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Dec 5 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
hiho - EU digital rights folks, who is tracking the EU's sovereign tech fund & what it will do?

I have questions.

ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
"When it comes to digital, Europe's resilience will depend on our ability to develop the next generation of cloud and edge capacities and invest massively in developing European alternatives to reduce our current dependencies. (..)"
h/t @FiekeJ for (re)reminding me of the importance of understanding public spending on #cloud as an axe of intervention.

any tips @mikarv @edri @bitsoffreedom @1Br0wn @RazAkkoc @teirdes ?

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There are difficult conversations happening today in the international communities managing the internet's infrastructure & their role in enabling access to the internet during the conflict in #Ukraine 1/7
It is difficult to worry about, what can seem like, technical minutia far removed from real kinetic confrontation.

Yet, the decisions that these technical communities make can affect access to information, for everyone. Some things to note: 2/7
ICANN received a request by the Ukrainian member of the gov't advisory committee (gac) to limit Russia's access to the Internet & this thread lists a number of reasons why the tech community is unlikely to get involved: 3/7

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Jul 6, 2021
I got a chance to take an early peek at this article on the EU #AI Act.

Some thoughts on AI, standards and civil society that go beyond @mikarv amazing thread below:

I want to pick up on the role that CEN/CENELEC standardization will play in the implementation of the #AIA regulations & make sure standards are squarely on the radar of civil society.
Civil society in the EU are already doing important work, driving debates about (digital) rights, racism, justice & AI, like @edri @algorithmwatch @accessnow @AmnestyTech @Foxglovelegal & funders get it @euaifund @osf @df_fund

But standards are often overlooked.
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Jun 8, 2021
Why is your internet broken today? A thread from an @oii dr. of Internet infrastructure:

TL;DR--bc the #internet has material limits & business and consumers want their content ASAP, which means it needs to be physically close. 1/9

#internetdown #internet #cdn
The internet was built as a peer-to-peer network enabling each user to request and access content on a peer’s computer, which acts as a server hosting that particular content.

2/9
But, the size of the world and the physical limits of the cables and wires that make up the internet mean that content requested on a hosting server that is far away will take longer to load. 3/9

Which people find annoying & costs companies money.
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Feb 11, 2020
Dove into the @EU_Commission leaked document on "Europe fit for the digital age".

It went something like 💎💻👏🏼🤷🏼‍♀️🇪🇺 🧩...🤦🏼‍♀️ Some Q&D thoughts below.

euractiv.com/wp-content/upl…? 1/11
🎶P L O N K S N A P 🎶

That is the sounds of yet another policy paper falling into the "Fourth Revolution Trap" by repeating the flawed idea that technological progress is somehow inevitable or that #tech development is linear rather than a deliberate social process. 2/11
..Like I don't know, the process happening in one o/t most important #European political Institutions: its Commission?

It's painful to see the Commission repeating this narrative.

Painful as in watching-Musk-say-his-bodged-cybertruck-demo-is-somehow-not-his-fault painful. 3/11
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Nov 24, 2019
Great Sunday read: @amnesty report by @TanyaOCarroll @JoeWestby on the human rights impact of @Google & @facebook business models.

In this thread,I present some thoughts for folks interested in the intersection of human rights advocacy and academia. (👋 @oiioxford students)1/16
I will try to weave together the report's 4 key topics:

1. #surveillancecapitalism
2. #privacy
3. #AI
4. #market #concentration

with the work of various academics working on the social justice implications of platforms. 2/16
1. Surveillance capitalism:
The report drives home its main point: "It's the economy stupid!"

or as they frame it:

"The technology behind the internet is not incompatible with our rights, but the business model Facebook and Google have chosen is."
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Oct 2, 2019
"DoH" is an expression many associate with this guy 👇👇👇 rather than a web-based encryption technology at the center of political controversy.

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DoH is a controversial technology that obfuscates which websites you look-up (and visit) by encrypting your DNS requests.

Its development recently drawing the ire of telcos, ISPs as well as UK and US regulators.

#doh #ietf #privacy 2/18
Now that I have had some time to recover from the fact that the opaque #IETF protocols I study are front-page news, here are some thoughts on DoH from an anthro who spends a lot of time w the companies that develop & implement it.

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