Guillermo Beltrà

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Guillermo Beltrà

Guillermo Beltrà

@gbeltra

Policy Director at @luminategroup. @OpenSociety @beuc, @accessnow, @EDRi Board alumnus. also on Mastodon @[email protected]

Global Katılım Ocak 2009
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James Lucas
James Lucas@JamesLucasIT·
Thread on the real size of things 🧵 1. Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship
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Femi@Femi_sorry·
Rishi Sunak: Migrants are a "weapon" to "destabilise" and "overwhelm" our country, and will "destroy" our faith in government.
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COMBATE |🇵🇷@upholdreality·
Pentagon chief warns Israel of ‘strategic defeat’
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Guillermo Beltrà@gbeltra·
Surprise! It’s possible to generate revenue via advertising without tracking users @guardian launches contextual advertising service for those users who reject tracking via the dozens of cookies that websites use nowadays. A different web is possible. pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/guar…
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Guillermo Beltrà@gbeltra·
Ah, that false dilemma. Where’s an option where I don’t get tracked ?
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Guillermo Beltrà@gbeltra·
Very thought provoking @EUScream episode on Eurowhiteness and the civilisationalism that is alive and kicking at the heart of today’s European project. An essential reflection for European citizens about the Europe we want to build.
Hans Kundnani@hanskundnani

“Pro-Europeans” can also be nativists, says ⁦@MehreenKhn⁩ in this ⁦@euscreams⁩ podcast with ⁦@HelenaMalikova⁩ and me - and the onus is on other “pro-Europeans” who are not nativists to challenge nativist (or civilisational) narratives. euscream.com/eurowhiteness/

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Meredith Whittaker@mer__edith·
SO good -- the best follow the money reporting on who's behind the global attack on digital privacy yet. TLDR: it's law enforcement x AI companies posing as NGOs w a commercial interest in selling scammy mass scanning tech. Deeply cynical, deeply shady. balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who…
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Guillermo Beltrà@gbeltra·
We've failed to build transparency, accountability and respect for human rights in the ad ecosystem that fuels the internet economy. Now it's a matter of security too. No time to waste. Time to act - @EU_EDPS @vestager @ThierryBreton Thanks @omerbenj!
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profdeibert@RonDeibert·
We live in a digital ecosystem that is invasive-by-design and poorly regulated... Naturally, intel agencies and the firms that service them have found ways to exploit surveillance capitalism for targeted espionage. Nice deep dive into "AdInt" by @omerbenj 👇
Omer Benjakob@omerbenj

🚨SCOOP: My new @Haaretzcom investigation reveals new Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the heart of the online economy - ads - not just for mass surveillance, but also to hack phones 👇 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

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EDRi@edri·
🚨An extremely wide range of experts have warned against the misguided & dangerous measures in the @EU_Commission's Child Sexual Abuse Material Regulation #CSAR. See the summary below. ↩️ Like this thread and pass it on!🧵 #StopScanningMe
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The Cultural Tutor
The Cultural Tutor@culturaltutor·
12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees: 1. Temperature Control One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%. 2. Noise Reduction Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter. 3. Air Purity Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner. 4. Oxygen And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem. 5. Water Management Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply. 6. Psychological Health Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense. 7. Physical Health Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities. 8. Privacy A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy. 9. Economics The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier. 10. Wildlife Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects. 11. Light Pollution Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees. 12. Aesthetics And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers. Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs. Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on. There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.
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David Moscoso@_davidmoscoso·
¿Qué dice la Ley 39/2022 del Deporte del acto de #RubialesDimision hacia la jugadora de fútbol de la #SeleccionFemenina en la entrega del trofeo de #MundialFemenino2023? Para empezar, según la Disp. Final 1ª, "Se trata de un acto sexista intolerable en el deporte" Abro hilo👉
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Txema Santana ✳️
Txema Santana ✳️@txemita·
🛟Hoy llegó cayuco a La Gomera, algo poco habitual. A bordo, 36 personas. Hubo un traslado al hospital. Había 3 menores a bordo. Salieron desde Saint Louis, Senegal. En los últimos días ha habido varios niños pequeños y bebés desde Senegal. También alguna familia completa 📝
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Anaïs López@anaislopez23·
Tienes a 23 mujeres que mañana harán historia, y que han luchado por romper barreras sociales que llevaban siglos establecidas. Ellas, y sus antecesoras, han cambiado el cuento, y ahora las niñas pueden ser futbolistas. ¿A quién ponen los dos grandes medios en portada? A Vilda.
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