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The International Criminal Court is ending its dependency on Big Tech cloud solution by adopting the open-source solution OpenDesk. Univention is part of this process. It is a critical step to insulate international organizations from political pressure.
#opensource
"In the leaked document, Amazon executives warned that transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping its projections confidential, even as they feared inviting accusations of a cover-up"
www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EC Preliminary Findings - Meta and TikTok in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the #DigitalServicesAct
SOV-8 refers to Environmental Sustainability factors
It's weighted lowest, but still present.
meme with cake in background that says E2EE text overlay that says "how come its always hey let's conduct mass surveillance and not hey let's ask platforms to do more than the bare minimum to protect their users?
Global Encryption Day is for celebrating the wild idea that maybe platforms could protect us on purpose🔐
Join in the celebration and sign our petition to help protect encryption worldwide ✍️
mzl.la/48GTOag
#encryption
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
20.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 418 🔁 198 💬 19 📌 31No noise. All signal. Nothing Personal.
Meet Nothing Personal — a new counterculture magazine from the Mozilla Foundation.
We’re handing the mic to the people rebuilding digital culture from the ground up.
mzl.la/3KOMiQF
#NothingPersonal #MakeGoodTech
👏 @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy
P.S. get more @index.internet.exchangepoint.tech.ap.brid.gy goodness at #MozFest this November www.mozillafestival.org/en/
Perplexity, despite its modest size, gave $1M to Trump’s inaugural - so this tracks.
06.08.2025 20:56 — 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
From Africa to Asia, a movement is threatening Big Tech's business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home
New from @tarykuh.bsky.social:
restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
BEUC is currently looking for a Digital Policy officer to reinforce its Digital Team. Reporting directly to the Head of Digital Policy, you will be in charge of coordinating BEUC’s advocacy work on simplification of the EU digital rulebook and supporting team members on specific files.
17.07.2025 10:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#Shein was fined €40 million by French authorities on Thursday after an investigation found the Chinese fast-fashion giant had misled #consumers about its discounts and environmental impact. 🎉
Source […]
dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
"Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default—a quiet but radical reversal of the status quo where bots could crawl first and ask questions never" #infrastructure www.linkedin.com/posts/radsch...
02.07.2025 06:00 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0Looking forward to the discussion!
24.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Among AliExpress's announced binding commitments:
A commitment to enable researchers who meet the criteria set out in Article 40.12 #DSA to independently access and use public data to analyse systemic risks via automated means, such as ‘data scraping’.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
🧵How TikTok failed Polish democracy during the 2025 Presidential Election
Our new investigation exposes serious gaps in TikTok's election content moderation that disproportionately harmed the Polish diaspora : aiforensics.org/work/tiktok-...
Supported by @mozilla.org, this report argues that in light of the changing AI landscape and recent geopolitical shifts, the UK’s strongest bet for realising its AI ambitions for sovereignty, deployment, and influence is to lean into open-source. 🔓
05.06.2025 08:33 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0In a recent report, Human Rights Watch documented how major companies operating in the US are misclassifying gig workers as independent contractors.
Hear more from experts on "The Gig Trap" and labor rights ⤵️
Happy #WorldInternetDay from Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador, first Digital Minister, and Mozilla Foundation's newest, Senior Advisor, @audreyt.org 🥳 More to come from Audrey 🔜
17.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 52 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1This is a big deal.
This preliminary finding that TikTok's ad repository is insufficient under the DSA is itself the result of - and will hopefully help contribute to - strong independent platform research.
Gleich geht es los! Gemeinsam mit @democracyreporting.bsky.social haben wir X auf Zugang zu Forschungsdaten verklagt. Ziel war mit den Daten eine mögliche Beeinflussung vor der Bundestagswahl zu erforschen. Heute wird vor dem Berliner Landgericht verhandelt.
13.05.2025 07:52 — 👍 48 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
Have an idea to help shape the future of tech?
We're inviting you to submit a proposal to host a talk, forum, or hands-on lab at #MozillaFestival in Barcelona this fall.
Let’s rethink tech together—submit by May 21.
mzl.la/cfp
🚀 New Lumigator Updates Are Live!
✅ Provided better translation support with Opus-MT models and G-Eval integration.
✅ Expanded evaluator capabilities by integrating DeepEval's Ollama.
✅ Refreshed the Experiments UI with new features and improvements.
👉 Try it out: github.com/mozilla-ai/l...
Un anuncio del "4D Award", la segunda edición, que ofrece apoyo financiero para soluciones que promueven la digitalización democrática, los derechos digitales y los bienes comunes. El diseño incluye un logo estilizado "4D" en tonos rosas y morados, con líneas horizontales digitales. Se muestra la fecha límite para la recepción de propuestas: 18/05/2025, e incluye una dirección web para más información y el formulario de solicitud.
📢 We’re launching the 2nd edition of the #4DAwards!
✨ Looking for #DigitalRights fighters with real solutions for a #DemocraticDigitalisation
🏆 2 prizes of €15,000.
📅 Applications open until 18/5
Organised by: @X_net_ @puntCAT
🔗 4d.cat/en/award/
A New European Shield for Democracy: How to Make it Work?
🛡️The new European Democracy Shield (EDS) is being prepared by the European Commission and will cover the EU’s key work in supporting #democracy.
📌 How can it effectively protect and boost democracy? With 49 organisations, EPD has laid out the priorities and recommendations for an effective EDS. 🧵
"Strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security"
20.03.2025 09:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Irish digital services regulator Coimisiún na Meán is running a public survey about how researcher access to data under the Digital Services Act (#DSA) can meet the needs of researchers.
If you do platform research, share your views before March 26.
www.cnam.ie/industry-and...
🚨 NEW REPORT – Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First 🚨
As policymakers around the globe grapple with addressing concerns about algorithms, KGI’s new report offers guidance on improving the design of algorithmic systems that shape billions of users’ digital lives.
bit.ly/3QzxVzq
The EU's Disinformation Code will now be a "benchmark" for platform compliance under DSA.
I asked experts whether the Code's integration into DSA effectively mitigate disinformation in the EU or will it serve as another regulatory sleight of hand.
www.techpolicy.press/the-eus-code...
