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Nonilex

The #Trump admin Wednesday asked #SCOTUS to allow the president to remove a pair of #independent #regulators whose cases have broad implications for at least two dozen other agencies, including the #FederalReserve Board, & for how the federal govt operates.

Trump has moved aggressively to seize greater control of the bureaucracy, ousting independent #watchdogs & removing the two #Democrats on the #FTC, which protects #consumers from deceptive practices & monopoly #power.

#ActivistCourt
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Ecologia Digital

"In their zeal to curb #BigTech, #regulators are crafting legislative reforms that make distinctions between Internet services based on #size. A crucial Internet law, #Section230, is among the targets for such reforms. This essay discusses the nuanced considerations that regulators should address when drafting #sizebased distinctions for #InternetServices. It also raises concerns that such distinctions are not good policy in the context of Section 230."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

papers.ssrn.comRegulating Internet Services by SizeIn their zeal to curb Big Tech, regulators are crafting legislative reforms that make distinctions between Internet services based on size. A crucial Internet l
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Nonilex

#Trump has fired the director of the #Consumer #Financial #Protection Bureau, #RohitChopra, in the latest #purge of a #Biden admin ofcl.

Chopra was one of the more important #regulators from the previous admin. Chopra’s tenure saw the removal of #MedicalDebt from #CreditReports & limits on #overdrafts #penalties, all based on the premise that the financial system could be fairer & more competitive in ways that helped #consumers.

#TrumpCoup2 #GovernmentOverthrow #law
apnews.com/article/trump-chopr

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Nonilex

#ElonMusk would no doubt like to get the government off his own back. His companies, including #Tesla & #SpaceX, are the subject of over 20 investigations or reviews, a NYT examination found. Tesla’s push for autonomous driving is a particular focus for #regulators. Just last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was investigating several self-driving crashes involving fog & dust.

#TaxTheRich#HarrisWalz2024
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Jan Penfrat

As much as I enjoy watching the @EUCommission enforce the #DMA against #Bigtech firms, it's _very_ disappointing that the regulatory discussions happen between #regulators, some consumer protection people(?), and the #gatekeeper companies themselves -- behind closed doors.

Apparently no independent (#civilsociety #digitalrights) experts or #academics in #AI were invited. 🙄

CC @lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope #DigitalMarketsAct #Microsoft #Apple #Meta

Tweet on X by director for platform regulation at the EU Commission Rita Wezenbeek, celebrating the first meeting of the DMA "high-level sub-group on AI", featuring participation of various regulators "as well as Apple, Microsoft and Meta".
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PrivacyDigest

Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms?

#Regulators and lawmakers are increasingly considering when to hold tech leaders directly responsible for the activities on their services, a shift punctuated by the arrest of Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov.

nytimes.com/2024/08/28/technol

The New York Times · Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms?By Adam Satariano
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Ecologia Digital

"They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have #coolregulators, not, like, regular #regulators. Third-party app stores, the ability for browsers to run their own engines, Fortnite, and now the ability to replace lots of default apps? I want it, too! Unfortunately, #Apple doesn’t seem interested in sharing these possibilities with everyone.
#iphone #Europe
theverge.com/2024/8/24/2422694

The Verge · European iPhones are more fun nowBy Allison Johnson
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@protonprivacy @puppygirlhornypost @vfrmedia

pressing X for doubt Good #OpSec dictates to never ever rely on any provder to cover one's ass...

I just think that you overstate your #privacy claims like all those #VPN companies do to bamboozle #TechIlliterates and I find that insulting to me personally, because I'd rather have honest providers like cock.li and @monocles that will not lie into the face of customers.

But that's #NotLegalAdvice...

I just think that being honest like @tomscott is way better long-term and more beneficial to one's personal #reputation, but that's just me as a #consumer and #TechLiterate.

  • I'm shure as a #PublicCompany (not traded publicly on exchanges !!!) you do have an obligation to maximize profit and share value for your #shareholders - #Switzerland isn't that different in that regard compared to #Germany - so OFC that may not roll with your board of directors.

