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Last Notes npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…ay24 Doesn't the far-right like AI anyway? npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons Smart move to copy this from Bluesky npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…ay24 Like last time around, it probably isn't ready yet anyway (and it only supports English so far) but they wouldn't miss an opportunity to take another shot at the EU and the DMA. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…ay24 @nprofile…64gq The one person that actually deserved to be on that list 🙃 npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…ek80 @nprofile…87np Yes! 💯 I've been wondering on Bluesky why they even bothered to announce anything when it's not even clear what changed from the old less-personalized (but still non-compliant) option: https://bsky.app/profile/gateklons.bsky.social/post/3m7ilbrr4fs2s npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…ek80 The funny thing about the DMA is that they have to enable interoperability with the feature even if they don't themselves make use of it (in the EU). npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons Meta's annulment action against the Commission's consent-or-pay decision (T-435/25) has been published in the OJ today. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…4lg3 @nprofile…4kmp EDPB also has enablers? npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…4lg3 Do you plan on sticking with Apple hardware in the future or switching to Android/Linux? npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons NEW BLOGPOST: what's being overlooked about Meta's (defeat in) challenging the #EDPB #consent-or-pay opinion (case #T-319/24) npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons Bluesky is down again, huh? They need to achieve feature parity with Twitter and then decentralize ASAP. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons NEW BLOGPOST npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…4lg3 @nprofile…ak53 @nprofile…2thv The real hot take is that the EU already is a federation, just a non-state one. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…s8j9 Signal fairly elegantly avoids this issue by expiring app versions after 90 days so they can make these ecosystem shifts while providing users with reasonable assurances of compatibility/functionality/good UX while not having to swear over supporting multiple protocol versions and downgrade attacks. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…s8j9 I suspect Apple has not done this because they can't make a reliable guarantee to users that those messages will disappear on other ends because the logic would be only integrated into the latest versions of iOS. They already mention this limitation with edited messages. It's a fundamental flaw of Apple's distribution model for its own apps and services: plenty of downgrade attack surface when you insist on backwards compatibility for everything in fear of upsetting those users. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…a6je I think Matrix folks will eventually get there but probably not soon unless they get a lot of cash. They've actually been working on an implementation with WhatsApp before 7 March 2024 when the DMA actually started to apply to all the gatekeepers that were designated in September 2023. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…a6je Hi! We know that several services at least sent the initial request for access to the full API documentation. However only Matrix was working on actually implementing the produced interoperable solutions but this is the last we heard of them: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/09/whatsapp-dma/ npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…pw7h If the account itself will be deleted, please consider leaving up an archive of the tweets (exported through Twitter's own tool) somewhere. Unfortunately Twitter is one of the few place where searching for things can actually yield what you're looking for. Plus I imagine that the smaller updates/tidbits don't have their own blogposts. 🙂 npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…sut0 Or handle more sensitive data on compartmented systems like Qubes OS npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…4lg3 KISS should be applied more often npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…d3y3 Try sending a GDPR erasure request specifically for that data. Refusing to honor a scoped deletion request might violate GDPR's principle of fairness. Data being encrypted on Apple's end is also no excuse. They are a controller for that data and should have provided a self-service tool that operates on the user's device to pull and export data. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…flav Matrix was working on it with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger but IIRC they're having a hard time dedicating/justifying the resources when this will be limited to the EU (though I think legally Meta would actually have to let you also message WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger users outside the EU and vice-versa). npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…e4uh Much worse for example is the withdrawing of draft decisions from the Article 60 process: https://x.com/floorter/status/1724795103875846393 npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…e4uh Fair point. EDPB Rules of Procedure don't provide for it (maybe they could, IDK?) but there are a lot of criteria for the request to be accepted so the EDPB could find something to object to and the DPA would not follow up, effectively ending the (improperly filed) request. It might be illegal for the DPA to withdraw a perfectly valid request but it's really just a victimless administrative violation. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons NEW BLOGPOST: Systemic issues with EU data protection guidance npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…pw7h I'm convinced forcing OEMs to making unlocking the bootloader safe and easy (perhaps even enabling dual boot), as well as forcing Google to certify those custom ROMs for Play Integrity is the only way to have and preserve any OS choice on Android. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…4lg3 I think there'd be a real market for something like a public interest (or at least deenshittified) dating app on the AT Protocol though the trust & safety concerns are probably too much for anyone to consider right now. But clearly a market in need of disruption. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons @nprofile…pw7h Extremely encouraging to hear. Council's last review of the GDPR also seemed fairly positive and against reopening it. npub1myqfud39sm3tff0patyqqguqk3mkpncr4scv6lxm295a5euwnj4ql85htk Gateklons I love how every single reply to Gruber's toot calls him out on his bullshit. Ouch.
