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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 MandelaEffect
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Shouldn't the lobby group be rather called "Allied for small companies we can buy to continue dominate the market"?

ilumium, to latvia
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Again: Journalists and civil society in #Latvia, #Lithuania, and #Poland targeted with #Pegasus #spyware, research by @citizenlab and #AccessNow confirms. 😠

https://www.accessnow.org/publication/civil-society-in-exile-pegasus/
#surveillance #privacy #humanrights #freepress

ilumium, to telegram
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likely soon to be designated as under the , according to Bloomberg. EU Commission in direct talks with company about how to count number of monthly active users.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-28/eu-explores-whether-telegram-falls-under-strict-new-content-law

ilumium, to ai
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Hey researchers:

The European AI Fund has just published a new global fellowship programme on AI & 💸💸💸

https://europeanaifund.org/newspublications/call-for-proposals-global-fellowship-programme-on-ai-market-power/

ilumium, to Bikepacking
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"In patriarchal societies where #masculinity is coded as #power and control, men often try to get closer to women through power and control. The range of how this plays out is vast. It could be inconsequential, or it could end a woman’s life. This (...) may also be a reason why so many women in the “Man or Bear” debate chose the bear."

I recommend every man to read this piece by long-distance #cyclist Laura Killingbeck.

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

#patriarchy #ManOrBear #bikepacking #outdoors

ilumium, to France
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🇫🇷 welcomes the , but wants to add "a framework that encourages " and helps "bolster a European innovation ecosystem."

Oh shut up please.

ilumium, to random
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designates .com as a and opens a market investigation into #X under the . 👏

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

ilumium, to AWS
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Commissioner : We must enable European to merge and concentrate! ! Digital !

Telcos: We're gonna do in .

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 🎆

"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, can’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..." 🤔

kravietz, to poland
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Former #Poland judge Tomasz Szmydt asked for an asylum in #Belarus claiming he was discriminated for his political position and disagreement towards “unfriendly relations with Belarus”. Szmydt is a former husband of Emilia Szmydt, main suspect in the “hater scandal” where a group of PiS-nominated judges, lawyers and activists performed coordinated bullying against judiciary officials who didn’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 #disinformation 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? #mastoadmin

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 affichés dans le navigateur #Chrome analysés par des chercheurs de l'université de Zurich, en observant plus particulièrement les fenêtres de consentement pour les #cookies : 90 % de ces sites contiennent au moins une violation de la #ViePrivée (absence du bouton pour refuser, refus non pris en compte, dépôt de cookies avant l'interaction de l'utilisateur, consentement implicite) et 65 % ignorent les choix de l'utilisateur.
#RGPD
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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. 🤯

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

ilumium, to random
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Recommended reading:

The #colonial #biometric legacy at heart of new EU #asylum system

By @chlobemy and Laurence Meyer.

https://euobserver.com/opinion/158292

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