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W Social Advisory Board
fragdenstaat.deJun 22, 2026 at 4:29 PM
W Social Advisory Board
Alle Dokumente, Unterlagen, Mitteilungen und sonstigen Informationen, die Ihrer Behörde bzw. Frau Specht-Riemenschneider in ihrer Funktion als Advisory Board Member von W Social zugegangen sind. Hintergrund: Gemäß https://wsocial.news/ gehört Frau Specht-Riemenschneider zu den "people behind W." und ist "Advisory board member" dieses Social Networks. Sie wird dort als "German Federal Data Protection Commissioner" geführt. Daher gehe ich davon aus, dass sie diese Funktion jedenfalls auch in ihrer amtlichen Eigenschaft als Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit wahrnimmt.
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Community privacy is one of our top priorities at @transrights.northsky.social which isn't possible out of the box with any ATproto implementation today that doesn't just hide an entire PDS. We're developing in the open and so I've published a proposal on it, feedback as always is we
science.latha.org
A permissioned appview for scientific documents on AT Protocol. True data ownership with optional monetization.
How (Not) to Write a Privacy Law
After many years of failed starts, proposed information privacy legislation has begun moving forward in both houses of Congress. The docket in the recently ended 116th Congress was crowded, with a number of different proposals jostling for attention and no agreement on which deserved to be the front runner. Even so, as the 117th Congress begins, there is growing inside-the-Beltway consensus on the list of features that a successful bill will need to include. This paper critically assesses those zones of emerging consensus.

Tibo on Twitter / X
Today we’re previewing Private Safety Processing, designed to let us keep offering Zero Data Retention while improving our safeguards. Even when benefiting from frontier intelligence, customers shouldn’t have to give up control of sensitive data.For ZDR deployments, content… https://t.co/W6Ls8W7x2l— Tibo (@thsottiaux) August 19, 2026
Online Safety Bills Are Fueling a New Wave of Internet Censorship
State and federal bills seek to limit minors’ access to social media, but civil liberties advocates warn that the resulting online censorship threatens constitutional rights without delivering real safety.

Site Blocking and Age Verification for Twitter, Instagram, Snap and Twitch?: Age Verification Lobby Confirms it Wants Bill S-210 to Cover All Social Media Sites - Michael Geist
Bill S-210 - the Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act - burst onto the public scene late last year as a majority of the House voted for the bill at second reading, sending it to the Public Safety committee for review. The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne, was supported by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs (the cabinet voted against, signalling it is not supported by the government). The bill raises significant concerns with the prospect of government-backed censorship, mandated age verification to use search engines or social media, and a framework for court-ordered website blocking (I appeared before the Senate committee that studied by the bill in February 2022, arguing that “by bringing together website blocking, face recognition technologies, and stunning overbreadth that would capture numerous mainstream services, the bill isn’t just a slippery slope, it is an avalanche.”). In response to the public criticism of the bill, Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne has suggested that concerns about it extending to general purpose social media sites is overstated since the intent is to target adult content sites. Yet that is not what the bill provides as it applies to anyone who makes sexually explicit material available on the Internet for commercial purposes:

research.latha.org
A permissioned appview for research documents on AT Protocol. True data ownership with optional monetization.
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.

Upload government papers to go online? That’s our terrifying future | Aliya Bhatia
Requirement to upload documents for the purpose of ‘age verification’ is coming to platforms near you


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