Ce soir ou demain seront examinés les amendements à l'article 15 du projet de loi « simplification » de la vie économique.
La Quadrature du Net, en lien avec le collectif @lenuageetaitsousnospieds et les membres de la coalition Hiatus, appelle à sa suppression, et avec beaucoup d'autres actrices et acteurs de la société civile ainsi que des représentant·es politiques, à l'instauration d'un moratoire sur les gros data centers.
laquadrature.net/2025/04/29/pj… #DirectAN #DataCenters
PJL simplification : déréguler l'IA, accélérer sa fuite en avant écocide
Ce soir ou demain seront examinés les amendements à l'article 15 du projet de loi « simplification » de la vie économique.La Quadrature du Net
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🇩🇪Morgen diskutieren EU-Regierungsvertreter den polnischen Vorschlag, die drohende #Chatkontrolle freiwillig zu belassen und sichere Verschlüsselung zu schützen. data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/d…
Mindestens Irland, Spanien, Ungarn und Estland bestehen auf verpflichtender Chatkontrolle!
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🇬🇧Tomorrow, EU government representatives are discussing the Polish proposal to keep #ChatControl voluntary and protect secure encryption. data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/d…
Before the meeting at least Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Estonia have insisted in mandatory scanning of our chats!
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Immer wieder wiederholen:
"Kriminelle wissen sich zu schützen. Die einzigen die mit Chatkontrolle ausspioniert werden, sind die einfachen Menschen."
Nutri Score: il silenzio colpevole dei nutrizionisti. Lettera alle società
Il silenzio colpevole dei nutrizionisti italiani sul Nutri-Score. Lettera aperta alle società scientifiche che non hanno mai preso posizioneRoberto La Pira (Il Fatto Alimentare)
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Die unsichere #ePA kommt automatisch. Außer du sagst: Nein danke.
✍️ Jetzt widersprechen: patrick-breyer.de/soll-ich-der…
#Piraten 🔐
Soll ich der elektronischen Patientenakte widersprechen und wie geht das?
Wenn du gesetzlich krankenversichert bist, stellt deine Krankenkasse ab 29.04.2025 eine elektronische Patientenakte für dich bundesweit bereit – es sei denn, du widersprichst. Durch einen Widerspruch dürfen dir keine Nachteile entstehen.Patrick Breyer
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💣Keine Absage an #Chatkontrolle - bisher auch keine rote Linie für @spdbt
💣Vorratsspeicherung unserer Autofahrten
💣biometrische Überwachung
💣Internet-#Vorratsdatenspeicherung
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Kennzeichenscanner: Große Koalition einigt sich auf bundesweite Auto-Rasterfahndung
Die große Koalition wird kurz vor Ende der Legislaturperiode die Strafprozessordnung verschärfen. Mit dem Gesetz werden Kennzeichenscanner bundesweit legalisiert. Ein weiterer Punkt erlaubt nächtliche Hausdurchsuchungen der Polizei.netzpolitik.org
#dlsicurezza gravemente incostituzionale nel merito e nel metodo: appello di 257 giuspubblicisti:
In quest’occasione la violazione è del tutto ingiustificata e senza precedenti, dato che l’iter legislativo, ai sensi dell’art. 72 della Costituzione era ormai prossimo alla conclusione, quando è intervenuto il plateale colpo di mano con cui il Governo si è appropriato del testo e di un compito, che, secondo l’art. 77 Costituzione può svolgere solo in casi straordinari di necessità e di urgenza, al solo scopo, sembra, di umiliare il Parlamento e i cittadini da esso rappresentati. Quanto al merito, si tratta di un disegno estremamente pericoloso di repressione di quelle forme di dissenso che è fondamentale riconoscere in una società democratica. Ed è motivo di ulteriore preoccupazione il fatto che questo disegno si realizzi attraverso un irragionevole aumento qualitativo e quantitativo delle sanzioni penali che – in quanto tali – sconsiglierebbero il ricorso alla decretazione d’urgenza, dal momento che il principio di colpevolezza richiede che chi compie un atto debba poter sapere in anticipo se esso è punibile come reato mentre, al contrario, l’immediata entrata in vigore di un decreto-legge ne impedisce la preventiva conoscibilità.
