I may be behind, but whats the model, is there an ios app I can download?

Such a slippery slope this digital sovereignty

Power and dignity: the ends of online behavioral advertising in the European Union On 7 May, Aleksandre Zardiashvili defended the thesis 'Power and dignity: the ends of online behavioral advertising in the European Union'. The doctoral research was supervised by Bart Custers and Sim...

Definitely. Wrote my PhD about that www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...

Breaking Free In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

They’re just trying to make it shitty. www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

I'd like to see this in Georgia soon 🇬🇪

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff

The market failure beneath the manosphere Confronting the misogyny and get-rich-quick schemes of influencers means talking openly to young men about success

Lovely piece by @simonvanteutem.bsky.social: “Strip away the misogyny, the supplements, the snarling podcasts, and what remains is a disarmingly simple promise: you can make something of yourself.” www.ft.com/content/a00c...

This is great. Legal intrusive thought though: do they have IP right from Dr. Dre for this 🙈

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Reviewed this in detail. Incredible writing, but my concerns were confirmed. The article is a good description of the American scholarly view of EU law, but not of EU law itself. The article's pressure is also misplaced. If you share your e-mail in PM, I'm happy to share more detailed feedback.

Joint open letter to enforce the Digital Markets Act Against Meta

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Joint open letter to enforce the Digital Markets Act Against Meta

Joint open letter with @noyb.eu and @iccl.bsky.social to the @ec.europa.eu to enforce the DMA as intended and end Meta’s non-compliance with the EU law. checkmyads.org/statement/jo...

A motivator we didn’t know we needed

Ahh… I’m not arguing against that point. It’s too late in Europe. This looks like an amazing paper and I’m curious to read it. Huge respect to the author and aligned on the objective.

Same way money laundering is not born out of banking regulations.

The source of the problem is not the rule, but an action that breaks it.

Fantastic! Did not get it from the title and the abstract. I'm looking forward to reading it. Congrats! If interested in another take: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Curious to read, but a bit suspicious of framing. Cookie banners being born out of EU regulations is a classic industry spin, and it’s unfortunate to also find it here. Many EU scholars like myself think of cookie banners as malicious compliance, most of which are already banned. Will read closely

So strange

IAB Sweden Expels Meta: Warns Advertisers About Fraud, Brand Safety 03/13/2026 The Interactive Advertising Bureau in Sweden at a recent board meeting moved to exclude Meta as a member of IAB Sweden, claiming that Meta is not doing enough to prevent fraudulent ads. The move sets standards for other European bodies to demand higher advertising standards from major tech platforms, and highlights the need for increased protection against advertising scams.

“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in Sweden at a recent board meeting moved to exclude Meta as a member of IAB Sweden. The board claimed during a meeting that Meta is not doing enough to prevent fraudulent ads.” www.mediapost.com/publications...

VG Newsmedia soll Medien Abgeltung von Google, Meta und Co sichern Digitalriesen entwickelten "zerstörerische Kraft": Rechtsexperte Thomas Höppner sieht "erhebliche Schwächen" in österreichischer Leistungsschutzregelung

"...für große Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT brauche es inzwischen schon wieder zusätzliche Regeln" www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/...

Who makes these decisions? Still, I don’t think she can win the Digital Omnibus. That would mean the EU digs its own grave.

Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake Attorney general Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

"Just as the world watched courtrooms hold Big Tobacco and Big Pharma accountable, we will, for the first time, see Big Tech CEOs like Zuckerberg take the stand."

Yes, please.

Great that the Dutch government is taking action.

Yet, we can’t deal with surveillance capitalism by only addressing the symptoms, like addictive algorithms. We must regulate the business model: break big tech and regulate adtech.

"we're now exploring updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt out of Search generative AI features" - let's see. It would hardly be the first time Google has leveraged the CMA to obstruct genuine progress

Europe wanting to become sovereign and competitive by leading quantum tech and chips and doing nothing about online ecosystem and its monetization is a headless chicken running fast imo

#bruxconf2026 #sovereignty

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Adtech is almost everything you do online. They’re using Adtech to track and investigate. Every little thing you do — shopping, browsing, checking health information, connecting on social, ChatGPT — is on Adtech.

Almost there!

Can it become clear than this the dangers of this infrastructure? What else needs to happen?