a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.

@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?

peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

Recent policy developments by Meta increase the risk of contributing to mass violence & gross human rights abuses - just like it did in Myanmar in 2017.

A timely op-ed by @patdebrun.bsky.social & Rohingya survivor Maung Sawyeddollah 👇

www.techpolicy.press/metas-new-co...

Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit.

She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Google to sell Chrome. The tech giant has a dominance in the market when it comes to search engines and the judge says it has an illegal monopoly. Chrome is the most used browser in the world.
#pvbt #google #chrome #technews

Will the #EU continue to be tough on #BigTech regulation, or will they be too scared of provoking #Trump? And will the next 4yrs be as bad as it looks for tech justice?

@mccoolingtons.bsky.social spoke to some of our members across Europe to get their takes: blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-x-euro...

An employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...

Really enjoyed speaking with @justinhendrix.bsky.social of @techpolicypress.bsky.social about my new article about the institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research.
www.techpolicy.press/documenting-...

NEW: The Meta Ad Library is not working, one week out from the Irish General Election

Meta have been made aware of this, but failed to get it working again

This is where the DSA is meant to kick in; I just submitted an urgent complaint to CnaM, the Irish regulator - lets see what happens

📣 We're hiring (for a short-term consultancy!) 📣

Amnesty Tech is seeking a consultant with expertise in participatory approaches to research, campaigns and advocacy to review how Amnesty works with communities impacted by tech harms.

Deadline: 4/12/24

careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

Hi y'all, this is my first BlueSky post, so I'll briefly introduce myself and my work to hold Big Tech corporations to account.

My name is Pat (he/him). I'm a lawyer and human rights researcher based in London, and I work as Head of Big Tech Accountability at Amnesty International. 1/4