1. EU Court limits Meta’s use of personal data for targeted ads [image] E.U. Court Limits Meta's Use of Personal Facebook Data for Targeted Ads EU court orders Meta to restrict Facebook user data for ads, enforcing GDPR limits on personal data use. This was …

[image] TiX0: In other words, social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using users’ personal data for ad targeting indefinitely, the court said Any clues as to what that time limit is? In other words, what does “not indefinitely” mean? 1 year? 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? While the lon…

Oh, the world, oh the politics… Personal information related good news comes with some unrelated less good news from the same continent: It was reported that in negotiations between EU countries there’s a compromise forming about how communication privacy can be invaded (the article should have link…

[image] JR-Fi: only images and video (not text and audio) by user consent only (if no consent, then no share of images) So if I post an image that is encoded as text (e.g. uuencode, a bit old now, but you get the idea, or let’s say MIME encoding for something more current), I can post any “r…

Yea, I have no idea how that would go in practice (see the final point of the second list). At worst, there could be a restriction on only sharing identifiable filetypes. Or we could get more ASCII art! :pleading_face:

[image] JR-Fi: there could be a restriction on only sharing identifiable filetypes For a general purpose platform that wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing. Sharing unidentified filetypes could be an attempt to exploit a 0-day or other malicious activity; and it may not be well-supported by th…

Someone actually wrote a mini-fiction about the text-based scenario: [image] Stories from the first year of chat control A premonition of the disastrous year after the EU approves chat control—and what we can do to stop it today.

Awww, and I thought Atlantis or Mu we’re rising back up.

[image] lipu: Someone actually wrote a mini-fiction about the text-based scenario: (with the disclaimer that everything on that page is ostensibly fictional…) Apps can upload the unencrypted media temporarily to their moderation servers Makes an absolute mockery of end-to-end encryption. …

Does the Swiss law require Free Software? That is, what are the license requirements? The article mentioned: The EMBAG law stipulates that all public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns. That is gr…

And there’s the small disclaimer … unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns “security concerns” potentially covers a lot of ground. Any government agency can claim “security concerns”.

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