Notices by Johnny Ryan (johnnyryan@eupolicy.social)

Big news this evening
7 years in the making
The Court speaks
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

We foolishly allowed a handful of oligarchs to dominate digital media, tools, and infrastructure, and who now work at Trumps command.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/google-says-it-will-change-gulf-of-mexico-to-gulf-of-america-in-maps-after-government-updates/6123686/

Former European prime ministers write to von der Leyen, urging a break up of Google's adtech monopoly to protect democracy

https://clubmadrid.org/former-eu-leaders-breaking-up-googles-adtech-monopoly-is-vital-for-democracy/

Just now we filed a complaint to the US FTC against Google with
@epicprivacy under new national security law.

We cite internal Google comms showing Google knew about its RTB security problem for over a decade and that CEO Sundar Pichai failed to heed internal calls to fix.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/google-and-ceo-sundar-pichai-under-fire-for-sending-americans-data-to-china-in-new-national-security-complaint/

@sun @newt As you say, unrest has a long history.

Technology and how it is used has played a role in that history.

Reminder: X, Meta, Google, and IBEC, lobbied against solutions to their dangerous algorithms.

(Kudos to Coimisuin na Mean for publishing consolidated inputs received on their Code --> https://www.cnam.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/202405_Summary_Consultation_vFinal.pdf)

Also reminder: Big Tech’s dangerous algorithms are pushing a personalised diet of lies and fear into peoples feeds to make money. This is great for the companies’ shareholder value, but destructive to society.

https://eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/111462614002874782

The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament have published a report on age verification. Its conclusion is that age verification is necessary but impossible.
Important for DSA and AVMSD.
https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/document/trustworthy-age-assurance

We will be at the High Court in Dublin next week (Thurs & Fri) against the Irish Data Protection Commission for its 5 year refusal to investigate the biggest data breach ever recorded: Google’s “Real-Time Bidding” online advertising system.

https://www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-v-dpc-at-high-court-in-ireland-over-dpc-refusal-to-investigate-googles-rtb-data-breach/

Newly unsealed court documents reveal data anarchy at Meta.

We've just sent the European Commission new material revealing Meta’s internal data systems
+how Meta infringes the new EU Digital Markets Act + GDPR
https://www.iccl.ie/news/unsealed-court-documents-reveal-data-anarchy-at-meta/