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Alexander Fanta Profile picture
@FantaAlexx
Jan 23, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
After the EU parliament's angry protest against Commission inertia over the #CommonCharger for phones, Apple re-released a year-old statement to media, claiming that "consumer harm" from a standard plug would amount to 1,5 bn euros. reuters.com/article/us-eu-…

Seriously, Apple?
The FT points out that Apple made $24.5bn last year with iPhone accessories including chargers. They can absorb any cost from re-design easily, while the medium-term benefits of unified equipment should be immediately obvious. How shameless can you be? ft.com/content/6bd514…
For clarity's sake, the 1,5bn figure is a new claim, but the weird argument that standardisation somehow leads to consumer harm Apple already a while back here: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

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Aug 25
The news that Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested at the airport in Paris is huge, with potentially massive consequences for EU digital policy. So far, Telegram is the outlier among messaging apps - a lawless place, where scams and drug trade happen with near impunity. 🧵
Law enforcement across Europe complain that Telegram ignores requests such as for subscriber data of users engaged in suspected drug trades. Telegram gets away with it partly because its HQ is in the UAE, thus removing it from the grasp of EU authorities.
Since the EU's Digital Services Act has kicked into force last year, Telegram has named an EU representative in Belgium, which in theory makes it the point of contact for authorities across Europe. But that along gives law enforcement little leverage to get data from Telegram.
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Jul 15
Remember when Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher had all these one-on-one meetings with important people in the European Union, including Commission President Ursula von der Leyen?

Kutcher was lobbying to curtail privacy, for the sake of fighting child sexual abuse. What gives? 🧵 Image
Two years ago, the European Commission proposed a law that could give authorities the power to require service providers such as WhatsApp to scan all user images and videos on device for child abuse images (CSAM), even circumventing encryption. Privacy advocates were alarmed.
But despite the concerns, Kutcher's NGO Thorn lobbied heavily for the law - and offered its own software to scan for CSAM.

As the Commission readied its proposal, it thanked Thorn as 'partner' for its 'close collaboration'. Image
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Oct 15, 2023
BREAKING - After reports that the EU Commission used political microtargeting to sway key groups of their controversial CSAM proposal, the European Data Protection Supervisor has reached out under the "so-called pre-investigation procedure."

What does this mean?
The EDPS requested "information related to the described use of microtargeted ads, to be provided by 20 0ctober."
The EU's data protection authority told me that while "this step does not constitute opening of a formal investigation, the EDPS will assess the information, once received from the Commissions, and decide on the potential next steps accordingly."
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Feb 13, 2023
This is a huge, huge deal. Could be the biggest EU transparency litigation in a decade.

The New York Times is taking the European Commission to court over Ursula von der Leyen's secret text messages with the CEO of Pfizer.

A bit more context in this 🧵

politico.eu/article/new-yo…
What is this about?

In 2021, the EU was desperate for more Covid vaccines. Pfizer had the goods, but was slow to deliver.

In the dire early months of 2021, Von der Leyen took it on herself to personally negotiate for 1,8 billion vaccine doses.
Soon after Von der Leyen sealed the deal with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in calls and text messages, the New York Times reported.

nytimes.com/2021/04/28/wor…
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Jul 14, 2022
The Commission has denied access to the EU membership questionnaire which president Zelenskyy personally handed to Ursula von der Leyen during a visit to Kyiv in June. #Ukraine Von der Leyen handed a piece of paper by Zelenskyi
Why is this important? Von der Leyen said in a speech on April 8 that "[t]his questionnaire is the basis for our discussion in the coming months." It details on political and economic criteria for accession, as well as the aquis of European law.
When I asked the Commission for the questionnaire, they told me that the Ukrainian government had published the questions (if not the answers) on their website. They have since been removed and are unfindable on the Wayback Machine.
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Apr 30, 2022
Eigentlich recht merkwürdig, dass das ziemlich beachtliche Interview von @KappacherS mit Gemeindebundpräsident Riedl im Mittagsjournal heute so wenig Beachtung fand. Warum es so interessant war? Ein 🧵
Zum einen hat Riedl mit seiner kritischen Haltung zur ÖVP-Spitze kaum hinter Berg gehalten und deutlich Ärger über die vielen Korruptionsvorwürfe spüren lassen. Im einzigen Zeitungsbericht im Kurier kommt das zahm rüber, aber an der Basis brodelt offenbar.
kurier.at/politik/inland…
Interessant auch, dass Riedl beim heißen Övp-Thema Kinderbetreuung ("Kann ich ein Bundesland aufheizen") mehr Geld und Standards vom Bund fordert. Hier kriegt die Kritik an der kopflosen Parteiführung eine inhaltliche Kontur.
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