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🎬 Now with English subtitles!

For those who missed it: The first episode of our new series Data Protection Discourse is now available with English subtitles!

In this kickoff conversation, Prof. Dr. Christiane Wendehorst (University of Vienna) and @maxschrems (@noybeu) sit down with @Frederick_Richter to unpack the current debate around #GDPR reform.

📺 Watch the full discussion on our website: stiftungdatenschutz.org/englis

stiftungdatenschutz.orgEnglishPractical Implementation of the Right to Data Portability, New Ways of Providing Consent in Data Protection (PIMS), Trusted Cloud Data Protection Profile for Cloud Services

🚨 Did you know? The US Cloud Act gives American authorities unprecedented access to data stored by US tech companies – even when stored outside the US!

This affects European companies using AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure & more and brings major implications for data privacy & GDPR compliance.

What does this mean for your business? Check out our video to learn more👇

are you German?
do you browse the web?
are you interested in €5000?
then consider suing Facebook for violating your privacy.

"The ruling in favor of the plaintiff sets a precedent which the court acknowledged will allow countless other users to sue without 'explicitly demonstrating individual damages'."
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws | The Record from Recorded Future News
therecord.media/german-court-m

therecord.mediaGerman court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy lawsThe court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits.

ETHZ and EPFL announced the release of a Large Language Model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure: Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in 8B and 70B parameters configurations, using open-source training data, respecting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition, and natively fluent in over 1000 languages. Quoting: "The model will be fully open: source code and weights will be publicly available, and the training data will be transparent and reproducible".

I don't know how good it's going to be, but if true for me this is the real definition of "open-source" in AI (not the ridiculous, corporate-promiscuous definition by the Open Source Initiative).

ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth

An illustration of a swiss cross. The cross consists of cables, one side is red and the other blue.
ETH ZurichA language model built for the public goodETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.
#AI#LLM#ETH

New[ish] Privacy Guides article 🪪🚫
by me:

Age verification laws have been multiplying in recent years. This is extremely bad news for your privacy rights.

While framed as a measure to
protect the children, collecting more data on every users of the internet endangers *everyone*, including the children.

This isn't a protective measure,
this is authoritarian policies normalizing mass surveillance and silencing dissidents.

It could very much become
the end of pseudonymity online,
if we do not push back against it.

privacyguides.org/articles/202

Privacy Guides · Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
More from Em :official_verified:

Potentially groundbreaking court ruling against #Meta:

"A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 to a 🇩🇪 #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding #tracking in third-party websites."

"This may very well be one of the most substantial rulings coming out of Europe this year, ... €5,000 in damages for one visitor adds up quickly if you have tens of thousands of visitors, or even millions."

therecord.media/german-court-m

therecord.mediaGerman court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy lawsThe court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits.

😎 Out-of-office replies might be piling up, but the fight for #DigitalRights never clocks out.

Before the #EDRigram goes on summer break, here's a packed edition for you:

💪🏾 Resisting EU's #deregulation agenda that is threatening the #GDPR & #AIAct
🕵️‍♀️ @bitsoffreedom's new research on manipulative design by online platforms
📢 Call for sessions for #PrivacyCamp25 is now open

➡️ edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-10

🌻 Show your favourite digital rights newsletter some summer love ➡️ edri.org/take-action/donate/

With this money, #Nvidia is going to set up a recycling scheme for their old HW #ecology, and pay copyrights to artists associations for the data they have plundered? #copyrights #GDPR #transparency #LOL

Anywyay, it looks to me like yet another monopoly; again I am not a serious economist with diplomas, ethics, etc #business #regulation #EU

Nvidia clinches historic $4 trillion market value on AI dominance
reuters.com/world/china/nvidia