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algorithmwatch.org
Open call to apply for AlgorithmWatch’s reporting fellowship on AI and power
New Data Access rules are here – but will they work in practice?
Biometric anti-queer hostility in Hungary: Petition calls on EU Commission to fully ban face recognition
Job opening: Senior Policy Manager – Technology & Democracy
Scams and Shadow Workers: A Black Market is Selling European Accounts for AI Training
Algorithmic discrimination: New reporting form to collect cases
“Risks come not just from technology” – Input to the EU on systemic risks and the DSA
Spanish National Police Halts Veripol, Its Flagship AI To Detect False Reports
Algorithmic Policing: When Predicting Means Presuming Guilty
Automating Injustice: “Predictive” policing in Germany
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
Big Brother Watch’s response to facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival
Prospect – Civil liberties campaigner slams digital ID proposal
BBC – Campaigners say fixed facial recognition cameras are “dystopian”
Secretive DWP Welfare Algorithms Put Millions’ Rights at Risk
BBC – Police use of live facial recognition has seen an “alarming escalation”, campaigners say
WRONGLY banned from Home Bargains by facial recognition
ITV News – Manchester woman falsely placed on a facial recognition watchlist calls for ban
WRONGLY blacklisted by facial recognition
Democracy for Sale – UK police forces ordered to stay quiet on Palantir contracts
The Register – Iceland’s facial recognition trial “disproportionate and chilling”
STV News – Police Scotland should not introduce live facial recognition, campaigners warn
The Grocer – Iceland trials intrusive facial recognition technology
bitsoffreedom.nl
Our dependence on Big Tech is no coincidence
Call to the Dutch government: prioritize the democratic rule of law, our freedom, security and digital autonomy
WhatsApp will start showing ads, switch to Signal
Stop Big Tech’s illusion of choice
Online platforms continue to use manipulative design regardless of legislation
We would like to introduce: Zarlasht Zia
Pushing back against datafication of our bodies
Home visits from the police are not just a problem for the activist
Yes! The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
Only social algorithms in the social domain
We are not at the mercy of Big Tech
Meta is going to train AI with your data: take action now!
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
Playing with Model Context Protocol and local Large Language Models for privacy engineering
Online inference with LLMs is a security and privacy risk
Prompt Injection and Mode Drift in Qwen3 - a security analysis
Google won’t kill third-party cookies after all
Blockchain and data protection (GDPR)
Reducing fingerprinting risk of Accept-Language browser header
Fixing web browser history leaks
Web Privacy Then and Now - 10 years after my Ph.D.
Pseudonymisation - the critical and the most exciting thing in data protection
Bypassing State app censorship or blockades with PWAs
Filling social media with indistinguishable AI-bots is illegal with EU AI Act
Summary of 2024
craphound.com
Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION
Nimby and the D-Hoppers
Why I don’t like AI art
There were always enshittifiers
With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
Picks and Shovels virtual launch with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop, presented by Jacobin
MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing
Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour
Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs
The Weight of a Feather (The Weight of a Heart)
Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital
Picks and Shovels Chapter One
digitalnisvobody.cz
Automatizované rozpoznávání tváří „konečně“ v Evropě
Vnitro chce rozpoznávat tváře bez patřičných pravidel a kontroly. Vyzýváme Senát k zamítnutí návrhu
Rodina a digisvět: registrujte se na seminář či rodičovské setkání
7 let s GDPR. Jak bylo a co čekat?
Pomocí soudů čistíme zdravotní registry od dat, které v nich nemají co dělat. Přidejte se
TZ: Plošné uchovávání dat o elektronické komunikaci v Česku je nelegální, uznal soud
Dvacáté Ceny Velkého bratra se blíží
TZ: Základní služby musí být dostupné offline. V dopise to žádají stovky evropských organizací a vědců
Hotovost a off-line opět trendem v médiích
Píšeme poslancům: český návrh na rozpoznávání tváří popírá evropská pravidla
edri.org
Civil society files joint DSA complaint against X for targeting people with ads using their sensitive personal data
#PrivacyCamp25: Registrations open and call for sessions deadline!