Testo integrale qui
Appello contro il decreto Sicurezza, il testo integrale e i nomi dei firmatari: da Zagrebelsky a De Siervo
"Accento posto prevalentemente sull’autorità e sulla repressione piuttosto che sulla libertà e sui diritti rappresentano le costanti di questi interventi".F. Q. (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
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Trump DOJ repeals protections for journalist-source confidentiality
Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly rescinded her predecessor’s policy restricting federal prosecutors from forcing journalists to reveal their sources. Her memo follows news that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard asked the Department of Justice to investigate recent leaks to reporters.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern said:
“Every Democrat who put the PRESS Act on the back burner when they had the opportunity to pass a bipartisan bill codifying journalist-source confidentiality should be ashamed. Everyone predicted this would happen in a second Trump administration, yet politicians in a position to prevent it prioritized empty rhetoric over putting up a meaningful fight.Because of them, a president who threatens journalists with prison rape for protecting their sources and says reporting critically on his administration should be illegal can and almost certainly will abuse the legal system to investigate and prosecute his critics and the journalists they talk to.”
The PRESS Act, which would have prohibited the government from compelling journalists to burn sources except in life-or-death emergencies, twice passed the House unanimously.
It had bipartisan support in the Senate, including from Republican co-sponsors Sen. Mike Lee and Sen. Lindsey Graham. It was endorsed by everyone from the New York Times editorial board to former Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge.
Yet it spent months stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee, despite the best efforts of Lee and co-sponsor Sen. Ron Wyden to move it forward. Then, President Donald Trump was elected and instructed Republicans to kill the bill in a Truth Social post.
The Biden administration also deserves blame, not only for failing to vocally support the PRESS Act but for the bogus criminal theories it pursued against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Florida journalist Tim Burke under the Espionage Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, respectively. Biden’s validation of those theories provides Trump with significant leverage against journalists who publish secrets provided by sources.
The only good news is that those prosecutions – as well as Trump and others’ insistence that routine journalism should be illegal – opens a door for journalists who are subpoenaed to invoke the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. That would effectively dare Trump’s administration to grant immunity to reporters he calls “enemies of the people.”
Release secret memos on op-ed writer abduction
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Here’s what we’re focused on this week, as officials across America continue their attacks on the free press.
Administration must release memos on abduction of op-ed writer
Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims the authority to unilaterally declare students who protest the Israel-Gaza war antisemites and terrorism supporters in order to kick them out of the country.
So when even Rubio’s State Department doubts the government has grounds to deport a student — especially an anti-war student from the Middle East — the administration’s position must be exceptionally weak. In the case of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, it is. According to The Washington Post, internal government memos admit that the only “evidence” against her was her co-authoring an op-ed criticizing the war and that, to state the obvious, this evidence is legally insufficient to justify deportation.
The administration needs to make these memos public. Read more here.
Journalist targeted by Trump 1.0 discusses Trump 2.0
When The Associated Press didn’t bow to President Donald Trump’s demand to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” he barred the news service from events in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. And when a judge deemed that decision unconstitutional, he spiked the permanent press pool slot for wire services entirely.
This (un)constitutional experiment started in his first term, when he revoked the credentials of individual journalists he disliked, including Brian Karem, a former White House correspondent who covered Trump for Playboy.
Karem spoke about that experience and today’s press restrictions in a webinar hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) last week. He was joined by Caitlin Vogus, senior adviser at FPF, and Stephanie Sugars, who regularly reports on issues of press access to the White House as senior reporter for the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of FPF. You can watch and read about the conversation here.
Investigating Medicaid fraud through public records
Our series on local journalists who use public-records-based reporting to make a difference continues with a profile of Hannah Bassett, who helped expose a deadly Medicaid fraud scheme targeting Native American communities in Arizona.
“In Arizona, the public records statute allows for the state agencies to claim an exemption if a record is in the state’s interest to withhold,” Bassett explained. “It’s understandable that some information coming out might not be in an agency’s interest, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in the public’s interest.”
Read more about Bassett and her reporting here.
Streisand wouldn’t let the U.S. government rain on Ellsberg’s parade
Happy birthday to Barbra Streisand, whose 1973 fundraiser kept our co-founder Daniel Ellsberg’s legal fight alive long enough for him to win.
“Indirectly, that ability to keep the trial going and his case getting kicked led to the whole uncovering of the Watergate scandal, which led to the downfall of Nixon, which led to him not dropping nuclear weapons on Vietnam,” documentarian Paul Jay told the Hollywood Reporter after Ellsberg died in 2023.
She kept Ellsberg out of jail for leaking the Pentagon Papers; now we’re continuing his fight to defend whistleblowers.
What we’re reading
Keep Texas free speech strong. Leave anti-SLAPP laws alone (Houston Chronicle). Two bills before the Texas Legislature would undermine critical protections against frivolous lawsuits by the powerful to censor their critics. Lawmakers need to listen to the bipartisan backlash and reject the bills.
