Reconsidering the Fight Against Disinformation Following an ICA pre-conference in Paris on the subject "What comes after disinformation studies," Théophile Lenoir (Théophile Lenoir) considers new avenues for how best to consider the problem of disinformation. techpolicy.press/reconsidering-…

TCF continues further down the path of being declared illegal. At the same time, the blockers to enforcing the Belgian DPA’s decision against TCF have become significantly lower. techcrunch.com/2022/09/07/iab…

1/ Today, we launch the #BlackTechAgenda, a roadmap for how Congress can create tech policies with a racial justice framework. It’s time for real solutions to protect our communities from Big Tech. coc.is/BlackTechAgend…

The EU's General Court has sided with consumers in the Google Android ruling! This ruling is crucial. Google's web of restrictions deprived consumers of genuine choice in terms of search engines and browsers on their phones and tablets beuc.eu/press-releases…

This Primer on AI in/from the Majority World from actuarial_self is @[email protected], Ranjit Singh, and rigo is an incredible curated collection of over 160 works across topics such as decolonizing feminist AI, indigenous protocols, afro-modernities! datasociety.net/library/a-prim…

If in need of optimism, here's a great piece by Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis "Maybe we’ll look back and see that Elon Musk did us a favor by forcing us off our cozy if centralized, corporatized, and corrupted internet to find and build an alternative" buzzmachine.com/2022/11/05/hop…

Great that this much needed project on social media governance in the majority world is being launched under the leadership of the wonderful chinmayiarun

A leak from the EDPB reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning #surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent: noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-pe… 1/

A case striking at the heart of Meta’s business model and one that will determine whether the #GDPR is worth the paper it’s written on. So #proud of noyb

“The trajectory of the Web 2.0 era was not inevitable — it was instead shaped by a broad range of policy choices. And we now face another moment of choice,” writes @linakhanFTC, about the future of regulation and A.I. nyti.ms/3AM0Lol

We're with you, Carole Cadwalladr Dear #UK, how will you hold power to account if journalists are penalized for doing the right thing? #CourageON

Marrakesh, June 2013. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities World Blind Union Vera Franz wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/co…

Fondly remembering this big victory for the community of the blind and Access to Knowledge #MarrakechTreaty

Bravo to Datatilsynet. EDPB has voted to extend the Norwegian ban on Metas behavioural advertising without proper consent to the whole EU, and directed Ireland to implement the ban. Norwegian authority says it’s doubts Meta’s new consent or pay is legal. www-datatilsynet-no.translate.goog/aktuelt/aktuel…

I'm so proud that Ada Lovelace Institute is a signatory on this communique around AI safety. We need regulation on AI, and to bolster - not undercut - regulation to data protection. All eyes on the DPDI bill. adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/post-summ…

Friends, colleagues... Come join Open Society Foundations AI in Journalism Futures project! How will AI change media over the next 5-15 years? What new power structures might emerge? How will audiences change? Join us in Italy this April to help figure it out 🔥 opensocietyfoundations.org/focus/open-soc…

A new Primer on how market concentration globally harms our societies by Denise Hearn supported by Open Society Foundations ccsi.columbia.edu/sites/default/… #antimonopoly