EDRi-gram, 10 July 2025
New research shows online platforms use manipulative design to influence users towards harmful choices
A missed opportunity for enforcement: what the final GDPR Procedural Regulation could cost us
Open letter: European Commission must champion the AI Act amidst simplification pressure
Undermining the GDPR through ‘simplification’: EDRi pushes back against dangerous deregulation
#PrivacyCamp25: Call for Sessions open
EDRi-gram, 25 June 2025
Joint civil society response to the Commission’s call for evidence: Impact assessment on data retention by service providers for criminal proceedings
The EDRi network adopts its 2025-2030 Strategy
Data flows and digital repression: Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status
eff.org
EFF to Court: The DMCA Didn't Create a New Right of Attribution, You Shouldn't Either
California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
We Support Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to UK’s Online Safety Act
Radio Hobbyists, Rejoice! Good News for LoRa & Mesh
EFF and 80 Organizations Call on EU Policymakers to Preserve Net Neutrality in the Digital Networks Act
🤕 A Surveillance Startup in Damage Control | EFFector 37.8
Podcast Episode: Finding the Joy in Digital Security
Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates
EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword
No Face, No Case: California’s S.B. 627 Demands Cops Show Their Faces
Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency
en.panoptykon.org
6 years in court fighting against arbitrary censorship. What about user empowerment promised by the DSA?
Panoptykon Foundation challenges the data retention regime in Poland: Telecom companies requested to delete activists’ data
New privacy policy
European Court of Human Rights: secret surveillance in Poland violates citizens’ privacy rights
Win against Facebook. Giant not allowed to censor content at will
Algorithms of Trauma 2. How Facebook Feeds on Your Fears
Anxious about your health? Facebook won’t let you forget
Polish Senate calls Pegasus illegal and demands scrutiny over secret services
Scroll more, sleep less. A Black Mirror-inspired truck in Warsaw advertises a disturbing social network... that doesn’t exist
One Act to Rule Them All
epic.org
FTC Commissioner Slaughter Reinstated by Court
EPIC Comments Call on USDA to Abandon Plan for Nationwide SNAP Database
The Paypers: Big techs to be monitored by US consumer regulator task force
Forbes: The Trojan Horse In Your Pocket: How Everyday Tech Is Being Weaponized
Bloomberg Law: Google’s Exit From Flo Health Suit Puts Privacy Issues in Limbo
EPIC Testifies in Support of Massachusetts S.30/H.4229, An Act Protecting Children From Addictive Social Media Feeds
Tech Policy Press: How Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton Will Change Tech Policy
WIRED: The ‘Click-to-Cancel’ Rule Was Killed, but Consumer Advocates Could Revive It
Myrtle Beach Sun News: How many Horry inmates turned over to ICE custody? Why agency refuses to say
Biometric Update: CBP’s biometric border dragnet and the corporate state behind it
irozhlas.cz-jancibulka
Najdete chybu ve stavebním řízení? Můžete si říct o odměnu. Místní rozvoj spouští bug bounty
Vnitro roky vyvíjí systém za téměř miliardu. Před plným startem už ho plánuje za stovky milionů předělat
Pomáhá vám při seznamování AI? Aplikace sbírají citlivé údaje, nesdělujte jim všechno, radí Antivirus
Infostealery v akci: Jak hackeři kradou hesla a jak si ochránit počítač?
‚Kam to bude?‘ ptá se umělá inteligence. V některých obcích řeší dopravní chudobu inovativně
Nelegální bitcoin, co to je? Zkusit vyprat největší kryptoměnu na světě je extrémně obtížné
Zprávy na sociálních sítích nemusí být soukromé. Není od věci používat přezdívku, radí Antivirus
Za slevy zaplatíte ztrátou soukromí. Obchodníci sbírají údaje o vašich nákupech a poloze, varuje Antivirus
Obchodní řetězce trápí úniky dat zákazníků, popisuje Antivirus. Jak bezpečně nakupovat online?
Bez adres a jmen. Poslanci navrhují z plánovaného eTuristy vyškrtnout sledování ubytovaných lidí
Za nápis na mikině roční vyšetřování. Bylo příliš intenzivní, mělo skončit dříve, shodují se experti
Přes měsíc mlčení. Hlasování o evidenci turistů se blíží, resort odmítá zveřejnit dopady na soukromí
laquadrature.net
French Administrative Supreme Court illegitimately buries the debate over internet censorship law
Predictive Policing in France: Against opacity and discrimination, the need for a ban
Algorithmic videosurveillance is spreading in Europe, let’s fight back together!
Simplification’ law: stop the data center boom!
