Pat Walshe. Interested in how the processing of data about people, impacts their fundamental rights & freedoms
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Russian missiles bombard Kyiv after @SEPeaceMissions Witkoff-Putin talks in which Witkoff praised Putin as a ‘humanitarian’ < shame on Witkoff & Trump
ft.com/content/9f0c58d3-1833…
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SpaceX Investor @GerberKawasaki tells me he’s not only “disgusted…from a humanity perspective” by restrictions on Starlink in Ukraine, but also: “…they've given everybody a reason not to use Starlink, that Starlink isn't reliable for national security for anybody but Trump.”
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woah, it gets worse. In the Meta securities lawsuit for Cambridge Analytica cover-up, plaintiffs just posted deposition list. If they have the courage to 'go to the mat' (as Zuckerberg says) like New Mexico AG has done for over $25B, this could be very, very bad for Team Zuck. 1/3
I wouldn’t buy a #Swasticar
Breaking News: Tesla’s profits slumped as the company poured resources into self-driving cars, humanoid robots and other new technologies. The report comes a day after Elon Musk said he is considering merging Tesla with another of his companies, SpaceX. nyti.ms/47tF90j
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Breaking News: Meta must pay $25 billion, one of the largest penalties levied against the tech giant, for deceiving users about data privacy. nyti.ms/4yvv5yZ
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🧵Five examples of Reddit threads censored by the #OnlineSafetyAct
These examples of age-gating are as troubling as they are absurd...
Every single individual who accesses a person’s medical records without authority should be sacked, if not prosecuted to the extent possible in law.
Data-breach NHS worker told woman she had cancer bbc.in/3U7wg9E
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Around the world, states are using tech to monitor populations, suppress dissent & exert control often without transparency, meaningful oversight or routes to redress.
Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents this trend.
privacyinternational.org/rep…
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We’re in the UK Court of Appeal today with @A__W______O , intervening in a case between Clearview AI - provider of facial recognition technology based on scraped data - and the UK’s Data Protection Authority, the ICO 🧵
There should be legal and regulatory action against @elonmusk @Starlink Musk must be held accountable for the harms arising from his actions if this report is true
Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
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Ukraine is being asked to abandon its sovereignty and territorial integrity so that two great powers can more easily help each other overcome the consequences of aggressive wars they should never have started.
And yet we’re still debating the “irresponsibility” of smaller powers
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PRESS RELEASE!!!
OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE DATA PROTECTION COMMISSION ON THE 1,964 GHANAIAN EVACUEES FROM SOUTH AFRICA
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These are not transfers from the US, but from other countries. The US is now actively sabotaging Ukrainian defense of civilians.
Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
Dear @marcorubio we don't believe you
Hang your heads in shame
#SlavaUkraïni
"That's outrageous. That's just simply not true."
US secretary of state Marco Rubio has told reporters that claims that people were dying in Ukraine because the United States was denying Kyiv intelligence were "scandalous".
Latest updates: trib.al/hNvhq2D
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Hi @elonmusk , we’ve conducted the most comprehensive study to date on tax unfairness in the United States.
We found that you, like your fellow billionaires, pay a lower effective tax rate than the average American.
So if you really want to help the American people, I have a better suggestion than charity: pay more taxes. 🧵
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Age-gating a #socialmediaban teaches children to perform for the camera on-demand in the name of being "safe" online and requires #DigitalID. Do you know what #online age restrictions will ask of children?
⚠️ New report defenddigitalme.org/who-is-a…
Blogpost defenddigitalme.org/2026/10/…
ALT A new report from Defend Digital Me on age verification and age assurance after the Australian social media minimum age restrictions (October 20, 2026) https://defenddigitalme.org/who-is-age-gating-our-life-online-full-report
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3 days after Meta was ordered to stop manipulating algorithms to favor Flavio Bolsonaro in the presidential election, two orgs have submitted evidence to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court that the corporation is still violating national election laws. panamericandispatch.org/p/me…
