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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters

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Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data. Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · Aug 27

Men. Let's talk prostate cancer.

Reflections on my own diagnosis. I’m lucky. My cancer was caught early because I arranged a simple blood test.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 5h

And now, the German Child Protection Association comes out against EU digital chat control

brusselssignal.eu/2025/10/germ...

And also EU Diplomats could not agree today & have called off the planned vote next week. orf.at/stories/3407...

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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 11h

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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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16h

EU Commission adopts guidelines to implement EU law on transparency and targeting of political advertising ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
nb the delay in producing these guidelines led to FB and others leaving the market - will be interesting to see if they now come back

Commission publishes guidelines to support the implementation of the Regulation on the Transparency of Political Advertising

Today, the European Commission published guidelines to support the effective implementation of the Regulation on transparency and targeting of political advertising, which will become fully applicable...

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404 Media @404media.co · 8h

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

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

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.

www.404media.co

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 15h

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.”

www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Zitat

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

www.bmjv.de

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18h

Russia's disinformation campaign is now using deepfaked audio of Holocaust survivors to attack Armenia, in videos published on the 2nd anniversary of the Hamas October 7th attack on Israel.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19h

The new trade agreements are going to be country-company as much as country-country. This NHS-global pharma deal may well turn out to be the most significant trade agreement the UK has signed since Brexit. www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs

Officials briefed the Trump administration on fresh proposals for pharma pricing earlier this week.

www.politico.eu

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

Perplexity

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

www.perplexity.ai

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 1d

The focus should be on the crime wave in DC

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting development in the X vs. Mekic case in the Netherlands, which partly deals with "Guano Notes" - X’s internal system that tracks users’ reputation scores and labels them. Those scores can determine whether posts are blocked or accounts are hidden. Very little is know about the system(1/6)

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 1d

Darfur: ICC convicts Janjaweed leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity 👏

news.un.org/en/story/202...

The Janjaweed & the RSF are evil & responsible for many atrocities and human suffering
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janjaweed

Darfur: ICC convicts Janjaweed leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Two decades after the scorched-earth campaign that left hundreds of thousands dead in Sudan’s Darfur, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has delivered its first conviction linked to the conflict, ...

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Heaton Park synagogue, where my grandparents got married and where my father had his barmitzvah, is only safe if every church, mosque, temple and gurudwara is also safe.

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Douwe Korff @douwekorff.bsky.social · 2d

See Annex II to my paper on "Fully-automated free speech-killing robots" about "What can, and what cannot, legally be said about Palestine Action?" (pp. 15-18). I conclude that "The law and the way it is applied makes no sense."
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
**I OPPOSE THE PROSCRIPTION OF PA!**

Fully-automated free speech-killing robots are incompatible with European and UK fundamental rights

<div> In the UK, the communications services regulator, Ofcom, has issued for consultation proposed guidance to user-to-user (U2U) platforms and search engines

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 2d

Signal to leave EU rather than comply w/ Chat Control, which would scan all messages sent over end-to-end encrypted platforms. Vote on Chat Control's future Oct 14. Germany is the swing vote. Officials there opposed the measure in past but new govt silent re position
therecord.media/signal-calls...

Signal calls on Germany to vote against ‘Chat Control,’ saying it would leave EU market

The head of the Signal Foundation raised concerns around Germany now refusing to say whether it will support Chat Control in an upcoming vote.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

A plane carrying a group of Southeast Asian migrants deported from the United States landed in the African nation of Eswatini early Monday, a lawyer for two of the deportees told The Associated Press.

Plane carrying deportees from the US arrives in the African nation of Eswatini, lawyer says

A plane carrying a group of Southeast Asian migrants deported from the United States has landed in the African nation of Eswatini. That's according to a U.S.

apnews.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

‘The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year… Outside of the AI plays, even European stock markets have been outperforming the US this decade’
on.ft.com/4pTQ3US

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

on.ft.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Not a serious person. Zero mention of what this would mean for the over a million British citizens whose own access to welfare in the EU is protected by the withdrawal agreement.

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICE tracking app

It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 2d

Wish there was an edit button. Meant quit not quite 🙇‍♂️

Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 2d

Calls to quite the ECHR are so flawed. But also consider the Good Friday Agreement.

‘Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are “not credible”, a new report has concluded’

www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-...

Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-...

UK withdrawal from ECHR would breach Good Friday Agreement

Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are "not credible", a new report has concluded. A new report by Pro...