Judge declines AP challenge to new White House press pool policy, but says time will tell whether wire service still gets “second class treatment” (Deadline). Any judge willing to put blinders on to presume this administration is acting in “good faith” is unfit for this moment, and probably any moment. The one thing the administration has been transparent about is its bad-faith motives for retaliating against the Associated Press.
Police officers who joined Jan. 6 rally ask Supreme Court for anonymity (The Washington Post). It sounds like the requester could just copy the officers’ brief on why their identities shouldn’t be disclosed and recaption it as a brief on why their identities should be disclosed. The First Amendment does not protect public officials from being embarrassed by their unpopular opinions.
FCC chair threatens Comcast licenses for alleged ‘news distortion’ (U.S. Press Freedom Tracker). Legally speaking, the idea of punishing reporting critical of the president’s policies as outside the “public interest” is laughable. But unfortunately we have an FCC chair who traded in his law books for a Trump lapel pin.
As in DC, a fight breaks out in Washington state over who gets access to lawmakers (Investigate West). We told Investigate West that “Now that there are so many independent journalists out there, politicians are taking it upon themselves to be the judge of who is and isn’t a journalist.”
Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press.
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I CDN pirata che alimentano 1.400 siti russi "utilizzano infrastrutture CDN dell'UE e degli USA"
Un nuovo rapporto offre un raro sguardo sul mondo delle CDN pirata. Il rapporto suggerisce che i maggiori operatori in Russia forniscono servizi a circa 1.400 siti pirata di terze parti, i cui gestori attingono a enormi librerie di contenuti pirata offerti dalle CDN. Un'unica CDN controllerebbe circa il 60% del mercato russo, utilizzando infrastrutture CDN nei Paesi Bassi, negli Stati Uniti, in Ucraina, in Germania e in Francia.
Nel 2019, il gruppo antipirateria olandese BREIN, insieme all'Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment e all'MPA di Hollywood, ha avuto motivo di festeggiare in seguito a un'operazione di applicazione riuscita.
Il loro obiettivo era una CDN (Content Delivery Network) nota come Moonwalk, che offriva grandi quantità di film e spettacoli televisivi che gli operatori di siti pirata potevano incorporare nei loro siti.
Pirate CDNs Fueling 1,400 Russian Sites "Use EU & US CDN Infrastructure" * TorrentFreak
A new report offers a rare glimpse into pirate CDNs, which enable thousands of sites to offer pirate content libraries to their own visitors.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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Dipende sempre dall'utilizzo, qual'è l'alternativa che possa servire contenuti in tempi brevi il più vicino possibile agli utenti?
Un conto se parliamo di un sito vetrina di un qualsiasi professionista, un conto se parliamo di una piattaforma streaming con tot utenti.
È fidati, anche avendo un DC di proprietà la situazione si satura in fretta... Sennò nemmeno Netflix si sarebbe appoggiato a un servizio Cloud come AWS.
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Ho colleghi che hanno scoperto un rimbalzo dei nostri clienti USA in EU, poi UK e ritorno in USA, o una roba del genere... okay, abbiamo risparmiato 150ms ... e stica?! 🤷🏻♂️
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Administration must release memos about abduction of op-ed writer
Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims the authority to unilaterally declare students who protest the Israel-Gaza war antisemites and terrorism supporters in order to kick them out of the country.
So when even Rubio’s State Department doubts the government has grounds to deport a student — especially an anti-war student from the Middle East — the administration’s position must be exceptionally weak. In the case of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, it is. The only known “evidence” against her was her co-authoring an op-ed criticizing the war and calling for Tufts to divest from Israeli investments.
According to The Washington Post, the department issued a memo reaching one of the most obvious conclusions in the history of memos – that the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that Öztürk acted “in support of Hamas,” and therefore could be thrown out of the country, is baseless.
Yet the public hasn’t seen that key document about Öztürk, who was abducted by plainclothes federal agents in March and is currently in an immigration jail in Louisiana. The Post’s source was only able to “describe” the memo’s content to journalists.
Nor has the public seen another memo, also reported by the Post, from DHS official Andre Watson to senior State Department official John Armstrong, accusing Öztürk of “anti-Israel activism” with “adverse policy consequences for the United States.” Tellingly, the only example provided by Watson, according to the Post, was the aforementioned op-ed.
These two documents expose the frivolousness of the administration’s case against Öztürk, which is central to one of the most important public debates in America, now and possibly ever. And it’s alarming that whether the government can incarcerate and expel non-citizens (and maybe citizens) who express ideas it doesn’t like qualifies as a “debate” these days.
Federal courts up to the Supreme Court have shot down the administration’s due process-free deportation practices. Some of President Donald Trump’s closest supporters, both in Congress and popular culture, are breaking from his rhetoric on this issue, recognizing the obvious dangers of persecuting nonviolent anti-war speech. Journalists everywhere are self-censoring and pulling stories out of fear of being thrown in jail cells from Louisiana to El Salvador.
