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Ailo
@airavn.bsky.social
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Digital and consumer rights advocate at the Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet).
Research and policy work on data protection, adtech, AI, cybersecurity, video games, etc.
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Meanwhile, Spec Ops: The Line is apparently delisted everywhere because everything sucks.
Loading screen from the video game Spec Ops: The Line. A bloody American soldier stands in front of a desert landscape. The loading screen message says «Do you feel like a hero yet?».
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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So what consequences will this have for Meta?
www.reuters.com/investigates...
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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why does this feel like a threat
screenshot of a paywalled article stating "You've read your last free article"
August 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This panel was easily the highlight of CPDP this year.
Massive props to @accessnow.org for doing it despite the pushback, and to the brilliant speakers.
Conference panel titled «Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza»
May 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The cartoon cat Garfield is looking at a sign indicating that he is banned from the premises. He is saying “Huh. I wonder who that’s for.”
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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This is a major milestone in assuring consumer protection in video games, following our work on virtual currencies!
Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases. 🧵

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Action points to be taken: When in-game virtual currency or in-game digital content or services are offered for sale, their price in real-world money should be clearly and prominently displayed When in-game virtual currency is offered in exchange for another in-game virtual currency which the users can buy with real-world money, its price should be indicated also in real-world money When in-game digital content or services are offered in exchange for in-game virtual currency that can be bought (directly or indirectly via another in-game virtual currency), their price should also be indicated in real-world money. The price should be indicated based on what the consumer would have to pay in full, directly or indirectly via another in-game virtual currency, the required amount of in- game virtual currency, without applying quantity discounts or other promotional offers u Although consumers may acquire in-game virtual currency in different ways and quantities, for example through gameplay or due to promotional offers, this does not change the price of the in-game digital content or services itself. The price must constitute an objective reference for what the real-world monetary cost is, regardless of how the consumer acquires the means to purchase it
March 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Newspaper headline saying «Heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting».
January 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Scene from The Fountain
December 12, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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help, spotify’s algorithm keeps recommending toad-related music
December 5, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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The Wicker Man could have been avoided if they had enough surveillance cameras.
A photo of a burning wicker man
December 3, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Cory Doctorow spitting fire on the topic of deregulation and the merits of evidence-based policy.
pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/p...
Screenshot of a part of a blog post, stating: A regulation that works might well produce no visible sign that it's working. If your water purification system works, everything is fine. It's only when you get rid of the sanitation system that you discover why it was there in the first place, a realization that might well arrive as you expire in a slick of watery stool with a rectum so prolapsed the survivors can use it as a handle when they drag your corpse to the mass burial pits.
November 21, 2024 at 11:10 AM