Claudio Agosti

Claudio Agosti

@vecna.bsky.social

technology won't save us, but still is the best I've to offer

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It's a great development in the gig economy, but even if a top tier company is moving towards more legitimate hiring practices, don't forget that the approach is rotten to the core and the pressure needs to be systematic.

reversing.worksReversing.WorksEmpowering labor unions with specialized reverse engineering expertise to uncover and expose covert practices in gig-economy apps, ensuring transparency and fairness in the digital workforce

muchas gracias Carles! leyendo la sentencia hay que decir que la autoridad abordó principalmente 4 puntos, 2 de nuestra investigación, y 2 igualmente nuevos. un hito para GDPR+derechos de los trabajadores.

We hope that trade unions, workers' councils and other NGOs fighting for digital rights will take this as an example and support a more adversarial approach when it comes to exposing abuses. (3/6)

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promoting secure, anonymous communication methods. If you’d like to reach out securely, you can find me at faffa-securesubmission.eu, where even I can’t know who’s contacting me—unless, of course, they choose to share. Otherwise DMs are open!

This shouldn't come as a surprise. The whole "definition of political advertising" and the regulations around it was an unfortunate idea that put pressure on an externality (the advertiser). The goal is to define what is political (everything, dah) It's a GAFAM victory since 2017. deflect attention.

Who Targets Me@whotargets.me

Google is withdrawing from the political ad market in the EU, blaming a lack of precision in the definition of a "political ad" in new EU regulations that come into force next year. This leaves Meta as an effective monopolist in the market. blog.google/around-the-g...

A truly open LLM system needs to document all this overridden information for future peer review, and to update the accuracy of the information requires the same power that censorship and "AI alignment" have used. Is there any work I'm missing that tries to guarantee such accountability?

In this piece published today, I try to argue that "#scraping" is a technical term with more than one political meaning edri.org/our-work/the... and should always be used close to nuances such as size, goal, scope of the collection before expressing a judgment.

edri.orgThe two sides of web scraping - European Digital Rights (EDRi)These methods – such as web-scraping – have been used to achieve several key victories for digital rights, but can also be exploitative.
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Last week we were submitted to Hacker News and this gave us a good temporary visibility, converted in receiving many new political figures and new faces. Please consider sharing Don't Spy EU until we are not sure has been seen by the interested subjects. The time is running out, thank you!

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