Privacy professional, advocate, and activist based in Linz, Austria.
I'd like to talk about privacy in general, the GDPR in particular, and anything else related to the role of technology in our society.
Posting and boosting in English and German.
| Academic background ... | Law & Economics |
| Working on ... | Privacy education & outreach |
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#AMRO26 - Becoming Unreadable
13th-16th May 2026, Linz (AT)
Pre-opening: 12th May
"Becoming Unreadable" examines the digital conditions shaping how we live and work. It challenges norms of constant online presence and critiques the role of mainstream digital cultures in surveillance and data exploitation, while exploring ethical, sustainable, community-driven alternatives.
Check out the Festival program: https://radical-openness.org
Claims that running a slop machine locally is privacy-friendly are wrong unless the person running it has a concept of privacy that is limited to them alone.
But the technology is still built on massive theft of personal information, no matter where it's running. Arguing that running it locally makes everything okay is nothing but an admission of egocentrism.
That's why reading praises for the slop machines with the privacy hashtag makes me angry!
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#privacy #LLMs #StopTheSlop #Slopposition
Digital Independence Day
Willy*Fred, Sunday, May 3 at 02:00 PM GMT+2
Wo möchtest du anfangen? Von Whatsapp auf Signal, von Gmail zu einem ethischen Emailprovider wechseln? Linux installieren? Willst du erfahren, was das Fediverse ist und wie du mitmachen kannst? Suchst du alternative Software für bestimmte Bereiche?
Es wird zunehmend klar, dass die Abhängigkeit von US Big Tech nicht nur uns persönlich schadet, sondern auch unserer Gesellschaft und Umwelt. Um diese Abhängigkeit zu verringern, begehen wir monatlich den Digital Independence Day: https://di.day
Am Sonntag, 3. Mai 2026, sind wir ab 14:00 im Willy*Fred Gassenlokal, Graben 3 um den Wechsel von Big Tech in Richtung demokratiefreundlicher digitaler Alternativen gemeinsam, Schritt fur Schritt anzufangen. Kommt mit, bring Freund*innen mit, und wir gehen gemeinsam die ersten Schritte!
If you're in Linz on May 16th, please come and hear me talk about how bad the European Commission's "Digital Omnibus" is for us. I'd love to see you there!
Also, please have a look at all the other wonderful contributions to this year's Art Meets Radical Openness festival taking place in Linz from May 13th to 16th.
https://radical-openness.org/en/programm/2026/fodder-machine-european-commissions-plans-facilitate-building-generative-models-our
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#amro26 #privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #DigitalOmnibus
Under the guise of “cutting unnecessary red tape”, the European Commission proposed profound changes to the Union’s regulatory framework for the protection of personal data.
Don't try to reason with people on the topic of LLMs when they are on the payroll of big tech.
They like to keep earning those $$$$$$
The best you can hope for is an "It's not 100% there yet but soon™"
"The resource usage will go down over time" based on? Don't expect an answer.
How it should make the invested money back and a profit?
Don't ask 'em they are "Technologists" not "Bean Counters"
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data,
But what about our responsibility to protect the data of others?
If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you.
To make privacy work, we need to develop a culture that normalizes caring for everyone's data, not just our own.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. Together, we must build a culture where everyone cares for the data of others.
Soziale Netzwerke und ihre auf Überwachung und Personalisierung basierenden Geschäftsmodelle schaffen Anreize, die letztlich die Demokratie gefährden. Für die EU ist es höchste Zeit, dem etwas entgegenzusetzen, fordert eine umfassende Studie der Forschungsabteilung der EU-Kommission.
While I listened to yet another talk by a textbook startup bro yesterday, I noticed that he kept highlighting his own accomplishments which were, at best, very loosely related to the topic he was supposed to talk about. This triggered me, but I couldn't tell why exactly.
This second, it came to me. I just don't like it when the messenger thinks they are more important than the message they are supposed to convey.
To all the LLM bros who are invading my precious feed,
I really don't care if your slop machine runs locally. The technology is still built on utter disrespect for humans, their dignity, their environment, and their privacy. Running it on your hardware doesn't make it ethical!
And please stop using the privacy hashtag to brag about it. You're just wrong there!
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop #Slopposition #privacy (but for real)
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