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obnoxious twink who thinks he knows everybody | works @Freiheitsrechte | Fellow @ShuttleworthFdn
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SenficonNov 30, 2022
Open Rights GroupNov 30, 2022

🚨 Chat monitoring sneaked into Online Safety Bill through back door measure.

The spy clause goes beyond scanning public posts to include messaging platforms like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger and Signal.

This is a disproportionate expansion in surveillance capacity that puts everyone's privacy at risk.

We urge people in the UK to write to their MP. #BlockTheBill

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofspeech #cybersecurity

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/chat-monitoring-sneaked-into-online-safety-bill-through-back-door-measure/

Chat monitoring sneaked into Online Safety Bill through back door measure

For immediate release The Open Rights Group’s policy manager on Freedom of Expression, Dr. Monica Horten said: “Over 40 million people use these services in the UK. This is a massive expansion in surveillance capacity hidden inside a bill designed to protect children from harmful content”. “Children deserve to grow up in a free society. […]

Open Rights Group
SenficonNov 29, 2022
@nicol @Posth Don’t know about Open Europe, but GFF doesn’t do this kind of work and does not take public money.
SenficonNov 29, 2022
@nicol @Posth There will be an open call for tenders from the European Commission for the study, probably sometime in mid-2023. I hope it won’t go to some huge consultancy that lacks experience with the open movement, but it will ultimately be up to the Commission.
Show threadSenficonNov 29, 2022
@attila @alastairdunning These are curated, e.g educational media files in the case of Wikimedia Commons or cultural heritage in the case of Europeana. The purpose of this database is to provide machine-readable information on the public domain status or open license of any content, e.g. to protect it from being blocked by upload filters, but it could of course incorporate media from those sources.
SenficonNov 29, 2022
Erfolg meiner GFF-Kolleg*innen vor dem #Bundesverwaltungsgericht in #Leipzig heute: Menschen ohne gesicherten Aufenthaltsstatus dürfen in den Integrationsbeirat gewählt werden. Eine von der AfD vorangetriebene Beiratssatzung, die das verbietet, ist rechtswidrig. https://freiheitsrechte.org/themen/gleichbehandlung/integrationsbeirat-leipzig
Integrations|beirat des Landkreises **Leipzig**

Nach einer verfassungswidrigen Rechtsänderung durften Menschen ohne gesicherten Aufenthaltsstatus nicht mehr am Integrationsbeirat des Landkreises Leipzig mitwirken. Wir haben dagegen geklagt – und gewonnen.

GFF – Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V.
SenficonNov 24, 2022
The EU will fund a pilot project to create a #publicdomain database, an idea @[email protected] of @[email protected] and I outlined in a white paper that we presented at @[email protected] summit in 2021: https://openfuture.pubpub.org/pub/whitepaper-article17-public-domain-repository/release/2 thanks @[email protected] for proposing it! https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/kick-off-for-eu-database-of-public-domain-works-and-digital-access-to-scientific-works/
Whitepaper: Proposal to leverage Article 17 to build a public repository of Public Domain and openly licensed works.

White-paper outlining the concept for a public repository of public domain and openly licensed works.

Open Future
SenficonNov 24, 2022
Großartiger Erfolg meiner @[email protected]*innen @[email protected] & @[email protected] vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht! Kürzungen der Leistungen für Asylsuchende in Sammelunterkünften sind verfassungswidrig! ✊ https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/asylsuchende-kuerzungen-fuer-alleinstehende-in-fluechtlingsheimen-sind-verfassungswidrig-a-25e1e681-e363-4025-a90b-9cc98857330a
Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts: Kürzungen für Alleinstehende in Flüchtlingsheimen sind verfassungswidrig

Menschen in einer Sammelunterkunft bekommen 330 Euro im Monat, andere alleinstehende Asylbewerber 367 Euro. Doch das ist falsch, entscheidet das Bundesverfassungsgericht. Betroffene sollen auch rückwirkend mehr Geld bekommen.

DER SPIEGEL
SenficonNov 23, 2022
Grünen-Debatte über #Chatkontrolle: “Aufgeben ist keine Option” https://www.heise.de/news/Gruenen-Debatte-ueber-Chatkontrolle-Aufgeben-ist-keine-Option-7348250.html
Grünen-Debatte über Chatkontrolle: "Aufgeben ist keine Option"

Schurkenstaaten und Plattformen überwachten die Nutzer eh bereits, hieß es von Kinderschützern bei einem Fachgespräch der Grünen. Datenschützer hielten dagegen.

heise online
SenficonNov 20, 2022
Mathias SchindlerNov 20, 2022
Hallo @DNB_Aktuelles! Fallen die (deutschsprachigen/deutschen) Inhalte auf Twitter unter den Sammelauftrag der DNB? Welcher Teil davon ist derzeit schon geharvestet oder sonstwie von der DNB archiviert (sollten twitter.com oder twimg.com-Inhalte unverfügbar werden, ist das sicherlich relevant, oder?)?
SenficonNov 19, 2022
Gregory J. RosmaitaNov 19, 2022

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.