What a terrible take. As someone who engaged at a policy level with the ePrivacy Directive (& its predecessor 97/66EC), the ePD didn’t ’plaster the online world with pop-ups’. Privacy invading & eroding business models are responsible for that - biz could have chosen a different path
Although of course disappointing to see that MI6 haven’t done their homework - it’s Tor, not TOR @torproject.org
Great thread from Kevin on the airport cyber attacks - “corporate centipede” and “welcome to 1998” being my favourites
ENISA - the EU’s cyber security agency - now saying it’s ransomware
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
My new piece in @the-independent.com on the UK's tech prosperity deal:
The deal does not only leave the UK even more dependent on US tech companies, it also once again shows how out of step the country is with tech sovereignty debates in the rest of Europe.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/starm...
jesus christ. transport regulators need to get their acts together.
I wrote a similar piece in Slate last year--granted, it was pre-election but the specter for what an authoritarian regime could do with the massive police surveillance apparatus at its fingertips has been hanging over us for awhile.
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
New: Google will meet the EU’s deadline to propose changes to its advertising technology business after a near-€3 billion fine — but won’t include the full breakup the EU and industry rivals have previously pushed for: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
An age-old French nightmare — that of growing German military might — is resurfacing in a new form.
As Berlin inevitably becomes the EU’s dominant military power, our expert @mijrahman.bsky.social explains how strategic autonomy is now in Germany’s hands:
@politico.eu
excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺
Ciaran Martin
Katja Bego
Matthew Guariglia
Ben Collier
Paris Marx
Prof Mike Yearworth
Eurasia Group
bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)
Samuel Stolton
www.independent.co.uk
The rest of Europe is working hard to move away from dependence on US technology – particularly when it comes to AI, writes Katja Bego. But the UK is moving the other way for quick cash and false prom...
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
Google will meet the European Union’s deadline to propose changes to its advertising technology business after a near-€3 billion ($3.5 billion) fine — but won’t include the full breakup the EU and…
In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered the online world with pop-ups requesting consent to cookies.
www.bbc.com/news/article... if this seems a bit odd, it’s useful to know that for a long time the most popular site on the so-called Dark Web was Facebook! Lots more about this in my book - Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy available here mitpress.mit.edu/978026254818...
An important piece about the vulnerability we face in a world that is increasingly surveilled and authoritarian. Politicians want to address crime, but this administration will hopefully teach local politicians that surveillance doesn't prevent crime and comes at a much larger cost to residents.
The European Union's cybersecurity agency said on Monday that airport disruptions caused by problems with automatic check-in systems were caused by a third-party ransomware incident.
www.reuters.com
Matthew Guariglia
Ben Collier
POLITICO Europe
The Bluesky Social app is built on an open network protocol that refers to each user by a unique Decentralized Identifier, or DID (a W3C standard). The most popular supported DID method was developed ...
My thread on the airport check in cyber incident(tm). It's not just 3 airports btw, those are just the ones most impacted as they have the least staff per traveller available. cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...
A MAN and two children were burned to death after getting trapped inside a Tesla in a horror crash. The Tesla is said to have veered off the road and smashed into a tree while attempting to overtak…
www.thesun.co.uk
Kevin Beaumont
ARINC SelfServ vMUSE devices are down in airports worldwide, they do self service check in. They’re connected to navAviNet aka ARINC Ground Network, managed by Collins Aerospace, who are owned by RTX....
