@clock@net.miaumuh.ch
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May 05, 2026
Karel 'Clock' K.
@clock@net.miaumuh.ch
🏳️🌈 I want free access to technologies even for disadvantaged, marginalized and oppressed folks. Author of DIY wireless optical data link Ronja, coauthor of Links web browser, author of Khmer↔EN machine translator SPT Translator, Optar optical archiver, Distillcooker, a distiller-thermostatic cooker producing drinking water using recycled heat during cooking (not released yet), Retune anti-aging cream, Pling bathroom cleaner,...
net.miaumuh.ch
"browsing the internet feel like living in a dystopian hellscape, and annoying cookie banners and consent forms are right at the top of that list." -- "uBlock Origin icon and go to Settings > Filter lists > Annoyances. Enable EasyList Cookie to hide cookie banners"
https://lifehacker.com/you-can-block-those-annoying-cookie-banners-on-every-we-1848936142
#bureaucracy #dystopia #nightmare #ublock #ublockorigin #eu #gdpr #eubureaucracy #consent #block #filter #www #browsing #internet #hellscape #cookies #cookiebanners
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@calmeilles@mstdn.social
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May 05, 2026
Matthew Malthouse
@calmeilles@mstdn.social
tl;dr — Brit. Europhile. Gay. 63, no idea how that happened. Londoner for work rather than inclination. Professionally that would be IT hardware and data centres, but currently unemployed. Will consider all reasonable offers and most unreasonable ones. Interested in books, SF&F history, physics. Transit/transport. Architecture, especially housing. Dealing with climate change. Politically lefish and small-l liberal. Oddly traditionalist in many things.
mstdn.social
Having been part of a project attempting to measure the carbon footprint of serving web pages I can affirm that using the internet is not a trivial cost for the planet.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
#AI #privacy #ePrivacy #Compliance #GDPR #Google #Chrome #Gemini #ESG #Environment #Sustainability #Climate #law
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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May 05, 2026
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
English Internet, telecoms, and tech lawyer, running a law firm (https://decoded.legal) on Free software. Linux / FOSS, legal stuff, Airsoft, and puns. Terrible puns. He/him. Cishet, lucky husband. 💚 means I am empathising / supportive. #NoBot / #NoSearch / #NoIndex / #NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoTheresNoLimit
mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Who wants some new, exciting data protection fun*?
Because the UK has some new requirements around handling data protection complaints, coming into force soon!
Here’s a new blogpost:
- not really ** see above
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@noybeu@mastodon.social
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May 02, 2026
noyb.eu
@noybeu@mastodon.social
⚖️ noyb ("none of your business") is a non-profit association committed to the legal enforcement of European data protection laws. 🇪🇺 🏛️ So far, noyb has filed more than 900 cases against numerous intentional infringements - including companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook/Meta and Amazon. 🧑⚖️ As of 2025, noyb's litigation is responsible for more than €2 billion in administrative fines. #MyPrivacyIsNoneOfYourBusiness
mastodon.social
⚖️ Looking for an exciting path into litigation, #IT #law and digital rights? We’ve got you covered! We are seeking bright new people to support our work for #privacy and #GDPR enforcement from November 2026 onwards. 📆
❗ You are interested and hold a law degree from an EEA university? 🇪🇺 Apply now! https://noyb.eu/en/traineeship
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@nicfab@fosstodon.org
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May 01, 2026
Nicola Fabiano
@nicfab@fosstodon.org
Lawyer | Adjunct Professor | Data Protection, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Advisor | AI Independent Researcher | Ethics | Certified: DPO and Privacy Assessor - Security Manager (ICT) - FIAAIS - FHCA - FH EU GDPR | Former President of the Data Protection Authority of San Marino | IEEE | INNS | ForHumanity | XSF | @nicfab.eu #fedi22 #privacy #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #AI #artificialintelligence #cybersecurity #innovation #IoT #blockchain #xmpp
fosstodon.org
Daily Digest | 1 May 2026
Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.
5 stories you should not miss.
Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/
#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw
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@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
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Apr 20, 2026
Mike Sheward
@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
Author of Digital Forensic/Pen Test/Blue Team Diaries, Hands-on Incident Response and Digital Forensics & Security Operations in Practice! (he/him) #infosec #DFIR #BlueTeam #Pentesting
infosec.exchange
Happy Monday, got this gem from a UK org. The subject line was "GDPR request".
I think it sums up this particular shitshow perfectly tbh.
"we have processed your GDPR request and are now sending your deleted information to someone you do not know as confirmation we have deleted you"
#gdpr #privacy
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@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
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Apr 22, 2026
Mike Sheward
@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
Author of Digital Forensic/Pen Test/Blue Team Diaries, Hands-on Incident Response and Digital Forensics & Security Operations in Practice! (he/him) #infosec #DFIR #BlueTeam #Pentesting
infosec.exchange
Ok, if you are particularly sensitive to the effects of irony, I suggest you take a seat before reading further.
In what is perhaps the most perfect encapsulation of everything that this experiment has shown so far, last night, deleted-user.com received over 400 emails from the same organization.
This was an EU based tech firm.
The purpose of those emails? They were from the company's legal team, advising users of updated terms and conditions, and the first update was:
"Data protection: we added language explaining how we handle personal data under the GDPR"
#infosec #gdpr
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@evawolfangel@chaos.social I wish they'd get serious #GDPR fines and be forced to reimburse everyone's costs and damages to change these and the harm caused by said #DataBreach.
Cuz #LackOfAccountability & #LackOfConsequences embolden companies to not take #ITsec & #InfoSec serious…
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social And to add insult to injury: One cannot get new #OnPremise #licensing for these products!
I hope @eucomission@ec.europa.eu do ban this shite or ban #Atlassian across the #EU for violating #GDPR.Cuz only #accountability and #consequences can help!
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@nicfab@fosstodon.org
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Apr 16, 2026
Nicola Fabiano
@nicfab@fosstodon.org
Lawyer | Adjunct Professor | Data Protection, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Advisor | AI Independent Researcher | Ethics | Certified: DPO and Privacy Assessor - Security Manager (ICT) - FIAAIS - FHCA - FH EU GDPR | Former President of the Data Protection Authority of San Marino | IEEE | INNS | ForHumanity | XSF | @nicfab.eu #fedi22 #privacy #GDPR #dataprotection #privacy #AI #artificialintelligence #cybersecurity #innovation #IoT #blockchain #xmpp
fosstodon.org
Daily Digest | 16 April 2026
Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.
5 stories you should not miss.
Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/
#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw
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@locaverdi@mstdn.business
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Apr 14, 2026
LOCAVERDI B.V.
@locaverdi@mstdn.business
We provide MSP services for Linux servers. We can help you with a more resilient IT environment for your business.
mstdn.business
GDPR, NIS2, and the EU AI Act overlap — but most organisations still manage them in silos.
The IAPP's 2024 Digital Governance Report calls this the "analog" maturity level. It creates blind spots, duplication, and slow incident response.
Our new article: why 2026 is the inflection point, and three practical steps toward integrated governance.
https://readmodel.com/blog/article.php?slug=digital-governance-beyond-gdpr
#DigitalGovernance #GDPR #NIS2 #readmodel #locaverdi
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@locaverdi@mstdn.business
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Apr 09, 2026
LOCAVERDI B.V.
@locaverdi@mstdn.business
We provide MSP services for Linux servers. We can help you with a more resilient IT environment for your business.
mstdn.business
EU AI Act deadline: August 2, 2026. Four months away.
If your team uses ChatGPT, Copilot, or AI features inside your existing tools, you're a "deployer" under the Act. That comes with real documentation obligations.
Our new guide for SMBs: inventory AI services, classify risk, document human oversight, integrate with your ROPA. Practical, proportionate, built on the GDPR foundation you already have.
https://readmodel.com/blog/article.php?slug=ai-governance-guide
#EUAIAct #GDPR
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 05, 2026
JdeBP
@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
In case people wanted a 2nd chance to object to a compulsory user account age recording + reporting law (the only people who objected in #California that I have found being only interested in 'gratis' free software on the Google and Apple Stores), #Colorado has a bill going through its state legislature right now.
