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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 7h

BREAKING: Clearview have been told that - *shockingly* - the UK GDPR applies to their indefensible business of selling your face to foreign law enforcement agencies, after PI intervened in a recent legal case.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3h

This fine highlights what anyone who uses the internet knows: practically every company is tracking your online behavior. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) fined Tractor Supply, the country's self-proclaimed largest "rural lifestyle" retailer, $1,350,000 for apparently ducking its responsibilities to

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4h

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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404 Media @404media.co · 3h

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 19h

Two years into Israel's war in Gaza, the international legal system has been thrown into crisis by what law professor Tom Dannenbaum calls “the backlash of the powerful”.
Read our latest Q&A:

“The backlash of the powerful”: Two years of Israel’s war in Gaza and the crisis of international law

We spoke to legal expert Tom Dannenbaum about accountability efforts and how the US’ response is threatening to break the system of international law.

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Tom Goldsmith @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social · 6d

This from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social's excellent book "The Tech Coup" remains an evergreen statement.

"Ultimately, the highest goal of democratic governments is not, and should not be, innovation. Rather, it is about making sure that various trade-offs, between innovation and safety, digitization and nondiscrimination, are managed in line with the rule of law. The goal is to prevent companies from moving fast and breaking things." - The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake

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Tomi Oladipo @tomioladipo.bsky.social · 1d

“If these narratives were spreading organically through politicians and citizens who genuinely share their beliefs, that would be about democratic debate. Instead, what we’re witnessing is the hijacking of Moldova’s information ecosystem through artificial armies…”

Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 2d

💥🔎🇷🇺 Our analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova: in 3 weeks, 9,900 TikTok videos were published and generated over 93 million views, created with artificial intelligence. Yet despite Moscow’s efforts, the pro-European PAS secured 50.2% in the Sept 28 election.

24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org

Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) w...

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front-LEX @front-lex.bsky.social · 1d

We shouldn’t have to say this in 2025: hunting human beings is illegal––like many of Frontex’s activities, from cooperating with the Hellenic Coastguard to sharing the location of migrant boats with Libya, for which we have taken the agency to Court.

www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Truly struggling how to feel about this tbh, but I'm quite sure this won't play out well for the Russian cause in the long term. This stuff will flood the closed environment that is the Russian internet and social media as more people share memories of their lost loved ones

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"In Russia, artificial intelligence is being used to give the deceased a haunting kind of second life. Social media is rife with short videos of relatives saying goodbye to their dead children, spouses and parents who are resurrected for some 60 seconds..."

AI lets Russian war widows see their soldier husbands one more time

A trend has emerged in Russia of using artificial intelligence to create video memorials of the dead, often soldiers, giving a final farewell to their wives and children.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 1d

Folks you might want to google this "Martin luther" dude, biblesplaining has been quite a thing well before social media was created

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 2d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 2d

Poorly structured amnesty deals embolden bandits, undermine government legitimacy, and perpetuate impunity in Nigeria, argues security analyst Idris Mohamed and recommends six ways amnesty deals can be done better.

Why bandit amnesties are failing in Nigeria's northwest

Instead of peace, poorly structured amnesty deals embolden bandits, undermine government legitimacy, and perpetuate impunity.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 4d

long-running coverage of Georgia, including several in-depth pieces on the protests, here: globalvoices.org/-/world/cent...

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

*Massive* protests in European Georgia. Demonstrators have attempted to storm the Presidential Palace.

The pro-Putin Georgian Dream party which stole the election and has sent out a new wave of riot police.

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 4d

The oldest competitive sport still active today

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 5d

Literally any day now, there will be real footage of some atrocity, illegality, or gaffe by a state actor. The government will claim it is fake AI generated video. One third of the country will believe the government, one third will believe the video, and one third will not believe anyone again.

Everything is fake on Silicon Valley’s hottest new social network

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 5d

Here is a cool paper that dives into the complexity of measuring the spread of misinformation
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies - npj Complexity

npj Complexity - The complexity of misinformation extends beyond virus and warfare analogies

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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 5d

[Fab piece] "Evidence neither makes nor implements policy. Cross-pressured people do. It follows that over-indexing on the hunt for what to do at the expense of learning how to solve problems is a losing game" www.africanistperspective.com/p/the-geopol...

The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid)

You can't have nice things without strategic independence and policy autonomy

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 5d

Whistleblower Cian Westmoreland investigates the global “Kill Cloud” – the global infrastructure of satellites, data centers, algorithmic targeting systems, and human operators that erase accountability.

http://thekill.cloud

#DNI #thekillcloud

An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research Topic for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Investigating the Killcloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control

An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research Fellow for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship: Investigating the Killcloud: AI, Big Tech & Migration Control. This slide introduces one of the three fellows: Cian Westmoreland

An informative carousel post of three slides with black backgrounds and colorful patterns with text introducing a DNI Research focus for the 2025-2026 DNI Fellowship

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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