegian government introduces 16 years age limit for social media: www.nrk.no/norge/regjer...

Jeg skrev om denne forlengelsen da den skjedde i fjor. Den inkluderte et krav om å flytte Tolletatens data over i Palantirs foretrukne skyløsning www.morgenbladet.no/aktuelt/toll...

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 need to tackle the real root cause of so much of the harm we see online: The advertising- and attention-based business model that gives almost every company an incentive to spy, to track, and to keep everyone, and especially kids, hooked on their products" proton.me/blog/keep-ag...

A proposed standard now under discussion at W3C aims to redefine how ad effectiveness is measured…this proposal would centralize measurement under the control of major platform players, including Google, Apple and Meta #attributionCartel www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...

According to information from Handelsblatt, the EU had planned to impose its first fine on Google under the #DMA. But now it is backing down—at a critical juncture. This would be a disaster for citizens, as enforcement of our rules is key to protect democracy. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte...

The Shadow Contract is a 4-part deep dive into how a US spy-tech firm landed a £330m deal for our NHS data. It’s a story about power, privacy, and you. 🔍 Listen now 👇 https://goodlaw.social/1e69ba

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

The entire (really interesting) @luminategroup.bsky.social panel, hosted by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, also featuring @margaridasilva.bsky.social (from SOMO) and @nataliaviana.bsky.social (from @apublica.org), on “Uncovering Big Tech’s sphere of influence” here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VapE...