Jan Penfrat @ilumium@mastodon.cloud

Global tech businesses whining of not being able to break the law any more.

It's annoying to see the ease with which the tech industry abuses the #Covid pandemic to reduce people's fundamental rights. #privacy #digitalrights

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/schrems-ii-ruling-puts-european-recovery-at-risk-22391

Just realised that @signalapp has silently introduced voice and video calls in its desktop app. 👏👏👏

Probably the only thing Melania #Trump and Edward #Snowden have in common: they both use #Signal messenger.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/02/melania-trump-private-email-white-house-stephanie-winston-wolkoff

So wie @kooptech hier auf Golem.de sollten Journalist*innen #Datenschutz|fragen einordnen. #Privatsphäre steht als #Grundrecht ja nicht zum Selbstzweck im luftleeren Raum, sondern hat einen historischen und politiktheoretischen Kontext.

https://www.golem.de/news/steuer-id-der-nummerierte-buerger-2008-150562.html

When will the EU Commission (and other politicians) finally understand that #blockchain is *not* a "key digital technology" or "major development". It's an inefficient database with no relevant use case in 12 years of existence.

Proving time and again that #BigTech cannot be trusted with the monopolistic power they hold.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-apple-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-says-apple-rejected-its-attempt-to-tell-users-about-app-store-fees-idUSKBN25O042?il=0
#monopoly #Apple #Facebook #Appstore

"The Chinese do it. The Russians do it. We’ll do it too." Europe’s "data-obsessed internal market commissioner" Thierry #Breton says data should stay in Europe, according to #Politico.

Which comms person has approved this frightening quote? 😬

Don't get me wrong: EU policies should sure enable European companies to provide competitive digital services (think #DSA and #antitrust), but EU law should not require data #localisation beyond #dataprotection obligations.

Writing about #blockchain "is a bizarre journey to nowhere. (...) I’ve never seen so much bloated bombast fall so flat on closer inspection."

Please consider this, @ThierryBreton, when you write your next digital strategy for the EU.

https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/14459202945-7b223d0c

“In many ways, Europe is the only functioning regulator of Silicon Valley.” Let's hope Europe lives up to this early praise. #DSADoneRight #DigitalServicesAct
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-can-america-learn-from-europe-about-regulating-big-tech

@protonmail @Tutanota I mean I get it: companies need to differentiate their paid-for products. But aren't there less privacy/security relevant features to do that? Inbox size, addressbook fields, IMAP or not, support, etc.?

I don't understand why #privacy-friendly #email providers like @protonmail, @Tutanota, Posteo, and others artificially limit the number of email aliases their customers can create (at least Mailbox,org offers 25). Aliases don't cost anything but are key to increasing email privacy and #security.

I've never played #Fortnite in my life but what #Epic is doing with its attack against #Apple's app store #monopoly is pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=euiSHuaw6Q4

It would be even cooler though if Epic used the #freedom of alternative app stores on #Android and published Fortnite as #FOSS on @fdroidorg #FreeFortnite