A country that expels op-ed writers and hides government records about why simply does not have freedom of the press.
Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chair and shameless Trump lapdog Brendan Carr (the guy wears a golden bust of Trump as a lapel pin) threatened to investigate news outlets that doubt the administration’s false narratives or don’t air all of its spin sessions. Predictably, a Trump-aligned organization filed an FCC complaint echoing Carr’s nonsense.
All that is to say, it’s a big deal that even the State Department knows the administration is wrong. The existence and substance of the two memos have already been reported, so the cat is out of the bag — there is no basis for secrecy. There never was. And there is little risk of tainting a future jury pool — Öztürk can only dream of that kind of due process.
In any event, now that the memos have been disclosed, it’s hard to argue that the public is better off with a potentially incomplete news report than with the entire documents. But this is an administration that believes questioning its infallibility is contrary to the “public interest.”
That’s not how officials who are confident in the accuracy of their facts and the soundness of their legal arguments behave. The administration needs to be prepared to defend its (indefensible) views on free expression, not hide from them. If it claims the First Amendment tolerates throwing people out of the country for using news ink to express political beliefs shared by millions, it needs to be transparent, including about why it overruled internal dissent.
We’ve filed Freedom of Information Act requests for both memos. We know the administration is likely to deny those requests, and we’re prepared to put up a fight there and anywhere else we see an opportunity to force some transparency out of this lawless administration.
As a press freedom organization, there’s no other option. A country that expels op-ed writers and hides government records about why simply does not have freedom of the press.
Le Conseil constitutionnel vient de censurer la prolongation de la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (#VSA). Il s'agit évidemment d'une très bonne nouvelle ! Mais cette censure n'a été prononcée que pour une question de procédure (l'amendement qui prévoyait cette prolongation n'avait pas de lien avec le texte initial). Il faut donc rester vigilant·e face à un gouvernement qui semble prêt à tout pour faire passer cette surveillance.
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Décision n° 2025-878 DC du 24 avril 2025
Loi relative au renforcement de la sûreté dans les transportsConseil constitutionnel
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Pas de VSA dans ma ville
VSA La surveillancebâtit son empire tout sur laVSA kitaffiches et flyers Pas de VSA dans ma ville Pas de VSA dans ma ville ! Marseille, Montpellier, Paris...La Quadrature du Net
j'ai repéré 3 fautes d'orthographe/grammaire dans la lettre modèle.
(il manque un S)
> l’utilisation par la police d’un DES logiciels fondés
(il y a un S en trop)
> dans les mains d’un pouvoir encore plus ENCLIN
(il y a un S à la place d'un T)
> et ce dans TOUT le pays.
🚨 The EU-Singapore #DigitalTradeAgreement may pose risks to our #FundamentalRights because of prohibitions on access to source code and data flows– we sounded the alarm together with @beuc and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).
🫱🏾🫲🏻 Trade deals build bridges but they must do so while protecting people's rights.
Watch the video and read our statement to find out why we're concerned ⤵️
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Joint push from consumer, worker and digital rights groups on EU-Singapore digital trade risks
As discussions on the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) continue, BEUC has teamed up with ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation), and EDRi (European Digital Rights) shed a light on the potential privacy risks the agreement poses to consum…BEUC
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Erweiterter Chat-Datenschutz: Neue WhatsApp-Funktion liefert Scheinsicherheit
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#Dlsicurezza Tolta la norma sullo spionaggio universitario, rimangono gravissimi abusi nel merito e nel metodo. Roberta Calvano:
Con questo decreto si entra in una fase nuova rispetto all’abuso della decretazione d’urgenza, aprendo a quella che può essere considerata una vera e propria regressione democratica, con un salto di qualità nell’aggressione alla legalità costituzionale e ai diritti fondamentali
...in un'audizione senza uditori .
Dl Sicurezza, l’allarme degli esperti alla Camera: “Aggredita la Costituzione”
Le critiche degli studiosi al provvedimento del governo. La costituzionalista Calvano: "È il segnale di una regressione democratica". Ma in Commissione ci sono solo quattro deputatiPaolo Frosina (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
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Yesterday, the European Commission slammed tech giants #Meta and #Apple for breaching the #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA – but then stopped short of sticking the landing with the low penalties. What does it mean for our #FundamentalRights and online experiences? 🤔
We unpack the mixed bag of takeaways in our full press release ⤵️ edri.org/our-work/press-releas…
Commission slams Apple and Meta for breaching the Digital Markets Act, doesn’t stick the landing with fines - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
The European Commission has shown some teeth with the EU’s digital rulebook by slamming tech giants Apple and Meta with admittedly low fines for breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA).European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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didn't know about NGI zero initiative from NLnet foundation. Thanks for the info - just looked it up.
