The ideas behind GDPR are sound. The enforcement is severely lacking though. Thus its effects are too limited.

Clearly a trial to keep an eye on. Some of those internal memos might prove decisive.

Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.

I'm not sure the legal case is completely lost even though chances are slim. The arguments here are worth mulling over though. There's really an ethical factor to consider.

This is totally misguided... Let's hope no one will succeed passing such dangerously stupid bills.

It's a bit of a sour article but it rings so true... We let Open Source take the mantle in companies which are mostly free loaders and churn closed products, or even worse have them closed and DRM protected. There's really quite some work to still realize the Free Software goals.

Well done everyone. This bullet was dodged... for now! This kind of fever comes back regularly unfortunately.

Or on the importance of being able to say "no". If you see something fishy, at least refuse to participate in it.

With the latest rulings Google feel like the ecosystem might escape its grip... So they plan to tighten it.

When the European tech regulations encounter the changing geopolitical landscape... can we expect sparkles or the European Commission will cave in? I honestly hope it's the former.

This latest ruling from the German supreme court is rather worrying...

Indeed, you can't trust claims of the big cloud players. If asked by they will hand out your data, wherever it is hosted.

I guess more reviews of that book will come out. It looks like Meta and some EU politicians are even more rotten to the core than we ever suspected...

Still so reliable... could we confine this to NLP uses please? Should never had been used for anything looking remotely like search.

Once again the music labels can't understand the cultural value of building archives. Let's hope they loose the lawsuit.

Maybe it'll at least be a wake up call for governments and businesses to let go of their US cloud addiction. There are reasons why you don't want such vendor lock-in. The political drama unfolding in the United States makes obvious why you should think carefully at how dependent you are from your service and infrastructure providers.

I wish other platforms would go through so much scrutiny. Still it gives a good idea about the mental health issue they collectively represent.

This is not all bad news, there are a few things to rejoice about.

Another lawsuit making progress against OpenAI and their shady practice.

Everything is in the title... if you thought you owned anything on those platforms, think twice.