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1. Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 12:48:29 JST Jan Penfrat

   • European Commission

   The #CSAM clusterfuck just became even more shitty:

   Dutch researcher Danny Mekić has looked at #advertising data from #Twitter & says that the @EU_Commission's #DGHome has used #SurveillanceAds based on prohibited data categories to target people with #disinformation about the #ChatControl proposal.

   #YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.

   https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • IzzyOnDroid ✅ (izzyondroid@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 12:48:28 JST IzzyOnDroid ✅

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     • European Commission

     @ilumium How fitting: the @EU_Commission uses SurveilanceAds to promote its planned surveillance tool. This makes it even clearer what the real purpose of ChatControl is – and that the official arguments are nothing but "wrapping it to make it look nice". Despicable.

     Ylva should have her chats controlled – and then step down. I don't see how else the commission can be salvaged; this shows the commission as it is now cannot be trusted.

   • Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 17:04:23 JST Jan Penfrat

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     • EDRi

     Looks like @edri has hit a nerve: Commissioner #YlvaJohasson has responded on #Twitter claiming that #microtargeting people in carefully selected member states based on prohibited categories of personal data was "standard normal practice". 🤷♂️

     #DSA #DigitalServicesAct #GDPR

   • Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Oct-2023 17:04:24 JST Jan Penfrat

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     I mean seriously, the Commissioner is supposed to listen to the people, not manipulate them to support her policies.

     Plus, to me this sounds very much like a breach of Article 26(3) DSA by #Twitter.

     Question is: Will the Commission investigate and penalise a breach of #DSA by a #VLOP when it is exposing its own political scandal?

     Aral Balkan repeated this.