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Simplification (deregulation) for thee, regulatory capture for farmers.
I like how they're at least explicit that this exists to protect farmers (the most powerful lobby?) and not consumers.
I hope this is challenged before the CJEU.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
AG finds that a requirement for surveillance cameras monitoring areas where fishing boats handle/discard fish is a proportionate restriction of rights to privacy and data protection. Interesting discussion of standard of review, privacy issues in workplace, and safeguards (especially anonymisation).
Oh, also, I forgot, this is also maybe kinda illegal under Article 5(6) DMA? (I don't care to read the whole agreement though to see if they give an out for this.)
Developers and consumers will remain subject to fee-fucking just the same. Still illegal under the DMA but then again so are many other things Google does.
www.theverge.com/policy/88925...
dying wasn't bad enough, permissionless sideloading on Android will die in 6 months. And regulators haven't even flinched.
Meamwhile, EC responded immediately with *interim measures* to ensure Meta AI isn't the only slop game in town on WhatsApp 🙃😭
But at least we have DMA private enforcement.
The other (especially indie and FOSS) developers and communities? Good luck if you're not a tech tycoon. Or don't write software for the money. Amazing how much regulators will care to help you only if profit is your motive (the more the better).
As if OEM unlocking / custom ROMs slowly
Thank you, Daphne!
It's only appropriate given how brazen the tech authoritarians (no longer authoritarian just in business) have become. I guess that's the real reason Google gave him what he wanted: they get to muzzle a loud and influential critic (before regulators). Sweeny gets what he wants.
Amazing. This is why you need the DMA. App developers shouldn't have to make deals written by Rumpelstiltskin to be able to effectively distribute on Big Tech platforms.
www.theverge.com/news/889595/...
Apple's new AI transparency tags rely entirely on labels self-reporting, whilst Deezer detects 60,000 AI tracks daily through technical analysis. The contrast is stark: Apple trusts the supply chain, Deezer catches what they miss - and finds 85% of music streams are AI.
Can't read the FT piece behind the paywall, but this Anthropic-Pentagon story is fascinating. After negotiations broke down last week, Dario Amodei is personally trying to salvage a defence deal. Being frozen out of military contracts could be existential for AI companies competing with OpenAI.
Indeed - this is more than a geopolitical power play, and it won't go away even if Trump loses in 2028.
It's the billionaire's effect vs the Brussels effect: an attempted fundamental power shift away from (democratic) state actors to tech oligarchs.
Google is partnering with Back Market to sell USB sticks that let you install ChromeOS Flex on older Windows and Intel-powered Macs collecting dust. www.wired.com/story/back-m...
Both Anthropic and OpenAI said they were defending Americans from the dangers of AI-powered mass surveillance last week.
Europeans, of course, are not Americans.
Read my article at @euractiv.com:
www.euractiv.com/news/us-ai-g...
I've made an effort in the last couple of years to clean my various timelines of negativity. It’s easy to doom-scroll and be severely affected by it. Yes, that means looking at social media with rose-tinted glasses, but I was finding that my habits were having a seriously negative effect on me.
No, BBC, end-to-end encryption isn’t ’controversial privacy tech’, it’s industry standard protection
“The core technical value of this exploit kit lies in its comprehensive collection of iOS exploits, with the most advanced ones using non-public exploitation techniques and mitigation bypasses.”
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
AKA mindless corporate consolidation (pushed by those very same lobbies) that rarely ever deliver the promised gains?
threats threats threats - it's all #murica the bully has got
. @signal.org is hiring for a major gifts fundraiser role and this may well be one of the most important jobs in the world. Pass it on to the right person.
(Don’t ask me, I’m just passing this along)
jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...
TikTok incapable of delivering both user privacy *and* user safety, retains capability to surveil user communications
https://alecmuffett.com/article/148043
#EndToEndEncryption #censorship #china #surveillance #tiktok
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
mass user uninstalls have a way of concentrating the mind
Google adds new Android features, including custom calling cards, real-time location sharing in Google Messages, and luggage tracking with partner airlines (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Germany is the home to one of the largest US airbases in the world. This statement must be raising chills on the chancellor’s back. He is sitting next to Trump.
scanning one’s iris is framed as the fulfilment of a citizen’s duty to prepare for AGI threats. This moral instrumentalisation obscures the profit-seeking nature of this product by making participation appear as contribution to collective security rather than individual surrender of privacy rights
This passage from a paper on Worldcoin and AGI absolutely nails the UK’s current obsession with age-gating all services on the open internet. (Paper is link.springer.com/article/10.1...)
AI is a “game changer” for what the FBI calls remote access operations, an FBI official said in response to a 404 Media question on Tuesday.
Cunningham's Law is the gift that keeps on giving
Hm, how so? I don't get the connection of paying by mail and personalized pricing.
A little said this is not OnePlus. I imagine it will be aimed more at business users and will be accordingly expensive. Also, does Motorola really have the same hardware security chops that Google does?
motorolanews.com/motorola-thr...
"Google also notes that Coruna checks if an iOS devices has Apple's most stringent security setting, known as Lockdown Mode, enabled, and doesn’t attempt to hack it if so."
www.wired.com/story/coruna...