Kritik an Digital-Reformen

Wie die EU den Datenschutz für Bür­ge­r:in­nen beschneiden will

Von Svenja Bergt

Um Bürokratie abzubauen, will die EU-Kommission Datenschutz-Regeln ändern. Zwei zentrale EU-Akteure erklären nun, was dabei unter die Räder kommt.

#taz #tageszeitung #Datenschutz #EU-Kommission #Datenschutzgrundverordnung #Max #Schrems #EU #Digitalisierung #Europäische #Union

Kritik an Digital-Reformen: Wie die EU den Datenschutz für Bür­ge­r:in­nen beschneiden will

^{Svenja Bergt (taz)}

@ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic

Canada is turning to employee ownership to prevent U.S. take overs.

Now that the interest in a singular focus on optimality is waning in favor of more focus on resilience, richer options start to appear.

Imagine that: a lean purpose employee owned #EU cloud infrastructure.

I think it is not only possible, it makes almost perfect sense.

#EU #cloud #water #energy #pensionFunds #infrastructure

cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bak…

Which EU country will be the first to officially move its public institutions to a national Mastodon instance, bringing political debate to the Fediverse and away from disinformation platforms like X?

We know some national-level instances already exist (e.g. in Germany). The question is: who will make it a political decision, not just a technical one?

If you think of another country, add it in the comments 👇

#LeaveX #EU #Democracy #Mastodon #Fediverse

• Ireland (18%, 37 votes)
• Austria (4%, 9 votes)
• France (53%, 111 votes)
• Germany (23%, 49 votes)

France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺

🔗 sinologic.net/en/2026-01/franc…

#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice

France chooses Open Source to secure European Sovereignty.

According to many European media outlets, the French government has just announced its commitment to a busines

^{Elio Rojano (Sinologic)}

I mean……….

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #Mandelson

Jeffrey #Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

This is from EFTA01028632.pdf for reference

#epsteinfiles #eu #uk #europe #france #deutschland #usa #news

Voor de lezers: volg @pluralistic oftewel Cory Doctorow van de EFF.

De U.S. heeft de #EU in een houdgreep met absurde digitale wetgeving.

Afgedwongen onder de dreiging van import-heffingen.

Guess what: de heffingen zijn er nu toch.

De conclusie mag helder zijn.

#COMPACT-DerTag:

#Beweis erbracht: #VonderLeyen fälscht Wahlen!💥

Tolle #Demokratie #Washington beweist Schwarz auf Weiß: Mindestens 8x hat die #EU #Wahlen manipuliert! Wo bleibt der Aufschrei? Wieso berichtet der Mainstream nicht? #vdL #USA #Betrug

compact-online.de/beweis-erbra…

#EU = #EUDSSR = #Sozialismus = #BÖSE !
#Milei hat die #Lösung: Weniger #Staat bedeutet mehr #Gerechtigkeit und mehr #Wohlstand besonders für die Schwachen
#Marxismus = #Faschismus = #Korporatismus = #Rassismus = #Totalitarismus = #EUDSSR

Beweis erbracht: Von der Leyen fälscht Wahlen!

Tolle Demokratie… Washington beweist nun Schwarz auf Weiß: Mindestens acht mal hat die EU Wahlen manipuliert! Wo bleibt der Aufschrei? Wieso berichtet der Mainstream nicht darüber? Und warum hat Flinten-Uschi dies zu verantworten? Dr.

^{COMPACT-TV (COMPACT)}

#EU = #EUDSSR = #Sozialismus = #BÖSE !

#Milei hat die #Lösung: Weniger #Staat bedeutet mehr #Gerechtigkeit und mehr #Wohlstand besonders für die Schwachen
#Marxismus = #Faschismus = #Korporatismus = #Rassismus = #Totalitarismus = #EUDSSR

You might actually be surprised but we do produce memory and RAM in #EU specifically in #Poland

Checkout #GOODRAM

goodram.com/en/

#ram #AI #memory #ssd #hdd #aibubble #nvidia #micron #amd

If you're looking for #managed #mastodon #hosting owned and hosted in the #EU, check out @mastohost.

Portugal based, EU infrastructure, geek-operated.

Plans start at 6EUR / month and its operator Hugo just migrated and updated my single-user instance without any fuss.

➡️ masto.host

Masto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon Hosting

Masto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy.

