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UCD Centre for Digital Policy @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In a recent piece shared with us, international human rights lawyer and researcher @patdebrun.bsky.social discusses Ireland's compliancy towards Big Tech operations, as seen in the removal of services from the Occupied Territories Bill. Read the full piece at the link below 👇

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Occupied Territories Bill retreat lays bare Irish government’s subservience to US Big Tech, Pat de Brún - UCD Centre for Digital Policy

In a recent speech, Minister of State Thomas Byrne spoke of Ireland’s “deep, abiding commitment to human rights, multilateralism and the rule of law” –

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't. @ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech? peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...

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Tanya O'Carroll @tanya.eurosky.social · 22/03/2025

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

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One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone

Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Recent policy developments by Meta increase the risk of contributing to mass violence & gross human rights abuses - just like it did in Myanmar in 2017. A timely op-ed by @patdebrun.bsky.social & Rohingya survivor Maung Sawyeddollah 👇 www.techpolicy.press/metas-new-co...

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Meta’s New Content Policies Risk Fueling More Mass Violence And Genocide | TechPolicy.Press

Ignoring lessons from Myanmar and Ethiopia, Meta is stripping away safeguards against mass violence, write Pat de Brún and Maung Sawyeddollah.

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 11/02/2025

Damini Satija, Director of Tech and Human Rights at Amnesty is at the Paris #AIActionSummit. She's sharing three things we're asking decision makers to take heed of on AI harms and regulation 👇

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 29/11/2024

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Google to sell Chrome. The tech giant has a dominance in the market when it comes to search engines and the judge says it has an illegal monopoly. Chrome is the most used browser in the world. #pvbt #google #chrome #technews

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People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024

Will the #EU continue to be tough on #BigTech regulation, or will they be too scared of provoking #Trump? And will the next 4yrs be as bad as it looks for tech justice? @mccoolingtons.bsky.social spoke to some of our members across Europe to get their takes: blog.peoplevsbig.tech/trump-x-euro...

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Trump x Europe

Will the EU befriend Trump or fight Big Tech? Newsletter editor Alice McCool asked the experts.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

An employee of Huggingface, a site of AI training datasets, made a dataset of a million Bluesky posts scraped simply because they could. It’s currently trending: www.404media.co/someone-made...

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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'

A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 22/11/2024

NEW: The Meta Ad Library is not working, one week out from the Irish General Election Meta have been made aware of this, but failed to get it working again This is where the DSA is meant to kick in; I just submitted an urgent complaint to CnaM, the Irish regulator - lets see what happens

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Pat de Brún @patdebrun.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

📣 We're hiring (for a short-term consultancy!) 📣 Amnesty Tech is seeking a consultant with expertise in participatory approaches to research, campaigns and advocacy to review how Amnesty works with communities impacted by tech harms. Deadline: 4/12/24 careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...

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Pat de Brún @patdebrun.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi y'all, this is my first BlueSky post, so I'll briefly introduce myself and my work to hold Big Tech corporations to account. My name is Pat (he/him). I'm a lawyer and human rights researcher based in London, and I work as Head of Big Tech Accountability at Amnesty International. 1/4

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