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[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Wow. Even by his own dismal standards, this is an abject new low for Aseem Malhotra.

To be clear, this is a GMC-registered doctor targeting vulnerable pregnant women with wildly inaccurate disinformation.

And I will say it again, @gmcuk - how on *earth* can you permit this?

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Happy one week before Midterms! Here's a report we just put out on 6 networks that Twitter released to outside researchers. 5 of the 6 had a fair bit to say ab American politics, incl the election; they varied bt fake-Dem & fake-Republican perspectives. https://t.co/jrI5SSOaSw

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

We all know it’s important to protect our privacy online, but we often don’t know where to start. The Post’s Help Desk is here to make it as easy as possible.

Start by changing these settings right now. https://t.co/mXk7yYnk9O

[Control Your Data @OwnYourID]

Great article from @vincecable "By making it easier to bring collective damages claims...That could cost the tech giants billions and finally provide an incentive for them to acknowledge the primacy of our data and privacy rights.

[Duncan McCann @DuncanEMcCann]

@vincecable makes important point about access to justice today. In order to get justice from tech giants our:

'best hope is to join together in their thousands or millions'

just as @RichardJLloyd
, @RebeccaRumbul, @peterjukes
& @AlvinCarpio trying to

https://t.co/c2ET4JBJty

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

"Ever considerate of its users, #Facebook has determined that its #privacy settings needed a bit of a shuffle to keep things (..) easy to find. To that end they’ve taken the “privacy settings” and scattered them mischievously among the other categories." https://t.co/xN3jQ1cney

[Time4PlannedOptimism @djareckon]

It’s not enough to come up with ethics frameworks and guidelines for AI with public impacts, you need regulation to hold entities accountable. Meg Foulkes, dir, Open Knowledge Foundation’s Justice Programme.

https://t.co/emk9h0w5Vc

[Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad @finnmyrstad]

Yesterday, 14 companies asked policymakers in the EU and US to #BanSurveillanceAdvertising https://t.co/aheJsgXuoY

[Control Your Data @OwnYourID]

"Metadata provides the means of establishing a profile of the individuals concerned, information that is no less sensitive, having regard to the right to privacy, than the actual content of communications."
#DataRights #StopDataAbuse

[@johnnyryan.bsky.social @johnnyryan]

Four column text of the various iterations of ePrivacy Regulation. As the Council, Commission, and Parliament negotiate this is handy for seeing their respective positions. https://t.co/jSx1GFkEXY (thanks @NOYBeu @edri @accessnow)

[Reuben Binns @[email protected] @RDBinns]

"Put simply, the competitive advantage for the UK is rooted in high standards, trustworthiness and an ethical environment where laws are enforced and data and algorithms audited. That is where we can and should be competing" @JeniT https://t.co/OYJeEqCXOO

[Robert Bateman @RobertJBateman]

Final plug for my @PrivSecEvents conversations today.

11am — @sarahchander of @edri
2pm — @maxschrems of @NOYBeu
5pm — @johnnyryan of @ICCLtweet

All in times BST (UTC+1/CET-1)

Register at https://t.co/DOgMkmmUqp

[Control Your Data @OwnYourID]

And another great video explaining how our data is being used not to show us the ads we'll find useful, but those we'll find difficult to resist.

"This makes us vulnerable to manipulation and increases the risk of fraud and discrimination."

Nice work @finnmyrstad

[Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad @finnmyrstad]

55 civil society organizations, together with many leading experts (and counting), are calling on authorities to consider a ban on surveillance advertising.

See why below.

#BanSurveillanceAdvertising

[Control Your Data @OwnYourID]

This is HUGE. If protecting the intimate details of your life from being used and abused by big tech is important to you then watch this video from @johnnyryan and team

How online ads work has led to a massive data breach and a global scandal that must be recognised and stopped

[@johnnyryan.bsky.social @johnnyryan]

We are going to court. Our lawsuit takes aim at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T and the entire online advertising/tracking industry by challenging industry rules set by IAB TechLab. ⁦@ICCLtweet⁩ https://t.co/D7NkyAILQg

[Control Your Data @OwnYourID]

Are YOU happy being targeted by ads based on your race, sexual identity and political beliefs? 🤔

@NienkePalstra of @Global_Witness is fighting for YOUR #DataRights and campaigning against micro-targeted ads in Europe

Read more 👇 https://t.co/eESRcOLU13 #GDPR

[ECFR Berlin @ECFRBerlin]

Do we need to stop big data's #pandemic power grab? Listen to our last @IQ2DE debate feat. @RikeFranke @rowenaluk & @InterwebzNani! #RethinkEurope #covid1´9 #bigdata https://t.co/fzY41xG8gF

[Robert Bateman @RobertJBateman]

I've now seen a copy of the UK adequacy decision (not yet publicly available).

A big change from the Feb draft is the "immigration exemption carve-out"

It attempts to reconcile the Commission's view of the exemption with that of the UK courts—and fails

https://t.co/6tXw6sup4X

[noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @NOYBeu]

Everyone hates #CookieBanners. That is why noyb issued the largest waive of up to 10,000 #GDPR complaints to give users a clear yes/no option.
Find out more: https://t.co/QCeUs9xNFS

[EDRi @edri]

👎🏿🇪🇺Today is a sad day for Europe, it's the day when @EU_Commission legalised #CopyrightCensorship. This sets a dangerous precedent for future European laws & other states around the world that would get inspired by Europe's legalised copyright censorship. https://t.co/2BimBqkK4e

[🇺🇦Dustin Rivers🍁 @TheDustinRivers]

@PrivacyMatters @AnnCavoukian @theprivacycoll1 Let's not forget "cookies" when originally employed didn't collect and send data back to a websites creator. It wasn't until someone had the bright idea that they could use the same concept to collect data from users...it is another example of a good idea gone wrong.

[Control Your Data @OwnYourID]

"A lack of regulatory enforcement has emboldened the ad industry and led to the current state of the 'data vampire' infested web" Says @PrivacyMatters.
We agree that many sites hoodwink users into accepting cookies and then blame #GDPR for how they do it
https://t.co/424bJHp6uT