Campaigners are waiting to see what will unfold in the Post Office scandal in 2026, but history has told them not to hold their breath.... 👉 [read]

indeed, anyone with an ounce of intelligence or political nous would do this. #starmer the coward, on the other hand...

The US might soon get access to Europeans’ biometric data – like fingerprints and facial scans – which it wants to keep allowing visa-free travel to the country. EU governments have already given their OK to start talks. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...

Marked by systematic attempts to compromise data integrity and privacy across the federal government, the Trump administration is leveraging personal data to advance political enmity toward the transgender and gender diverse community, argue Katelyn Ringrose, CJ Larkin, Os Keyes, and Jay T. Conrad.

"How'd you know all that?" "I'm sorry sir, I can't tell you, Data Protection Act" 😂😂😂 It really do be like that www.instagram.com/reel/DTHa4HC...

How a crew of crypto-focused hackers moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Wow, Stackoverflow is cooked.

A broad interpretation of India's new data privacy regime reveals a troubling reality: it would dramatically enlarge the volume, granularity and sensitivity of retained metadata, heightening risks of pervasive monitoring, Rudraksh Lakra writes.

Every video I come across on YouTube these days is so obviously scripted. More and more creators are just fully reading ChatGPT generated scripts to the camera 24/7 and it's total garbage I hate it!

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu’s push to extend EU roaming faces resistance Telecom operators warn that expanding the bloc’s surcharge-free mobile phone roaming area should not be decoupled from accession - @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...

"The interim measure consists in requiring Meta to immediately suspend the application of the new contractual terms adopted on 15 October 2025 under the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms, insofar as such conduct produces effects within the territory of Italy" en.agcm.it/dotcmsdoc/pr...

EncroChat/Operation Venetic Now that I have finished my last EncroChat expert witness instruction I thought I'd provide a narrative about the decisions and dilemmas that characterised the UK's NCA Operation Venetic. shorturl.at/br8iR

AI-powered web browsers as "operating systems of your mind". But do we need to have our minds operated? The 2010s debate on privacy should better return, and fast. Web browsers+AI opens a lot of technical and policy problems. www.ft.com/content/5d56...

Oof (from Benedict Evans newsletter, one of the few I recommend subscribing to: www.ben-evans.com/newsletter)

Switching between mobile phones used to be easy. Then came eSIM. www.wired.com/story/i-swit...

"Verwendet ein Sachverständiger bei der Erstellung seines Gutachtens in erheblichem Umfang KI, ohne dies dem Gericht gegenüber zu deklarieren, so kann allein deswegen seine Vergütung auf EUR 0,00 festgesetzt werden" www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/documen...

"The EU is intensifying its challenge to Google, Meta, Apple and Elon Musk’s X in 2026, in regulatory moves that are expected to lead to renewed clashes with US big tech groups and President Donald Trump."

TLDR: Writing letter(s) to each Irish government minister outlining the reasons why X/Twitter is now an inappropriate medium for government communications is probably one of the most effective things you can do. (It's certainly more effective than moaning about it on Bluesky)

While the EU continues "monitoring [whatever] situation"? Not a word about it?

China’s PIPL requires organizations to notify individuals and get consent before processing personal data, unless exceptions apply. Notification and consent are separate steps: notification must occur first, but consent may be excepted under certain legal grounds. www.linkedin.com/posts/luisal...

To think in the EU there are rules, regs and red tape getting in the way of this "innovation "

The “Venezuela majority” points to the way that a 2024 Venezuela resolution became a template for a new ad hoc right-leaning coalition: Metsola’s EPP alongside the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Patriots for Europe (PfE), cracking the old “cordon sanitaire” around the far right.

As I was saying before the break... berjon.com/fascintern-m...

One of my blog posts was cited in: "A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS" (2026) doi.org/10.48550/arx... That's a nice start to the year!

objectively very funny to roll this new slogan out and then within 24 hours have this happen

The shared root of both bubbles was the failure to impose any consequences for previous rule breaking. Copy a song, or a book, or a film? Huge fine for an individual. Copy ALL the songs, books, videos, articles ever put online? Now you’re the future of the economy.

The Nazi site is also a child pornography site and news organizations are completely whiffing on this entire topic

I don't appreciate this Mark Cuban quote in a signals processing class I'm taking He said this at the Upfront Summit in 2017, so I guess we've been living among tons of dinosaurs since 2020, even before the AI hype cycle started... Wish we didn't do this "billionaire said a thing!" regurgitation

Out with the old, in with the... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sorry for the long wait. I was quite busy the last 2 months securing a new 'base' for Flashes with @eurosky.social - account hosting and data processing outside of the US as sovereign social media infrastructure in Europe. There will be news coming out of that one in Jan 2026. The Android alpha...

Unsurprisingly, then, one of the keys to an AI developer’s success is its ability to find information and sources that its competitors do not have.

Another set of edits/updates to: "Regulating Manipulative Design is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment" Comments welcome! ssrn.com/abstract=558...

Vertical separation of informational power at work! Mandatory data sharing between different levels of public authority should only happen with the blessing of a necessary and proportionate federal legislative act. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It. Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud.

The Russian Federation Council has passed a bill which will impose harsh penalties on hosting companies that do not cooperate with the FSB and other agencies. Companies must identify their customers and filter traffic or face large fines or disconnection from the Internet.

China has drafted strict rules to stop AI chatbots from manipulating vulnerable users regarding self-harm. If suicide is mentioned, a human must intervene immediately. Minors and elderly users must list a guardian to notify if self-harm comes up. I hope this becomes the global standard.

Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Love that people are working on geo-based apps built on atproto. Plenty of cool possibilities here, and a reminder of why all sorts of new apps should be building on atproto to have instant identity and social layers.

The digital & AI revolutions mean everyone needs to invest in understanding governance and politics. Neutrality is not an available option when data exposes so much about you, and is to a first approximation impossible to entirely obscure. #Democracy #vigilance #aiethics www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

⚠️The 🇺🇸U.S. Department of the Treasury has lifted sanctions against three of the five executives with ties to the #Intellexa Consortium - Sara Hamou, Andrea Gambazzi, and Merom Harpaz - that were originally imposed in September 2024. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

Really good video here about these upper class neighborhoods that fill themselves with cameras. The thing it is most likely to produce is scared paranoid people who want to buy more cameras. youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4...

Sources: China is requiring chipmakers to use at least 50% domestically made equipment for adding new capacity, in a rule that is not publicly documented (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

One driver for hostility to AI is the lack of say people have as it pervades their lives, work, education, healthcare, entertainment etc. A feeling we never asked for this, but it's happening anyway. An effective political response would relocate power over AI's deployment to those it affects.

I've always wanted to know more about Russia's probiv market (what happens when you combine a database state with corruption from top to bottom). Luckily, there's now a book! Fascinating stuff but democracies would do well to shore up our own defenses. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The New #surveillance State Is You https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-surveillance-state/ #privacy #politics

The far right seems to suffer from body dysmorphic disorder at roughly similar rates as the rest of the influencer demographic and their audiences. Tech giants turning the Internet into a giant dopamine casino has made so many things worse.

This year marked the first time the AI avatar of a victim—in this case, a dead man—has ever addressed a court, and it raises many questions about the use of this type of technology in future court proceedings. www.404media.co/i-loved-that...

Scratches head in #DataGeek. Oh boy this stupid and pointless change is going to fuck so much stuff up as the postmark has traditionally and legally been recognised as evidence of the date the sender took an action of posting a thing. Because in the gubbins of the sorting process delays might arise.

Probably not a great sign when the world’s sixth largest economy is talking like broke boys Barcelona about levers and such