.@Andreas_Schwab: "It looks to me a bit strange that the European Commission is about to authorize a merger in the financial markets area with the London Stock Exchange being one of the partners, where we risk exactly to create another data monster."
.@Ansip_EU on Big Tech sturcutral separation: "We are hiding the possibility of unbundling in the (Digital Markets Act) text by talking about possible structural changes in case of non compliance, but that also comes as a very last resort."
Commission response: "the question of structural unbundling we think needs to be one that this is considered with care."
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If you're following the @EP_SingleMarket exchange of views on the Digital Services Act & Digital Markets Act starting shortly, there'll be slides from the Commission presented. Here are the DSA ones: europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_…
EC @prabprab on Trusted Flaggers in #DSA: "It makes sense to have a special privileged channel exists to notify a platform on the presence of illegal goods and content on a platform, subject to a range of safeguards...to ensure these privileged challenges cannot be abused."
There was a bizarre European conspiracy doing the rounds on far-right platforms in the hours leading up to the US #CapitolHill riots earlier this week, inexplicably drawing in one EU member state to the 'fraudulent' election claims. Bear with me on this one...
I spent some time trawling through social media networks as well as some of the more fringe platforms, and stumbled upon an outlandish story that had garnered a lot of attention from far-right extremists online.
This was the claim that an Italian civil servant, 'Stefan Serafini,' based in Rome, had colluded with former President Barack Obama, ex Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi & Leonardo SPA (an Italian aerospace defence contractor), to rig the 2020 US elections.
There's a lot of important background to this Clearview AI in the EU story. Sit tightly. euractiv.com/section/data-p…
The European Commission’s lack of substantial response to concerns over the use of Clearview AI technology by EU law enforcement authorities has drawn the ire of MEPs on the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties committee, today...
DG Home's Zsuzsanna Felkai Janssen repeated to MEPs that the EC " is not aware of the use of the Clearview AI application by law enforcement
authorities in the EU." the EC had earlier said this in July: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…
So @OliverDowden@DCMS is pitching Huawei's exclusion from UK 5G as a 'diversification strategy' rather than a decision based on cybersecurity / espionage...euractiv.com/section/5g/new…
Interesting to note that the possible ban is more down to the limit in the supply chain of US-made equipment to Huawei, following the US Department of Commerce restrictions in May.
So, 5G journos may have just spent 3 pointless years chasing around unfounded 5G cybersec myths..
The Trump administration could have saved everyone a lot of time in making the market restrictions years ago, instead of incessantly spreading a spurious narrative without any factual basis. @FCC repeatedly failed to publicly provide any evidence of Huawei spying...
1/ This is either remarkably unconscionable or profoundly negligent from the European Commission.
A SHORT THREAD.
I recently found out that President @vonderleyen met the CEO of one of the US's most controversial big data analytics firms, Palantir, at Davos this year...
2/ Yes, the same Palantir founded by Peter Thiel - billionaire Facebook investor who donated millions to Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential election... nytimes.com/2016/10/16/tec…
3/....& the same Palantir known for its work with US intelligence agencies during the war on terror & its partnership with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in executing deportations of immigrants from the United States: theintercept.com/2017/03/02/pal…
1/7 Coronavirus THREAD: There are several overlooked areas with how the isolation measures could impact #COVID19 everyday life. One is the potential rise of gender-based domestic violence, as victims are forced to stay inside with their abusers...euractiv.com/section/corona…
2/7 “The crisis that we are going through and the quarantine could unfortunately create a fertile ground of domestic violence,” a statement from the office of @MarleneSchiappa read yesterday...
3/7 The Feminist @NousToutesOrg recently highlighted the importance of France's emergency helpline 3919, which is operating on a reduced #COVID19 service: “Being confined at home with a violent man is dangerous. It is not recommended to go out. It is not forbidden to flee."