Yeah, it needs to be upscaled by at least thrice the current amount.
Personally, I feel that hundreds of millions are quite substantial, and they could be repeated if violations persist.
Investigating Medicaid fraud through public records
This is the second in a series of profiles of independent journalists who use public records to hold local governments accountable. The first, about Lisa Pickoff-White of the California Reporting Project, is available here.
When enterprise and investigative reporter Hannah Bassett arrived in Arizona to report for the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, she was looking forward to helping the public understand some of the statewide health disparities affecting local communities through her stories. But just a few weeks into her beat, Bassett’s reporting revealed one of the largest Medicaid fraud campaigns in modern U.S. history.
Bassett’s story investigated a deadly scheme created by behavioral health providers who fraudulently billed Arizona’s Medicaid agency for services never provided. The scheme targeted Native American individuals by exploiting a Medicaid plan for which only American Indians and Alaska Natives are eligible, interrupting services and making health care and sober living homes inaccessible, with tragic results.
“It was apparent pretty early on that there was going to be a lot of unprecedented elements to this, in terms of what the public records showed,” said Bassett. “They showed there were signs early on that staff noticed and tried to report up escalating claims, which was sort of a canary in the coal mine, and that something wasn’t working.”
Requesting and collecting public records for Bassett’s story was a team effort. Bassett and her colleagues had to refine and amend multiple requests to get a response from the government. Eventually, Bassett said it felt like the Medicaid agency was dragging its feet, so she enlisted the help of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to send a demand letter and ultimately obtain records that pieced together a timeline.
“It’s understandable that some information coming out might not be in an agency’s interest, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in the public’s interest.”
Hannah Bassett
“In Arizona, the public records statute allows for the state agencies to claim an exemption if a record is in the state’s interest to withhold,” Bassett said. “It’s understandable that some information coming out might not be in an agency’s interest, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in the public’s interest.”
Investigative reporting isn’t just about public records — it’s about trust. To build that trust among the Native communities she was covering, Bassett shadowed local Indigenous advocates in their outreach to individuals facing housing and food insecurity and leaned on her reporting partner, Mary Hudetz, who provided an essential perspective as an Indigenous person herself. Weaving Hudetz’s public records reporting on the death toll in these communities with the internal agency records Bassett obtained helped humanize and ground the story for readers.
“If it were just my line of reporting, that would have been really dry and hard for people to latch on to,” Bassett said. “Ultimately, being able to come out with that story that felt very complete with both sides and having stuck on the story long enough to get those records felt like a real win.”
Bassett’s interest in journalism piqued after a narrative and documentary class her senior year of college. She ultimately decided to pursue a reporting career and received her master’s degree from Stanford University’s journalism program, which puts emphasis on using data to tell stories.
“I was trying to find that balance of writing about issues that I felt were in the public’s interest, trying to break down complex policy matters to help the public understand what that meant on a more individual or community level,” Bassett said. “I had experience using public records requests already, and knowing how to use some programming languages and data analysis skills was going to help me know what to do with big sets of government data that I might get from an agency.”
Bassett is now based in Burlington, Vermont, where she covers the state legislature for an alternative, independent newspaper, Seven Days.
Commission slams Apple and Meta for breaching the Digital Markets Act, doesn’t stick the landing with fines
The European Commission has shown some teeth with the EU’s digital rulebook by slamming tech giants Apple and Meta with fines, and an order to stop the infringing behaviour. While we commend the strong stance, we're concerned about whether the low fines will actually lead to change of behaviour from the tech giants.
The post Commission slams Apple and Meta for breaching the Digital Markets Act, doesn’t stick the landing with fines appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Un'università che serve?
#Harvard mostra la sua utilità indicando anche i 155 #brevetti ottenuti nel 2024.
Giustificare il finanziamento pubblico con la produzione di ricerca privatizzata e soggetta a esclusiva è un'operazione che, per la sua ambiguità, è paragonabile a quella compiuta dalla valutazione di stato italiana la quale, inserendo i brevetti come titoli di merito, incoraggia a devolvere il denaro di tutti per il profitto di pochi.
Research Funding
The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.Research Funding
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Digital Markets Act: Millionenschwere Wettbewerbsstrafen für Apple und Meta
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published its 2024 Annual Report
The #EDPB Annual Report is out: "Protecting personal data in a changing landscape"! 🛡️ 🌍 🔒
🎯 New EDPB Strategy
🧩 More Art. 64(2) Coherence Opinions
🛡️ Continued efforts to provide #GDPR guidance and legal advice
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Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi!
