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1 week ago | netzpolitik.org | Maximilian Henning

The EU Commission has been funding open source projects for years. A programme called Next Generation Internet (NGI) is central to this by distributing money quickly and without red tape to promising projects – such as the decentralised microblogging service Mastodon, the video software PeerTube or Jitsi for videoconferencing. But the Commission has been set on ending funding NGI for some time – despite prolonged criticism. Involved organisations have said that NGI works well and efficiently.

1 week ago | netzpolitik.org | Markus Reuter |Tomas Rudl

The political situation in the U.S. is escalating. Last week, the authoritarian President Donald Trump deployed military troops to California to quell protests against the immigration authorities, ICE. Shocking images, such as the forced removal of California’s Democratic Senator Alex Padilla from a press conference, were seen around the world.

1 month ago | netzpolitik.org | Chris Köver

Watching others masturbate online for money? This could soon be banned in Sweden. The conservative-right government of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has introduced a bill to parliament that would make it a criminal offense to pay for sexual services “performed at a distance, without contact.” Parliament is currently debating the bill and is set to vote next week.

2 months ago | netzpolitik.org | Ingo Dachwitz

Together with other activists from around the world, Nighat Dad wants to establish a “Global Majority House” in Brussels to make underepesented voices heard in EU tech regulation. Global Majority is a collective term for people of African, Asian, Indigenous, Latin American or mixed backgrounds, who make up about 85 percent of the world’s population. According to the Oxford Dictionary, it includes all people who do not consider themselves or are not considered to be white.

Feb 28, 2025 | netzpolitik.org | Chris Köver

For months, the passport data of thousands of people was accessible on the internet. Lists containing names, dates of birth, and passport numbers were freely available for download to anyone who visited the website of the Belgian data marketplace „Databroker“. netzpolitik.org uncovered the data leak last July. The Belgian data protection authority is responsible for the case, but declined to comment publicly. The agency is not allowed to talk about ongoing or potential investigations.