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ilumium

@ilumium@eupolicy.social

Policy guy https://eupolicy.social/@edri, working on platform regulation, content moderation, data protection and surveillance ads.

Digital security trainer, cyclist, lover of the outdoors. Formerly writing for Golem.de.

#DSA #DMA #TrackingFreeAds #Surveillance #Decentralisation #Policy #Privacy #DataProtection #Cycling

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ilumium, to random
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designates .com as a and opens a market investigation into #X under the . ๐Ÿ‘

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_2561

ilumium, to AWS
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Commissioner #Breton: We must enable European #telcos to merge and concentrate! #Competitiveness! Digital #sovereignty!

Telcos: We're gonna do #5G in #AWS.

https://www.telefonica.de/news/press-releases-telefonica-germany/2024/05/first-5g-core-network-in-the-cloud-for-an-existing-operator-o2-telefonica-sets-new-impulses-in-the-core-network-together-with-nokia-and-aws.html

ilumium, to trustandsafety
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The @EU_Commission continues its enforcement firework ๐ŸŽ†

"Commission request information from #X on decreasing content resources under the "

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_24_2522

ilumium, to bluesky
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I'm still trying to figure out whether 's departure is a good thing or a bad thing for .

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board

aral, to mastodon
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Ooh, canโ€™t wait to read the gushing praise from Mastodon GmbH for this on the Mastodon blog.

(Mastodon gGmbH and Meta are besties, you see. https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/)

Is it up yet?

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/112391192672337102

ilumium,
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@aral "The idea of decentralization was still novel..." ๐Ÿค”

kravietz, to poland
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Former judge Tomasz Szmydt asked for an asylum in claiming he was discriminated for his political position and disagreement towards โ€œunfriendly relations with Belarusโ€. Szmydt is a former husband of Emilia Szmydt, main suspect in the โ€œhater scandalโ€ where a group of PiS-nominated judges, lawyers and activists performed coordinated bullying against judiciary officials who didnโ€™t want to comply with PiS party line.

https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/Afera-hejterska-w-Ministerstwie-Sprawiedliwosci-Kolejna-prokuratura-bada-sprawe-8740631.html (in Polish)

ilumium,
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@kravietz Real question: why is called a "defector"? What did he defect from?

ilumium,
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@joosteto

OK in the context of a soldier in war, where you swear such a thing as allegiance, I understand it.

But as a civil servant isn't that just an overblown way of saying he quit his job and left the country (neither of which is illegal in Poland I presume)?

cc @kravietz

ilumium, to random
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Another harsh example of how online can kill:

"Disinformation on cholera led to Mozambique ferry disaster, officials say"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/08/mozambique-ferry-disaster-sinking-death-toll-nampula-province

koen, to random
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@ilumium is there a reason you have not upgraded https://eupolicy.social to version 4.2.8, or did you just not get to it yet?

ilumium,
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@koen Thanks for checking in about it. We first had it on our to do list and then found the release cycle was so fast at the time that we focused on the security relevant updates. If the bug fixes in 4.2.8 are important to you, we're happy to push it up in priority.

ilumium, to mastodon
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Seriously @EU_Commission @EC_DIGIT @EC_Commissioner_Breton @EC_OSPO ?

None of you can run a small server for the EU institutions?

Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-and-peertube-eu-closing-up-shop-in-fediverse-because-nobody-wants-to-run-servers/

ilumium,
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@benjaoming Good question, the official @EU_Commission account is pretty active and has been responsive in the past. @EC_Commissioner_Breton has pretty much moved back to #X, the service he loves to publicly criticise so much but also seems to be very addicted to.

ilumium, to random
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How it started .... How it's going

Politico article about how researchers found that Russian influence operations use tracking ads on Facebook to meddle with EU elections at large scale.

ilumium,
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Here is the source from @aiforensics_org's excellent report about how lets pro- ads flood the EU:

https://aiforensics.org/work/meta-political-ads

ilumium, to random
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The best video explainer of I've seen so far: https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=wVYG1mu8Lg8

ilumium, to aitools
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for paying apps directly in start menu: continues to enshittify its operating system.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/04/12/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-3495-beta-channel/

jmaris, to opensource
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This week, the Parliament signed off on the budget of the institutions, and it was a great week for : the sign-offs praise institutions for using Open Source software, encourage the adoption of , and push for the generalisation of the use of Open Source in EU institutions.

