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30 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Facebook on Tuesday (30 March) told Irish lawmakers to hold off on going ahead with proposed rules to regulate online political advertising until the European Commission presents its own legislation in the field 1/4: euractiv.com/section/digita…
Ireland's Electoral Reform Bill foresees greater scrutiny of online political ads surrounding elections and puts forward new transparency obligations...2/4
However, Facebook says the move could have negative privacy implications 🧐 and argues it could set Ireland on a collision course with new EU legislation for online political advertising...3/4
Moreover, in a document obtained by EURACTIV, Facebook also said it believes that the Digital Services Act #DSA could come into conflict with Irish efforts to regulate online political advertising 4 /4: euractiv.com/wp-content/upl…

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2 Apr
1/ We're well aware of the positions of the major players on the Digital Services Act #DSA. But when trawling through the consultation submissions, the sheer impact of the DSA across a myriad of sectors becomes startlingly evident.

Here's a selection of the weird & wonderful...
2/ Animal welfare group @fourpawsint highlights the challenge of online trade and the illegal trade of animals on online platforms. It supports seller identification obligations and traceability rules: Image
3/ French postal service @GroupeLaPoste wants better consistency between DSA & DMA definitions, with regards to 'active end users' and 'active professional users.' Also states that sector-specific rules should apply to different online intermediaries: Image
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11 Jan
And here's the Commission's presentation on the Digital Markets Act, to be discussed after the DSA in @EP_SingleMarket shortly: europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_…
.@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."
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11 Jan
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_…
.@prabprab appears in @EP_SingleMarket to discuss DSA/DMA after some much-needed time off!
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."
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9 Jan
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.
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3 Sep 20
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…
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6 Jul 20
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...
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