It's just that previous blunders left a sour taste as like a #postal service or #telco what people communicate and with whom is none of your business unless you're forced to do so for "legitimate reasons" like #ITsec or to comply with duely submitted court orders...

  • Otherwise we'll soon have #regulators and #ConsumerProtection forcing hard advertisement regulation on the entire industry with big ass disclaimers being tagged on because someone made too outrageous claims re: privacy and security...
Twitterthaddeus e. grugq on Twitter“I’m gonna tell you a secret about “logless VPNs” — they don’t exist. Noone is going to risk jail for your $5/mo https://t.co/Q2aOQJkG4g”
#regulators#consumerprotection
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

The #ImaneKhelif controversy at the #ParisOlympics highlights the challenges of #sextesting in #WomensSports, placing #regulators in an impossible #bin.

Controversy relates to the #Russian-led #InternationalBoxingAssociation, which has been #discredited as a #sporting organization due to issues with the group's #finances, #governance and #ethics

theconversation.com/imane-khel

The ConversationImane Khelif controversy at Paris Olympics shows how sex testing in women’s sports puts regulators in an impossible bindMost sports are organized according to a strict male-female binary. Nature isn’t.
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@GrapheneOS Well, you've to ask #Google and #Fiarphone that and consider invoking #Regulators like @EUCommission, @kartellamt@social.bund.de and others in that matter.

Which again proves my point:

  1. #AllGAFAMsAreEvil and NOONE shoud've ever trusted them with anything!

  2. The #Android ecosystem is fucked up and there is a need for #vendors to refuse to bow before #Google and actually do #secure & #repairable devices.

Again: You seem angry at the wromg person if that means you're angry at me.

The question to me is how is #GrapheneOS gonna go about this?

  • Cuz we both know Google can afford to go "maximum asshole" on you [the Grpahnene OS Project] and even in the worst case their legal department won't even notice this whole shitshow even if miraculously by the wounders of everyone from @eff to @fsf to @noybeu and @CCC forcing Google to literally support and endore GrapheneOS, because by the time any binding court ruling would be enforced, Google would've choked the project out of the market.

So my question is when will you get forward and work with other #vendors instead of tying your project to Google-specific and thus sorta-proprietary implementations?

[...] Pixel targets have a lot of device-specific hardening in the AOSP base along with some in GrapheneOS which needs to be ported over too. For example, various security features in the kernel including type-based Control Flow Integrity (CFI) and the shadow call stack are currently specific to the kernels for these devices. [...]

To me that sounds like some very serious #VendorLockIn you're stuck in, and now it bites you in your rear...

I hate to say it, but #ToldYaSo sadly happened!

I guess you gotta have to bootstrap it from scratch starting with #toybox + musl / #linux sooner or later...

Not to seem like an asshole, but I do sincerely wish GrpaheneOS and it's team only the best of luck and that the issue gets fixed sooner than later, because this #Vendor #LockIn is a major issue [and yes I do blame the Device Vendors that shit out unmaintained garbage] so unless you can afford the legal cost of actuall enforcing #EU laws re: #SecurityUpdates and force Vendors like #Fairphone to actually follow their claims re: #Security and #Updates, this won't move anywhere.

  • Yes I know you don't have that money and I don't expect this to be the case!

I do however also don't expect you to find a magical solution. My point is that there needs to be a change of strategy, and relying on Hardware you neither own nor control in the sense of Stakeholding isn't going to provide you with the necessary stability.

  • Because Google is a [pulicly traded] #Corporation and Corporations are explicity nobody's friend!
GrapheneOSGrapheneOS build documentationBuilding instructions for GrapheneOS, a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
#corporation
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

The #SupremeCourt on Friday overturned a long-standing legal doctrine in the US, making a transformative ruling that could hamper federal agencies' ability to regulate all kinds of industry.
Supreme Court ruling kneecaps #federal #regulators
The Supreme Court’s move to overturn a doctrine known as #ChevronDeference will completely change how environmental and consumer protections are decided. theverge.com/2024/6/28/2418011 #Chevron

Supreme Court Seal on yellow backgrond with gavel motif
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