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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 15h

In the same vein, from the same book.

May 2019 as Xi Jinping touted a rare earths processing plant in Jiangxi following Huawei’s addition to the entity list.

People's Daily: "Don't say you were not warned"

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

It's not news that Europe is slow

But to read that - 35 articles in a state newspaper (public!) assessing China's chokepoints - 7 years before the policy discussion properly started here, is tragic

US & China are going for the jugular. EU sharpens its quill for another roadmap

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, 6 days after that story, Beijing upped controls on rare earths, also lesser-known things like superhard materials (synthetic diamonds), lithium-battery & graphite anode materials

In all cases, China dominates 80%+ of global supply. European industry will be hit hard

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

Seven years ago.

The next year, under US pressure, ASML announced it would stop selling EUV machines to China.

Six years after that, we now are now starting to hear discussions in Europe about "becoming indispensable", finding chokepoints & deterrents

Europe hunts for chokepoints it can weaponise in a new age of economic warfare

Bureaucrats look for leverage against coercion from Beijing and Washington but what would it take for Brussels to act?

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

Been thinking about this all week. On the train to the Hague I was reading Edward Fishman's 'Chokepoints'

In 2018, when Trump cut ZTE off from US kit, a newspaper run by China’s Ministry of Science & Technology published a series of 35 articles titled “What Are Our Chokepoints?”

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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 14h

Not the first time…there was the bugging of the EU Council building in 2003, “Operation socialist” in 2013 when UK secret services hacked Belgacom, more recently MEPs, EU Commissioners and staff targeted with spyware. Whenever a member state is behind it, the EU goes 🤐🙊🙉🙈

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just wondering: if the European Commission is unable to deal with Hungarian spying and infiltration in Brussels, how are they expected to handle the more powerful and threatening Russian or Chinese espionage?

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Michele Neylon @mneylon.social · 1d

Undermining encryption puts us all at risk. A robust digital economy needs assurances that E2EE is promoted, not broken #security #privacy

www.globalencryption.org/2025/10/ope...

Open Letter: Irish Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill – Global Encryption Coalition

Ireland’s Minister for Justice stated that they wish to introduce domestic legislation that would give Irish police (An Garda Síochána) access to encrypted messaging services. As the minister has indicated a review of Ireland’s existing interception legislation, the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993, is under way, drafting of the new […]

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 2d

"Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups”" Oh
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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Invading Norway because he didn't get the peace prize would be so on brand.

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 2d

another day in very normal times

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 2d

@radleybalko.bsky.social You might be interested in a ‘creative’ use of forfeiture by an English local authority.

Jacob Hatton @jacobhashishaton.bsky.social · 2d

www.the-londoner.co.uk/one-of-south...

One of South London's oldest Turkish restaurants is facing a £2.5m fine over a misplaced vent

Plus, the future of McGlynn's, trader evictions in Elephant and Castle and horses on Tooting Common

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 2d

💥🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: We reveal how, under now-Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi, Hungarian intelligence spied in Brussels against the EU, attempting to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions.

@direkt36.bsky.social @papertrailmedia.de @spiegel.de @tijd.be @larsbove.bsky.social @hmnzngr.bsky.social

Inside the Fall of Viktor Orbán’s Secret Brussels Spy Network - Direkt36

In the 2010s, Hungarian intelligence began spying in Brussels against the EU and tried to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions for this purpose. However, Hungarian intelligence carried it out...

www.direkt36.hu

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 2d

Big piece in POLITICO asking about the independence of Ireland's process of appointing people to its Data Protection Commission. There is deep unease in Brussels about Ireland appointing a former Meta lobbyist as Meta's watchdog. Now questions about who was involved.

www.politico.eu/article/big-...

Big Tech lawyer played key role in picking Ireland’s new privacy regulator

Former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney will co-lead the Irish Data Protection Commission from mid-October.

www.politico.eu

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 3d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 3d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
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Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 3d

This is our opportunity to take the awareness of #ChatControl and turn it towards the domestic plan.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 3d

This book is hugely enjoyable, and a must read for anyone interested in technology and democracy.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3d

If you've been waiting to read Character Limit because there's been a lot going on (or you just had better shit to do), our book is available today only in the UK on Kindle for £0.99.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3d

Under Article 21 of the DSA, out-of-court bodies review moderation disputes. One such body, Appeals Centre Europe, has released its first transparency report.
@ramshajahangir.bsky.social spoke with Thomas Hughes and Paddy Leerssen about what these early findings suggest.

What We Can Learn from the First Digital Services Act Out-of-Court Dispute Settlements? | TechPolicy.Press

Ramsha Jahangir spoke to two experts to unpack what the early wave of disputes tells us about how the out-of-court system is working under the DSA.

www.techpolicy.press

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 3d

And the German rejection of chatcontrol is official.

Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 3d

Germany. Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection opposes the EU #ChatControl proposal for the indiscriminate scanning of all private messaging to combat CSAM.

“Private communication should never be under general suspicion.”

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Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“

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Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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