So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes.
Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates.
Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
HUGE victory - and yet another catastrophic own-goal by the govt, who should never have made this draconian decision in the first place.
1000s of peaceful protestors arrested, alienated a swathe of Labour's base forever - and now humiliated in court.
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BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL
This matters for everyone.
For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack.
Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.
Exposed: Big Tech is rewriting the rules globally 🚨
In the Big Tech Lobby Playbook we reveal how these giants are shaping laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.
Spoiler alert: their influence is unprecedented. 🧐
Read our analysis:
www.somo.nl/big-tech-lob...
‼️ New publication: Taming the Hyperscalers ‼️
In our latest policy brief, @georgecolville.bsky.social and I lay out a blueprint for how Europe can rein in the “hyperscalers” that dominate its cloud market using existing competition and digital laws.
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
In the wake of the Grok scandal, now new polling shows people in four major EU countries would support a ban on X if it continues to break EU law.
11.02.2026 10:42 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0China is the world leader in wind power.
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On 19 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled the new Digital Omnibus, claiming it would “simplify” tech rules. In reality, it reopens laws that protect us from Big Tech abuse, unsafe AI, scams, and online harm.
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The EU’s “Digital Omnibus” is being sold as simplification. Analysis shows something else: major changes that tilt the rules toward Big Tech-weakening privacy, AI safeguards, and accountability.
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/a...
“These are actions of people who do not fear consequences or backlash anymore. The market has failed to regulate itself. This is the tech we get when hard regulation does not exist” @swachter.bsky.social
www.newsweek.com/sexualized-d...
You don't need an investigative journalist to know who is funding work of the Free Speech Union: its a foreign Far Right billionaire called Elon Musk.
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As the Commission rolls out its Digital Omnibus to "simplify" - i.e. weaken - EU digital safeguards, we're rolling out billboards across Brussels.
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu fight for Europe and stand up to pressure from Trump and his broligarchy.
✊Take action now: StandUpUrsula.com
📣 Over 200,000 people have signed petitions demanding action. @wemoveeurope.bsky.social @avaaz.org
✍️ Add your voice now → StandUpUrsula.com #StandUpUrsula #EU #DataRights #GDPR
NEW: Internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare blamed this morning's massive internet outage on a "latent bug."
This is another stark reminder that the internet depends on just a handful of companies. According to an estimate, Cloudflare is used by 20% of all websites on the internet.
"Mistakes"? You mean tobacco companies ruthlessly profiting while ignoring and suppressing the risks? Good comparison actually.
17.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
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"Last year, I drove through the Obrikom oil and gas field,…where I saw crude petroleum gushing furiously from a broken pipe and into a river. The sight of that blackened water was horrifying. That the pipeline wasn’t fixed for months was even more appalling."
10.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1it does seem ridiculous - but also, ask yourself which other news organisation reports on ITSELF when it is facing a crisis or scandal? Good luck seeing the tabloids reporting their own failures.
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
"AI may not simply be 'a bubble,' or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social
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Teens who reported feeling bad about their bodies saw more 'eating disorder' content
Posts featured chest, buttocks, or thighs and “explicit judgement” about body types
www.reuters.com/business/ins...
All modern digital infrastructure is a precariously balanced pile held up by a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003
It seems to be time to post this again:
20.10.2025 10:45 — 👍 169 🔁 39 💬 6 📌 2Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.
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Margrethe Vestager talks about the #googleadtech case (pending in the US & EU):
"Had we taken the decision 25 years go that we would not allow conflicts of interest [in digital markets], we would be in a different world. And it's going to get worse with AI."
www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
“Without genuine accountability, successful lawsuits against AI companies become Pyrrhic victories. They amount to micro-successes and macro-failures that do nothing to compel AI companies to do better, design more safely, or prioritize the people using their products,” writes Pete Furlong.
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Big piece in POLITICO asking about the independence of Ireland's process of appointing people to its Data Protection Commission. There is deep unease in Brussels about Ireland appointing a former Meta lobbyist as Meta's watchdog. Now questions about who was involved.
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption.
Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.
Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/
www.ft.com/content/d101...
Beyond all the AI hyperbole, Big Tech is just using it to squeeze even more data out of us for its grubby invasive surveillance advertising profits www.ft.com/content/22f7...
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