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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How do governments rewire science & the tech industry by threatening scholars? And how can we be more resilient? Writing for @ucs.org, I report on efforts by @thecoalition.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org, @acm.org, & @aoir.bsky.social to support researcher rights blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...
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Protecting Science from Government Intimidation - Union of Concerned Scientists
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Open Technology Research @opentechresearch.org · 01/07/2026
The Call for Proposals for the first Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is still open until this Sunday 5 July! -- CFP Deadline: 5 July 2026 -- Symposium Dates: 26–27 October 2026 -- Location: Universitat de Barcelona | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain symposium.opentechresearch.org
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 08/05/2026
#MozFest 2026 Call for Proposals is open ⚡ We're not looking for talks about the alternative. We're looking for proof of it. Submit your idea to one of our eight, unique community tracks by May 24 🌿 We can’t wait to see your work👀 mzl.la/42Vajv1
mozilla festival call for proposals graphic apply by may 24
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 07/04/2026
What if we stopped building technology on corporate terms? #MozFest 2026 theme: Wilding 🌿 An invitation to return to the edges of what tech can be. Barcelona Oct 28–30 €42 🌿 mzl.la/4smJXg2
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 13/03/2026
Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...
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Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages
Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're co...
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 11/03/2026
How do we stop LLMs from flattening culture? Join EM Lewis-Jong, CEO of @mozdatacollective.bsky.social, and Slow AI's Dr. Sam Illingworth live at 9am ET TODAY as they discuss why language and culture should exist in multitudes. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: From multilingual to multicultural: how do we escape from LLMs flattening culture?
Starting Mar 11 at 9:00 AM EDT
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mozilla.ai @mozilla.ai · 06/03/2026
AI made code generation extremely fast. Human reasoning about code is still slow. That gap changes where reliability lives in software systems. Observability, staged rollouts, isolation, and fast rollback become central pieces of engineering practice. Full post:
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Owning Code in the Age of AI
AI lets engineers generate thousands of lines of code in minutes. But humans still reason about systems slowly. That gap forces a rethink of ownership, reliability, and where safety really lives in…
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Europe Street News @europestreet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Commission registers European Citizens' Initiative calling for a European social media platform that “would form an alternative" to the current ones and "work as a service for the society". ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Commission registers European Citizens\' Initiative calling for a European social media platform
Today, the European Commission has registered a European Citizens\' Initiative (ECI), entitled ‘European Public Social Network\'.\nThe initiative invites the Commission to establish, through a legisla...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For the millions who have no other access to mental health support and who may already rely on AI tools for support in times of need, we must urgently confront how such technologies can be most helpful and least harmful, write Claire Leibowicz and Emily Saltz.
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How Collaboration Can Enable Action on AI and Mental Health
Getting AI and mental health right means society must grapple with the responsibility of technology companies to both mitigate risk and center well-being.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 12/02/2026
🚨 Call now open: Democracy x AI Incubator Mozilla Foundation is funding working AI systems that strengthen information, transparency, and civic space, and have a proven track record of serving people for the better. $50K USD + 12 months of support. Apply by March 16, 2026⏰ mzl.la/4aL3ukp
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 18/12/2025
French Competition Authority study on competition issues related to the energy and environmental impact of AI. www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/fr/communiqu... They identify three types of issues 👇
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 18/12/2025
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this. …
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 10/12/2025
Mozilla Fellows change how the world thinks about data, AI, privacy, and power. If someone you know is doing work that lifts us all forward, nominate them for the 2026 cohort. #MozillaFellow bit.ly/48vBijf
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025
Why does transparency matter? Just last Friday, X became extremely transparent. Their "about this account" feature reveals that foreign actors and inauthentic activity still dominate the platform, driven by monetary reward. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 14/11/2025
We have no idea what content is most viral on YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X — because they refuse to share basic data. ✍️Alongside @algorithmwatch.org, we're demanding platform transparency. Join us: www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns...
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Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 14/11/2025
@netzpolitik.org has the latest #ChatControl draft text and analysis
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Coimisiún na Meán @cnam-ie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Our Investigations Team has commenced a formal investigation into the provider of the X online platform (X), under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The investigation will assess whether X has contravened Article 20 of the DSA. cnam.ie/coimisiun-na...
