🌻 @[email protected]

Heads @snv_berlin research on digital rights, surveillance & democracy. Current projects: @aboutintel @guard_int & European Intelligence Oversight Network

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

Lots of important work ahead for the next German government, including to adjust and reform security and intelligence legislation. In a new report published today, @newsvieth and I call upon the 🚦to SEIZE the moment for comprehensive and rights-based intelligence reform.

[Wolfie Christl @WolfieChristl]

Xandr, a consumer data broker and adtech firm acquired by Microsoft in 2022 and since then merged into Microsoft Advertising, "collects and shares the personal data of millions of Europeans".

@NOYBeu filed a complaint with the Italian GDPR regulator:
https://t.co/k1YAQ0dtri

[about:intel 🌻 @aboutintel]

The German armed forces use various surveillance methods without legal restrictions or sufficient oversight. In our new blog post, the authors argue, why the governing coalition needs to use the upcoming reform to close this loophole:
https://t.co/7SKp1x95gR

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

2/2 e.g. margin of appreciation? threshold for public emergencies and derogation? tests for limitations/restrictions? extraterritoriality? regulation in specific areas like bulk surveillance? headscarves? Any hive mind thoughts/steers welcome!

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

1/2 Quick query for international lawyers: for my UNGA report on counter-terrorism by regional organizations I'm interested in examples of regional human rights bodies being (1) more or (2) less protective on national security issues than international/UN human rights law?

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

@jorisvanhoboken @UvA_Amsterdam @ivir_uva Great news. Congratulations, Joris! 🥂💫

[Tim Stuchtey @TStuchtey]

@BIGS_Potsdam-Alumni Thorsten Wetzling von der @snv_berlin spricht beim PizzaSeminar über DIE Nutzung von #OSINT und #ADINT bei #Nachrichtendiensten. Wer mehr wissen will: https://t.co/PFcLliDbyU

[Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden @TIB_IVD]

“De TIB vindt het belangrijk om de politiek en samenleving zo goed mogelijk te informeren over haar werkzaamheden".
Je leest het in ons jaarverslag. ⬇️
https://t.co/EQQAhjHHCd

[Barbara Grabowska-Moroz @BGrabowskaMoroz]

In his brilliant post at @Verfassungsblog @marcinszwed89 discusses 'shortcuts' that should be avoided in restoring the rule of law in #PL:
1. ad hod interpretation of law (which allows to find that captured institutions are deemed 'non-existent')

[about:intel 🌻 @aboutintel]

In our first piece, @twetzling & Hannah Aeterna Borne argue that a new statutory framework for the Independent Control Council is needed to protect fundamental rights & to ensure independent & effective oversight across a wider array of surveillance
https://t.co/akfZCvwWeC

[about:intel 🌻 @aboutintel]

Germany is once again gearing up for a major intelligence reform, and MUCH needs to be done since so MUCH is at stake. Check out the pressing issues lawmakers need to address in our latest discussion panel on 🇩🇪.

https://t.co/TV6OjnRqM4

[about:intel 🌻 @aboutintel]

🇵🇱 security agencies misused Pegasus spyware to target political opponents. To overcome the rule of law crisis, @BGrabowskaMoroz calls on the transformation of captured institutions: There is no effective oversight without independent & expert bodies. https://t.co/TgWyBQJBPF

[netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik_org]

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[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

Q to UK colleagues re: @bricksilk 's recent review of 🇬🇧 IP Act & recommendations.

Is/was there a debate on (a) medium/high expectations of privacy when UKIC uses commercially acquired BPDs (b) the current acquisition standard?

I'd appreciate any leads for an intl comparison.

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

Q to UK colleagues re: @bricksilk 's recent review of 🇬🇧 IP Act & recommendations.

Is/was there a debate on (a) medium/high expectations of privacy when UKIC uses commercially acquired BPDs (b) the current acquisition standard?

I'd appreciate any leads for an intl comparison.

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

[Opportunity]

Full-time PhD scholarship @UofGlasgow for comparative case study analysis of oversight practices regarding digital surveillance for intelligence purposes in Southern Africa.

Unique chance to work w/ excellent scholar & mentor @DuncanJane
https://t.co/a0giYEAw4r

[Frankfurter Allgemeine @faznet]

Deutschlands Nachrichtendienste brauchen eine neue Architektur der Kontrolle, schreiben Konstantin Kuhle und Stephan Thomae in ihrem Gastbeitrag: https://t.co/ndtY2sKZ2Z #BND

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

Interestingly, according to the piece, the Dutch Intelligence Oversight Body (CTIVD) held a roundtable on this topic. "Although itself cannot act, as it is only charged with overseeing MIVD/AIVD", it sure initiated an important discussion which may inspire others to do the same.

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

A very interesting piece that sheds light on (what my automated translation programme calls) the proliferation of disjointed government intelligence activities in the Netherlands. https://t.co/qkuwCJx69V

[🌻 @[email protected] @twetzling]

more legislative attention should be drawn to the stark differences regarding the availability of safeguards and data handling requirements for similar activities across different sectors ... and what can be done to better prevent creative non-compliance (forum/regime shopping).