Für die @woz habe ich aufgeschrieben, weshalb die Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs #Vüpf gestoppt werden muss:
Es macht die Schweiz zum Überwachungsstaat, wie man es sonst nur von autoritären Regimes kennt.
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Vüpf: Beat Jans will den Überwachungsstaat
«Die vorgeschlagene Revision ist in weiten Teilen weder verhältnismässig noch gesetzeskonform.» Das schreibt Swico, der Wirtschaftsverband für die digitale Schweiz, zur neu aufgesetzten Verordnung über die Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs …Genossenschaft Infolink
To regain confidence in Romania, private sector needs action and responsibility from all political actors
AmCham Romania has launched a joint appeal signed by 8 organisations representing the Romanian business environment to signal the deterioration of theBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Exclusive: #Musk took leased cars back so #Tesla could use them as "robotaxis." Instead, Tesla sold them
Tesla last November ended an unusual policy that prohibited US leasing customers from buying their cars at lease-end.
The policy started in 2019, when Tesla announced that customers could lease its mass-market Model 3 sedans but would have to return them, at the end of the lease, for use in Tesla's planned "robotaxi" network.
Hi @quinta@mastodon.uno, @informapirata@mastodon.uno and @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz and did you read the great news from @johnnyryan@eupolicy.social?
Belgian Court of Appeal ruled that the TCF is illegal.
Targetted Ads based on personal data is illegal in Europe since yesterday.
Now the question is: how can we rapidly spread the news where most European newspapers rely on these illegal revenues?
Do we need #MonitoraPA again?
eupolicy.social/users/johnnyry…
Big news this evening
7 years in the making
The Court speaks
iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling…EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.Johnny Ryan (Irish Council for Civil Liberties)
Thanks to these three in the meantime:
6. FUNDACJA PANOPTYKON
7. STICHTING BITS OF FREEDOM
8. LIGUE DES DROITS HUMAIN ASBL
Only 100?
The data controller of each website running #GoogleAds' javascripts is infridging #GDPR.
@quinta@mastodon.uno @informapirata@mastodon.uno @johnnyryan@eupolicy.social
Ciao @giacomo negli effetti e nella percezione l'informazione manipolata è un problema più grave della tutela della privacy, così come un'infiammazione invalidante alle articolazioni è più grave di un eritema. Ma è probabile che la causa sia la stessa: corruzione o malattia autoimmune
#MonitoraPA è in grado di sfondare la coltre di silenzio con un "semplice" script, perciò sì: abbiamo sicuramente bisogno che @monitorapa torni operativa al più presto.
Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/denu…
#Denuvo #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck
Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions
Although for some of us this is a well-known problem, it has appeared again with the release of DOOM: The Dark Ages so it's worth a quick PSA to remind people about Denuvo activation limits with Proton on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Ehemaliger Finanzminister: Lindner meldet neue Tätigkeit als Redner und Autor an
In wenigen Tagen tritt Christian Lindner endgültig als FDP-Chef ab, schon jetzt wird bekannt, wie es für ihn weitergeht. Als Redner soll er demnächst in Wien, Sofia und Zürich zu sehen sein. Dabei soll es nicht bleiben.DER SPIEGEL
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Das verdienen Ihre Abgeordneten im Bundestag nebenher
Die Affären um Lobbyjobs und Maskengeschäfte haben zuletzt hohe Wellen geschlagen. Neue Recherchen von abgeordnetenwatch.de und SPIEGEL zeigen jetzt, dass sich fast jede:r dritte Parlamentarier:in etwas neben dem Mandat hinzuverdient.Martin Reyher (abgeordnetenwatch.de)
Karl would be proud of you, really. ;)
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"Privacy watchdog Noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta Wednesday, threatening to pursue a potentially billion-dollar class action to block Meta's AI training, which starts soon in the European Union."
Read more here 👇
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Meta is making users who opted out of AI training opt out again, watchdog says
EU users have less than two weeks to opt out of Meta’s AI training.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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We are university professors and human rights advocates who teach and write about Palestine and Israel. We have collectively taught thousands of classes on human rights law, international law and government repression.
As human rights defenders, our job is to expose government abuses of power where we find them. And that includes Israel.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid
We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the termJames Cavallaro (The Guardian)
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Eurovision Moldova: TRM to broadcast Eurovision Song Contest 2025 despite not taking part
Moldova’s national broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM) will still air the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. All three shows—the first semi-final, the secondBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day & we're reflecting on accessibility at OBP!
As an #OpenAccess press, accessibility matters to us—but as a small not-for-profit with limited resources, we can't do everything we'd like to all at once.
So we're going step by step:
1) Since June 2020, our EPUB editions have been created in line with WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines. Our EPUB editions are made accessible by an Open Source plug-in created by Luca Baffa & maintained by OBP, which can be freely accessed on GitHub & used by anyone:
github.com/OpenBookPublishers/…
2) We create HTML versions that produce a clearly structured text with elements specialised according to their function.