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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Today in Tech Policy Press: @markscott.bsky.social and our coordinator @lkseiling.bsky.social write about the precarious state of data access - and the care required to realise its potential as a foundational democratic function. The full article is freely accessible through the link below ⬇️
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seher @heyitsseher.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Mozilla Festival 2025 is Nov 7-9 in Barcelona w/ 500+ session hosts, 200+ experiences, talks, labs, forums, film screenings, & installations. Keynotes @xychelsea.tv @audreyt.org @ruha9.bsky.social If you haven't gotten your festival badge, use code MOZSEHER 🎟️ @mozilla.org www.mozillafestival.org
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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 04/11/2025
If you're short on time, you can find a summary of our investigation into data brokers endangering Europe's security here #databrokerfiles netzpolitik.org/2025/databro...
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Databroker Files: All you need to know about how adtech data exposes the EU to espionage
Our latest investigation has shaken up Brussels by revealing that commercial datasets containing 278 million locations can be used to spy on the EU and NATO. The European Commission has expressed its ...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks
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Postdoctoral Researcher on GenAI in Public Service
Post Title: Post-Doctoral Researcher, generative AI in public services Post Duration: 24 months Salary Scale: Post-Doctoral Researcher, PD2 Point 1 - 4 (54,850 - 59,654) Location: AI Accountability La...
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 04/11/2025
Last month, #NothingPersonal gave #WhatsApp a 6/10 for privacy 📱 Good news: they’re now adding encrypted chat backups using fingerprint or face ID. Progress? Yes. Perfect? Not yet. See what else needs fixing — and how you can protect your data 👇 🔗 mzl.la/43cIoHK
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Whatsapp App Review 2025: Privacy, Pros and Cons, Personal Data
Read our privacy expert's review of the messaging app Whatsapp. While WhatsApp can be used relatively safely, there are some privacy pitfalls lurking beneath the surface. Most of them relate to WhatsA...
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The Register @theregister.com · 27/10/2025
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
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Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …
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Kevin Korte @kevinkorte.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The International Criminal Court is ending its dependency on Big Tech cloud solution by adopting the open-source solution OpenDesk. Univention is part of this process. It is a critical step to insulate international organizations from political pressure. #opensource
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International Criminal Court Kicks Out Microsoft
According to Handelsblatt, the International Criminal Court is kicking out US service providers like Microsoft. And is relying on German alternatives.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/10/2025
"In the leaked document, Amazon executives warned that transparency was “a one-way door” and advised keeping its projections confidential, even as they feared inviting accusations of a cover-up" www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...
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Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret
Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 24/10/2025
ec.europa.eu/commission/p... EC Preliminary Findings - Meta and TikTok in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the #DigitalServicesAct
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Commission preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found both TikTok and Meta in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 24/10/2025
SOV-8 refers to Environmental Sustainability factors It's weighted lowest, but still present.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 21/10/2025
Global Encryption Day is for celebrating the wild idea that maybe platforms could protect us on purpose🔐 Join in the celebration and sign our petition to help protect encryption worldwide ✍️ mzl.la/48GTOag #encryption
meme with cake in background that says E2EE text overlay that says "how come its always hey let's conduct mass surveillance and not hey let's ask platforms to do more than the bare minimum to protect their users?
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
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Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 15/10/2025
No noise. All signal. Nothing Personal. Meet Nothing Personal — a new counterculture magazine from the Mozilla Foundation. We’re handing the mic to the people rebuilding digital culture from the ground up. mzl.la/3KOMiQF #NothingPersonal #MakeGoodTech
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 24/09/2025
👏 @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy P.S. get more @index.internet.exchangepoint.tech.ap.brid.gy goodness at #MozFest this November www.mozillafestival.org/en/
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michael veale @michae.lv · 06/08/2025
Perplexity, despite its modest size, gave $1M to Trump’s inaugural - so this tracks.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 09/07/2025
From Africa to Asia, a movement is threatening Big Tech's business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home New from @tarykuh.bsky.social: restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
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Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty
Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.
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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 17/07/2025
BEUC is currently looking for a Digital Policy officer to reinforce its Digital Team. Reporting directly to the Head of Digital Policy, you will be in charge of coordinating BEUC’s advocacy work on simplification of the EU digital rulebook and supporting team members on specific files.
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Vacancy: Digital Policy Officer
BEUC – The European Consumer Organisation is currently looking for a Digital Policy officer to reinforce its Digital Team in Brussels, Belgium.
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025
#Shein was fined €40 million by French authorities on Thursday after an investigation found the Chinese fast-fashion giant had misled #consumers about its discounts and environmental impact. 🎉 Source […]
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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
dark blue background. on it, there is text saying "The Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS is here", "Delegated Act on 40.4 DATA ACCESS" is yellow, the other text is white.
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025
"Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default—a quiet but radical reversal of the status quo where bots could crawl first and ask questions never" #infrastructure www.linkedin.com/posts/radsch...
