Jan Penfrat

#JohnOliver just did a piece about #Meta's content moderation fuckery and explicitly mentions as alternatives @Mastodon, @pixelfed and @signalapp 🎉

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Corporations are not going to protect #democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/meta-ending-dei-program

#meta #dei #diversity #mcdonalds #walmart #lowes

My bank yesterday: "Rejoice customer! We give you real-time #SEPA transactions for free. We're the best bank!"

Me reading the news today: "EU makes real-time transfers mandatory: this will change from January 9."

#capitalism

"Financing digital services almost exclusively through personalised #advertising poses considerable risks to #democracy, social cohesion, informational self-determination, #climate and national #security. [...] the new @EUCommission should take #digitalfairness seriously & push for a ban on personalised ads."

Great new report by @germanwatch @fiff_de @wikimediaDE @Konzeptwerk and @CCC

https://www.germanwatch.org/sites/default/files/germanwatch_rethinking_online_advertising_2024.pdf

#DigitalFairnessAct #DFA #TrackingFreeAds #GDPR #DSA #privacy #ConsumerRights

Probably the worst article about the #fediverse and #Threads I have ever read comes from @euronews:

It claims that Europeans could not fully access the fediverse because #Meta rolled out Threads federation more slowly there.

Borderline misinformation.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/06/27/what-is-the-fediverse-and-why-cant-we-fully-access-it-in-europe

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Does anyone know if the US ruling in the #GoogleVEpic case that temporarily breaks open #GooglePlay will be applied globally?

And: will @fdroidorg now be available in the #PlayStore? 🤔

Background: https://www.theverge.com/policy/2024/10/7/24243316/epic-google-permanent-injunction-ruling-third-party-stores

#competition #antitrust #dma #digitalmarketsact

Good reminder that regulation works.

https://infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/113160022791518888

#linkedin #ai #gdpr #dsa #dma #eu

Official press release regarding the arrest of #PavelDurov, CEO of #Telegram.

And also the day I learned that any cryptographic service that isn't solely used for authentication & integrity checks must be registered with the Prime Minister's office. Else prison or up to €30,000 in fines. 😳

#encryption #e2ee #cryptography
https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-26%20-%20CP%20TELEGRAM%20.pdf

Why the heck does the official #Mattermost client need to connect to half a dozen third-party domains from #Automattic, #Google and #Cloudfront / #Amazon in order to function with my self-hosted chat instance? 😠

#privacy #selfhosting #tracking #surveillancecapitalism

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I have seen a lot of anger about and criticism of @mozilla's new #adtech attribution system introduced in #Firefox 128. I totally understand why people are worried about this but I'd be curious if anyone has provided *technical* reasons for why the proposed attribution system isn't in fact #privacy-preserving or other reasons why it's bad (beyond "Firefox shouldn't do #ads" or "opt-out is not enough").