Explore the implications of the European Commission's €120 million fine on X for DSA violations. Discover the legal reasoning and future enforcement trends.
From Brussels Template to UK Tailoring: How the DMCCA Is (Re)writing the Rules for Big Tech - The Platform Law Blog
By Dr. Konstantina Bania The UK has built a “rival” to the EU’s Digital Markets Act – and it is now starting to use it. Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA), the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is moving from abstract principles to concrete, platform‑specific rules for some of the most powerful […]
Privacy as EU Tech advantage - The LeafPlaza Blog
Online crime loves legal massive data collection, grey systems, and jurisdictional gaps. Privacy-first design can actually reduce crime exposure and build trust in digital services. It is also central to the EU's tech autonomy: build systems aligning with European rights and risk models. Do not rely on foreign platforms or copy outside practices that might go against the EU values and needs.
Introducing the 2026 Cloudflare Threat Report
There has been a fundamental shift toward industrialized cyber threats, highlighted by a record 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack and sophisticated session token theft. Our new report examines how nation-states and criminal actors have moved beyond traditional exploits to "living off the XaaS" within legitimate enterprise logic.
W-Social: What does sovereignty mean for social media? – Open Future
The European Commission’s move to W-Social frames it as a European alternative to X, but its closed-source code and reliance on Bluesky’s infrastructure show that sovereign social media requires open infrastructure—not European ownership alone.
Third Country Deportation Watch
Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.
The AI "Evaluation Crisis" Is an Opportunity to Get Data Flow Right
Why the AI evaluation crisis could force a reckoning on dataset provenance, attribution, and consent.
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
EU App to split expenses: Splital (from Italy 🇮🇹)
15 votes, 10 comments. Hi everyone! I’d like to present Splital (from Italy 🇮🇹) and would love your feedback on how to improve it. Splital helps…
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
What happened to the fight for the Internet? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
At the moment I am writing this, bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting security risks, but in general, that's what surveillance and censorship bills have always claimed.
Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The study -- conducted by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks lo...
AI Act
The AI Act is the first-ever legal framework on AI, which addresses the risks of AI and positions Europe to play a leading role globally.
Europe’s spies are learning to trust each other — thanks to Trump
Doubts over transatlantic intelligence-sharing is bringing European intelligence agencies closer together.
Ireland and Spain Launch Investigations Into X’s Grok
Various other nations have also launched investigations into the artificial intelligence chatbot.
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
I imagine everyone here has received an unsolicited message telling them that their tax is overdue and that they urgently need to visit Genuine-Tax-Payment-Website.fart or that a parcel is delayed at customs and you can pay a small sum for its release at Almost-The-Right-Acronym.ak You know it is a scam. Most people just mark as spam and move on with their day. But a significant number of people …
