It is going to be a beautiful day in #London... for protesting against Mad King #Donald 😎🌞 3-5pm in front of the US Embassy, Nine Elms (SW London) #NoKings #Trump

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**No Tyrants!** 📆 Saturday 14 June ⏰ 3pm - 5pm BSt (This platform will NOT show the right time. It is at 3pm BST 📍US Embassy, 33 Nine El...

Wow! Bulgarian Data Protection Authority: ‘Theft or attempted theft in the conditions of a "minor case" under the Criminal Code cannot be a reason of important public interest within the meaning of the #GDPR to turn customers of a store into '#walking_barcodes’.’ #FacialRecognition https://cpdp.bg/%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%89%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%b7%d0%bb%d0%b4-%d0%be%d1%82%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%81%d0%bd%d0%be-%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b7%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b5-2/ Meanwhile, last UK government was going full-speed to faciliate live facial recognition across the country's supermarkets. What next? #inadequacy

👏 'The technology behind [the Guardian newspaper's new open source tool] #SecureMessaging conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all by making the communication indistinguishable from other data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users. By using the Guardian app, other users are effectively providing “cover” and helping us to protect sources.'

the Guardian

In a dangerous era for journalism – a powerful new tool to help protect sources

Today, the Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation

As we see the #authoritarian chaos unfolding in the #USA, I am wondering if all those people who have been campaigning for decades to undermine the #EU 's strict constitutional laws on #privacy and #DataProtection -- in the service of enabling virtually unrestrained transfers of Europeans' personal data to King #Donald 's junta to continue -- have any regrets 🧐 #Trump #GDPR #CFR #TFEU #DataProtection #Schrems #CJEU #FreeFlowOfDataWithTrust #OECD #DAU #adequacy #DPRC 1/2

“#Musk now occupies the #1 and #2 spots on the loser leaderboard, with only (as of Friday) his now-reduced fortune of $334.5 billion left to comfort him. He still has more money than anyone else on earth—but, still, that's got to hurt.”

Elon Musk Suffers The Second-Biggest Wealth Loss In Human History — Vanity Fair UK

The pronatalist tech investor/abrogated former government employee lost $34 billion this week amidst his battle with Donald Trump.

Massive gains to society! 🫡 From: @npub126zg...atds

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« Apple's internal forecasts estimate potential annual losses of "hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars" » Err, reduction in monop...

#Signal is becoming critical national infrastructure around the world 👏 Next, we need genuine Signal #decentralisation (not dependency on messaging queue servers controlled by a US-exposed organisation, making heavy use of #AWS) 🙏

New: #DeAppleification project 🍏 Good hardware, if overpriced ✔️ Bad software & services, deliberately lacking #interoperability ❌ Today, I shut off Apple's closed #iMessage service entirely. Now using #Beeper as a universal inbox, with #Signal, #WhatsApp & #Slack DMs ✅ Goal: shutting off all 🍏 services will make it much easier to switch to cheaper hardware in future. Which is why Apple’s entire business model depends on tying their hardware to their software & services #RefusalToSupply

I had been planning to buy (yet another) #Mac (this time, a #Mini.) But enough with feeding Tim and friends’ grotesque appetite for 💰 (and putting up with high charges for low quality, if shiny, software). I am going to install a lightweight #Linux desktop (any recommendations?) on my 2011 #MacBook #Air and see how far I can get interoperating with all my data currently held hostage in the #Apple #monoculture. Will report my findings here. #DMA #DMCCA #interoperability #DataPortability