Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Protection

Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers (postofficescandal.uk)
I am grateful to the journalist Tom Webb, who specialises in data protection, for alerting me to an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently going through the House of Lords.
'Consent' LinkedIn used for data processing was not freely given, says Ireland (theregister.com)
When LinkedIn asked its European users for their personal data, it did not receive "informed" nor "freely given" consent for the business to ship it off to third parties for generating targeted advertising, a Euro data watchdog has said.
Defend against vampires with 10 gbps network encryption (synacktiv.com)
Discover how attackers can sniff your data on network cables and how you can defend against it, by encrypting on-the-fly all your ethernet traffic with very good performance.
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (eff.org)
Why Privacy Badger Opts You Out of Google's "Privacy Sandbox" (eff.org)
Google One 'Dark web reports' coming to all Google Account holders in late July (9to5google.com)
Online Privacy and Overfishing (schneier.com)
Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them (malcolmcoles.com)
Facebook must "minimize" personal data for ads in EU (noyb.eu)