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Big news from Cloudflare today as it took a decisive step in the escalating war between publishers/website owners and AI companies that have treated the open web as a limitless, consequence-free… | Co...
Big news from Cloudflare today as it took a decisive step in the escalating war between publishers/website owners and AI companies that have treated the open web as a limitless, consequence-free train...
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 24/06/2025
Looking forward to the discussion!
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 18/06/2025
Among AliExpress's announced binding commitments: A commitment to enable researchers who meet the criteria set out in Article 40.12 #DSA to independently access and use public data to analyse systemic risks via automated means, such as ‘data scraping’. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
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Commission makes AliExpress’ commitments under the Digital Services Act binding
The Commission has made binding AliExpress’ commitments to address concerns raised in formal proceedings under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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AI Forensics @aiforensics.org · 09/06/2025
🧵How TikTok failed Polish democracy during the 2025 Presidential Election Our new investigation exposes serious gaps in TikTok's election content moderation that disproportionately harmed the Polish diaspora : aiforensics.org/work/tiktok-...
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Tiktok's Polish Elections Labels: Only Sometimes, And Only For Some
Our investigation reveals TikTok's systematic failures in applying election information labels during Poland's 2025 Presidential Election. The platform excluded 20+ million Polish diaspora users from ...
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Demos @demos-uk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Supported by @mozilla.org, this report argues that in light of the changing AI landscape and recent geopolitical shifts, the UK’s strongest bet for realising its AI ambitions for sovereignty, deployment, and influence is to lean into open-source. 🔓
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 27/05/2025
In a recent report, Human Rights Watch documented how major companies operating in the US are misclassifying gig workers as independent contractors. Hear more from experts on "The Gig Trap" and labor rights ⤵️
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 17/05/2025
Happy #WorldInternetDay from Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador, first Digital Minister, and Mozilla Foundation's newest, Senior Advisor, @audreyt.org 🥳 More to come from Audrey 🔜
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 15/05/2025
This is a big deal. This preliminary finding that TikTok's ad repository is insufficient under the DSA is itself the result of - and will hopefully help contribute to - strong independent platform research.
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Freiheitsrechte.org - GFF @freiheitsrechte.org · 13/05/2025
Gleich geht es los! Gemeinsam mit @democracyreporting.bsky.social haben wir X auf Zugang zu Forschungsdaten verklagt. Ziel war mit den Daten eine mögliche Beeinflussung vor der Bundestagswahl zu erforschen. Heute wird vor dem Berliner Landgericht verhandelt.
Die Teams der Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte und Democracy Reporting International vor dem Landgericht Berlin mit einem Banner auf dem "Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte" steht
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 29/04/2025
Have an idea to help shape the future of tech? We're inviting you to submit a proposal to host a talk, forum, or hands-on lab at #MozillaFestival in Barcelona this fall. Let’s rethink tech together—submit by May 21. mzl.la/cfp
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mozilla.ai @mozilla.ai · 24/04/2025
🚀 New Lumigator Updates Are Live! ✅ Provided better translation support with Opus-MT models and G-Eval integration. ✅ Expanded evaluator capabilities by integrating DeepEval's Ollama. ✅ Refreshed the Experiments UI with new features and improvements. 👉 Try it out: github.com/mozilla-ai/l...
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GitHub - mozilla-ai/lumigator: Source code for Mozilla.ai's Lumigator platform
Source code for Mozilla.ai's Lumigator platform. Contribute to mozilla-ai/lumigator development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 07/03/2025
📢 We’re launching the 2nd edition of the #4DAwards! ✨ Looking for #DigitalRights fighters with real solutions for a #DemocraticDigitalisation 🏆 2 prizes of €15,000. 📅 Applications open until 18/5 Organised by: @X_net_ @puntCAT 🔗 4d.cat/en/award/
Un anuncio del "4D Award", la segunda edición, que ofrece apoyo financiero para soluciones que promueven la digitalización democrática, los derechos digitales y los bienes comunes.  El diseño incluye un logo estilizado "4D" en tonos rosas y morados, con líneas horizontales digitales. Se muestra la fecha límite para la recepción de propuestas: 18/05/2025, e incluye una dirección web para más información y el formulario de solicitud.
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European Partnership for Democracy @epd.eu · 25/03/2025
🛡️The new European Democracy Shield (EDS) is being prepared by the European Commission and will cover the EU’s key work in supporting #democracy. 📌 How can it effectively protect and boost democracy? With 49 organisations, EPD has laid out the priorities and recommendations for an effective EDS. 🧵
A New European Shield for Democracy: How to Make it Work?
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Claire Pershan @clairepershan.eurosky.social · 20/03/2025
"Strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security"
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