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Avatar.FM
by Privacy
Salon and
Gimic.
During this year's CPDP event,
Avatar.fm presented a fantastic
programme of conversations,
discussions and creative
performances from the digital
rights world. Topics covered
included potential social media
bans in Europe, the Fediverse,
spyware abuses, chatbots and
image-generated abuse. Experts
and activists unpacked
everything about data and
AI-related subjects, with DJ
sets and music woven in.
Tune in here.
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Recommender
Systems by The
Data Skeptic podcast,
hosted by Kyle Polich. Recommender
systems have infiltrated our video
watching, travel planning, social
media feeds, and other daily
activities. This season's
interviews on The Data Skeptic
podcast explore the
methods, implementations, and
consequences of these ubiquitous
systems.
[📰
read] LGBT
Q&A: How Can I Wipe Online
Data That Points To My Queer
Identity? by EFF.
As a part of LGBT
Q&A, EFF are
answering your most pressing
queer-related digital rights
questions. Both online
and offline, LGBTQ+ individuals
and the fight for queer liberation
are under threat;
and the need for guidance and
protection from prying eyes and
oppressive structures is
increasingly pertinent.
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do] Explore Deceptive
Patterns – the
types, relevant laws, and other
resources. Deceptive
patterns trick people into doing
things they didn't mean to.
Also known as "dark patterns,"
they're features of apps, websites
and AI systems that stop you doing
what you want, or steer you into
harmful decisions you would not
have made deliberately.
[📰
read] Hate
"The Algorithm?" RSS Is One of
the Tools You've Been Looking
For by EFF.
In the age of enshittification,
there has been a push to reclaim
our feeds and networks. EFF notes
that there's a tool that's
been around for decades that can
help wrangle many of our feeds
into something manageable:
Really Simple Syndication, more
commonly known as RSS.
[📰
read] The
cost of data centre growth in
Ireland: Households paid an
estimated €715 million more in
electricity bills
by Friends
of the Earth Ireland
and Beyond
Fossil Fuels.
The new report by both
organisations reveals the real
cost borne by ordinary people in
Ireland due to data centres' rapid
expansion in the country. Households
in Ireland paid an estimated
€715 million more in electricity
bills between 2015 and 2023 due
to the rapid expansion of data
centres in the country.
The research comes as the European
Commission is looking to triple
data centre capacity in the next
five to seven years in a market so
far largely dominated by US Big
Tech companies.
[📰
read] Big
Finance and Big Tech are
Looting the AI Boom
by Balanced
Economy Project.
This paper argues that the
global rush to build AI data
centres has rapidly become a
story of concentrated financial
power manufacturing a market
that has captured governments
and lawmakers, pushing
risks and costs onto the rest of
society. It documents how the AI
data centre
boom has been driven not by
organic consumer demand but by a
concentrated alliance between
dominant technology corporations
and the world's largest financial
actors at every level of the AI
supply chain.
[📰
read] Media
representation of AI in Italy
by Hermes
Centre. In their
latest report, EDRi member Hermes
Centre analyse how
artificial intelligence is
covered in four major Italian
newspapers, exploring the
dominant narratives, key actors,
and missing perspectives in
media coverage. Their
findings indicate
limited discussion of the AI Act,
a focus on techno-optimism and
corporate-centred narratives, and
limited representation of civil
society and affected communities.
Read the full report in Italian or
the executive summary in English.
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