^Masto.host

Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

#Kyiv agreed to a plan if #Russia breaks any future ceasefire agreement.

The #EU’s Coalition of the Willing will respond with military action if the attack continues for 48 hours, and the U.S. will step in if it continues for 72.

ft.com/content/0f26d56d-98cd-4…

Ukraine agrees multi-tier plan for enforcing any ceasefire with Russia

European forces would be dispatched and backed by US military in case of repeated Russian violations

^{Christopher Miller (Financial Times)}

Let's do it better this time

#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU

Over the past day, soldiers of 3rd Brigade of NGU "Spartan" together with their adjuncts repelled a Russian assault, in which three platoons of the invaders were killed.

▪️80 - "200" and 2 - "300";
▪️2 prisoners;
▪️10 ATVs;
▪️4 motorcycles;
▪️6 cars.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

@pluralistic argues that now is the moment for the EU to act while platforms like Threads are degrading.

I don’t think Europe works on that kind of timing, nor it would use the mechanism Doctorow suggests.

This piece is about what leaving platforms costs, and why protecting exit routes may matter more here than technical escape.

Read here:
medium.com/@Diogo_Mendes/the-r…

#digitalrights #socialmedia #eu #politics

MEPs urge the EU to block ICE from entering Europe for the Winter Olympics.

Several European lawmakers have urged the EU to impose restrictive measures on ICE, arguing that the agency should not operate in Europe due to concerns over democratic oversight and human rights.

The controversy has been further fuelled by revelations of ICE’s business relationships with French IT multinational Capgemini.

mediafaro.org/article/20260128…

#EuropeanParliament #EU #ICE #WinterOlympics #HumanRights #Politics

MEPs urge the EU to block ICE from entering Europe for the Winter Olympics.

Several European lawmakers have urged the EU to impose restrictive measures on ICE, arguing that the agency should not operate in Europe due to concerns over democratic oversight and human …

^Euronews

RE: mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo…

CONTEXT FOR #EU EUROPEANS:

Minnesota is known as the state with the largest concentration of Scandinavian migrants. not coincidentally, it is also one of USA’s coldest states. Americans often joke that Minnesota is the whitest state in the Union.

this is important because #MAGA fascists fetishize Scandinavia. they often say their social democracies succeed for a lack of Others, aka The Blacks & sundry POC.

#GOP #Republicans are furious the "whitest" state is defending BIPOC & fighting #ICE

After the nice presentations of @haubles and @andypiper, I've asked them, "How can a grassroots movement like the Fediverse compete with social networks like BlueSky that have the resources to travel to Brussels every other week?"

I also mentioned the @leavex campaign, which makes it easier for us to contact politicians and ask them to leave X and possibly join us. And how some politicians are already asking to remove their names from the group of politicians still on X.

I'm glad I could meet @_elena again and discuss these issues.

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #EU #Democracy

Here is a needlework I created during the first lockdown, back in 2020!

It's available here in my shop:
rebordacaoembroidery.etsy.com

#art #eu #europe #netherlands #amsterdam #viral #funny

Choose European Chocolate

Did you know that Kinder, Nutella and Toffifee are European?

#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU

"The official European joke", by @ploum
ploum.net/the-european-joke/in…

Hilarious. Because it's tragic. Because it's true.

#jokes #EU #Europe

The Official European Joke

The Official European Joke par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

^ploum.net

Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU #Chocolate

perfect 81 % of tuta user use US search engine,

DDG (Microsoft server), Brave (Amazon server), Startpage (Amazon server), Ecosia.org (Cloudflare server), Kagi (Google Cloud server)

Only mojeek (UK) and qwant (FR) are not US so avoid those US crap.

@Mojeek @Qwant #duckduckgo #brave @StartpageSearch @ecosia @kagihq #eu #sovereinty

Frankreich ersetzt MS Teams und Zoom durch eigene Videokonferenzsoftware

Mit Visio führt Frankreich seine Open-Source-Videokonferenzen für Behörden ein. Bis 2027 sollen 200.000 Beamte unabhängig von US-Anbietern arbeiten können.

heise.de/news/Frankreich-erset…

#DataAct #DigitaleSouveränität #EU #IT #MicrosoftTeams #Netzpolitik #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #news

Frankreich sagt Microsoft Teams und Zoom den Kampf an

^{Moritz Förster (heise online)}

So, guess what?
The local nazis here in Sweden see ICE in the US and think "We want that here too".

