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@johnnyryan.bsky.social

@johnnyryan

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@AuschwitzMuseum
Auschwitz Memorial
5 months
A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews. It was taken 81 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
7 months
My piece in The Guardian this morning: EU race to rearm is pointless if hostile foreign powers can still use online algorithms to boost authoritarians to power across Europe. Europe’s new “Democracy Shield” should immediately shut them down. https://t.co/hTO4n35Hel
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theguardian.com
Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan
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@GaryMarcus
Gary Marcus
9 months
I just can’t get over how inversely correlated likes and views are with reality. 849k views for the tweet on the left —which a lot of people want to believe – and almost none for the correction.
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@frankthorp
Frank Thorp V
9 months
Sen Chris Coons upon learning of Trump’s proposal for Gaza. “You can report that I was speechless.” Coons then said: “That’s insane. I can’t think of a place on earth that would welcome American troops less and where any positive outcome is less likely."
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@oandriychuk1
Oles Andriychuk 🇺🇦
9 months
Discussing the future of European digital markets with MEP Andreas Schwab @Andreas_Schwab MEP Dóra Dávid & Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan new video: https://t.co/OhJ4wEsNI1
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@AFCVictoryFund
AFCVF
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🔴 WARNING for New Jersey: VOTE NO on Radical Mikie Sherrill. She’ll TRAP our kids in failing schools… She’ll OPPOSE school choice scholarships… She’ll send BILLIONS of education $ to other states… VOTE NO on Mikie Sherrill. Make a plan to vote:
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@lutherlowe
Luther Lowe
9 months
Google really, really wants the Trump admin to settle its antitrust cases.
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
9 months
Deepseek AI has some distinctly Chinese limitations…
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@malonebarry
Barry Malone
9 months
This drone footage of Rafah is truly - truly - apocalyptic.
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@everlightsolar
Everlight Solar
29 days
“We were impressed with how streamlined their process is in getting you approved for purchasing and installing the system. And it’s pretty amazing that you no longer have to pay the utility company for your electricity because the system provides all the electric power you need
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
9 months
RT @CPDPconferences: CPDP - Data Protection Day 2025 "Forging the Future: Reinventing Data Protection?" Follow @bendrath , @HielkeHijmans
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@linamkhan
Lina Khan
9 months
This was my final week as @FTC Chair so I wanted to say thank you.
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@johnmarknewman
John Mark Newman
9 months
Along with Jonathan Kanter stepping down, this officially marks the end. But it is only the end of the beginning. @FTC & @JusticeATR showed us what's possible despite shoestring budgets and hostile judges. My prediction: this movement is just getting started.
@linamkhan
Lina Khan
9 months
This was my final week as @FTC Chair so I wanted to say thank you.
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Paras 54-56 show that Google CEO Sundar Pichai rejected or failed to act upon internal calls (example) to reform the Google's dangerous RTB system in 2021. Instead, Google plans to start releasing even more data, next month.
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
In reality, Google knew for more than a decade that its RTB advertising system is a security black hole. See paragraphs 47-48 of our complaint. https://t.co/Oc86tymRSY
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Google will make a non-denial, claiming that Chinese firms receive only safe data. But the supposedly “non personalized” data Google directly sends is still dangerous, and China can also get the full data from any of the hundreds of entities that receive it. Example
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Para 49 table has sample Google segment IDs about US active military and other sensitive national security personnel available for purchase This is the ever first complaint under the new Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act Summary here https://t.co/TeCBbukpiJ
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
From our new complaint v Google under new U.S. national security law. Para 50 has a table of sample Google segment IDs available for purchase: health, sexuality, finances, active military status, etc. https://t.co/Oc86tymRSY
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Former European prime ministers write to von der Leyen, urging a break up of Google's adtech monopoly to protect democracy @ClubdeMadrid | https://t.co/VvoAt8NEJH
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@johnnyryan
@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Today’s complaint targets a major part of Google’s business: much of Google’s $237.9 billion advertising revenue is RTB. Google RTB dominates online advertising and operates on 33.7 million websites and a huge number of apps.
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Google continued to expose sensitive American defense personnel, and their institutions, to blackmail and compromise, in addition to causing grave privacy harm to consumers.
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social
10 months
Just now we & EPIC filed a complaint to US FTC against Google under new national security data law PADFAA Cites internal Google comms showing Google knew about its RTB security problem for a decade and CEO Sundar Pichai failed to heed internal calls to fix https://t.co/TeCBbukpiJ
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iccl.ie
Federal Trade Commission urged to investigate Google’s RTB data in first ever complaint under new national security data law
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