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Helping people in tech keep the public informed. Concerned about something you're seeing at work? You don't have to go public:

🔐 Save it in the Psst Safe
👀 We'll help you take it from there

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Europe, don’t let AI and Big Tech push you around!

📣 A campaign by @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social, @wemoveeurope.bsky.social, and European Digital Rights (EDRi) has had over 200,000 people sign petitions demanding action.

✍️ Add your voice now → standupursula.com

#StandUpUrsula #EU #DataRights
standupursula - People vs. Big Tech
Europe faces a critical choice: enforce EU law and break up Google’s monopoly, or yield to Trump and Big Tech. Add your name to the petition!
StandUpUrsula.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The Digital Omnibus is here.

The EU seems to be bending to the will of the AI industry, signaling a concerning shift toward prioritizing corporate interests over citizen protections.

Europe needs to stand up to Big Tech to protect citizens and democracy.

#EU #DataRights
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you’re among the 3.5 billion users of WhatsApp, we'll say it again:

Stop trusting the company’s assurances about your security and privacy.

Read @agreenberg.bsky.social Greenberg's @wired.com investigation in full here: www.wired.com/story/a-simp...
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
www.wired.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A team of academics has shown that through a simple contact-discovery loophole, billions of phone numbers (and in many cases profile images and status texts) could be scraped from WhatsApp.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We *must* develop comprehensive protections for people who speak out about the harms of AI. People can't stand alone against the most valuable private company in the world. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The New Brutality of OpenAI
The company is pursuing aggressive legal tactics against its opponents.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We’ve seen what happens when data like this is for sale.
www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Tech Policy Press is posting daily essays on how we can harness public platform data for transparency and accountability, link below 👇
techpolicy.press/seeing-the-d...
Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data | TechPolicy.Press
Introducing a series from Tech Policy Press and the Knight-Georgetown Institute, exploring why public platform data access is vital in today’s digital world.
techpolicy.press
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM