For Data Protection Day 2026, we're taking you from Ancient Rome to now.

Our rights expanded in the Information Age to include the electronic body. Data is our DNA.

But now protections are shrinking. All while surveillance becomes industrialised, AI outstrips regulation and our institutions fall under corporate capture.

We must learn from history and course correct now.

Read our blog ⬇️

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Give a bit, they’ll take a megabyte: Data Protection Then and Now

Data Protection Day 2026 As the Center for Democracy and Technology reports, “In what state officials have described as a “ransom note”, the Department of Justice over the weekend reissued demands for full access to Minnesota’s records on Medicaid, …

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🚨Spain approves decree to regularise 500K undocumented immigrants! 🇪🇸🇪🇺👏

@sanchezcastejon "Throughout history, #migration has been one of the great drivers of the development of nations while hatred & #xenophobia have been – & continue to be – the greatest destroyer of nations!"
Olé, Pedro Sánchez!💃🏻👏

#Politics #Socialism #HumanRights #Democracy #Justice

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Spain approves decree to regularise half a million undocumented migrants

Move affecting those who have been in Spain five months or more runs counter to anti-migration policies across Europe

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Nationwide shut down

January 30

NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING

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@Npars01 @bodhipaksa @EricFielding A Strategy to End the Trump Regime --> Cy Canterel

Countering Veruca Tactics

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A Strategy to End the Trump Regime

Trump’s regime looks chaotic on the surface, but that chaos is not a strategy. It’s what happens when a government runs on Veruca Salt tactics: tantrums, ent...

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#FromMyGenXLife here's something Boomers relate to that GenZ does not: being away from home and needing to find a pay phone while breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline.

Here's something GenZ understands that Boomers don't: Until I was 50, I never had a job that lasted more than 2.5 years.

Here's one thing GenZ understands that everyone must: #Queer #LGBT+ kids don't have to grow up bullied and abused from the streets to the state houses like we did.

#TransRights are #HumanRights

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The Guardian: ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

"...Marc Prokosch, an attorney representing the family, said the family has an active asylum case and shared paperwork showing the father and son had arrived to the US at a port of entry, meaning an official crossing point.

“The family did everything they were supposed to in accordance with how the rules have been set out,” he said. “They did not come here illegally. They are not criminals.” He said there was no order of deportation against them and he believes the father and son have remained together in detention...."

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