Techdirt [Unofficial]6d ago

Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. Troops

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Enemies Are Exploiting Unregulated Data Broker Location Data To Target And Kill U.S. Troops

There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected…

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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️6d ago
Gov. Bob Ferguson said Washington is "bracing" for the deadliest industrial disaster in state history. The “chemical spill” contains a mixture of sodium hydroxide and other sodium based compounds all extremely caustic. No wonder Longview is devastated.
#deregulation #EPA #bleachedpaper
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/27/explosion-washington-paper-mill-updates/90274419007/
2 confirmed dead, 9 more presumed dead after chemical tank explosion in Washington

Gov. Bob Ferguson said Washington is "bracing" for the deadliest industrial disaster in state history.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 27

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116648399449400170

every European needs to download this graph, send it to their MPs and tell them NO, Europe should never become like the USA. it should be the other way around.

this isn’t inequality. this is the political economy version of a mafia state.

#inequality #capitalism #deregulation

Kevin StevensMay 25
Trump's America:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Kvw6hpXnb7o?si=Bu8PlxXBUfHlnpTa
#ecology #nature #science #deforestation #deregulation #corporateprofits #maga #fuckmaga #trump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #dipshitdonny #donaldvonshitsinpants #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #uspol #uspolitics #politics #news #history
The government has started spraying a toxic chemical near Lake Tahoe

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Show threadJan PenfratMay 21

Here are my takeaways from day 2 (and my last one) of #CPDP2026 :

1. Everyone hates the #simplification and #deregulation #Omnibus but the @EUCommission defends it regardless.

2. Experts propose very nuanced approaches for how to best protect minors online. So much expertise that #VonDerLeyen and many other lawmakers simply ignore.

3. The state of #DSA / #DMA enforcement is so dire that even orgs with 1st hand evidence of noncompliance don't bother to send it to regulators anymore. /fin 🧵

Show threadJan PenfratMay 21

Oh my, the @EUCommission really argues the #deregulation #Omnibus doesn't need an Impact Assessment (which the EU's own #BetterRegulation guidelines normally require), because they had "evidence" from internal Staff Documents, so documents the Commission has written itself. Oh and they had targeted (read: closed-door) conversations with industry.

This is not how independent evidence collection and analysis works!

Show threadPeter RileyMay 21

@newsletterTF

Something in the water ?
“Deregulation” What could possibly go wrong, wrong wrong?
(Capitalists are always keen to profit/ avoid regulation; regardless of the human, social and environmental consequences)

About polyfluoroalkyl substances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFAS

Environmental Protection Agency
https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-health-and-environmental-risks-pfas

#Capitalism #deregulation #foreverchemicals #PFAS

PFAS - Wikipedia

Friends of the Earth EuropeMay 20
A welcome reality check on the EU’s crusade to get rid of the protections for our health, the environment and workers. ⬇️ It highlights how it is all about pace and action whilst disregarding the consequences for our environment, health and safety. We need #RulesToProtect us, not #Deregulation

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bak7f4b3jsiqlpyo6o4ejaji/post/3mmbhnlzll72c
Show threadPaul HealeyMay 14
@OliverNoble @2legged @ReggieHere Could the solution be Unlisted Public Companies?
The failure of governments to ethically regulate markets spawning the contagion of antitrust monopolies has resulted in them buying and controlling policy. It has not gone unnoticed! PLCs have given us Empire’s creep show, hence the rise of fascist cults and the threat of total annihilation from war and ecocide raising the chance of biosphere collapse! #UPC #PLC #Deregulation #ecocide #EvilCorps #TheRiseOfFascistCults
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)May 13
EU Commission's 'Better Regulation' reform institutionalises undemocratic highspeed #deregulation methods 🚨 Instead of halting its methods for producing #Omnibus proposals at speed, the Commission intends to change its rules to enable more of this 😠 New post: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

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