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Zdeněk Šarapatka criticized the plan to convene a meeting in the Chamber of Deputies regarding the privacy of President Petr Pavel. He compared it to political processes from the communist era and claimed that its initiators were diverting attention from the problems facing Andrej Babiš's team, including the budget deficit and what he described as a fraud against pensioners. He also mentioned statements from representatives of the European Union regarding Babiš's conflict of interest. Šarapatka stated that Pavel publicly acknowledged a mistake concerning the elections and made his travel expenses public, although he emphasized that this is a private matter. He labeled the meeting in the Chamber as an unsuccessful political action and criticized Rajchl and Vondráček; he added a personal remark towards Rajchl. He described the President as a symbol of the Czech Republic in the West, in NATO, and the European Union, and called for support in the Senate. As a defender of democracy, he named Karel Řehka, Tomáš Třetina, Adéla Sucharda Šípová, Martin Dvořák, Jiří Padevět, and Tomáš Goláň and urged readers to go to the polls. #demokracie #politika #volby (translated)

DonVito007 wrote to President Pavel that according to him, private vacations do not interest anyone and that he would not bother to respond to the requests of Kremlin officials regarding account statements and invoices; he stated that he would reject them rudely. He added that they similarly did not bother the elderly man from the LDN Lány when he traveled to Russian conferences. #politika #soukromí #vztahy (translated)

Roman Kolář stated that the president did not have to explain his private trips or their cost. He deemed the requests for explanations inappropriate and an intrusion into the president’s privacy; at the same time, he wrote that the president responded to them, but his critics will continue. According to Kolář, the trips did not cost taxpayers anything. He added that the same people should also be interested in the cost of Tomio Okamura's flight from Prague to Slovakia, his trips in an official BMW, and his, according to Kolář, unnecessary trips to China with the communists. He reminded that Okamura, in his view, humiliated Markéta Pekarová and promised that he would not use the BMW. He was also interested in who would cover the damage for the flight to China that Zůna has now canceled. #prezident #soukromí #politika (translated)

I consider his words important in terms of transparency and openness, but politically I refuse to interfere with my privacy. Pavel stated that he wants to clarify the questions that arose in connection with the trip during the time he could not respond to them. #PetrPavel #transparentnost #Maroko (translated)

Petr Pavel, upon returning to the Czech Republic, explained the circumstances of his private trip to Morocco. He stated that it was not organized or financed by the Presidential Office and that he considered his statement important in terms of transparency, while also rejecting political interference in his private life. He flew to Morocco on October 2 from Prague on a vacation flight chartered for the Fesh Fesh team participating in the Rallye du Maroc race. According to him, the organizers offered free seats on board, and Pavel agreed to pay 3,750 euros for his seat. For the trip between Casablanca and Prague and back during the election period, he used a flight from a private Moroccan transportation company. The logistics of the flight were handled by expedition participant Tomáš Šebek, who accompanied Pavel along with Pavel Kubíček and a member of the security service. Pavel stated that he personally paid 15,000 euros for the trip, which was his share of the total amount. He returned from Morocco, according to his statement, on a regular flight on Thursday, October 15, and believed that with this, the matter was clarified and closed. #Maroko #Cestování #Transparentnost (translated)

The author criticized the CEO of Flock, Garrett Langley, and used derogatory terms against him; he wrote that Langley has influence and impact. According to the author, Langley defended the cameras and claimed that privacy must be sacrificed for crime reduction and that "we should not stop progress." #soukromí #bezpečnost #pokrok #CZ (translated)

The author of the post questioned whether the operators care about his privacy when they allegedly share his personal data with 228 partners. He described the situation as an extraordinary mockery. https://t.co/fo1fFr2bmr #soukromí #ochranaosobníchúdajů #bezpečnost #CZ (translated)

The author stated that he has long maintained the view that the state must not surveil people without reason. He admitted that mass surveillance makes the police's job easier and that security forces around the world tend to implement it. #soukromí #bezpečnost #sledování #CZ (translated)

