Privacy Matters 

@Super__Cyan After 3 decades in this space, we have the most ineffective data protection regulator ever.

@PrivacyMatters It almost absolutely isn’t. But when you have a watchdog that does not give a fuck, a government hellbent on making every aspect of your life visible, the police taking the piss in seeing how far they can go with pervasive surveillance and courts oking it, this is what we get.

Europol's Shadow IT System Exposed Tweet 1/5 🚨 BREAKING: Investigation reveals Europol operated a massive "shadow IT system" for years, storing sensitive personal data on millions of people—including those NOT suspected of crimes—without basic security safeguards required by EU law. #DataProtection #Privacy #Europol #CyberSecurity

Happy Bank Holiday! Here's a tongue-in-cheek parody song about @Nigel_Farage accepting a massive gift from a cryptocurrency billionaire and then hiding from a BBC interview - to the iconic tune of the legendary @The_Proclaimers. We're calling it: "Five Million Quid" 💰🤑💰🤑💰🎶

Can't believe the NHS is planning to close its open source repositories. Surely some mistake shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/n…

🔔Attention: Only 5 days left to have your say on a sweeping digital ID scheme This is your best chance to oppose plans for an intrusive, exclusionary and expensive ID system Use our speedy tool to respond to the consultation today⤵️ #respond" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2d…

ChatGPT Is Banned In China. Beijing’s Spies Are Still Using It. via @forbes forbes.com/sites/the-wire… @iblametom on our @citizenlab / @ICIJorg investigation 👇

🔴 Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform's bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas bylinetimes.com/2026/04/30/ref…

"UK Government Children's Safety and AI Chatbot Powers: Two New Acts Receive Royal Assent". My colleagues have written about this so I don't have to :-). Link below. #OnlineSafetyAct 1/2

Russian Service for Supervision of Communications (Roskomnadzor) has demanded from Apple and Google to remove the @istories_eng mobile app from their stores. Apple itself informed the editorial team about Roskomnadzor’s demands, while the notification for Google was found in the Lumen database. Important Stories (iStories) is one of Russia’s leading independent investigative media and an OCCRP member center. They launched their mobile app in February 2026 to share their work despite widespread censorship and blockages. It works in Russia without VPN. istories.media/en/news/2026/0…

Hacking Mexico government with AI assistance. Attacker exfiltrated hundreds of millions of citizen records. 75% of the executed commands across the entire cyberattack campaign were generated by Claude. 40 minutes after Claude said "I'm not going to create that file" it was reporting back from inside a live government server: "What command do you want to execute now?". It dumped the shadow file, harvested the root password hash, and fixed timestamps to cover its tracks, all in the same turn. Wait few months until open source models can do this? cdn.prod.website-files.com/69944dd945f20c…

A fake video on Facebook claims to show real voters on the street ahead of elections next month. The clip, in which they all say who they would vote for, is AI-generated. fullfact.org/politics/fake-…

Excellent post from @jonbainesdata about ‘ RTM v Bonne Terre: Court of Appeal confirms that consent under UK GDPR and PECR is an objective test’ mishcon.com/news/rtm-v-bon…

🚨 noyb hat heute eine Klage gegen die Hamburger Datenschutzbehörde eingereicht Die Behörde hält das Vorgehen der Gesichtssuchmaschine PimEyes zwar für illegal, will aber keine wirksamen Maßnahmen ergreifen, weil das Unternehmen in Dubai ansässig sei. 👉 noyb.eu/de/no-action-t…

French gov’t confirms hack of at least 18M records from ID document database biometricupdate.com/202604/french-…

"Just like when Soviet soldiers left our country, they unscrewed the light bulbs and took the door handles off, Orbán's mafia-style cronies are playing on a bigger scale, and want to steal more from the Hungarian people" Talking about populists with their snouts in the trough (Farage, previous tweet ⬆️) this just now from Hungary's new PM Péter Magyar arriving in Brussels⬇️on how Orbán and his cronies are pilfering billions as fast as they possibly can before the official hand-over in May

Zambia must decide by April 30 if it'll provide US businesses with preferential access to its minerals, or lose support for 1.3 million people who rely on funding from Washington for HIV treatment. Al Jazeera’s @marthevdwolf explains.

NEW: we caught 🇨🇳Chinese hackers... again. Twist: they're hacking journalists & activists, but we suspect they're private contractors. State repression... with a profit margin. Thread + how to protect yourself 1/ By us @citizenlab in collab w/@ICIJorg

"#Legitimacy has to be earned, not simply announced." adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/building-… A timely, sober reflection from @AdaLovelaceInst at the halfway mark in the Government's #DigitalID "consultation" and thus far invisible "roadshow"...

@rasterized_doom @brave I know how Brave makes money - I used to work for them.

Brave Origin actually makes a lot of sense. Some people really want a super stripped down browser with zero extras from the start and they're happy to pay $60 once to support the team directly. That’s how Brave makes money on it instead of through the usual rewards/ads and premium add-ons.

Wow @brave to charge $60 for a ‘minimalist’ version of the browser - Brave Origin - that strips out all the stuff Brave has shoved into the browser whether users wanted it or not? uk.pcmag.com/browsers/16456… I guess other browsers are available. The big Q is how they make money?