The first official event of 🇪🇺 @europarl.europa.eu's Interest Group against #spyware took place yesterday.
➡️The group aims to become a stable point of reference between Parliament & civil society, with regular meetings & ongoing monitoring and political scrutiny of EU institutions and Member States.
Open letter by 400+ IT security and privacy researchers on the many problems linked to age gating social media
csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...
Mehr als 400 Forscher*innen aus 29 Ländern schlagen Alarm: Staaten sollen Social-Media-Verbote stoppen. Die Einführung von #Alterskontrollen ohne weitere Forschung sei „gefährlich und gesellschaftlich nicht hinnehmbar“.
netzpolitik.org/2026/forsche...
Sigh. 'We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization ... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.'
MIT Technology Review is thrilled to announce that this story, which offers a first-of-its-kind look at AI's energy use and climate impact, is a National Magazine Awards finalist in the Reporting category.
⚠️ Four businesspeople linked to sanctioned #spyware maker Intellexa – Tal Dilian, Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou, Felix Bitzios & Yiannis Lavranos – were found guilty of violating the confidentiality of telephone communications in 🇬🇷Greece's wiretapping scandal.
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296353...
Möchte Ihnen einfach alles Gute wünschen. Vielen Dank für Ihre unermüdliche Arbeit. 👏
Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
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My decade long struggle to achieve AI aligned to my human values: autocorrect still won't let me type duck. Duck. Ah for duck's sake
Daher fordert die CDU Deutschlands: die Einführung einer Klarnamenpflicht auf sozialen Plattformen zur effektiveren Ahndung von Straftaten und zum Schutz vor ausländischer Einflussnahme.
Ein Antrag auf dem CDU-Parteitag fordert "die Einführung einer Klarnamenpflicht auf sozialen Plattformen". www.cdu.de/app/uploads/...
‼️OHCHR working on a report on the protection of human rights defenders in the digital age. Please send your inputs! www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
Zitatkachel mit dem GFF-Juristen Joschka Selinger: „Auch die großen Digitalkonzerne stehen nicht über dem Gesetz. Der DSA ist ein scharfes Schwert für digitale Rechte und Plattformregulierung.“
Durchbruch für digitale Rechte – und für den Kampf gegen #Desinformation und #Wahlbeeinflussung online: Das Kammergericht Berlin entschied heute, dass die Plattform #X unserer Partnerorganisation @democracyreporting.bsky.social Zugang zu #Forschungsdaten geben muss. 💪
A Haaretz investigation has found that at least three Israeli cyber companies are currently operating in #CARINT; one has developed an "offensive" tool that can potentially tap into your 🚗car's microphones and cameras.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"Lights all askew in the heavens. Men of science more or less agog over results of eclipse observations. Einstein theory triumphs. Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry."
another favourite scientific headline, following confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity by observations of the 1919 solar eclipse. "Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry" is a beautiful sentiment. i would have that on a t-shirt
While we await hearing whether a mooted GRANITE Act federal blocking statute materialises, everything you need to know about extraterritoriality and the transatlantic free speech wars. #OnlineSafetyAct www.cyberleagle.com/2026/02/extr...
Noch 11 Tage und dann läuft die Vernehmlassung zur Plattformregulierung KomPG ab.
KomPG= Schweizer Äquivalent zum "Digital Services Act der EU= Grundgesetz des Internets.
Halt wie immer in milder Variante.
Hier die Unterschiede&Gemeinsamkeiten.
Vernehmlassungslink: www.uvek.admin.ch/de/newnsb/6T...
The secret life of data, WiFi edition
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Lancement au Parlement européen du groupe d'intérêt contre les logiciels espions
Parmi nos objectifs avec mes collègues de plusieurs groupes politiques: obtenir enfin l’application des recommandations de la Commission d'enquête #PEGA, notamment leur stricte régulation
#Pegasus #Paragon
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?
Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.
disinfoinstitute.org
Data brokers’ millions of dollars in lobbying spending in 2020 rivaled that of some Big Tech firms
AI in education is not just about toys for teacher workload reduction or student engagement, but a serious techno-financial-political enterprise. And African nations are going to be its new sites for testing in the wild and live evidence making.
Always been pretty sceptical of "AI inevitability" claims in education but jeez the cash being pumped into it by the Gates Foundation and Abu Dhabi sovereign fund to make AI happen in education in sub-Saharan Africa ... investment is how you make AI "inevitable" www.wamda.com/2025/12/adq-...
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣
A new report by the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University and the ACLU uses computational tools to analyze legislative trends on AI across 1,804 state and federal bills, while offering recommendations for how to integrate the technology into policy analysis.
“Once the country adjusted the playing field that had long favored oil and gas, renewables outperformed on every front: halving costs, creating 50,000 jobs, and protecting the economy from price shocks.”
🤡"By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
"Easterlings" The people from the east. Bad guys.🤷🏿♂️
"Southrons" The people from the South. Also bad guys. Known for their war elephants. Subtle.🤷🏿♂️
"Orcs" Bad guys. Described by Tolkien as, well, just read it.
Zwei Forschende haben verschiedene Wege genutzt, um an die Daten großer Plattformen zu kommen. In einem Vortrag auf dem #39C3 berichten sie von Hindernissen, aber auch davon, wie wertvoll das Recht auf Datenzugang ist.
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