it wasn't just muslim women who "led" the caa protests. it was muslim men too. have you ever wondered why this image of "strong" muslim women "who don't need muslim men" is projected by liberals and the left? notice how they decentred sharjeel imam from the shaheen bagh +

protests and turned it into a women's issue completely...? as if the citizenship amendment bill called into question the citizenship of women only. why this targeted erasure of muslim men from the narrative? where there were women, there were men too. talk about the saviour +
gaze, lmao. you'll find it in droves in indian liberals and leftists.

oh, and btw, i'm not saying this as something i "feel". it's very very real. the cpi(m) report on the delhi pogrom even stated that "women leading the protests did not allow their stage to be used for +
muslim fundamentalist propaganda." notice how the movement is being hailed as women's only when ALL members of the muslim community were being affected? and simultaneously presenting this picture of women against the more "fundamentalist", "radical" picture of muslim +
society, which is, of course, muslim men. and it wasn't just this report, literally everyone fell into this forced dichotomy, a dichotomy that was forced upon us, in order to drive a wedge between men and women of the community. therefore it becomes very important to +
counter this "dadis of shaheen bagh" narrative that literally everyone partook in, which admired the protestors only for their gender and not for the real purpose: which was that they, like muslim men, like muslim children, were (& are) on the brink of losing their citizenship. +
also, muslim women need to avoid falling into this trap. our whole community is suffering, and that suffering is much greater than the suffering that women go through on account of being women. at the end of the day, you're muslim before you're anything else. keep that in mind. +
oh, and btw, muslim women have always been very active socially, and even politically. so, yeah, shaheen bagh wasn't "unprecedented" in the history of muslim women.

we don't need your majoritarian, saviour-y gaze to give us certificates and hail us as heroes for "breaking +
free" from muslim men and from the "docile, submissive, repressed muslim woman" narrative that you imposed on us in the first place. no thank you.

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Recently, the @CNIL issued a decision regarding the GDPR compliance of an unknown French adtech company named "Vectaury". It may seem like small fry, but the decision has potential wide-ranging impacts for Google, the IAB framework, and today's adtech. It's thread time! 👇

It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details):
https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha

I've read it so you needn't!

Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.

The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.

Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
The entire discussion around Facebook’s disclosures of what happened in 2016 is very frustrating. No exec stopped any investigations, but there were a lot of heated discussions about what to publish and when.


In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.

In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.

This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.

In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.