Month: 16 Tammuz 5783 (July 2023)

There was a time when I didn’t think anything would go wrong with plugins. And I remember the time when I realized how much trouble we were going to be in. This is the memory of that story.

The post Plugins: When It Changed appeared first on Half-Elf on Tech . – https://halfelf.org/2023/plugins-when-it-changed/

—@ipstenu

#Meta is having a very bad year. The latest decision (issued by the #CJEU yesterday in Meta Platforms Inc, et al., v. Bundeskartellamt, C-C252/21) adds to their woes, but more importantly, I anticipate it will force us all to re-evaluate #processing, #lawful bases, special category data, and #inferences derived from that data.

In my article, I explore the case in detail, as well as some hypotheses on the impact of this decision broadly to #BigTech, with examples.

But I’m curious to hear your thoughts and observations. Am I being a Cassandra? Overly pessimistic? Completely overthinking this? What implications am I missing?

I’ll note here (even though I didn’t mention it in the article) that this may also portend the effective death of the One Stop Shop mechanism, which is already on shaky ground after the whole spat between the #DPC and other regulators. Who needs Ireland if competition authorities can also raise issues under the GDPR?

CJEU case: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf?mode=DOC&pageIndex=0&docid=275125&part=1&doclang=FR&text=&dir=&occ=first&cid=62013

Substack: https://careylening.substack.com/p/metas-wakeup-call-and-big-techs-new

—@privacat

outstanding blog post by @CarolineMalaCorbin on the anti LGTB decision by SCOTU

I have read several blog posts on this, and this is the only one that is even half way clear

#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #LGBTQ #equality #discrimination #FreeSpeech #law #lawfedi #lawprof #Fedilaw #CompelledSpeech

https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2023/07/303-creative-is-no-barnette-there-is.html

—@failedLyndonLaRouchite

Dear creators:

please, please, PLEASE set up your own web sites and distribute your work from there.

If you post your work only on Twitter and/or Reddit, it’s gonna disappear. Soon.

—@mwl

I couldn’t believe this was true, so I verified it. Musk did remove a Community Note critiquing China over their Uygur genocide.

Free speech my ass. This is about protecting Tesla.

—@briannawu

People against child marriage restrictions say they will infringe on religious liberty. 86% of children who are married are girls. So, let’s be clear: if you want this, fuck your religious liberty. #Democracy https://19thnews.org/2023/07/explaining-child-marriage-laws-united-states/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

—@ben

For decades, right-wingers told us same-sex marriage would lead to a war on Christianity.

7 years after marriage equality, the consequences have been so boring that Republicans literally had to make up a case where they imagined they were victimized to justify more bigotry.

—@lolgop

Whatever kind of day you are having, I am pretty sure this 19s clip of: “Man sneezes into his trombone during concert” will improve it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vh8l0x9uF-Y&feature=share

—@vlrny

i like how “illegal in the EU” means it probably violated a human right and “illegal in florida” means it probably is a human right

—@chrisisgr8

Yeah. That’ll stop ‘em. If they can’t read about sex, they won’t have any.

Orange schools target classics, popular novels to keep sex out of class

#bookbans #books
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/03/orange-schools-target-classics-popular-novels-to-keep-sex-out-of-class/

—@WarnerCrocker

“What if an AI got hyper-focused on making paperclips and destroyed us all?” asked the insufferable nerd, as corporations whose only directive is “make stock price go up” utterly destroyed the conditions favourable for human life

—@researchfairy