« Simplification » Bill: a denial of democracy to impose giant data centers in France
All-out mobilization against the French “war-on-drugs” law
AI Action Summit: Accelerating, whatever the cost
Launch of the Hiatus Coalition, to Resist AI and its World
Justice finally finds Briefcam unlawful
We’re leaving Twitter…
privacyinternational.org
Do early steps into agentic AI respect our needs for privacy and security?
Meta and Yandex break security to save their business model
What the app? What will WhatsApp's pursuit of revenue mean for no-strings encryption
Producing real change: key highlights of our 2025 results by season
Summary of an Experts Consultation on Human Rights, Digital Technologies, and Elections
Joint Civil Society Declaration at the International Labour Conference 2025
All Eyes on my Period? Period tracking apps and the future of privacy in a post-Roe world
Are AI Assistants built for us or to exploit us? and other questions for the AI industry
Free to Protest (Türkiye Edition)
PI statement during informal consultations on autonomous weapons systems in New York
publicknowledge.org
NGO,
US-based
Emerging Tech 2025
New Public Knowledge Paper Outlines How To Design a Digital Regulator To Enhance Competition, Protect Consumers
Public Knowledge Responds To Mark Meador’s FTC Confirmation
Building a Better Big Tech Mouse Trap: Designing the Digital Platform Commission
The Mysterious Case of the Chair of the F(icticious) C(haos) C(lub)
Privileged Conversations | April 2025
Slowing BEAD to Speed Up Satellites: Evaluating Trade-Offs in Rural Connectivity
The People’s Party | April 3
The Fight for Digital Inclusion: Digital Navigators Push for Funding Connectivity
Public Knowledge Condemns Trump’s Lawless Attack on FTC Independence
stopspying.org
S.T.O.P., Surveillance Technology Oversight Project,
ngo, usa-based
Introducing our Summer 2025 Interns!
S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD ‘Cartoon Cop’ Drones
S.T.O.P. Condemns Trump Database Tracking U.S. Citizens
S.T.O.P. Condemns ICE Real-Time Facial Recognition App
Major win for NY gov transparency!
S.T.O.P. Condemns Adams’ Protest Mask Ban
S.T.O.P. Condemns Escalating Federal, Police Surveillance Of LA Protests
Abortion surveillance on the road
S.T.O.P. Condemns Federal DNA Database Targeting Immigrant Children
Ban the scan in NY schools
S.T.O.P. Condemns Texas’ Nationwide License Plate, Abortion Tracking
NY’s open records system is broken
themarkup.org
data journalism,
non-profit
For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant: California’s Diablo Canyon
Trump Is Creating a Deportation Army of Local Cops
Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE
How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn
Kids should avoid AI companion bots—under force of law, assessment says
After Markup investigation, LinkedIn and Google face lawsuit alleging improper access to health data
The Markup named Sigma Award finalist
Congress moves to cut off states' AI regulations
The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse
House bill targets loopholes that let car insurance companies charge more in Black neighborhoods
We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data
uoou.gov.cz
Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů (státní instituce)
Cílené úpravy GDPR: EDPB & EDPS vítají zjednodušení povinností při vedení záznamů o činnostech zpracování a žádají další vyjasnění
Cílené úpravy GDPR: EDPB & EDPS vítají zjednodušení povinností při vedení záznamů o činnostech zpracování a žádají další vyjasnění
EDPB zveřejňuje Pokyny k předávání údajů orgánům třetích zemí a školicí materiály SPE o umělé inteligenci (AI) a ochraně údajů
EDPB zveřejňuje Pokyny k předávání údajů orgánům třetích zemí a školicí materiály SPE o umělé inteligenci (AI) a ochraně údajů
Seminář ke kamerovým systémům ve školách zaznamenal rekord v historii Úřadu. Přihlásilo se 900 účastníků
Seminář ke kamerovým systémům ve školách zaznamenal rekord v historii Úřadu. Přihlásilo se 900 účastníků
25 let chráníme vaše soukromí – Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů slaví čtvrtstoletí své existence
25 let chráníme vaše soukromí – Úřad pro ochranu osobních údajů slaví čtvrtstoletí své existence
GDPR chrání osobní údaje už 7 let
V Praze proběhla bilaterální jednání s delegací předsedkyně slovenského Úradu na ochranu osobných údajov
V Praze probíhají bilaterální jednání s delegací předsedkyně slovenského Úradu na ochranu osobných údajov
Senát projednal Výroční zprávu Úřadu pro ochranu osobních údajů za rok 2024