Today I’m attending the 4D Conference in Barcelona—feels nice to join a digital rights event without taking a flight for a change.

This morning starts strong with @rashaar.bsky.social presenting on the state of affairs of EU regulation and the road ahead to hold Big Tech accountable.

Combat-Tested on the Palestine’ Population Technology Bargain Rasha Abdul Rahim, Palestinian tech justice activist, interviewed by Simona Levi, founder of Xnet, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation.

Today Simona Levi @xnet-x.net interviews @rashaar.bsky.social about surveillance technology sold by Israel:
🎙️ "Europe talks about ethics while buying technology for control and repression tested in contexts of systemic violence."

Simona Levi @xnet-x.net entrevista a @rashaar.bsky.social en @ctxt.es sobre tecnología de vigilancia que vende Israel probada en combate sobre población palestina.

"Estas herramientas asignan puntuaciones a individuos según su supuesta probabilidad de pertenecer a grupos militantes"

#Conferencia4D

$145 million won’t save Israel’s image. No amount of AI manipulation or influencer shilling or money can erase Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76 years of apartheid. Israel is a state built on stolen land and slaughter. The world isn’t just waking up. It’s wide awake, and sickened.

⏳ Cuenta atrás para nuestra #Conferencia4D:
La cita imprescindible sobre #DigitalizaciónDemocrática

🎙️ Conferencia inaugural a cargo de @rashaar.bsky.social: activista palestina, estratega en tecnología, DDHH y justicia social.

📍 28/10 | BCN
🎟️ Gratis, con inscripción: 4d.cat/es/conferenc...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

This is HUGE. @microsoft.com has terminated the Israeli military’s access to tech it used to surveil millions of Palestinian phone calls in Gaza/West Bank.

@awscloud.bsky.social, Google: it’s high time you did the same.

Well done @theguardian.com & +972 Mag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Al Jazeera reporting the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah in Egypt.

A genocidal campaign by the Israeli regime, enabled by world powers. A grotesque unraveling of humanity, a bloodstain history will never wash clean.

Or do you make small talk to mask the overwhelming and all-encompassing agony you feel, because if you acknowledge or express it you will collapse beneath the weight of your grief? Then you catch yourself and feel so guilty because this is nothing compared the pain and suffering of people in Gaza.

And then you’re expected to get on with your life as normal when there is absolutely nothing normal about this level of barbarism and suffering? What do you say when people ask you how you’re doing? Do you tell them the truth about your suffocating pain, rage and heartache?

Do you know how it feels to witness your people being bombed, shot, starved and abused viciously and relentlessly for the past 21 months? To wake up and fall asleep to images of lifeless, bloodied babies, starving infants and the corpses of men and women strewn on the ground? 🧵

Big Tech poll infographic and survey results

🧵Out today: A large majority of people in France, Germany and Spain back the EU to enforce the law on Big Tech - even if it risks relations with Trump.

New YouGov poll we commissioned @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social. peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.

@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?

peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

Leading legal experts and scholars have today written to FIFA’s Governance Audit and Compliance Committee (GAAC), in relation to the committee’s examination of a complaint relating to the holding of matches in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. fairsq.org/letter-fifa-...

🚨 Today we're sending a loud message to the EU to stand up to the tech oligarchy and #BreakUpBigTech! 📣📣

We've delivered a petition from +115,000 people calling on @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu to break up Google, ahead of its major ruling on Google's toxic online advertising monopoly.

FIFA continues to stall and misrepresent over Israel sanctions FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evide...

FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. fairsq.org/fifa-continu...

Woah, did the UK, Canada and France just threaten sanctions on #Israel? #Gaza

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Our new report now out finds serious shortcomings in the way in which Saudi Arabia investigates and verifies migrant worker deaths.

fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...

FairSquare co director @lynchj.bsky.social in conversation with the BBC Today programme on our prediction of a surge in unexplained deaths in Saudi Arabia.

Pretty incredible news here as a jury awards a massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group in a precedent-setting case.

Amazing to see reverberations of impact from the Pegasus Project years after we published 🥳🎉🎊
www.courthousenews.com/meta-wins-16...

🚨 Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative supports civil society organisations fighting spyware abuse, through regulation, litigation, research and investigation, and other means.

Learn more and apply by 13 June at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding

Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institut...

“The colonization of Palestine is not an anomaly in the liberal global order but its most glaring indictment. It exposes the hypocrisy of an international system that decries colonialism while institutionalizing and legitimizing it.” Must read: mondoweiss.net/2025/04/pale...

A photo of a series of Tesla charging station. A cardboard image of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute, has been placed on each charging station

Tottenham UK

More ad activism.

One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

Join us for a convo about the future of social media – how open protocols & algorithmic pluralism can change things for the better! 🤓💪 Ft. @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com @sherifea.com

Register: smokesignal.events/did:plc:haqw...

Stream: streamyard.com/watch/uhdM7f...

This utterly broke me today. 18,000 children (and counting) killed by #Israel.

The pain is unfathomable. #Gaza

Lawrence on Trump's 'vile, antisemitic' attack on Schumer: Trump's mind is gone. It is shattered. In the Oval Office today, Donald Trump used “Palestinian” as a slur and said the highest-ranking Jewish elected official, Chuck Schumer, is “not Jewish.” Those comments went unchallenged by the report...

Mahmoud Khalil is being held in a prison without being accused of a crime for being “antisemitic” by criticizing Netanyahu and Israel’s actions against Palestinian civilians while Trump strips Chuck Schumer of his Jewish identity using “Palestinian” as a slur.

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www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Civilians in Gaza didn’t do any of that. On the other hand, the IDF did all those abhorrent acts you list. Yet no repercussions at all for Israel.

Hamas is not preventing humanitarian aid from entering, that’s a lie.

Back in your box, Greg 👋🏼