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I didn't expect torrents to go from a pirate's best friend to resisting fascism so abruptly....but here we are. #fascism #datapreservation #dataprotection
EU-kansalaisten henkilötietojen siirto Yhdysvaltoihin muuttui laittomaksi - Trump lakkautti tietojen turvallisuutta valvovan viraston
EU ja Yhdysvallat saivat vuonna 2023 vihdoin luotua uuden mallin sille, miten EU-kansalaisten henkilötietoja voidaan siirtää Yhdysvaltoihin siten, että EU-kansalaisilla säilyvät GDPR:n takaamat, erittäin tiukat oikeudet yksityisyyteen.
Yksi elementti sopimuksessa oli erillinen valvontaelin, joka valvoisi sopimuksen noudattamista.
Trumpin hallinto sulki kyseisen viraston.
https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/02/24/eu-usa-tietojen-siirto-laitonta-taas-trump
"What happens when we put love and intimacy at the center of our understanding of privacy, and what are the consequences of their disavowal, in favor of a more familiar technocratic definition of privacy-as-absense? What role does our deep desire for love and belonging, and our concomitant fear of shame and rejection, have to do with the (mis)direction of tech capital and the current, warped shape of the tech industry and its products?"
Enjoy the clarity of 40 minutes with @Mer__edith: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-are-facts-love-privacy-and-the-politics-of-intellectual-shame
The UK Data Bill returns to Parliament next week
It'll strip back your ability to challenge life-changing decisions made by AI.
Join over 1,000 people who've signed our petition to protect the right to human review of automated decisions. #PeopleNotMachines
Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.
By Ashley Belanger
thanks @internetarchive for your invaluable work in preserving historical data!
This week's net.wars, "The Gulf of Google" sees a new way to splinter the Internet; watches panic over a new Chinese reasoning model; thinks Silicon Valley has its cause and effect backwards; and asks, "Did Trump just screw data flows between the EU and US - again?": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/31/the-gulf-of-google/ #NetWars #AI #Privacy #DataProtection
Data profiling by UK Political Parties can put your privacy at risk. But data protection hands power back to voters 
ORG has developed tools for you to access the data that the Parites hold about you and to opt-out of data processing by them.
Find out more
#dataprotection #GDPR #data #democracy #ukpolitics #politicalparties #labour #conservatives #libdems #privacy
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/data-and-democracy-project/
ORG is calling for clear rules to govern how our data is used by UK Political Parties, backed up with enforcement by the ICO and Electoral Commission.
All parties must be transparent about the companies they work with, their financial arrangements and the processes used to protect voters' privacy.
Our findings come at a time when the UK Data Bill gives the Secretary of State powers to change the rules around how data can be used without parliamentary scrutiny.
These powers could be abused by the Party in office to skew the rules of the game in their favour ahead of a General Election.
Our report finds that:
Labour’s apps were integrated with infrastructure owned by Experian.
Conservatives’ app has security vulnerabilities and access to sensitive data, such as location tracking.
Lib Dem’s app has a history of security vulnerabilities.
All appear reliant on international commercial entities.
The legal and ethical use of data is critical for electoral integrity.
Yet UK Political Parties are making short cuts in safety and privacy to get the upper hand.
Our report finds that a lack of transparency over how data is used raises questions about whether voters' data is being used unlawfully.
NEW REPORT: UK Political Parties' canvassing apps threaten voter privacy with security vulnerabilities and commercially owned infrastructure.
Data is driving elections, deciding how to focus efforts and target messaging. We lose in a data arms race.
Read more
#dataprotection #GDPR #data #democracy #ukpolitics #politicalparties #labour #conservatives #libdems #privacy
Today is the Data Privacy (Protection) Day! So let us remind you that in #LabPlot, an open-source data analysis and visualization software, Your Data is Yours!
@labplot@lemmy.kde.social @opensource @libre_software @privacy
Boosts appreciated! 
@aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto
#surveillance #surveillance #capitalism
#dataprotection
What was predicted. AI action models. The next step is to link discounts to advertising consumption. And you can be sure that the adverts will also be viewed very attentively. Eyes and faces are tracked by AI. Inattention is not counted. Poor people only get discounts if they have watched the adverts attentively. Rich people can simply buy anything just like so.
“I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror asking how the fuck do I turn off this Microsoft Copilot shit that has become part of my computer without asking me first”, said Obi-Wan.
We are seeking proposals for the security and reverse-engineering track of #fluConf2025. While we expect considerable overlap between these topics and those of our privacy and surveillance track, we want to highlight the many ways in which security research differs from privacy.
Consider submitting proposals for blog articles, presentations, or other formats on any of the following themes:
* approaches for incorporating security requirements into the software development lifecycle
* advocacy against stalkerware, resources for personal safety training
* honeypots, intrusion detection, and monitoring
* dependency management and static analysis
* research into cryptographic primitives, sidechannel attacks, and data exfiltration
* penetration testing and offensive security
* responsible disclosure, security policies, and related legal issues
* ransomware gangs, APTs, and other threat actors in the wild
Apply up until midnight of January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)
The Data Bill will strip back your ability to challenge life-changing decisions made by AI.
Will you join over 900 people who've signed our petition to protect the right to human review of automated decisions?
Tell the UK government we want #PeopleNotMachines.
The end of 2024 saw another attempt to change data protection law in the #DataBill (UK).
We brought together 53 experts and civil society groups in an open letter to the UK government. We called on them to scrap proposals that'll strip back the right to human review of solely automated decisions that can have life-changing consequences.
So that was 2024 and this is ORG’s annual review 
It was a year when it became increasingly clear why we need digital rights and ORG was there to bang the drum.
From Data Bills to Prevent. From e-Visas to data profiling for ads and AI. From predictive policing to an election…
Here’s the round-up
#digitalrightsarehumanrights #digitalrights #dataprotection #privacy #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #humanrights
