RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/115934543836591709
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Holy shit I was not aware.
the informed public:
"Openness and transparency: the Court of Justice of the European Union is modernising its digital communication" | https://curia.europa.eu/site/
6/6 ⚠️ These are not the only issues still plaguing the law. Technically infeasible network blocking rules; unreliable scanning technologies; a creeping risk of excessive law enforcement powers over supposedly independent institutions; and many others remain.
🧐 Want to know the latest happenings on the CSA Regulation trilogues? EDRi is keeping our Document Pool up-to-date with all the official developments as well as our analyses: https://edri.org/our-work/csa-regulation-document-pool/
We need to oppose the European Commission's digital omnibus disaster! We need to oppose it loudly and immediately!
Not only is the leaked proposal an outright attack on our digital privacy rights. The Commission would also set whatever will be left of the GDPR up to fail eventually.
@noybeu has summarized why an how the digital omnibus will harm people, you can read their article here: https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr
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#digitalOmnibus #GDPR #privacy #dataProtection
If this result holds up, it’s potentially big: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02481-0
In short, it implies that #LightPollution is decreasing the efficiency with which #plants remove carbon from the atmosphere. It concludes that artificial light at night increases “#ecosystem respiration” (plants, microbes, and animals releasing carbon dioxide through their activity and growth), but there is no corresponding increase in #photosynthesis.
The result is that plants exposed to ALAN emit more #carbon than they absorb from the #atmosphere. The authors write: “Our findings show that ALAN disrupts the fundamental energetic constraints on ecosystem metabolism, warranting the inclusion of light pollution in global change and carbon–climate feedback assessments.”
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts shaped by diel cycles and seasonal dynamics.
The EU Commission has been running “reality checks” on 5 core areas of EU digital law: data, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, & eID. Here’s the paradox: these laws are being “simplified” before they’ve even been properly implemented or enforced.
These cuts are part of a broader “digital simplification” agenda that could:
❌ Undermine EU hard-won data protection framework
❌ Weaken net neutrality
❌ Follow the withdrawal ePrivacy Regulation & AI Liability Directive
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The European Commission has made deregulation a top priority for the EU over the next four years. Under the banner of ‘simplifying’ EU rules, we risk seeing the entire digital rulebook – for which we have advocated for years – being stripped away.
Zane Selvans
EDRi
Raphael Albert
Dr. John Barentine FRAS
kottke.org