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Daniel Leufer (Access Now)

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Emerging Tech @accessnow.org | creator http://aimyths.org | PhD in philosophy | pessimism for future offset by dismay at past | personal views only | free 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 in Brussels

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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

Big news this evening

This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

14.05.2025 18:55 — 👍 566    🔁 279    💬 15    📌 45
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This is bleak reading

14.05.2025 08:19 — 👍 23073    🔁 4988    💬 1552    📌 1014

Looking forward to this vital discussion at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social next week

13.05.2025 10:28 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to this vital discussion at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social next week

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"Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza" Israel has deployed digital technologies to fuel the atrocities committed in its war in Gaza. The report by the United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories highlights how digital technologies are facilitating human rights abuses in Gaza, including actions consistent with the crime of genocide. Israel's digital warfare in Gaza presents an unprecedented blueprint for the militarization of data and digital technologies, “AI-washing” gross violations of international law. It also forces the door wide-open for further collusion between Big Tech and the military posing grave risks to fundamental rights, peace, and security elsewhere. Gaza, and occupied Palestine at-large, have become open-air technology expositions; a live laboratory for the testing and marketing of unprecedented technologies of violence, at the expense of Palestinians. Questions to be answered: - How are tech companies facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza through cloud computing, content moderation, hardware provision etc? - What role is the EU playing here, such as through funding or the export of technologies by EU companies? - Which legal instruments are applicable to the role of technologies here, and what avenues can be taken to stop this facilitation of war crimes and genocide? - What strategies or leverage points can be used to challenge and resist complicity in the tech-facilitated war on Gaza? Organised by Access Now with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, Matt Mahmoudi, Lydia De Leeuw

"Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza" Israel has deployed digital technologies to fuel the atrocities committed in its war in Gaza. The report by the United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories highlights how digital technologies are facilitating human rights abuses in Gaza, including actions consistent with the crime of genocide. Israel's digital warfare in Gaza presents an unprecedented blueprint for the militarization of data and digital technologies, “AI-washing” gross violations of international law. It also forces the door wide-open for further collusion between Big Tech and the military posing grave risks to fundamental rights, peace, and security elsewhere. Gaza, and occupied Palestine at-large, have become open-air technology expositions; a live laboratory for the testing and marketing of unprecedented technologies of violence, at the expense of Palestinians. Questions to be answered: - How are tech companies facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza through cloud computing, content moderation, hardware provision etc? - What role is the EU playing here, such as through funding or the export of technologies by EU companies? - Which legal instruments are applicable to the role of technologies here, and what avenues can be taken to stop this facilitation of war crimes and genocide? - What strategies or leverage points can be used to challenge and resist complicity in the tech-facilitated war on Gaza? Organised by Access Now with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, Matt Mahmoudi, Lydia De Leeuw

Technologies at war: The role of tech companies & the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza

Organised by @accessnow.org with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, @lydiadeleeuw.bsky.social

More info: cpdp.be/1936
#TheWorldIsWatching #CPDP

07.05.2025 11:08 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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NSO Fined $168 Million for Pegasus Spyware Attack on WhatsApp In a landmark verdict, NSO Group must pay almost $168 million in damages for using Pegasus spyware to target WhatsApp.

A major win for privacy!

Israeli spyware company NSO has been ordered to pay almost $168 million in damages for targeting WhatsApp with Pegasus spyware. Access Now and partners will continue to advocate for NSO to be held accountable for its actions.

www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

06.05.2025 21:54 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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