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@RandamuMaki Google's standard for the 'security' check of the Play Integrity API is a device licensing Google Mobile Services, installing the app from the Play Store and the user being signed into a Google account. It's clearly primarily based around Google's business interests, not security. The hardware attestation API supports verifying the device, OS and app with higher security without any of these requirements. Play Integrity API is anti-competitive for the sake of being anti-competitive.

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻1d ago

🚨 NEW European Parliament report:

"As the USA pressures the EU to adopt a more lenient regulatory stance, and industry voices call for a wider review of the #GDPR, the #UK's experience offers cautionary lessons. Any broader reform effort that is not carefully designed and fails to account for the public's strong data protection expectations will likely face significant opposition from civil society."
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2025)775856

Revisiting the GDPR: Lessons from the United Kingdom experience | Think Tank | European Parliament

Revisiting the GDPR: Lessons from the United Kingdom experience

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Ruth — of systems & em dashes 1d ago

‘An Airplane has been defined as a collection of parts having an inherent tendency to fall to earth, and requiring constant effort and supervision to stave off that outcome. The System called "airplane" may have been designed to fly, but the parts don't share that tendency. In fact, they share the opposite tendency. And the System will fly—if at all—only as a System.’

— John Gall, The Systems Bible

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Natasha Jay 3d ago

Respect people who wear glasses.

They paid money to see you.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦3d ago

Things aren't looking well with the world, but treat yourself to this AWESOME list of accepted talks over at @why2025camp - just SO much goodness! (and two talks from me, which I will be doing my utmost to also make awesome). This will also be streamed live for the world: https://vote.why2025.org/why2025

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Frederik Borgesius 3d ago

Tilburg Law School is looking for a University Lecturer in AI Policy and Ethics for TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society

https://www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/353392/universitair-docent-in-ai-beleid-en-ethiek

#jobs #academia

Universitair docent in AI Beleid en Ethiek

Tilburg University | Tilburg Law School is op zoek naar een Universitair docent in AI Beleid en Ethiek (0,8 - 1,0 fte) voor het Departement Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), locatie Tilburg.

AcademicTransfer

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦4d ago

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings

tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details! The never-ending battle where police and intelligence services demand more/total access to communications shows no sign of stopping, even in the face of mathematical and practical impossibilities.

Bert Hubert's writings

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦5d ago

Yesterday Dutch parliament shamefully passed an extreme law criminalizing being undocumented, and also criminalizing aiding undocumented people. The Dutch national police has now released a statement that they can't support this. Most appreciated. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/juli/4/00-reactie-politie-op-instemming-tweede-kamer-met-anmw.html

Eerste reactie politie op instemming Tweede Kamer met ANMW

De Tweede Kamer heeft op 3 juli ingestemd met de Asielnoodmaatregelenwet (ANMW). De strafbaarstelling van illegaliteit zal niet meteen ingaan. Toch wil de politie nu al haar zorgen uitspreken over de uitvoerbaarheid, reikwijdte en de effectiviteit van deze maatregel.

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sh3llcmdr 4d ago

Article by Open Rights Group discussing the banning Palestine Action and how the UK Government is silencing dissent

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/banning-palestine-action-how-the-uk-government-is-silencing-dissent/

Banning Palestine Action: How the UK Government is Silencing Dissent

The proscription of Palestine Action will come into effect on Saturday unless the High Court issues a temporary block on the order today.

Open Rights Group

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Joxean Koret (@matalaz)4d ago

Amnesty International, Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/07/gaza-evidence-points-to-israels-continued-use-of-starvation-to-inflict-genocide-against-palestinians/

#gaza #genocide #starvation #israel #occupation

Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians

Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.

Amnesty International