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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 8d

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 10d

"Phones in the data could be tracked back to specific residential addresses after entering ... military bases, and Leinster House, as well as sensitive locations like health clinics"

Another media investigation into commercial mobile/app location data in Ireland:
www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Security concern as tens of thousands of phone locations for sale

Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase within the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigati...

www.rte.ie

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · 16d

I was really hoping things might get better with GDPR enforcement at its Irish lead regulator, but this is Ireland giving the middle finger to EU data protection and to a democratically governed digital society.
noyb.eu/en/former-me...

Former Meta lobbyist named DPC Commissioner: Meta now officially regulates itself

According to reports in the Irish news, Niamh Sweeney, a former senior Meta lobbyist, is set to join the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) as a commissioner in October

noyb.eu

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · Sep 1

If true, this update is astonishing.
The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Google’s ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump.

This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Algorithmisches Management via Smartphone. Digitale Steuerung und Kontrolle von Beschäftigten im Außendienst – von technischer Wartung bis mobile Pflege"

Die Studie gibts hier: crackedlabs.org/mobilearbeit

Algorithmisches Management via Smartphone

Digitale Steuerung und Kontrolle von Beschäftigten im Außendienst – von technischer Wartung bis mobile Pflege

crackedlabs.org

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Sep 1

Kleiner Ö1-Beitrag über meine aktuelle Studie im Auftrag der @arbeiterkammer.at, es geht um Beschäftigtenüberwachung im Außendienst, Apps als digitale Peitsche und Stress im der Heimkrankenpflege. Irgendwann dann wieder mit weniger Wiener Dialekt ;)
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Überwacht vom digitalen Chef | MO | 01 09 2025 | 17:55

Wie Firmen ihre Außendienstmitarbeiter via App kontrollieren

oe1.orf.at

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Aug 25

h/t @malteengeler.bsky.social via @dgolumbia.bsky.social

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Aug 25

Langdon Winner (1997) on "cyberlibertarianism, a collection of ideas that links ecstatic enthusiasm for electronically mediated forms of living with radical, right wing libertarian ideas about the proper definition of freedom, social life, economics, and politics": dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Aug 25

Don't use Copilot für anything with numbers in Excel ,)

Johanna @johannasa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ah ja Copilot in Excel bitte nicht für dinge mit zahlen verwenden. 🙄

support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Aug 24

More than 40% of 543 data brokers registered under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) failed to respond to data access requests, "in an apparent violation of the CCPA".

"Consumer Beware!", the "first large-scale, systematic study of CCPA compliance": arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21914

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Jul 23

I only know media reports (till now)

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Jul 22

So, a German court said the German federal DPA cannot ban German government agencies from running FB pages (aka jointly processing data unlawfully for Meta's benefit), because whatever, and because only DPC Ireland, which hasn’t done anything relevant in years, could.

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Jul 22

I was always against singling out public institutions, and I was always in favor of targeting Meta itself rather than joint controllers caught in broken digital infrastructure, but this is just another GDPR enforcement fail/farce.

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Jul 22

So, a German court said the German federal DPA cannot ban German government agencies from running FB pages (aka jointly processing data unlawfully for Meta's benefit), because whatever, and because only DPC Ireland, which hasn’t done anything relevant in years, could.

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Jul 17

"Resilience and Resistance in Times of Deregulation and Authoritarianism"

Great title.
edri.org/our-work/pri...

#PrivacyCamp25: Call for Sessions open - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

The 13th edition of Privacy Camp is set to take place on 30 September 2025, come and explore explore the theme Resilience and Resistance.

edri.org

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Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social · Jul 8

"AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study.
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In consequence, less intrusive measures such as mental health care or improving spatial conditions tend to be neglected in favour of technological innovation"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study - Robert Rothmann, Elisabeth Mayer, 2025

The present study addresses current developments in the field of AI-based surveillance to prevent violence and suicide in prisons. In doing so, we draw on resea...

journals.sagepub.com

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thread worth reading. The evidence and the enforcement options have been there for years, they've just been ignored.