It CAN happen here and in fact IT IS HAPPENING ALREADY.

Can we in the EU please take the risk seriously instead of being all smarmy at "those dumb Americans"?

Article in Swedish "Young Sveriges Demokraterna [the local fascist party] want to see a Swedish equivalent to ICE"

omni.se/unga-sd-are-vill-se-sv…

#EU #Europe
#fascism
#Sweden #Sverige

Unga SD:are vill se svensk motsvarighet till ICE

Ungsvenskarnas ordförande Denice Westerberg vill att det införs en migrationspolis i Sverige eller en ny myndighet i stil med amerikanska ICE. Till DN säger hon att hon i vanliga fall inte vill se fler myndigheter, men tillägger:

^{Patrik Dahlin (Omni)}

“I really like the Small Web. Thanks for NOT supporting it.”

ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-a…

(We tried one more time after that, got rejected again, and then stopped wasting time with @nlnet and @NGIZero. The Small Web will launch this year with ZERO EU funding in its six years of development from NGI/NLNet. If you want to support us before it does, please see small-tech.org/fund-us. After we launch, we aim for it to be self sustaining. So NGI/NLNet have been and are irrelevant as far as the Small Web is concerned.)

eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115940…

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #EU #funding #FOSS #OpenSource #EUpol #OpenSourceSustainability #NextGenerationInternet #NGI #NLNet #SmallTechnologyFoundation

For the last decade, the #EU has been funding #Mastodon #KDE #Phosh #Nextcloud #OnlyOffice #PixelFed, #Libreoffice, #CryptPad, #Kdenlive, #Lemmy and many other Open Source projects you know and love through its #NextGenerationInternet programme.

But now that programme is ending and they are thinking about its successor.

They want to hear from you on what it should look like: Share your feedback to make sure the Commission keep funding amazing Open Source projects!

[JM]ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…

#Trump #DonaldTrump #Greenland #USA #Davos #Switzerland #Europe #EU #UK #US #America #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #FactCheck #BBC #News
I couldn’t stomach listening to you-know-who today, but the fact checks after his speeches are always worth a read. As for “fake news”, he clearly likes spreading it…

Fact-checking Trump's Davos speech bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c301jg…

Fact-checking Donald Trump's Davos speech

The US president made a series of contested claims, ranging from the status of Greenland to Nato spending.

^{BBC Verify (BBC News)}

BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!

Ukrainian mountaineer Antonina Samoilova shared her tips for staying warm in extreme cold.

Antonina became the first Ukrainian woman to climb two eight-thousanders within a single day. She has summited the world’s highest peak - Mount Everest - three times and conquered five of the highest mountains on the planet, all despite storms, extreme cold, and other severe weather challenges.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #weather

No immediate comment from #NATO

Reuters has asked NATO for more details on Trump's announcement.

#Sweden’s Foreign Minister Eva Stenergard said the work of #allies on #Greenland "has had an effect." [whatever that means]

#EU leaders will proceed with an emergency summit on Thursday even after #Trump rowed back on his threats of #tariffs against some countries over #Greenland, a council spox said.

#imperialism #geopolitics #tariffs #economy #Denmark #Europe #law
reuters.com/world/davos-live-t…

EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live

theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Dump US debt and they’ll see who’s irrelevant. Of course, that would take backbone which… well… how about we make a social network called W instead?

#USA #fascism #EU #denmark

EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live

Scott Bessent replied to a question on Danish investments by saying that ‘Denmark’s investment in US treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant’

^{Jakub Krupa (The Guardian)}

Amazing. W (I kid you not): A bunch of VC-funded European Big Tech assholes attempting to rewrite history by erasing the federated European alternatives that already exist to create their own centralised, surveillance-ridden X clone.

Same shit, different flag.

And I’m sure the usual fools will flock to it the moment it’s ready.

Fuck these people.

#EU #bullshit #W #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming @nicolasvivant colter.social/@nicolasvivant/1…

Nicolas Vivant (@nicolasvivant@colter.social)

Attaché : 1 image @Radgryd@mstdn.games @aral@mastodon.ar.al It's real. → https://wsocial.eu

^Mastodon