Avui ens trobaràs regalant llibres a Barcelona a la cantonada del carrer Marina amb Casp. Vine a buscar el teu o a donar un cop de mà! 😀
Portem anys fent instàncies per intentar recuperar la nostra paradeta històrica a Les Rambles, però l'Ajuntament ha cedit la gestió de les parades de Sant Jordi de les zones més concorregudes al Gremi de Llibreters, que només dóna accés als seus agremiats i pagant una taxa.
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La normativa actual diu que les entitats només podem posar parada davant de la nostra seu i la resta de parades obertes a la ciutadania a títol individual són exclusivament per vendre roses. Així que intentarem protestar posant una rosa a la venda per 10.000 € i en paral·lel intentarem regalar els llibres com sempre, a veure si no ens fan fora. 😀
Com sempre, us oferim cultura lliure!!!
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Lucía Gregorczuk - Una i mil bruixes.pdf
Pirates de Catalunya - a safe home for all your dataPirates de Catalunya
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«93. [...] Il principio della subordinazione della proprietà privata alla destinazione universale dei beni e, perciò, il diritto universale al loro uso, è una “regola d’oro” del comportamento sociale, e il ‘primo principio di tutto l’ordinamento etico-sociale’».
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American Association of Colleges and Universities, "A Call for Constructive Engagement"
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"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education. ..."
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Trump is restricting White House press access. It’s not the first time
When The Associated Press didn’t bow to President Donald Trump’s demand to refer to the Gulf of Mexico solely as the “Gulf of America,” he barred the news service from events in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. And when a judge determined that Trump’s decision to do so was unconstitutional, he spiked the permanent press pool slot for wire services entirely.
These decisions to shun newsrooms may sound like the product of a tantrum — and they are — but there is also a pattern at play: Trump is testing the limits of the First Amendment.
This (un)constitutional experiment started in his first term, when he revoked the credentials of individual journalists he disliked. One of them was Brian Karem, a former White House correspondent who covered Trump for Playboy.
Karem spoke about that experience and today’s press restrictions in a webinar hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) on April 16, 2025. He was joined by Caitlin Vogus, senior adviser at FPF, and Stephanie Sugars, who regularly reports on issues of press access to the White House as senior reporter for the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of FPF.
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Karem, who successfully sued the Trump administration three separate times to get his press pass reinstated, emphasized that Trump’s denial of access to the AP is also a broader attack on wire services like Reuters and Bloomberg. Cash-strapped local newsrooms often rely on wire reporting to fill pages and inform readers, which is much harder to do when those services are sidelined.
“The whole point of this is to limit those who will ask questions that Donald Trump doesn't want to answer,” Karem said during the webinar. “The effect, of course, for people across the country, is a slanted view of the news.”
In cherry-picking who can cover him, Trump is restricting access to the White House to only those willing to stoop to his demands, Sugars said.
“It's alarming when you see all of these things in conjunction with each other and just how effectively this administration is taking steps to ensure that the only message that is getting out is one that they approve of,” she said.
The consequences are grave, including less-experienced journalists in the press room and fewer outlets reporting on the administration with the required scrutiny, Karem said. That enables Trump to hide more from the American public, which is therefore less equipped to hold him accountable.
“Donald Trump is asking, ‘Who are you with? What company are you with?’ because he wants to know so he can come back and say, ‘Oh, I like you.’” Karem said. “He has turned himself into a dictator with sycophants asking him questions.”
Trump’s effort to exert control over the press extends to major networks, too, Sugars said. Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has opened investigations into outlets including NPR, PBS, CBS, ABC, and NBC, and the Trump administration recently gutted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America.
“It's been a bit of an onslaught and coming from a lot of different angles, from within the White House, the Trump administration, and his allies more generally in Congress,” Sugars said.
While Trump is the most vocal anti-press president in recent memory, Karem said he isn’t the first to retaliate against journalists and their sources. He noted that Barack Obama used the Espionage Act nearly a dozen times to target whistleblowers.
“I have covered every president since Ronald Reagan. Every one of them has been complicit and guilty about destroying the First Amendment, free speech, and destroying our ability to use confidential sources,” Karem said. “Donald Trump is merely a symptom of the problem.”
Restriction and intimidation aren’t excuses for the press to throw in the towel. Karem said that newsrooms must find other ways to retrieve vetted factual information, which he described as “the coin of the realm.”
If they can’t access a press briefing or pool reporting seat, reporters can still focus on sourcing, building deeper relationships with those on their beats, and gathering information from people and places where restrictions don’t apply, Karem said.
