#DigitalInfrastructure 🏗️ Comprehensive, fast #Internet and a stable #cloud infrastructure remain fundamental prerequisites for #competitiveness.

#DataProtection 🔒 #DigitalPolitics must simultaneously enable #innovation without neglecting the protection of #personaldata.

#Education and #Skills 🧑‍🏫 #Digitaleducation is key to enabling #citizens to confidently use #newtechnologies and continuously grow in terms of these #technologies.

👉 https://DigitalPolitics.EU
👉 @gerrit #eicker

DigitalPolitics.EU: Shaping and Managing Digitalisation

DigitalPolitics.EU: Shaping political framework conditions to manage digitalisation in a socially and economically meaningful way.

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Ontario residents are reacting to a push to ban 'surveillance pricing'
A controversial pricing strategy that could see individuals charged different amounts for the same product is drawing lots of political attention and polarizing reactions online.Federal NDPs introduced a motion on Wednesday to ban "surveillance pricing," a practice in which businesses use personal data to tailor prices to individual consumers. The motion, ...
https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/04/ontario-surveillance-pricing/
🚴🔔 OMG, they invented a bike bell that can pierce the fortress of solitude that are #noise-canceling #headphones. Now you can annoy pedestrians and still not get hit by a car while checking your emails to give away your personal data just for a newsletter from a car company. 🙄💌 What a time to be alive!
https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/duobell/ #bikebell #pedestrian #safety #personaldata #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
DuoBell - The world’s first bike bell designed to penetrate noise-cancelling headphones

Škoda DuoBell is a world‑first bicycle bell engineered to be heard through noise‑cancelling headphones. An elegant analogue solution, to a digital problem.

Škoda We Love Cycling
N.B. wanted personal data from 911 calls, top Mountie alleged
New Brunswick's plan to change their 911 technology, including storing information, caused concerns among RCMP's top Mountie at the time. Larry Tremblay outlined his concerns in a September 2021 complaint to the New Brunswick ombud.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-wanted-personal-data-from-911-calls-9.7164671?cmp=rss

Good Read - nails many of the foundational issues!! (access may require email sign up)

Currently, individuals have limited awareness and even less control over who has access to their personal data and how it is used, and this structural weakness is creating attractive targets for bad actors, and opening the door to an explosion in fraud - notably in Crypto.

New calls that control over access to personal data belongs to the individual, not to banks, technology platforms or even the government.

https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-indices/2026/04/15/crypto-long-and-short-fighting-fraud-in-the-digital-age-why-state-led-identity-is-the-future #Privacy #PersonalData #Fraud #CryptoFraud #DigitalIdentity #Identity #Trust #Risk #Crypto

Are you paying more than your neighbour? It could be 'surveillance pricing'
The federal NDP is introducing a motion on Wednesday to ban so-called surveillance pricing, where personal data is used to offer individual customers or groups of people different prices than others. While finding specific examples is difficult, critics argue it's a serious problem.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ndp-motion-surveillance-pricing-9.7164611?cmp=rss
Are you paying more than your neighbour? It could be 'surveillance pricing'
The federal NDP is introducing a motion on Wednesday to ban so-called surveillance pricing, where personal data is used to offer individual customers or groups of people different prices than others. While finding specific examples is difficult, critics argue it's a serious problem.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ndp-motion-surveillance-pricing-9.7164611?cmp=rss

☝️ Don’t miss! We start our series with a lecture by Olga Gorinuova.

🎤 Olga Gorinuova: "Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI"
📍Universität Siegen, AH-A 215 & webex
🕑 15 April, 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg

#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #PersonalData #ResearchMethods

#privacy advocates want #Google to stop handing consumer data over to #ICE. The Electronic Frontier Foundation ( @eff ) is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices, saying the #tech giant fails to notify users before handing over their data to law enforcement agencies like ICE.
https://www.theverge.com/news/911789/eff-google-giving-data-ice-california-new-york
#personaldata #fuckgoogle #fuckgafam
Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over its handing of user data over to law enforcement.

The Verge

#Reuters Apr14, 2026

#Italian court allows #ClassAction against #Meta over #Facebook #DataScraping

A #Milan court Tuesday accepted class action brought by a consumer group against #Meta Platforms over the theft of #PersonalData suffered by Facebook #Italy

According to the court order, the data scraping incident, which took place between January 2018 and ⁠September 2019 and was disclosed by Meta in 2021, affected around 533 million Facebook users globally.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/italy-court-allows-class-action-against-meta-over-facebook-data-scraping-2026-04-14/