Vojtěch Boháč wrote that twenty-six-year-old Ilja Meškov, who according to him left Russia eight years ago, graduated from the University of Economics in Prague and a school in Texas, and after six years in the Czech Republic obtained Czech citizenship. According to Boháč, he became a partner in a Czech company focused on investments in European data centers for artificial intelligence within two years, responsible for venture capital. Boháč stated that Meškov's father is a Russian military colonel who heads a department at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and his mother previously worked in the army and at this university. She is now, according to him, retired and has a Czech visa since this year; she travels to Prague as the wife of an active Russian colonel and career military officer. Boháč also claimed that ordinary Russians find it very difficult to obtain a visa to the Czech Republic after 2022. Citing an article that he believes described the story, Boháč posed questions about how Meškov's mother managed to obtain a visa, who has access to key data infrastructure in the EU, and how to assess the privacy of young Russians from military families who, according to him, have never actually distanced themselves from the activities of their relatives. #Investice #Kyberbezpečnost #UměláInteligence (translated)

The author of the contribution stated that President Petr Pavel has the right to a private life and questioned where the public interest ends and mere curiosity begins. In connection with his return from Morocco, he inquired about the price of the flight, the owner of the plane, and who financed the trip. According to the author, the president's private vacation gradually turned into “public accounting.” https://t.co/bu5UoLpHJ3 #politika #prezident #soukromíživot #MA (translated)

The author of the post wrote that Amazon should equip its drivers with glasses that continuously take pictures used for training artificial intelligence. He pointed out that privacy concerns, in his opinion, affect all people in the vicinity, not just the drivers themselves. (translated)

A cybernetic expert revealed that the BYD Shark 6 car contains serious security vulnerabilities that allow various functions of the vehicle to be easily controlled, potentially compromising the privacy of the crew, particularly through the activation of the microphone. #KybernetickáBezpečnost #AutomobilovýPrůmysl #BYDShark6 (translated)

WhatsApp is introducing new parental controls that will allow monitoring of teenagers' activities on the platform, but parents will not have access to the content of messages, which raises questions about the effectiveness and acceptance of this measure among families. #WhatsApp #rodičovskákontrola #soukromí (translated)

A very nice issue of Reflex has just come out today. I would be glad if you would give it a chance. Here is my editorial on it: HOW SHOULD WE REMEMBER VÁCLAV HAVEL? I often say that I am "as old as the revolution," by which I obviously mean the Velvet one. And this alone brings a whole set of advantages. Your age always reflects the anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, so you remember it well. I am not burdened by the sins of the past, having to decide whether to collaborate with the regime or not. Likewise, I do not have to blame myself for missing the harsh onset of capitalism and coupon privatization. I had to learn to speak first. And to walk. Those of us born in the early '90s sometimes tend to refer to ourselves as "Havel's children." But how can I identify with a person I didn't properly experience in adulthood, yet who so fundamentally shaped the state I grew up in? And how should I, as well as our entire nation, actually remember Havel? I cannot remember Havel like many other older journalists do. I leave it to my more experienced colleagues. I have only one small personal memory of him. I was about eight years old, and we were on a school excursion in Prague. My classmate and I were lagging at the end of our class line. There was a long queue at Wenceslas Square, and we walked along it. We got a bit distracted and created a gap. And into that gap stepped a crowd of people, in the middle of which walked Václav Havel. We both started staring at him and quickly exclaimed, "Good day, Mr. President," and he replied to us with his typical stammering 'r': "Hello, boys," and then disappeared into a bookstore to sign his books. The queue was standing there for him. It was the year he was dealing with health complications, delivered the famous Rudolfín speech, and signed the absolutely fundamental Czech-German declaration. But I only remember the "hello, boys." And that’s all. When he died in 2011, I was starting in the media, so I was only responsible for some minor media outputs around the funeral. Otherwise, I perceived him as the person whose picture hung next to the blackboard throughout my school life. On television, he appears either as a "gumshoe" in a satirical sketch or giving some speech that is too complicated for my child self to listen to. My opinions of him have therefore formed mostly indirectly, like for most people in our country. Through plays and compulsory reading in school, recordings of speeches, and the exceptional film Citizen Havel, where he allowed us to peer candidly into his private life. I never succumbed to the need to idolize him; I was most fascinated by the fact that despite such a rich life, he was essentially a "normal guy" who enjoyed life and who, even in the presidential office, could fulfill his dreams. A smoke with the Rolling Stones, meditation with the Dalai Lama, a beer with Clinton. None of that made him a better politician. Personally, it made him a human to me. The point of Havel's legacy and its breadth is, in my opinion, that everyone can remember him in their own way. Some remember him as the best person in history, others as a brilliant politician who is missed by the Czech Republic. Others see him as a naive believer in truth who preferred grand gestures over political pragmatism. Some as a womanizer, others as a great world author of absurd drama. Historians and philosophers still debate his legacy to this day. So vehemently that due to one "ezonomist" and pseudophilosopher on an electric unicycle, his name was removed from the library's title. But I would like to highlight one thing about him that seems increasingly rare in today's world. He managed to grow old without becoming bitter. He did not turn into a grump shouting at the clouds. He did not allow himself to be dominated by eternal contrarianism and being against all mainstream opinions at any cost. At the same time, he wasn't afraid to confront the mainstream until the end. I would wish for all of us to grow old like Havel. It’s a pity he was given only 75 years. I would have liked to listen to him even at ninety, which he would have celebrated this year. #VáclavHavel #Reflex #historie (translated)

