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I have been testing the new 25.06 update for PostmarketOS on my OnePlus 6T and I must say the team has done an amazing work! Camera, GPS, Android apps and general system works well and is now, in my opinion daily driveable. Everything I personally wanted!

Thank you, @postmarketOS@treehouse.system! 🥳🤯

Last April, @nataliabielova demonstrated that websites use various #tracking technologies to collect user data. Privacy regulations like the EU's #GDPR require user consent, but many use manipulative "dark patterns" in cookie banners. Technical standards, like those from @w3c, aim to improve #privacy, and solutions include a taxonomy of tracking purposes and standardized consent recording to enhance compliance and user control.

🎬 Watch 'Privacy regulations and the Web': youtu.be/nnPe8Mb30rA

At the @w3c meeting in April 2025, co-chairs @torgo and @jyasskin gave an overview of @tag 's ongoing and new work. After the publication of two W3C statements -- the #ethical web principles and the #privacy guidelines --, the TAG is notably working on an "explainer explainer" and new findings, such as a finding on #AI. The group has also started a "TAG Associates program" to include external experts in their work.

🎬 Watch "Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Update": youtu.be/xdRveCDlay4

Last April, @dontcallmeDOM stressed the need for the web community to address #AI's growing impact on the Web. Previous @w3c report highlighted challenges like synthetic content, bias, #security, #sustainability, and data consent.
▶️ w3.org/reports/ai-web-impact/

Progress has been made with ML-based #APIs such as #WebNN and Prompt API. New concerns include AI agents, which pose risks to trust, #privacy, #safety, and the web economy.

🎬 Watch "AI Impact on the Web: updates": youtu.be/dniPpsCRQgI

@eff Palantir is NOT the sort of company with which any government entity should do notable business. Full stop. Very expensive for the SMALL secret sauce that there really is in the end. Not user friendly. Proprietary systems. Customized individually so it becomes a systems management nightmare. Not scalable. And the cheek to try to claim that data you put in their system then belongs to them. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. #USPol #Privacy

Last April, @domenic reported that 7 AI LLM-based APIs are being developed in the @w3c web machine learning #CommunityGroup.
▶️ webmachinelearning.github.io/i

These APIs raise new #privacy and #security concerns and must keep pace with rapid #AI advances. As part of the #Chrome team, he suggests prioritizing high-level APIs, improving testing methods, and engaging ML experts in web standards to broaden AI accessibility for #developers.

🎬 Watch 'LLM-based APIs in browsers': youtu.be/N_4TUhsApHI

Last week the @tag published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. This document elaborates on the privacy principle from the Ethical Web Principles: "Security and privacy are essential."

Privacy is an essential part of the web. The document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. #privacy

Read more at:
w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-pr

www.w3.orgPrivacy PrinciplesPrivacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both.
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Yes; exactly! So many people who should know better are not just ill-informed, but aggressively incurious about what is available.

I was recently told that there is *no way* to collaborate on a document that is not #privacy invasive, with the added smug fillip "sometimes, you just have to live in the world."

The occasion for this insight was a call for signatures to an open letter to the Trump Administration calling for better privacy protections---using Google docs. :)

The W3C @tag has published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. Privacy is an essential part of the web.

This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform.

People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both. #privacy
w3.org/news/2025/privacy-princ

W3CPrivacy Principles is a W3C StatementThis document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform.

The European Commission's "ProtectEU" strategy aims to address internal security threats but threatens digital rights by promoting #surveillance measures like #encryption backdoors and increased data retention.

It also seeks to strengthen agencies like Europol and Frontex, despite their abusive histories.

Thanks to #EDRi for their ongoing efforts to protect Europeans’ digital rights.

@edri

edri.org/our-work/protecteu-se

European Digital Rights (EDRi)‘ProtectEU’ security strategy - European Digital Rights (EDRi)The European Commission presented an internal security strategy that would undermine digital rights and even increase security threats.

Last month, Tara Whalen, @w3c Privacy Lead, shared a progress update on the Privacy and Advertising #WorkingGroups, launched in late 2024. The groups are working to develop standards that enhance web #privacy and promote ethical advertising. Key work includes the Global Privacy Control signal, updates on browser fingerprinting, privacy-preserving ad measurement, and a review of updated W3C privacy principles.

🎬 Watch: youtu.be/SxOKYBnqqXc