Gateklons @[email protected]

EU digital policy nerd | data protection & privacy | competition | platform & media regulation

Focus: consent-or-pay & (messaging) interoperability

[Gateklons @[email protected] @gateklons]

NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24)

https://t.co/dhmR61nBk7

[Connor Allen @ConnorAllenEU]

The right wing route to policymaking (the so called Venezuela coalition - EPP + ECR + Patriots + ESN) will become the default one in 2029.

The left wing path (EPP+S&D+Renew+Green) will still exist, but will be completely unreliable with European Parliament levels of vote fidelity (very low) and a more natural distance between those parties.

The Council will obviously become right wing much earlier - with a 'Venezuela' block exerting meaningful influence before the end of this year and dominating by the end of next.

A right wing Parliament and a right wing Council will elect a right wing Commission in 2029, with only the EPPs relative strength in that coalition determining how far to the right that Commission is.

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

While it is trivial to trust well-established developers and relax their app review, Apple sees it differently. Apple can't tell when an established developer rebels against its junk fees and submits an update that tells users how to get a subscription outside the app, as happened with Spotify and Netflix. This is why Apple pays close attention to established developers and makes sure their app updates are "manually" checked. This seems to be more important than stopping popular apps from sending device information that can fingerprint users. Apple has banned this practice, but doesn't seem to care to enforce it.

[Leonid Volkov @leonidvolkov]

I received a suspicious email with a weird link yesterday.

My first thought was this is yet another phishing attempt, albeit well-tailored.
I was wrong: researchers with whom I shared this email told me I was targeted by a very recent DarkSword attack used by the GRU.

If I were to click the link in that email, my phone would be compromised — without entering any passwords or doing anything else.

Fun fact: the attack would be launched only if I would access the link using an iPhone registered in Lithuania (which is indeed my case). Luckily, I didn’t click.

Beware!

Technical details about this exploit and how to stay protected: https://t.co/6m2ewFRk0d

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

Forget about switching off "Share Analytics Data" in Pages settings. Keynote, Numbers, and Pages share it regardless of your choice.
#Privacy #Apple

[Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 @mysk_co]

Starting in iOS 26, Apple apps seem to access contacts more aggressively. A new app/process called "ShortcutsActions" sticks out. It accesses contacts very frequently, even when the #iPhone is locked. #iOS built-in apps can access protected resources without user's permission.

[@mikko @mikko]

How are apps still doing this? Companies: stop asking users to upload their address books. And everyone else: refuse to upload your address book to random apps and social media platforms.
The contacts in your phone are not your data. It’s other people’s data.

[Megan Gray @megangrA]

Technical Committee members for Epic v Google

[Léo Lictevout 🇪🇺 @LeoLct037]

And this week's EU buzzwords combo winner is...
https://t.co/VfC2q7Wvek

[Floor @floorter]

I had written some of my thoughts about what GDPR supervisory authorities can do about controllers trying to avoid the consequences of enforcement. This attempt by noyb has never crossed my mind. https://t.co/yCkAlZfoxf

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Grammy-winning artist Ed Sheeran, on collaborating within Taylor Swift’s information security requirements.

[Aram Zucker-Scharff | @[email protected] @Chronotope]

Bitly links are now just throwing up ads as like a mid-click interstitial. Truly wild. WTF

[Daphne Keller @daphnehk]

Just documenting what shows up in my notifications these days. I cannot imagine anything in my history as a user that indicates an interest. This is just X trying to pick winners in the culture wars.

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service #DNS4EU because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. https://t.co/BFmb4mTfxH

There are government-free services that do not log: https://t.co/aUrLs8fQWx

[Peter Wells @peterkwells]

I like how the DPO for https://t.co/aFedvqDjDM accounts is apparently the ICO, but at a misspelled address.

This service is making me feel really comfortable…

https://t.co/ZDamCZkptg

[Gateklons @[email protected] @gateklons]

NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24)

https://t.co/dhmR61nBk7

[Gateklons @[email protected] @gateklons]

@MrPunk87 Nothing happened because it's a scam. They have nothing.

[Abigail Slater @AAGSlater]

Today begins the final chapter for this historic litigation. The Court has already decided liability, and Judge Mehta has made two things clear:

1) Google is a monopolist.

2) Google broke the law.  

It illegally monopolized the online search and online search text ads markets.  We are not here to relitigate the case, we are here to ask the Court to fix the harm from Google’s unlawful conduct.

[Laurens Cerulus @laurenscerulus]

@LeoLct037 “This is how close we got, hope that helps, Ursula. Back soon.”

[Léo Lictevout 🇪🇺 @LeoLct037]

"Tu vois la mauvaise commission, elle est prélevée par l'intermédiaire pour financer sa plateforme, ça fait monter les prix. Alors que la bonne commission, elle est prélevée par l'intermédiaire pour financer sa plateforme, ça fait monter les prix mais c'est une bonne commission"