“You’ve got to stand up to a bully,” he added. “There is nothing that is more antithetical to the idea of free press, free speech, and speaking truth to power than the moves that Donald Trump has made in his second administration.”
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In un lungo discorso Bergolio torna a rivendicare l’esigenza di un’economia dal volto umano e chiede ai colossi della finanza di condonare i debiti contratti dagli Stati contro l’interesse dei loro popoliIl Sole 24 Ore (Il Sole 24 ORE)
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#Harvard fa causa all'amministrazione Trump per violazioni procedurali e del I emendamento della costituzione USA:
Harvard’s complaint says the First Amendment protects free speech against government interference intended to enforce ideological balance and bars the government from using legal sanctions or other coercion to suppress speech it doesn’t like.
Si noti che la costituzione italiana protegge esplicitamente la libertà accademica all'articolo 33, anche con la riserva di legge. Ma un solo rettore ha avuto il coraggio di fare ricorso, vincendolo.
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
Filing argues freeze of research funding violates First Amendment, laws, procedures.Alvin Powell (Harvard Gazette)
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Free speech suffers when courts rush to impose prior restraints
Perhaps the most famous adage of journalism — get the truth and print it — continues to face attacks in our courts, and judges often fail to stop them.
A recent case comes from Victoria County, Texas, where last month a judge entered a temporary order preventing the publication of a book about alleged sexual harassment by former Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society director Rod Risley.
The court lifted the order on April 8, but only after the honor society had stopped the book from being published on the first day of its national convention, when it would have had the greatest impact.
Phi Theta Kappa, which sought the restraining order against author Toni Marek, hadn’t claimed that the information in her book is false. By its own admission, Marek received the information legally, either through public records requests or by speaking to former employees. But the honor society argued that the book shouldn’t be published because information in it is “confidential.” A judge initially agreed.
This isn’t the only order barring publication, known as a prior restraint, that Phi Theta Kappa has sought in recent times and won.
In a separate lawsuit, Phi Theta Kappa obtained an order prohibiting the competing HonorSociety.org from speaking about it online. Among other things, the order forbade HonorSociety.org from editing Phi Theta Kappa’s Wikipedia page or publishing independent reporting on Risley, regardless of whether those edits or publications were true.
A federal court of appeals recently struck down the order as overly broad.
The initial decisions granting the ban on Marek’s book and the gag on HonorSociety.org both suffer from the same glaring problem: the First Amendment.
The First Amendment prohibits prior restraints in all but the most extreme circumstances. In 1971, the Supreme Court even rebuffed the government’s attempt to stop the press from publishing the Pentagon Papers, documents the government claimed contained state secrets that could harm national security.
Censorship orders harm our freedom of speech no matter how long they last.
The Court has also repeatedly affirmed the First Amendment right to publish lawfully obtained, truthful information on matters of public concern.
But even though these censorship orders are supposed to be extremely rare and are almost always unconstitutional, prior restraints seem to be persisting.
One reason may be that judges are failing to recognize the First Amendment interests at stake when someone asks for a prior restraint on an "emergency" basis, as Phi Theta Kappa did in the case of Marek’s book. Because the honor society sought a temporary restraining order, Marek didn’t have a chance to appear in court and argue her side before the judge entered the initial order banning publication.
This isn’t a problem isolated to Texas. In February, a Mississippi court ordered The Clarksdale Press Register to remove an editorial criticizing Democratic Mayor Chuck Espy’s office for failing to properly notify the public of a special meeting, as required by state law. The city government claimed the editorial was defamatory, even though the city clerk admitted in an affidavit that she had failed to follow the notification law.
First Amendment experts immediately condemned the order. But as in Marek’s case, the city sought a temporary restraining order and the court granted it without giving the Press Register a chance to respond to the allegations or raise First Amendment arguments. Only after a national outcry did the city drop its suit and the court lift its censorship order.
Even though courts eventually ended the prior restraints on Marek, HonorSociety.org, and The Clarksdale Press Register, the fact that they entered them at all is a huge problem. Censorship orders harm our freedom of speech no matter how long they last.
It’s also a problem that nobody involved stopped to think about the First Amendment, at least at first. Both lawyers and judges need to do more to protect the constitutional rights of the public and the press.
Every lawyer in America is taught constitutional law, and even the most cursory legal research would turn up Supreme Court precedent on prior restraints. Lawyers seeking prior restraints have an ethical obligation to disclose law that cuts against their case to the court. But far too many emergency requests to censor speech fail to mention even the most well-known First Amendment decisions.
