Pat Walshe. Interested in how the processing of data about people, impacts their fundamental rights & freedoms
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South Korea is reviewing its Connecting Information (CI) identifier, a near-permanent number used across services, after CI leaks at seven companies in the past year. Options include on-request renewal and periodic reissue.
#DataBreaches #DigitalID
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Privacy Matters retweeted
One of the largest disinformation campaigns in recent years is now unfolding on the X platform.
This large-scale bot, troll farm and paid influencer campaign is aimed at deflecting blame away from those that throttled Ukraine's Starshield/Starlink access onto Ukraine itself.
sexual violence including the rape of children & the elderly to mass executions & torture, all targeted at innocent civilians.”
@Congress
sexual violence including the rape of children & the elderly to mass executions & torture, all targeted at innocent civilians.”
US Congress ‘ Exposing Putin's Crimes: Evidence of Russian War Crimes and Other Atrocities in Ukraine’ congress.gov/event/118th-con…
Privacy Matters retweeted
"It will come alongside a £60m investment in what it coined a "National Cyber Shield" which it said would use agentic AI to boost cyber-defences, and £70m funding towards a National Exposure and Real-Time Vulnerability (NERV) Centre."
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Great! How about for protection national infrastructure, including utilities, transport, comms?
Privacy Matters retweeted
The UK Home Office has published a 63-page data protection impact assessment for Immigration Enforcement's use of live facial recognition. It says all alerts get human review and non-matches are deleted immediately.
#FacialRecognition #Privacy
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Privacy Matters retweeted
What this tweet from the UK's AI minister doesn't mention is that the AI Biosecurity Lab is another partnership between the government and OpenAI & Anthropic.
We significantly weaken our ability to regulate against the harms caused by these companies if we continually partner with them & increasingly rely on their goodwill.
2/7 We're launching a £165m National AI Biosecurity Initiative, including £100m for a world-first AI Biosecurity Lab.
This will harness British scientific expertise and latest AI to detect biological threats and protect people from emerging risks.
As with our @AISecurityInst, I want the new AIBL to lead the world in capability.
Privacy Matters retweeted
Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
Are these the actions of a ‘humanitarian’ or a war criminal @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @realDonaldTrump @potus?
More than half a million Ukrainians are without power - while many were left with no water - after Russia launched a fresh barrage of attacks on energy facilities across the country.
Ukrainian officials say they are still having problems accessing full Starlink services, after Donald Trump promised that Elon Musk had lifted speed restrictions on the military version of the technology.
SpaceX’s Starlink and Starshield satellite communications services have been restored in Ukraine, allowing the country's forces to operate drones at high speed, Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara said today.
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.@PalantirTech CEO Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated Women<🤷♂️🙇♂️
‘AI will undermine the influence of “highly educated, often female voters” and empower working class men instead.’<WTF
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Irony is dead. @elonmusk has so far spent more than $442 million in the midterm elections, after $76.8m spent on his super PAC this past month.<elites eh & ‘the people’ who Musk believes can be bought .. & what of the ‘people’ being murdered & maimed in Ukraine cos #Starlink
And how can any government or business trust the US again or US companies that have such power
I will never buy any product or service from Musk
Privacy Matters retweeted
Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX
Privacy Matters retweeted
The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. We’re waiting for interceptors that were already agreed on. But they are still not coming. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.
All of this is happening while we continue our quite successful operations on the front. We keep defending positions. Things have become harder – partly because of the Starlink and Starshield policies and speed limits. But our frontline is still holding and I am proud of how strong our people are.
From an address at the Hudson Institute. (2/3)
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In case you missed it: #Ofcom are proposing to ban open access to content by Joy Division, Pink Floyd The Wall, Nine Inch Nails, and anything pertaining to goth subculture; also #dysphoria forums and anything discussing body "wrongness.
I wish this were a joke: #Ofcom are going to ban "Being #Goth" under the #OnlineSafetyAct
Like: how much music will this wipe off of YouTube?
How many dark Ian Curtis jokes will be censored?
You don't address depression by burying it.
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