Humanitarian organizations in Gaza say they are days away from an impossible choice: Comply with Israeli rules to hand over data on staff and funding or be banned from operating in the Palestinian territories.

Aid workers face expulsion from Gaza. They hope EU privacy laws can save them.

Israel is implementing new rules that NGOs and data privacy regulators say are unlawful.

politico.eu

Hold on. That's not how you deny a report, Pentagon. www.bloomberg.com./news/article...

Bit of a shock in the EU data protection bubble today: members of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee picked Commission official Bruno Gencarelli as their choice to lead the EU's in-house privacy regulator, beating the incumbent Wojciech Wiewiórowski in a secret vote.

Coming in cold to this. Like many, I was here until I wasn't: x.com/laurenscerulus I'll be here, on Bluesky, occasionally to talk EU policy, cyber and digital issues and other stuff. Reach out for deeper conversations; contact details are in my bio.