Stop bombing schools
Stop bombing hospitals
Stop bombing homes
Stop bombing children

Stop bombing.

Here are 7 awesome (new or newish) features in @signalapp many users seem to have missed but will probably want to use.

(Some of them I think are only available on Android at the moment?)

A quick thread 🧵

(Note: If you're triggered to comment on centralisation, AWS, Google Push, or believe that Signal is secretly run by the CIA, no need to reply. We know you're there and appreciate you.)

🗣️ Transparency isn’t red tape, it’s accountability

The #DigitalOmnibus proposes to remove Article 49(2) from the #AIAct. This would allow AI providers to dodge registration of high-risk systems by self-declaring they’re “not high risk”.
This would weaken enforcement, undermine legal certainty & erode fundamental rights, all for €100 saving per company.

Name a worse trade.

We urge EU lawmakers to reject this rollback & uphold the integrity of the AI Act.

💌 w/60 CSOs https://edri.org/our-work/ai-omnibus-reject-the-proposals-to-undermine-transparency-in-the-ai-act/

🚨 No more AI Act loopholes!

🚫 Letting AI providers hide the fact that they exempted themselves from the #AIAct’s high-risk requirements is not simplification. This is the weakening of transparency safeguards.

W/ 60 orgs we call on EU to uphold rights safeguards and reject harmful proposals as part of the AI Omnibus:

Read: https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/a-call-to-eu-legislators-protect-transparency-safeguard-in-ai-act/

@edri
@article19
@CenDemTech
@bitsoffreedom
@LaQuadrature
@HomoDigitalisGR
@epicenter_works
@digitalcourage @panoptykon

New YouGov survey across 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇱 finds strong support for EU enforcement action on X.

60–78% say the EU should act further if X fails to address breaches of European law. Of those, 62–73% — nearly half of all respondents — would support banning X in the EU if it refuses to comply.

Clear public backing for data privacy, transparency, and rule of law online.

https://peoplevsbig.tech/press-release-eu-polling/

A lot of people talking about the EU's #ChatControl bill, and rightly so. There are 2 really important votes coming up.

As someone who has worked on it for 4 years (before the official proposal was even put forward) from a digital human rights perspective, here's a quick recap / informed source of what the heck is actually going on:

- The European Commission put forward a proposal in 2022 to mass scan public and private communications, using AI, in case of people sharing abuse material;

(1/x)

Sounds like Tech Commissioner #Virkkunen is trying to reassure critics in the #EU on #DSA + #DMA enforcement:

“I have been working all the time on these topics. But of course, people, they have very different personal styles, I think,” she told #Politico.

“It’s important to stay calm, even if there are different kinds of attacks against this legislation,... We are fully enforcing the rules all the time and everybody can be ensured on that.”

“Our rules are not part of trade negotiations.”