Julia-Silvana Hofstetter

Next Steps for Mitigating Harm in the UN Cybercrime Convention | TechPolicy.Press Rights-respecting states supporting the treaty despite flaws can hit the brakes before it goes completely off the rails, writes Deborah Brown.

The UN Cybercrime Convention’s flaws are hard to fix, as it lacks a way to suspend states that systematically violate human rights or the rule of law, notes Deborah Brown. Still, rights-respecting states that ratify can take steps to limit its harmful effects.

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,

When platforms are forced to block “anything that might harm kids,” the result is overreach. A real rights-respecting solution to keeping people safe online is one that's built on user control, privacy, and smart design, not censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Google just erased 7 years of our political history Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for coun...

Ad history gone? 🤯

Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone

www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...

Wow. Meanwhile, at Harvard: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... (not a university-sanctioned event, though)

Invisible Women 2.0: Threats to Women’s Epistemic Rights in the Digital Age The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to e...

The new alliance of tech oligarchs and conservative political forces is waging an epistemic war on feminist knowledge and women’s visibility in the public memory.

Read my blog post for the @harvard.edu Carr Center here:
#InternationalWomensDay

Neben Microtargeting haben viele Parteien auch KI-generierte Posts im digitalen Wahlkampf verwendet. Mit dem CampAIgn-Tracker könnt ihr alle erkannten KI-generierten Posts sehen.

https://zdfmagaz.in/campaigntracker

#Grauburgunderbereich

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

More risks of tech platform obedience / subservience to Trump:

Platforms collect huge volumes of highly-revealing PII on users that security agencies will want access to

In past, some legally resisted. Forget that now.

Who's most at risk? Migrants, refugees, investigative journalists...

Reportage vom Hackertreffen: Wie viel Dosenbier soll ich mitbringen? Und wie retten wir die Welt? Unsere Autorin besuchte in Las Vegas die grösste Hackerkonferenz der Welt – ein schräger Mix aus Nerds, Halbkriminellen, Lobbyisten und Funktionären. Die Themen? Betreffen uns alle.

Die #Reportage dazu lest ihr in #DasMagazin:

www.tagesanzeiger.ch/defcon-las-v...

#Defcon #Hacking #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Techmonarchie #UNCybercrimeConvention #TechJournalismus #DigitaleUnversehrtheit

Das Statusupdate des #Informationszeitalters: Die Party ist vorbei. Zwischen sich radikalisierenden #Techbros und #Überwachungsstaaten bildet die Hackerszene einen Gegenpol.

Um herauszufinden, ob uns die Nerds wirklich retten werden, war ich in #LasVegas am grössten #Hackertreffen der Welt.