I consider the appointment of Taťána Kuchařová to the Government Council for Human Rights unacceptable. The advisory body of the cabinet should protect vulnerable groups and systemic standards, not serve as a political traffic jam for celebrities without legal expertise. A fundamental obstacle is her behavior during the divorce from Ondřej Brzobohatý. The purposeful misuse of sensitive queer topics and the privacy of her partner in the ecclesiastical court demonstrated complete disrespect for human dignity and minority rights. A person with such practices cannot credibly defend equality. After the civil divorce, Kuchařová initiated proceedings at the Metropolitan Church Court for the purpose of ecclesiastical annulment of marriage. In ecclesiastical law, marriage can only be annulled for specific reasons, which include, for example, the inability to fulfill marital duties, serious personality disorder, or the concealment of key facts before the wedding. To achieve annulment, Kuchařová based her arguments on her husband's intimate life: 🧊 In the lawsuit, she claimed that Brzobohatý is not sexually oriented and suffers from sexual orientation deviations. 🧊 From his private interest in dressing as a woman as part of artistic stylization (drag queen under the alias Tiffany Richbitch), she created evidence of his alleged inability to live in a heterosexual union. 🧊 She was represented by lawyer Jakub Kříž, known from ultraconservative organizations rejecting the rights of LGBTQ+ people. The contents of the ecclesiastical lawsuit, which was supposed to remain strictly confidential behind the closed doors of the ecclesiastical tribunal, leaked in May 2023 to the tabloid Blesk. Civil Court Ruling In January 2026, the District Court for Prague 2 ruled in a personality protection dispute that Brzobohatý brought against Kuchařová: ⚖️ The court concluded that Kuchařová presented false claims in the ecclesiastical lawsuit and consciously harmed the rights and dignity of her former partner. ⚖️ The model was ordered to pay Brzobohatý compensation for non-pecuniary harm amounting to 250,000 CZK. ⚖️ The court also ordered her to publish a public apology in the Blesk newspaper and prohibited her from continuing to spread these false statements. For all this, she should absolutely not be a member of the Government Council for Human Rights. 1️⃣ According to information from Blesk, she presented drag culture and non-traditional gender expressions in court as mental defects, immaturity, or inability to live a normal life. This is a textbook example of homophobia and transphobia that reinforces prejudices in society. 2️⃣ According to information from Blesk, she used sexuality and private preferences as leverage in property or divorce disputes. This is in direct contradiction to fundamental human rights standards. ⚠️🚧‼️ A person who has resorted to the denigration of minority identity for personal gain and faces legal repercussions for undermining human dignity cannot, by principle, guarantee the protection of equality and human rights at the national level. #lidskáPráva #rovnost #homofobie (translated)