ilumium,
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@jmaris Oh this sounds great, thanks for sharing. Do you have a source/background to read more about it?

alainmi11, to chrome French
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Plus de 97 000 sites web affichรฉs dans le navigateur analysรฉs par des chercheurs de l'universitรฉ de Zurich, en observant plus particuliรจrement les fenรชtres de consentement pour les : 90 % de ces sites contiennent au moins une violation de la (absence du bouton pour refuser, refus non pris en compte, dรฉpรดt de cookies avant l'interaction de l'utilisateur, consentement implicite) et 65 % ignorent les choix de l'utilisateur.

https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/112235832500838592
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ilumium,
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@alainmi11 @NilsRenaud Aaaaactually, @noyb has "developed a mass scanning system to automatically detect unlawful cookie banners and create complaints which are sent to the companies, giving them a grace period to adjust their cookie banner before the complaint is submitted to the responsible authority."

I guess it's more a matter of those authorities actually doing something.

https://noyb.eu/en/project/cookie-banners

ilumium, to Skydiving
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Holy shit, I thought I knew how evil the industry was but here we are:

Two-thirds of European websites just ignore your choice and track you anyways, researchers from found. ๐Ÿคฏ

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23winter-prepub-107-bouhoula.pdf

ilumium, to random
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Recommended reading:

The legacy at heart of new EU system

By @chlobemy and Laurence Meyer.

https://euobserver.com/opinion/158292

ilumium, to security
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"The biggest source of conflict was an amendment ... that would prohibit #databrokers from selling consumer data to #lawenforcement and would require a warrant to access Americansโ€™ information... National #security hawks in #Congress and local law enforcement groups joined forces to kill the amendment, with the National Sheriffsโ€™ Association claiming it would โ€œkneecap law enforcementโ€ in a letter to Congress..."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/5/24122079/data-brokers-fisa-extension-nsa-section-702-surveillance-lexis-nexis

ilumium, to Bulgaria
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"The perfect solution in the would probably be a -style organisation with the remit to route funds in the range of low-millions a year to larger projects like @matrix which have become widespread critical ."


https://matrix.org/blog/2024/04/open-source-publicly-funded-service/

ilumium, to Health
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I've written about just how disappointing the European Data Space Law has turned out to be:

https://edri.org/our-work/new-eu-health-data-law-endangers-medical-secrecy/

ilumium, to greece
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Thanks to excellent ground work done by @edri member #HomoDigitalis in #Greece, the Hellenic #DataProtection Authority fined the Ministry of #Migration and #Asylum with the largest penalty ever imposed on a Greek public body. ๐ŸŽ‰

The #DPA found the ministry's use of the #Centaurus and #Hyperion systems to infringe #GDPR.

Official press release: https://homodigitalis.gr/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PressRelease_%CE%97omoDigitalis_Fine-175.000-euro_Hellenic_Data_Protection_Authority_Artificial_Intelligence_Biometrics_KENTAUROS_HYPERION-%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AE-1.pdf

ilumium, to Youtube
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๐Ÿคฏ approved dozens of election disinformation ads ahead of the general election.

"We submitted 48 ads [...containing] content prohibited by YouTubeโ€™s policies, including false information around the election" like "changes to the voting age, instructions to vote by text message, and incitement to prevent certain groups from voting."

Another great research done by @globalwitness and .


https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/votes-will-not-be-counted-indian-election-disinformation-ads-and-youtube/

ilumium, to Energy
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Real question: Has anyone seen research that compares the of decentralised versus centralised online services like social media?

What requires more energy: 3 billion users farmed on large servers or the same number of people interacting on thousands of independently run instances?

CC @alexandrageese

ilumium,
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@nemobis Yes, I would be really interested about the all-included numbers. I think as a community we should make sure that whatever replaced platforms isn't worse in terms of impact.

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