Judges, too, should hear First Amendment alarm bells ringing when they’re asked to restrain speech. When someone seeks an emergency order prohibiting speech, judges shouldn’t simply accept their arguments. They must independently research the law to be sure that their orders don’t violate the Constitution. They also can and should sanction lawyers who fail to mention any of the many cases prohibiting prior restraints.
Giving the proper attention and weight to freedom of speech isn’t too much to ask of our legal system. When lawyers and judges neglect their professional responsibility and neglect the Constitution, we all become vulnerable to censorship.
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SuperCard X: exposing a MaaS for NFC Relay fraud operation - Secure Bulletin
The Cleafy Threat Intelligence team has uncovered SuperCard X, a sophisticated Android malware campaign leveraging NFC-relay attacks to authorize fraudulent POS and ATM transactions.securebulletin.com
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Acknowledging important local journalism
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Here are this week’s top press freedom stories, plus updates on our work at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF).
A series to spotlight public-records-based local journalism
A major reason why politicians are able to attack the press without much resistance is that the public distrusts the media. And one of the reasons for that distrust is that when people think “journalist,” they often think of partisan cable news pundits rather than the thousands of local investigative reporters serving communities across the country.
We’re hoping to play a small part in changing that by profiling local journalists who use public records laws to hold local governments accountable (as well as other noteworthy reporters whose work flies under the radar). We’re starting the series this week with a profile of Lisa Pickoff-White, director of the California Reporting Project. CRP pools public records resources so California journalists can benefit from each other’s public records hauls. Read the profile here.
Unjust law helps muzzle incarcerated journalists
With the Trump administration throwing abductees in shady jails and prisons from Louisiana to El Salvador, it’s essential that incarcerated journalists can expose the conditions they’re dealing with.
But as incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby explains in his latest article for FPF, not only do imprisoned journalists face relentless retaliation, they’re also systemically obstructed from seeking recourse from the courts by the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Read more here.
When it comes to issuing prior restraints, courts ‘just do it’
A recent decision from a federal appellate court related to the Oregonian’s quest for access to court records in a sexual harassment lawsuit against Nike means journalists who intervene in litigation to unseal court records could subject themselves to “prior restraints,” or judicial orders barring them from reporting news related to the case.
That’s why FPF joined a coalition of media companies and press freedom groups represented by attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine to file an amicus brief supporting the Oregonian’s request that the full appeals court reconsider this unprecedented decision. Read more here.
An existential threat to congressional investigative powers
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are just two of the officials ignoring congressional requests for information about their agencies. This stonewalling, combined with the mass firings at executive branch Freedom of Information Act offices, represents an existential threat to Congress’ investigative and oversight powers.
Every member should vocally defend FOIA offices. Not doing so could undermine the entire legislative process. Read more here from our Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper.
What we’re reading
El Salvador’s president says he won’t return mistakenly deported man to US (NBC News). This is the authoritarian ratchet. If Trump can arbitrarily “disappear” non-citizens in El Salvador, anyone else could be next — including journalists who report on his administration.
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Department office found (The Washington Post). Congress must demand the full release of this memo. The administration can’t be allowed to justify abductions and deportations of op-ed writers with vague claims of antisemitism.
White House moves to limit newswire access after AP lawsuit win (Bloomberg). This will harm local news outlets everywhere, but particularly in rural areas where Trump is popular and cash-strapped newspapers rely on wire services for national stories.
State terror (Thinking About…). “The first part of controlling the language is inverting the meaning: whatever the government does is good, because by definition then its victims are the ‘criminals’ and the ‘terrorists.’ The second part is deterring the press.”
Trump’s FCC chairman is sporting a gold Trump-head pin, and it’s eerily similar to historical pins from world dictators (Buzzfeed). Trump keeps making ridiculous, illegal demands for the Federal Communications Commission to help him punish his enemies. Don’t hold your breath for the FCC chair to push back — he’s wearing a golden bust of Trump as a lapel pin.
Mahmoud Khalil’s battle is not over (Jacobin). An immigration judge’s ruling that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his pro-Palestinian political speech — during a hearing in which journalists were once again shut out of the virtual room — sets a dangerous precedent.
A key fight over the most infamous police project in the country is coming to a head (Slate). A slush fund for corporations to secretly bankroll police projects is arguing against transparency because it might turn people against those projects. That’s absurd. There should be no tolerance for shell games to duck open records obligations.
Five Colorado Springs news outlets scrub their websites of an article about the arrest of former GOP council member (Colorado Times Recorder). Sealing arrest records doesn’t change the fact that someone was arrested. Good for the Colorado Times Recorder for standing up to a former city council member who tried to pressure it into removing an accurate story about her past arrest.
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