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This screen, from a leaked 2021 document, shows how Webloc tracked a person travelling from Germany via Austria to Hungary.

The system obtains the data from everyday consumer apps installed on phones. The data is tied to mobile device IDs typically used for ad targeting, which identify a phone and its owner.

The systematic misuse of this data for tracking and profiling in digital marketing is already highly problematic. Misusing it for government surveillance is another level of disastrous.

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Alongside our report, Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi publishes a VSquare investigation which reveals that Hungarian domestic intelligence has used Webloc since at least 2022, and still does today.

This is the first confirmation of the use of ad-based surveillance technology in Europe:
vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolk

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If you are a small business owner, please, please, for the love of whichever deity you care about, don't limit the entirety of your contact options to Facebook and Instagram.

I'm seeing this quite a bit lately, and it's shit.

Israel causa más de 250 muertos en Líbano tras lanzar 160 bombas, su mayor oleada de la guerra
El genocidio sigue, pero participará en Eurovisión este país criminal.
elpais.com/internacional/2026- a través de @el_pais

Recordad que la cuota del sindicato desgrava.

@richlv @fj @reloadedhead

One thing we see in the US is a continual arms race to bigger and bigger vehicles, partly due to this “safer than thou” mentality, partly machismo. But when it’s normalized, narrow streets start to be seen as the problem instead of the vehicles. The streets become one-way, parking is terrible, the roads are torn up by the extra weight.

And you never, ever see any cargo being carried.

@richlv @fj @reloadedhead

First and foremost: large vehicles are safer for the people in them, but much less safe for those around them. They crush smaller cars. Small children cannot be seen if close to the front. The headlights blind me when one of these is behind me in the road. They block sight lines. I think that wanting a big truck is basically anti-social.
This goes double for cybertrucks.

@fj I wish they’d be largely banned from American roads, too.

Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

"US carmakers have accused Brussels of keeping their largest pick-up trucks, including the Ford F-150, the Chevy Silverado and the Ram 1500, off European roads”

ft.com/content/3eb796fd-bcdb-4

carsized.com/en/cars/compare/r

No votar es como el jersey azul de El diablo viste de Prada: se piensa como un acto de resistencia pero en realidad el sistema lo ha calculado, cuenta con ello y saca partido.

Así que por favor, por favor os lo pido: coged la rabia, el hartazgo, las movilizaciones, las manifas y usadlos también el 17 de mayo. Necesitamos sacar de ahí a Moreno Bonilla. Por favor.

“We have heard with deep sorrow the words coming from Donald Trump warning that an entire civilization—the population of Iran—could face total destruction. These threats are truly unacceptable. The idea that millions of innocent men, women, and children could be condemned to death under the pretext of national security is an affront to human dignity and a blasphemy against the Creator of life."

~ Pope Leo

#PopeLeo #Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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If Trump does "kill an entire civilisation" tonight, it could do real damage to the long-term validity of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Who do you even root for in this pointless war? The corrupt theocratic dictatorship that murders its own people, or Iran?

Dear @EUCommission,

The president of our American "ally" has threatened a whole country with utter annihilation, and not a single "concerned" has been heard from you.

Feeling useless much?

Concerned regards,

--An European citizen

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