🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros.
Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla
Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit.
It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.
Have you heard of the Meta Pixel? It's a little widget that can be embedded in any website to send data about your browsing back to Meta
Unless you have a specific browser plug-in, you'll never know it's there, but it helps Meta to know A LOT about you
“the ‘strangers’ line was wrong – it wasn’t what he believes, it’s just not the sort of thing he would say.”
An odd position to hold about a thing you *literally* said.
And then sent people out for days to defend you saying.
The Dissociative PM.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
If you feel like the 'token' woman, Black person, person with a disability… remember - it’s not a reflection of who you are, but of your environment.
Being the only woman in a workplace of 100 men doesn’t diminish your worth. You’ve earned your place, and you belong there.
This relevant petition has 100,000+ signatures & will be debated in Parliament at the beginning of June. I urge those in the UK to write to their MPs ahead of this debate, to ask that they attend & to voice your support: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#AbortionRights #UKAbortionRights
Over 10,000 people have emailed Meta asking them to stop using their personal data 👀
Will you join them?
action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...
With a politically-controlled central medical record they could ask the Government who would be obliged to hand the data over bsky.app/profile/pete...
Thought this was about the US.
Nope.
Amazing news that the Home Office has apparently worked out how to bring hundreds of thousands of native UK workers into the care industry
I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.
My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues.
Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
gif of man removing latex mask of Keir Starmer, Mission: Impossible style, to reveal Nigel Farage.
how do I make this?
The same Tony Blair has been paid to advise oil rich autocratic states including Azerbaijan, UAE and Kazakhstan
This should be included in *every* story about his net zero comments
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The Tory Leader tried to portray herself as a champion of women, but I paid tribute to all who have worked to protect single-sex spaces and the dignity of trans people.
The judgement clarifies that single sex spaces can refuse trans women, I asked if they were obliged to do so.
An open letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission from the Culture Sector, in solidarity with Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex communities. Sign your name here: tinyurl.com/ehrcletter Please share widely, and if you are not able to sign for your organisation, please share with someone who can
The EU have fined Meta €200 million for forcing users to take personalised ads OR pay a subscription fee, an unfair choice.
We're campaigning for a 3rd way. And you can take 2 mins to tell Meta to stop sending you targeted ads 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...
Today, we fined Apple €500 million & Meta €200 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act.
Apple restricts developers from steering consumers to offers outside the App store.
Meta doesn't let users choose a service that uses less personal data.
These are the first DMA fines.
europa.eu/!9RDQmk
Thoughtful post colonial analysis of recent judicial decisions on trans rights, contrasting the UK Supreme Court reasoning with the Court of Justice of the EU. Love the explanation of data protection as the principle that “a person should be empowered to be the primary author of their own life”.
New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
This is very good and worth reading in full
📢 You have the right to object to targeted ads on Instagram and Facebook.
@sweeleng.bsky.social , Tech Policy Consultant, tells you how in less than 40 seconds using this simple tool 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...
An email from Facebook to me saying "Thank you for contacting us. Our specialist team is investigating your request, which has presented some complex issues that we're carefully considering. Due to the complexity of the investigation, this process may take up to another two months, as permitted under the GDPR. We take your request seriously, and we appreciate your understanding and patience. Thanks, Privacy Operations"
Submitted a request to use my right to object to Meta using personal data about me for direct marketing following Tanya O'Carrol's recent court victory and apparently it presents some "complex issues" that may take up to another 2 months
Worried about our reliance on the #cloud? Yeah me too, but not because of #privacy or #surveillance:
My report for the critical infra lab about the deeper harms of cloudification of internet governance is out!
www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u...
I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a
I've been reflecting some more overnight on the For Some Women Scotland case. 🧵
TODAY @6PM BST ⏰
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Our expert panel discuss what's next for digital rights, now that Meta has confirmed @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social's right to opt-out of stalker ads.
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