Notices by bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)

The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/possible-end-to-end-to-end-come-help/

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Yesterday Dutch parliament shamefully passed an extreme law criminalizing being undocumented, and also criminalizing aiding undocumented people. The Dutch national police has now released a statement that they can't support this. Most appreciated. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2025/juli/4/00-reactie-politie-op-instemming-tweede-kamer-met-anmw.html

Last week I presented over at @joyofcoding on energy efficient programming & design. At some point a video might become available, but here are my annotated slides which also tell the story. Includes lots of data! https://berthub.eu/joc/with-notes.pdf

Exhausted. Took 1.5 hours and three websites to book international train tickets for the family. Nearly failed because at the beginning it asks the ages of your passengers (but not the name) and at the end you have to fill out dates of birth. And it complains if you don't get the order of the nameless passengers the same!

Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. Here I wrote up a bunch of things we are doing wrong, and what the open world could do better: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/what-the-open-world-must-do-better/

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has lost access to his (Microsoft) email and bank accounts. Prosecutions are faltering now. This all due to US sanctions. 'Microsoft did not respond to a request for comments'. Yet European governments are collectively moving their email and files to Microsoft, risking similar problems if they ever upset the US administration. https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3