Notices by Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)

The @EUCommission wastes our tax payer money to team up with #Microsoft the #gatekeeper and notorious #antitrust villain and sue the EU data protection agency @EDPS because the Commission wants to continue to use the #M365 software #security shitshow.

How low can this institution sink?

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112722381771336529

#privacy #gdpr #dataprotection #edps

@aral "The idea of decentralization was still novel..." 🤔

#Europol: We need to spy on everybody's personal data to feed our anti-#crime #AI !

Also #Europol: Sorry we lost highly sensitive files about top law enforcement executives and have no idea where they are.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europol-internal-agency-eu-police-agency-engulfed-in-clean-up-over-missing-files/

#Apple's malicious #DMA #compliance has just gotten even more malicious:

When an #EU user installs a third-party app store with #iOS 17.4 and travel outside the EU "for a longer period of time", that app store will stop working.

So they will stop getting updates. From the oh-we're-so-secure phone company. Seriously #WTF Apple.

#DigitalMarketsAct #gatekeeper #bigtech
Source: https://www.golem.de/news/ios-17-4-huerden-fuer-alternativ-app-stores-bei-reisen-ausserhalb-der-eu-2403-182904.html

@ramonita While German politicians (including @GrueneBundestag) solemnly repeat "Never Again Is Now" to each other in blind support of a murderous and illegal war, German police violently drags Jews off the street for exercising their right to free speech. It's sickening.

#NeverAgainIsNow

@aral Excellent, love it! I hope you have a group of friends to make music with often! 🤩

@aral oh now I really want to see a recording of that performance at 17 :)

🇩🇪 German gov: We cannot use #Linux because it is veeery expensive to train people to use it while everybody knows how to use #Windows.

Also German gov: Let's pay 24 million EUR for training to #Microsoft, on top of the 1.2 billion EUR for their software licenses. 🤷♂️

@rriemann @ankedb @Bundesregierung @fsfe @OSBA

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?

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

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

A court in #Berlin just sentenced a #climate #activist to 8 months in prison, no probation, because she twice glued herself to the road in order to block car traffic. Yes, that's her crime.

Otherwise everything is fine in #Germany.

https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2023/09/haftstrafe-letzte-generation-klimaaktivisten-gerichtsurteil-berlin.html

#fuckcars #climatestrike

I don't know what shocks me more:

the fact that "Europe's first ever intelligent video #surveillance system" is installed in a German region governed by the Green party @GrueneBundestag which is supposed to defend civil liberties.

Or the staggering certainty with which the engineer #MarkusMüller at #FraunhoferSociety thinks his surveillance wet dream of unlimited realtime knowledge about public spaces is somehow good.

Article about #algorithmic #video surveillance: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/mannheim-system-reports-hugs-police/

Looks like we don't need laws after all for platforms to opportunistically suppress political user content: In 🇫🇷 #France, a #Snapchat #lobbyist admitted in a parliamentary hearing that the company was "proud" to have collaborated "hand in hand with the interior ministry" to make sure only user content critical of the mass protests was shown on #SnapMaps.

Source: https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/snapchat-admet-avoir-bidonne-la-snap-map-pendant-les-emeutes-n211617.html
#centralisation #contentmoderation #DigitalServicesAct #DSA

If you want to be asked for your permission before corporations get access to your private #medical records in the #EU, there is a big petition for you to sign that demands exactly that:

https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/medical-records

#WeMove #EHDS #healthData #medicalrecords #health #privacy #dataprotection

Who the heck would voluntarily use an email service that puts #surveillance #ads inside email text?

#Gmail #Google #trackingfreeads

Don't miss this year's #BigBrotherAwards #Germany, again live interpreted into English.

📆 Friday, 28 April
📍 https://bigbrotherawards.de

Brought to you with ❤️ by @digitalcourage

Repeat after me: The personal data industry is dangerous. #TrackingAds are dangerous. Mass #surveillance, whether commercial or state-run, is dangerous.

"Colorado Catholic group bought app data that tracked gay priests"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

#privacy #dataprotection #TrackingFreeAds #tracking

You have nothing to hide until the government suddenly declares your behaviour illegal. #abortion #usa #meta #facebook #google #e2ee #encryption

#GDPR: Health data is incredibly sensitive and can NEVER be processed without consent!!1!

#EHDS / European Health Data Space: Let's legally compel all doctors to upload patient data to a central government-run database so it can be shared with the #pharma industry.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52022PC0197

#privacy #dataprotection #wtf