This is for the ones with abusive parents. Bad, abusive parents know a lot more about it than you’d think. We all know the saying “The axe forgets what the tree remembers.” And I’m sure for some stuff, that is true. But I’ve seen when they act clueless while knowing what what happened. Sometimes, the mask slips....

Every now and then, Noyb (European Center for Digital Rights) highlights some of their volunteers for their GDPRhub project. Now I got my entry :) Check it out on Mastodon and LinkedIn. Fittingly, one of my translated and summarized decisions finally made it into the weekly newsletter last Thursday! Also, they give...

I remember years ago, especially early on in the pandemic (2020/2021), I was still not diagnosed with my illnesses (Bechterew's disease and Crohn's disease). For a decade at least, I had dealt with a variety of symptoms, most of it around joints, my spine, and my digestive tract, and separately from those, also...

Data protection, privacy and tech is a very dynamic field; every day, there are new court decisions, actions by big tech companies, and resulting questions, so thought I could share my resources that keep me informed. Unless marked with a German flag 🇩🇪, these are English. Newsletter subscriptions Noyb.eu GDPRtoday...

A service promising to protect your privacy is not able to keep you anonymous. Why is that? This distinction is actually really important in data protection and privacy laws. Anonymity is about the inability to link an action, message, or data point to a specific individual. If attribution is possible (even if...

When talking about using AI for decision-making, you often hear that there will be "human oversight" or "human intervention". One popular example that I have come across in conferences and webinars about data protection law is the hiring process and recruiting: Companies are already proudly using AI to select...

If you are a generally healthy person, it can be hard to conceptualize how quickly someone's illnesses can suddenly turn within a few hours, so here is an example from yesterday to illustrate it. My wife and I had made plans to go a tabletop/board game flea market at noon and then head over to a restaurant...

I work full time, while also studying part time, volunteering, and blogging here, together with fitness, other hobbies and keeping up with things, feeling available to people most of the time. What helps me do that, especially when I am chronically ill? 1. Having a working treatment.Obviously, the less sick days and...

For the Bearblog Carnival of March, I wanna briefly add in my own favorite meme! Or at least, one of them. There are so many I could add... I'm choosing a specific YouTube video, a YouTube Poop. A YouTube Poop (or YTP, often shortened in the title) is a type of video remixing that edits pre-existing media like ads,...

A few days ago, news spread through the web about a Meta project for letting an AI run the social media account of a deceased person, as it could emulate the person's activity like posting content and responding to messages. The goal was to maintain engagement on the platform and reduce the grief when a person...

In ‘small thoughts’ posts, I’m posting a collection of short thoughts and opinions that don’t warrant their own post. :) It's been a while! ☁️☁️☁️ I’m looking back and am so grateful for everything I got myself through. The times I was alone, sick, in pain but still went to appointments, walked the dog, got...

img { display: inline-block; } rose 5 year anniversary with my wife. :) Started a creation event for the Gazette. I created more art! I made some buttons and banners, and some pixel art for myself and with Xaya. I rebranded my professional website (not this one). Put a lot of effort into the colors, associations,...