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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
26 May 2025
A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews.
It was taken 81 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy.
All the people in this picture had already gone through the arrival selection and were awaiting to be murdered in a gas chamber. They were killed shortly after.
Please share this unique document.
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15 Apr 2025
My piece in The Guardian this morning:
EU race to rearm is pointless if hostile foreign powers can still use online algorithms to boost authoritarians to power across Europe.
Europe’s new “Democracy Shield” should immediately shut them down.
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
7 Feb 2025
I just can’t get over how inversely correlated likes and views are with reality.
849k views for the tweet on the left —which a lot of people want to believe – and almost none for the correction.
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
5 Feb 2025
Sen Chris Coons upon learning of Trump’s proposal for Gaza.
“You can report that I was speechless.”
Coons then said: “That’s insane. I can’t think of a place on earth that would welcome American troops less and where any positive outcome is less likely."
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Discussing the future of European digital markets with MEP Andreas Schwab @Andreas_Schwab MEP Dóra Dávid & Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan
new video: youtube.com/watch?v=wzqUWgXx…
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Google really, really wants the Trump admin to settle its antitrust cases.
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25 Jan 2025
Deepseek AI has some distinctly Chinese limitations…
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
23 Jan 2025
This drone footage of Rafah is truly - truly - apocalyptic.
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24 Jan 2025
RT @CPDPconferences: CPDP - Data Protection Day 2025
"Forging the Future: Reinventing Data Protection?"
Follow @bendrath , @HielkeHijmans…
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
20 Jan 2025
This was my final week as @FTC Chair so I wanted to say thank you.
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@johnnyryan.bsky.social retweeted
20 Jan 2025
Along with Jonathan Kanter stepping down, this officially marks the end. But it is only the end of the beginning. @FTC & @JusticeATR showed us what's possible despite shoestring budgets and hostile judges. My prediction: this movement is just getting started.
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17 Jan 2025
From our new complaint v Google under new U.S. national security law. Para 50 has a table of sample Google segment IDs available for purchase: health, sexuality, finances, active military status, etc.
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17 Jan 2025
In reality, Google knew for more than a decade that its RTB advertising system is a security black hole.
See paragraphs 47-48 of our complaint.
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17 Jan 2025
Paras 54-56 show that Google CEO Sundar Pichai rejected or failed to act upon internal calls (example) to reform the Google's dangerous RTB system in 2021. Instead, Google plans to start releasing even more data, next month.
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17 Jan 2025
Former European prime ministers write to von der Leyen, urging a break up of Google's adtech monopoly to protect democracy @ClubdeMadrid
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16 Jan 2025
Just now we & EPIC filed a complaint to US FTC against Google under new national security data law PADFAA
Cites internal Google comms showing Google knew about its RTB security problem for a decade and CEO Sundar Pichai failed to heed internal calls to fix
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16 Jan 2025
Google continued to expose sensitive American defense personnel, and their institutions, to blackmail and compromise, in addition to causing grave privacy harm to consumers.
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16 Jan 2025
Today’s complaint targets a major part of Google’s business: much of Google’s $237.9 billion advertising revenue is RTB. Google RTB dominates online advertising and operates on 33.7 million websites and a huge number of apps.
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