It is much the same text, which seems on course to be model legislation, as #California's, and so will also apply to 'operating system's on 'general purpose computing device's that have 'software application's (package managers) with 'publicly available internet website's that 'facilitate the download of applications from third-party developers' .
The sponsors of the bill are (state) senators Matt Ball & Larry Liston, and representatives Amy Paschal & Naquetta Ricks. It has already passed the committee stage and third senate reading.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116174134208480252
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051
@nileane@nileane.fr @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems
#USLaw #CaliforniaLaw #ColoradoLaw #FreeSoftware #GDPR #Unix
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site.
As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store.
Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California:
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/
Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work.
#rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 05, 2026
JdeBP
@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site.
As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store.
Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California:
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/
Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work.
#rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix
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@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social
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Feb 23, 2026
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social
Law Prof at iHub, interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society & Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud university, NL Mastodon handle: @Frederik_Borgesius University web page: https://www.ru.nl/en/people/zuiderveen-borgesius-f
akademienl.social
The Netherlands. Today's TV show Radar (20:25, NPO 2) will air an investigation on data collection by big tech on Dutch pharmacy websites.
They interviewed me, so perhaps I’m on TV tonight.
Articles in De Groene and Investico (all in Dutch):
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/lonend-klikgedrag
https://www.platform-investico.nl/onderzoeken/drogisten-delen-massaal-gevoelige-informatie-met-facebook-en-google
About the TV show: https://radar.avrotros.nl/artikel/online-drogisterijen-en-webshops-delen-gevoelige-gezondheidsdata-met-big-tech-62391
#gdpr #avg #privacy #advertising #tech #law
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@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social
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Feb 23, 2026
Frederik Borgesius
@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social
Law Prof at iHub, interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society & Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud university, NL Mastodon handle: @Frederik_Borgesius University web page: https://www.ru.nl/en/people/zuiderveen-borgesius-f
akademienl.social
'Online drogisterijen en webshops delen gevoelige gezondheidsdata met Big Tech’
Vanavond besteedt het tv-programma Radar (20:25 uur, NPO 2) aandacht aan een onderzoek naar het verzamelen van gegevens door grote technologiebedrijven op Nederlandse apotheek-websites.
Ik ben geïnterviewd, dus misschien ben ik vanavond op TV.
Artikelen in De Groene en Investico:
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/lonend-klikgedrag
https://www.platform-investico.nl/onderzoeken/drogisten-delen-massaal-gevoelige-informatie-met-facebook-en-google
Over Radar: https://radar.avrotros.nl/artikel/online-drogisterijen-en-webshops-delen-gevoelige-gezondheidsdata-met-big-tech-62391
#gdpr #avg #privacy #advertising #tech #law
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@Renatomancer@vmst.io
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Feb 17, 2026
Renatomancer
@Renatomancer@vmst.io
Lawyer in Latveria. Interested in tech, e-business, digital transformation, privacy & #TechLaw. Nature and sci-fi fan. Saturnine carouser, ripsnorter, cromulent person and frabjous lover. Trapped in the Phantom Zone. Digital castaway, making an educated dream, throwing messages in tiny bottles. Magopians be gone.
vmst.io
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
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Jan 29, 2026
JdeBP
@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
@hopeward@sunny.garden
It's not. You won't have seen this in San Francisco. But it is happening in the U.K. (which is suffering this to greater extent than the E.U. is, because of Brexit of course).
People are being prompted to agree to new #Facebook/#Instagram fees as of this week, or take the only other option of consenting to all of their personal data being harvested and used, for 'AI' and otherwise, by #Meta.
https://news.sky.com/story/got-an-instagram-notification-asking-if-you-want-to-pay-3-99-heres-what-you-need-to-know-13500110
@londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk @tiggy@mastodonapp.uk
#privacy #AI #GDPR #cookies
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
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Jan 29, 2026
JdeBP
@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
@londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk
@tiggy@mastodonapp.uk has been talking about this:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@tiggy/115972283051790641
(As have a lot of people in other places. But Tiggy is one of the more prominent ones here.)
#Facebook #cookies #Meta #privacy #AI #GDPR
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