I enjoyed last week’s big annual privacy conference in Brussels (#CPDP), as usual. It’s the best place to hear about the latest research and policy action, and to talk in person to many experts in the field. The new venue is great — spacious and green. My fondness for the old one has been rather damaged by being assaulted near it yesterday, on the way for a lunchtime swim (which helps hugely with the at-times agonising spinal injury I’ve had for the last month) :catto:

If you are an occasional #Signal user on your iPhone, you might want to check the app now. #Apple seems to have further tightened the #iOS strangulation of resources to rarely used apps, so much so that Signal cannot even provide a notification there is a message waiting. A number of friends -- even a professor of computer science at Cambridge of my acquaintance 🫣 -- have entirely missed important messages from me due to this. The @European Commission has ordered Apple to fix this under the #DMA 👏🏻

This is also why the @European Commission needs to rapidly designate #Gmail and #Outlook as #DMA Core Platform Services and apply the #NIICS #interoperability obligation in Art.7 in creative ways (as well as the Art. 5 and 6 obligations obviously)

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