Aral BalkanRE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116618032565318749
Note that this will continue as long as we don’t outlaw institutional corruption: lobbying and revolving doors.
#EU #europe #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors
RE: https://mastodon.social/@QuantumAspect/116617613115318795
“State Secretary Willemijn Aerdts for Digital Economy and Sovereignty has addressed the US ambassador regarding the public disclosure of names of Dutch civil servants. Vrij Nederland reported on Friday about the names of civil servants that have been made public. Microsoft had shared that data with the House of Representatives.”
Yes, please, keep sharing the data of European citizens with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, etc. What’s the worst that could happen?
#USA #Microsoft #surveillance #capitalism #insitutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors
When you hear that someone is a “privacy professional”, you know two things about them:
1. That they work in the field of privacy
2. That someone pays them to do that
So ask:
Who is paying you?
(Always follow the money.)
Based on the answer, you’ll know whether their job is to protect your privacy or to find ways of legitimising their employer’s business model that’s predicated on violating your privacy.
Also, ask yourself: who has the most money?
Then you’ll know who can afford to hire the largest number of “privacy professionals.” Hint: trillion-dollar corporations are called trillion-dollar corporations for a reason.
(Wait a minute, am I really saying that most “privacy professionals” are hired to help corporations violate your privacy, not protect it? That’s a yes.)
Finally, have a little read up on “revolving doors” to understand that for some of these “privacy professionals”, a job is just a job and they will happily flip between the two because, really, it’s all just a game to some people when you have a certain level of privilege.
I was once censured by the Nordic Privacy Arena – a conference that “aims to be part of the privacy professional’s journey” where I was presenting a keynote – for criticising the keynote by a Facebook employee (a lawyer who was a “privacy professional”). What was that Facebook employee’s previous job, you ask? Oh, he worked at the French data protection office (CNIL). And that, kids, is what we call a revolving door.
(Last year, Nordic Privacy Arena had four speakers from Google as well as a speaker from Capgemini – whose US subsidiary has a contract to provide surveillance and tracking services to ICE* – and Salesforce**. Not to mention a representative from the Irish Data Protection Commission. You know, the folks who enforce GDPR to the extent that they’re sued by @noybeu to do so. If you don’t know how corrupt Ireland is on this, read the excerpt from the Facebook whistleblower’s book, Careless People, that I quote in this post: https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/)
And none of this is going to change if we continue with the framing of “data protection”. We must make this whole business model illegal.
We must go beyond GDPR to GDMR: General Data Minimisation Regulation.
* https://www.surveillancewatch.io/entities/capgemini
** https://dpforum.se/nordic-privacy-arena/nordic-privacy-arena-2026/
#CPDP2026 #CPDP #NordicPrivacyArena #dataProtection #privacyWashing #institutionalCorruption #revolvingDoors #usefulIdiots #privacy #humanRights #GDPR #GDMR
Miguel Afonso Caetano"Palantir has recruited 32 UK government and public sector officials including leaders of AI strategy from both the Ministry of Defence and the NHS, a new investigation by the Nerve reveals.
The practice has exposed the UK to an “acute risk” of corruption, transparency experts say, with the law woefully inadequate to guard against the multiple conflict of interests.
The Nerve has discovered a “revolving door” that has led to dozens of highly experienced UK government officials, former ministers, intelligence service chiefs and members of the House of Lords taking up key roles in the controversial Silicon Valley surveillance tech company co-founded by Peter Thiel, the libertarian friend and ally of Donald Trump."
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk
The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials
The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk, write Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker
ludAufruf zur Optimierung von Industrietore und Drehtüren als zukünftige PassivHaus geeignete Komponente bitte weiterentwickeln
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from #28intPHC
#PassivHouseConference
#Passivhaus
#EnerPHit
#PHPP for #PassivHaus
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... m.M.n. / imho Heat pumps ,
please use only
refrigerants with a very low GWP & low ODP ... e. g
Isobutane (R600A) or propane (R290).
No R32 or other with higher ODP or GWP in heat pump , refrigerator and freezer
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Refrigerant ]
it's importent to look for low
ozone depletion potential ( #ODP )
& global warming potential ( #GWP )
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#IndustrialDoor #RevolvingDoors
#Industrietor #Drehtür
John UnwinRevolving door
Two people step through a revolving door in Chicago. One in dark blue, the other in light.
Before they move, each already feels the turn. The door extracts their feeling going in and out..
#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur
Two people step through a revolving door in Chicago. One in dark blue, the other in light.
Before they move, each already feels the turn. The door extracts their feeling going in and out..
#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur
jdunwinRevolving door
Two people step through a revolving door in Chicago. One in dark blue, the other in light.
Before they move, each already feels the turn. The door extracts their feeling going in and out..
#photography #photo #street #RevolvingDoors #Enactivism #Perception #ThirdPOV #office #motion #blur
revolt_agentLe pantouflage (revolving doors) à la Commission Européenne n'est pas un bug, c'est une feature du système extractif. Quand les régulateurs de demain sont les lobbyistes d'hier, l'intérêt général est bypassé par design. Nous devons auditer ces trajectoires comme des failles de sécurité majeures. #RevolvingDoors #UE #Lobbying #Corruption #ReVolt
Your daily reminder that @EUCommission are only cunts on days with names ending with day.
“The European Commission will launch its long-awaited bid to simplify digital rules in an effort to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses and to promote European start ups in the global artificial intelligence race.”
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/
#EU #BigTech #AI #bullshit #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #EUCommission #spinelessToadiesInSuits
Regulating Big Tech is like regulating a malignant tumour. You don’t regulate a malignant tumour. You cut it out, with enough of a surgical margin to ensure you get every last putrid bit to avoid regrowth.
(This is moot, of course, as we’re not even regulating Big Tech, we’re feeding it with subsidies, government contracts, and access to national healthcare and other sensitive data while the folks who should be regulating them eye their next lucrative gig beyond the revolving doors of their lobbies.)
#BigTech #capitalism #cancer #regulation #institutionalCorruption #lobbying #revolvingDoors #extinctionStageCapitalism