3) We've added metadata that tells a reader using accessibility aids what type of content is included, and whether or not the book is accessible for them.
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GitHub - OpenBookPublishers/access-aide: Access Aide plugin for Calibre
Access Aide plugin for Calibre. Contribute to OpenBookPublishers/access-aide development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.
#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.
Information is power, knowledge is power.
Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.
#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy
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I had the same issue with my post 😉
It's not always possible indeed, but luckily the Fedi often steps up and adds links to make it complete 
Together we're getting there!
Unfortunately, Mother Earth wasn't on the ballot - Salish Current
Commentary: No matter which way the election went, Mother Earth was always going to loseAmy Nelson (Salish Current)
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump's CFPB kills data broker rule; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/05/15/ass…
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #PITTSBURGH TONIGHT (May 15) at White Whale Books:
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and then in #PDX with BUNNIE HUANG at Barnes and Noble on Jun 20:
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More tour dates (#London, #Manchester) here:
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White Whale Bookstore
Conversation, community, and culture. Pittsburgh's family-owned, general interest independent bookstore. Check out our online store, literary events, and writing workshops.whitewhalebookstore.com
I was horrified to realize that ReedPop is RELX's exhibition business. RELX is a data broker for ICE. ReedPop runs PAX, New York Comic Con, and probably other pop culture cons. I got a receipt directly from RELX when i bought my PAX ticket.
All that attendee data is likely shared with ICE, although this is an assumption. That's really unsafe for attendees. These cons need to change their exhibition vendor stat.
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •"You don't have the option of buying," Chief Executive #ElonMusk said at an investor gathering in California in April 2019. "We want them back."
"Next year, for sure," he added, "we'll have over 1 million robotaxis on the road."
None of that would prove true. Despite repeated promises, the #robotaxis never came. #Tesla instead found an unusually lucrative way to make money by flipping many of the off-lease cars to new buyers, according to four people familiar with Tesla's retail operations.
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Rather than storing the used cars – a fast-depreciating asset – #Tesla started adding features to them through software upgrades. It then sold the vehicles to new customers who would pay thousands more than #lease-end buyers would have, the people said.
The practice was an easy way to "jack up the price" of the used vehicles, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified.
#scam #Musk
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Although counter to what #Musk said publicly–& descriptions #Tesla gave…regarding #lease terms–the tactic appears to have been legal. Still, the practice denied lessees the industry-standard option of buying their vehicles & misled them for years about why.
It also perpetuated the myth among investors that Tesla was near fully #AutonomousDriving #technology. That belief helped buoy Tesla #stock, whose value far outpaced current earnings & made it the world's most valuable automaker.
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •After starting the no-purchase policy w/Model 3 leases, #Tesla expanded it to leases for all models. Until the recent reversal, its website said Tesla vehicles delivered after April 15, 2022 "are not eligible for purchase," & that "Model 3 & Model Y leases are not eligible for purchase regardless of delivery date."
Then, last Nov 27, Tesla's North America account posted #Musk's social media platform: "Lease buyout now available" for new contracts. The company also updated its leasing webpage….
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •#Tesla's story about keeping used cars for #robotaxis fits a long pattern of unfulfilled promises to deploy #SelfDriving vehicles–most recently announced for June in Austin, Texas.
Every year since 2016, #Musk has promised self-driving Teslas would arrive no later than the following year. In 2019, when Tesla first offered leasing for the Model 3, Musk told podcast host Lex Fridman that the ability to add #AutonomousDriving software would make every used Tesla an "appreciating asset."
#scam
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Some #investors have referenced the alleged inventory of leased vehicles as a promising strategy. As recently as October – ahead of a Hollywood event where #Tesla displayed a concept "Cybercab" #robotaxi – Ark Investment Management, long bullish on Tesla stock, said the off-lease inventory could help quickly ramp-up an #autonomous ride-hailing service.
#Musk #scam #SelfDriving
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Others have long had doubts. When #Tesla in 2019 announced it was prohibiting lease purchases because of its #robotaxi plans, Evercore ISI analysts reacted in a research note: "uhmmm, what??" The announcement "is an indication that Tesla believes their ride-hailing network is going to be a viable business in three years," the analysts added. "Put us in the extremely skeptical camp."
#Musk #scam #SelfDriving
Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •As a rule, auto dealers avoid holding used inventory because used cars generally depreciate rapidly. Michael Minick, a former #Tesla sales representative & one of the people familiar with the sale of formerly leased cars, told Reuters the company wouldn't allow cars to "just sit on lots & lose value."
"I knew that wasn't true," added Minick, who was among thousands of Tesla employees laid off during a restructuring last year.
#Musk #scam #SelfDriving
Dr. Flowers
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