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While the EU Commission has asked staff to use Signal for messaging, the External Action Service is rolling out a bespoke app. But it refuses to share any details about it.

The Facebook-owned app has become a standard tool for international negotiations. Amid rising security concerns, EU experts now suggest a safer alternative. But the WhatsApp era is far from over.

Publishers and the TV and film industry lobbied Germany to make online platforms liable for illegal content, newly released documents reveal. The next „battle for the internet“ has begun.

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International Conflict is on its Rise: Out-dated hostilities between the USA and Iran threaten to cause catastrophic chaos. The world needs novel security conceptions that consider artificial intelligence well, first of all: data analytic and platform technologies. How could that look like, in terms of machine understanding – its design, use and ethics? How to put AI in the service of human kind?

Leaked documents reveal how TikTok hid videos of people with disabilities. Queer and fat users were also pushed out of view. The Chinese company says the rules were meant to protect vulnerable users.

Exaggerated corporate sensitivities? We publish excerpts from the moderation rules of TikTok which show that not only political content made the video platform nervous. The naming of competitors and criticism of the company were also punished.

A voter outreach campaign by the EU parliament relied on a 135.000 euro contract with the controversial US data company NationBuilder. The EU’s data protection watchdog stopped the project.

Never before has a platform grown as fast as TikTok. We have gained exclusive insight into its content moderation and are publishing excerpts from its moderation rules: TikTok operates a sophisticated system to identify, control, suppress and direct content. The platform can throttle videos of protests and demonstrations according to its rules.

A shell company from Cyprus pursues users across Europe for alleged illegal downloads of smutty flicks. Now their business model is about to get a reality check from the European Court of Justice.

A secretive meeting between Youtube chief Susan Wojcicki and Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar likely marks the opening salvo of a fierce battle over a new EU law for online platforms.

The surveillance industry strikes back: Companies around ◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼ are upping the pressure and are trying to muzzle us with legal threats. We intend to fight back and need your support.

Lawrence Lessig und sein Freund Joi Ito bei einer Veranstaltung im Jahr 2008.

The MIT Media Lab took millions in donations from Jeffrey Epstein and director Joi Ito was trying to hide it. Was Ito doing the right thing? A conversation with Lawrence Lessig on Epstein, Ito, MIT and the damage done by taking money from a donor who has caused such significant pain to so many.

A manufacturer of consumer spyware marketed to parents and partners has published incredibly intimate user data on a server freely accessible over the Internet. Freely available for all to see and hear: photos of children, school report cards, call recordings. The companies responsible for the stalkerware are largely indifferent to what happens with the data.

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Developed countries are negotiating the rules of digital world trade behind closed doors. India and other developing countries criticise this harshly. They demand negotiations within the World Trade Organization – and the abolition of a 20 year old ban on digital customs duties.

After a first unofficial meeting, talks between FairTube and Google in Berlin are to begin soon. The campaign by the YouTubers Union and IG Metall demands more transparency about the operation of the video platform and the right to have a say in decisions.

In India, a new law allows companies to access the government biometrics database. Despite a court ruling, linking to income tax returns becomes mandatory. Mistakes in social services have already led to starvation deaths. A planned data protection bill is on hold.

The EU wants to more closely control the trade of the European surveillance industry with autocratic regimes. After two years of tough negotiations, the member states have found a „compromise“: they are against anything that could limit the trade of spyware. Germany agreed as well.

New rules for Google, Facebook and Twitter

The Digital Services Act could replace the decades-old framework of the e-Commerce Directive, a note by the European Commission suggests. The document outlines a complete overhaul of the rules governing the net.

Smart speakers like Alexa not only store the voices of their registered users, but also those of children and unsuspecting guests. This constitutes a legal problem, says a report commissioned by the German parliament.

english

No more WhatsApp: EU diplomats to use mystery app for secure messaging

Hacks and spying: Is WhatsApp safe for diplomats?

Digital Services Act: Rightholders lobby Berlin to tighten liability for tech firms

Environmental and Foreign Affairs in the Context of AI: Human Security Beyond Trump

Stop complaining about us! : TikTok’s Criticism and Competition Guidelines

NationBuilder: European Parliament handed voter data to company linked to Donald Trump and Brexit

TikTok: Cheerfulness and censorship

Copyright vs. privacy: EU court to rule on porn trolls

Digital Services Act: Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki lobbied Irish leader on content moderation

Surveillance company ◼◼◼ is taking legal action against our critical reporting

NPP 184 with Lawrence Lessig: on Joi Ito, the MIT Media Lab and reputation laundering

Digital trade: India calls for customs duties on the internet

FairTube ultimatum expires: YouTube invites unions to talks

India expands its controversial biometrics database Aadhaar

EU states unanimously vote against stricter export controls for surveillance equipment

Leaked document: EU Commission mulls new law to regulate online platforms