Mickey Manakas
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Public Relations @NOYBeu // Former digital policy and privacy reporter @derStandardat
Vienna, Austria
Joined March 2015
#FollowerPower?! & #Spendenaufruf! 💶 Unsere Kollegen von @epicenter_works kümmern sich seit langem um Datenschutz gegenüber dem Staat insb. in Österreich - aber auch sehr stark um digitale Rechte auf EU-Ebene. Leider sind die letzten Jahre für NGOs nicht einfach gewesen...
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BREAKING: EuGH weist Kreditauskunftei SCHUFA in die Schranken! ⚠ Die vollautomatische Bewertung der Kreditwürdigkeit ist rechtswidrig. https://t.co/wzfpi9aXCm
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Der EuGH hat zwei Urteile mit weitreichenden Folgen für Kreditauskunfteien wie die SCHUFA erlassen.
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Being tracked for personalized advertising by Meta– or pay up to €251.88 a year to retain the fundamental right to data protection - noyb files new GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay” https://t.co/0prQpd5J0B
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Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR
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They just don’t want to comply with the GDPR 🫠
⚠ Meta will apparently to move to a "Pay for your Rights" model in the European Union! EU users would then have to pay $ 168 a year if they don't want to give up their fundamental right to privacy on Facebook and Instagram. This move is inacceptable. https://t.co/kW7ngwHJuc
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Der Kripo-Chef fordert im Presse-Interview die Überwachung von Messengern – und behauptet, dass fast alle anderen europäischen Länder eine solche schon hätten. Das ist ist kompletter Humbug und ignoriert alle Warnungen von Expert:innen. Die Presse lässt es leider stehen.
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Anlässlich der Kündigung des Journalismus-KV muss ich wieder an diese 🤡-Aktion vom Frühling denken. Warum versuchen, eine eigene Digitalstrategie zu entwickeln, wenn man ORFat ausdrucken kann?! #VÖZ https://t.co/x6kxky0WVB
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Verleger druckten die ORF.at-Berichterstattung vom 10. Mai
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Der #VÖZ will wohl endlich sichergehen, dass österreichische Zeitungen keinen Nachwuchs mehr finden
Der Zeitungsverband kündigt den Journalismus-KV (STANDARD-Infos)
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✈ Ryanair pushes customers to go through an invasive facial recognition process - but only if they're booking through an online travel agent. ⚠ noyb files a complaint against the airline to stop it from "nudging" people into biometric face scans. https://t.co/wN5toDKfkX
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noyb filed a complaint against Ryanair. When booking through an online travel agent, the airline pushes some customers to go through an invasive facial recognition process
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⚠ Belgian DPA let news outlets buy themselves free from GDPR compliance Today, noyb filed complaints against 15 Belgian news sites using unlawful cookie banners. They were subject of an investigation already, but were never ordered to fix their banners. https://t.co/nbFGoAaFWC
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Today, noyb files complaints against 15 Belgian news sites using unlawful cookie banners. Among them are news outlets like RTL Belgium, Het Laatste Nieuws and L'Avenir
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My interview @derStandardat @stefanmey @m_manakas @NanaSiebert on GenAI's actual risks vs science fiction movies. Let's focus on issues like the disruption of data protection, non discrimination, IP & employment, & environmental laws. These risks are here, these risks are real.
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It's been 20 months since @FbdnStories et al. revealed massive hacking of journalists, opposition politicians with #Pegasus spyware in the EU. So far, this has been without legal consequences for the governments who did it. Now the Commission is taking a possible step... 🧵
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Hier sind die #VulkanFiles - der erste massive Leak aus dem Inneren der russischen Cyberkriegsmaschinerie. Ein Whistleblower hat tausende Seiten interner Dokumente der IT-Firma NTC Vulkan weitergeleitet - die für die drei großen Geheimdienste arbeitet https://t.co/BKb8I1kAXe
derstandard.at
Ein Whistleblower hat tausende Seiten geheimer Dokumente der Moskauer IT-Firma NTC Vulkan nach außen gespielt. Sie bieten erstmals tiefe Einblicke in das Innere des russischen Cyberkriegs
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This is actually a pretty useful example of how ChatGPT works. It's an excellent simulation of a skilled human bullshitter who doesn't understand the joke, but has seen enough joke explanations to busk something that might fool a skim-reader into seeing what they expected to see
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NEW: Twitter currently does not have admin access to some of its GitHub repos. These repos contain Twitter source code (much of it is open source; some is not). This includes code for companies Twitter acquired, like Smyte. 1/
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Aber immerhin kostet das blaue Hakerl jetzt 8$ 🫠
According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night. An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”
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