#Apple: We need to lock down devices against #competition to protect user #privacy! Researchers: The #AppleWatch collects vast amounts of intimate #health and #fitness data. Users have little choice regarding how this data is processed. We publicly #reverseengineer the watch's wireless protocols and discovered multiple #security issues. We break out of Apple's #WalledGarden demonstrating practical #interoperability with enhanced privacy controls and data autonomy."

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WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch

Smartwatches such as the Apple Watch collect vast amounts of intimate health and fitness data as we wear them. Users have little choice regarding h...

Potentially groundbreaking court ruling against #Meta: "A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 to a 🇩🇪 #Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding #tracking in third-party websites." "This may very well be one of the most substantial rulings coming out of Europe this year, ... €5,000 in damages for one visitor adds up quickly if you have tens of thousands of visitors, or even millions."

German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws

The court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology i...

#privacy #digitalrights #gdpr #TrackingFreeAds

So now that both #Apple and #Meta have formally appealed the #DMA fines that are just pocket money for them, can we please start calling those lawsuits for what they are: intimidation similar to #SLAPPs. They are designed to bind public resources for years, which regulators will lack for enforcing the #DigitalMarketsAct, to intimidate civil servants in the @European Commission, and to show us that #BigTech is above the law and that we are helpless. Let's not be intimidated. #ResistBigTech

After the #Microsoft frenzy last week and the #Apple disaster yesterday, on today's menu is the @European Commission #DMA compliance workshop with #Alphabet #Google. What should I do?

Today I will spend hours in the @European Commission's #DMA workshop with #Apple so you don't have to. It'll be painful, it'll be funny, it'll be hot! 😆 The workshop starts with Apple lawyers speaking time in which they are supposed to explain how they comply with the #DigitalMarketsAct. Instead, they waste everybody's time with marketing BS and pointless rants against the law (or as they say "the Commission's interpretation of the law"). What a waste.

Fun times ahead in Europe 🙄 "The @European Commission has set out its plans to give #police access to digital information, including by cracking down on “non-cooperative” messaging services [like @Signal and #Telegram] and helping build technologies to break #encryption." #DigitalRights #privacy #HumanRights #confidentiality #cybersecurity