Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake@respublicae.eu

This is so very wrong for America and the world:…whether Vance truly believes what he’s saying is secondary to the public persona he’s chosen to adopt ↘️
https://www.vox.com/politics/360283/jd-vance-trump-vp-vice-president-authoritarian

[2024-07-15 20:26 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: New: the FBI just announced it had gained access to the password locked phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected shooter in the assassination attempt of former President Trump. Shows how far we've come from the days of FBI v Apple https://www.404media.co/fbi-gains-access-to-suspected-trump-shooters-password-locked-phone/

[2024-07-15 19:31 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: #BREAKING The European Commission has decided to boycott Hungary's EU Council presidency in response to Viktor Orbán’s controversial trips to Moscow and Beijing.

[2024-07-15 18:36 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: "To every complex problem, Trump promises a simple solution. ... He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t. Trump’s promises are the needle in America’s collective vein."

JD Vance in 2016.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/

[2024-07-15 19:13 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency in Sevilla has opened a vacancy for an AI expert with a PhD or 2 years of experience. Among the tasks is "developing methodologies to assess the capabilities and systemic risks of general-purpose AI models."
https://algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/news/open-vacancy-ai-specialist-2024-06-27_en

[2024-07-15 10:39 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Volgens de Volkskrant heb ik twee rechtszaken tegen Twitter gewonnen… Ik kan bevestigen dat dat klopt 🥳

In de eerste zaak heeft de rechtbank geoordeeld dat Twitter mijn account ten onrechte stiekem heeft beperkt (‘geshadowband’) nadat ik een NOS-artikel deelde. Daarmee heeft Twitter de overeenkomst en de Digital Services Act (DSA) geschonden. Ook kon ik in strijd met de DSA niet in contact komen met Twitter. De rechter oordeelde ook dat een deel van de Algemene Voorwaarden van Twitter ongeldig is. Twitter moet een schadevergoeding betalen en een effectief contactpunt voor mij instellen.

De tweede zaak betrof een schending van de Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming (AVG) omdat Twitter niet voldeed aan mijn inzageverzoek. De rechter heeft bepaald dat Twitter dit nu alsnog moet doen.

Hoewel het winnen van deze rechtszaken bevredigend is, kan ik uit eigen ervaring zeggen dat het bijna onmogelijk is om zonder advocaat een zaak te bepleiten tegen een groot bedrijf dat probleemloos een batterij van zes(!) advocaten kan inschakelen die komen betogen dat Twitter zich niet aan de wet hoeft te houden.

Daarom is een snelle en doortastende aanpak van toezichthouders zo belangrijk om deze (en andere) structurele schendingen van de DSA en AVG aan banden te leggen. Ook bij andere Big Tech bedrijven, trouwens. Helaas heb ik geen enkele actie waargenomen sinds ik in oktober klachten heb ingediend. En van andere slachtoffers van geheime onterechte shadowbans op Twitter hoor ik hetzelfde.

Eigenlijk vind ik dat onacceptabel. Want tien maanden moeten wachten en geen zinvolle updates krijgen terwijl je geshadowband bent of niet aan je inzageverzoek wordt voldaan, is simpelweg te lang. Ik hoop dat dat in de toekomst zal veranderen. Vooral omdat niet iedereen zo gek is en de vrije tijd heeft om over tien maanden verspreid meerdere avonden en nachten door te halen om dan maar naar de rechter te stappen. Hopelijk zal het toezicht in d…

[2024-07-15 06:41 UTC]

No honest accounting of America’s fetid climate can ignore the fact that the former president himself is the country’s most influential exponent of political violence ↘️
https://www.ft.com/content/1d3c12b2-99ed-4935-bcb0-0fd700081c83

[2024-07-15 05:28 UTC]

How conspiracy theories swirled after Donald Trump shooting ↘️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyr7pyd0687o

[2024-07-14 20:46 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach. Data usually only available to authorities; now hackers got it https://www.404media.co/hackers-steal-text-and-call-records-of-nearly-all-at-t-customers/

[2024-07-12 10:30 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: . @KirkusReviews calls The Tech Coup by @MarietjeSchaake "both alarming and hopeful" and praises Schaake, a columnist @FT & international policy director @stanfordcyber, for writing with "hard-won experience and clear-minded intelligence." Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q02Gb5F90

[2024-07-11 13:36 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: all smiles on modi’s trip to moscow
while kyiv burns

[2024-07-08 18:18 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: A new NATO-backed effort will seek to seamlessly reroute the internet to space satellites in the case of attacks against subsea cables that carry most of the world's internet traffic, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-08/nato-backs-effort-to-reroute-internet-to-space-in-event-of-subsea-attacks

[2024-07-08 17:24 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Russia hits hospitals. Over and over. Country to country. "Putin sent warplanes to systematically target hospitals During the siege of Alepp, more than 440 civilians died, including 90 children. The attacks killed newborn babies, doctors, and students."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/18/ukraine-war-russia-syria-chechnya-grozny/

[2024-07-08 16:44 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Only one thing in common among all members of the new "patriotic party". The country they feel patriotic towards.

[2024-07-08 12:35 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Imagine being a child with cancer.
Imagine being a child with cancer in the middle of war.
Imagine being a child with cancer in the middle of war, and you're under attack.

#Kyiv, #Ukraine 🇺🇦

[2024-07-08 09:33 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: “Lammy has also accepted an invitation from the EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, to attend the September meeting of the EU foreign affairs council – something that was rejected by the previous Conservative governments” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/07/labour-to-seek-joint-declaration-with-eu-on-wide-ranging-security-pact

[2024-07-07 18:49 UTC]

The world seems to just accept these actions and predictable explanation, over and over and over again: Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 16 and injures dozens ↘️
https://on.ft.com/3W97WSR

[2024-07-07 16:53 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: France, snap national parliament election, runoff configurations:

➤ Duels:
NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D vs. RN-ID: 154
Ensemble-RE vs. RN-ID: 135
RN-ID vs. LR-EPP: 50
Ensemble-RE vs. NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D: 32
NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D vs. LR-EPP: 5

➤ Three-way runoffs:
Ensemble-RE vs. NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D vs. RN-ID: 70
NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D vs. RN-ID vs. LR-EPP: 11

➤ Four-way runoffs:
Ensemble-RE vs. NFP-LEFT|G/EFA|S&D vs. RN-ID vs. LR/DVD-EPP: 2

➤ https://europeelects.eu/france

[2024-07-04 10:06 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: 👀 President Zelensky’s spokesperson has this to say about Carlson’s interview claim: “Mr. Tucker Carlson should check his FSB sources more carefully. The President of Ukraine has a completely different schedule, and Tucker Carlson is not on it.”

[2024-07-04 08:24 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: NEW: Hackers say they stole 33 million cell phone numbers of users of two-factor app Authy.

Twilio (owner of Authy) confirmed "threat actors were able to identify" phone numbers, but didn't say how many.

The risk is better tailored phishing attacks.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/twilio-says-hackers-identified-cell-phone-numbers-of-two-factor-app-authy-users/

[2024-07-03 15:26 UTC]