2022-03-18 18:38:53 @PaulbernalUK https://t.co/nrFD9lz5RY 2022-03-18 18:03:56 RT @LindaZeilina: Just reflect on this 2022-03-18 18:02:37 the EU AI Act’s grab bag of prohibitions and transparency provisions should ban anthropomorphic corporate twitter accounts while it’s at it. 2022-03-18 18:00:01 “a zero tolerance policy towards abuse aimed at our company”, artificial legal persons have feelings too y‘know. https://t.co/gyfaoYL7kS 2022-03-18 17:56:52 @mmitchell_ai like many prospective buyers, i don’t want the (very attractive) house, i just want a currently unique certificate of a hash of the 3D model 2022-03-18 17:49:49 @mmitchell_ai woah there’s even an underground metaverse on that page 2022-03-18 11:37:35 (the scheme is wider than tech law though! the person to get in touch with for general academic inquiries about fellowships is my excellent colleague, the quote-tweeted @ukstaiger) 2022-03-18 11:33:49 Technology law and policy academics of all levels displaced by the war in Ukraine, please get in touch with me 2022-03-18 10:39:13 RT @racheladamsward: Do you want to work on cutting-edge issues around digital and data governance and AI in Africa? @RIAnetwork is recruit… 2022-03-18 10:15:21 @grendlesmordor @USSbriefs @Researchfish @bedcatalysis @seis_matters @UKRI_News yes, i sent a follow up email mins after (see page) 2022-03-18 09:14:32 @jatenas @Researchfish @bedcatalysis @seis_matters @UKRI_News when you’re in London i would love to get cake with you! 2022-03-18 08:46:21 @rachelcoldicutt @JedrzejNiklas 2022-03-18 08:14:02 @DrBrianPatton as a law academic, all my good is lawful 2022-03-18 08:00:45 @JamesBSumner as a digital rights academic i have the skillz to send FOIs from a mobile device 2022-03-18 07:43:05 made an FOI request https://t.co/2R0BQ9lRw1 2022-03-18 07:42:33 @Researchfish @bedcatalysis @seis_matters I’ve asked @UKRI_News what they know about this in an FOI request. https://t.co/eUns2YGYyP https://t.co/3Wj8oBVXj6 2022-03-18 07:31:30 performance indicators are bad enough, we don’t need them to be sentient and insecure 2022-03-18 07:28:20 hey @michelledonelan @KwasiKwarteng, it’s time to take action against this sociopathic snowflake of a research assessment organisation (with terrible, burdensome, click-filled and anti-innovative UI sapping time from UK R& 2022-03-17 04:25:11 @BigFredOnABike @nicole_maffeo @ngleicher copyright is generally assigned to the person taking the video, not the person in it. 2022-03-16 18:38:32 @grok_ at UCL we can’t mandate masks (also because the UK Gov *prevents* us) but guidance states that we should remind/request, but assume if students don’t, they’re medically exempt. only ppl we aren’t allowed to remind are those wearing optional exemption badge https://t.co/WdUoFxgQhS https://t.co/RVbiZlRArx 2022-03-16 08:48:09 @kuziemsky work by @LinaDencik but you likely already know it 2022-03-16 08:47:22 RT @JanetGunter: Spent way too much time dealing with this yesterday. A serious problem with corporate cooptation of social movements or… 2022-03-16 08:46:56 the way that people now are trained to only use the Internet through platforms makes it extraordinarily easy to defeat the censorship resistant properties of Internet protocols. deskills them from even going to the Web. https://t.co/M1bOIYM9Ck 2022-03-16 08:24:13 RT @RestartProject: Today we learned that Primark is a new sponsor of #RepairWeekLDN. We were unaware of this as it was not mentioned in… 2022-03-13 17:30:41 @Zwnne do you think Dutch courts should have made a preliminary reference on purpose limiting access rights to the CJEU in their many cases on it, given they were out of line with jurisprudence of other Member States? https://t.co/yOSCxTbtyc 2022-03-13 17:28:52 @simonhania Indeed there’s also not much sense in putting a lawfulness only restriction — only by knowing what data controllers have on you, can you assess what you want to eg erase or object to. Sine non qua for other rights. 2022-03-13 17:27:44 @simonhania Dutch courts should have made a preliminary reference on this, it’s not acte clair. Just as an example, at the same time, (when the UK was in the EU), English courts have reams of exactly the opposite jurisprudence. 2022-03-13 08:03:31 @DouweKorff Doubly bad - they increase pension burdens! https://t.co/ZcdJpwanhT 2022-03-13 07:41:14 @ekadamer @AsfandyarHere @HarryStebbings delaware corporations have done huge damage to US public services and state level tax bases in states housing the headquarters of significant employers though, this convenience literally comes at the cost of lives and wellbeing. 2022-03-12 08:49:37 Note that this seemingly doesn’t include electronic resource access even on-site (predictable due to licensing). Libraries can open to the public — great! — but digitisation (in the way it’s occurring) slowly closes them back up again. https://t.co/NWc5GIXd9i 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-25 10:48:54 RT @PippaWoodrow: This is not an option now police are investigating. Potential criminal liability for those who obstruct / pervert the cou… 2022-01-25 10:19:23 I’m not convinced by this story, but the main takeaway is that once Facebook/Meta uses techs that make ppl uncomfortable, and regularly hides their practices (eg Pixel tracking) they will find it hard to battle speculation and bad publicity with the ‘facts’ of their platform. https://t.co/4ATf0KPCJV 2022-01-25 09:28:28 @HaimAbraham https://t.co/h0Xi3WVLp5 2022-01-24 23:24:42 @timsquirrell tragic for all involved 2022-01-24 21:43:54 lol DCMS has outdone itself today 2022-01-24 15:45:49 Hi gary 2022-01-24 15:45:17 In the above correspondence note that Apple's position is that they don't have to provide Siri data because it is not stored in a filing system, a legal test which manifestly only applies to manually processed data and a legal argument that can only be described as malicious. 2022-01-24 15:42:54 Apple now do more Siri processing on device but in my view for many years they publicly misled individuals about the privacy properties of their system to compete, to bridge until they knew how to do on-device audio processing well / energy efficiently enough. 2022-01-24 15:40:54 @jamesdgreig @demarionunn damn, i wanted a juicy content moderation policy battle 2022-01-24 15:39:47 @demarionunn @jamesdgreig did he kill it or did twitter? 2022-01-24 15:37:54 https://t.co/8aG3OrdfZw https://t.co/4FzFbNIyhN 2022-01-24 15:37:52 p 295 onward of my PhD also contains all the correspondence with Apple showing their frankly untenable legal position on this. Irish DPC refused to act because letters sent before the GDPR and their new strategy was to forget all past compliance issues https://t.co/8aG3OrdfZw https://t.co/bEwYwYUQeE 2022-01-24 15:34:22 Note: for the entire time that Apple recorded this *same type of data* in the cloud, they refused to give access to it, as they refused to help surface the stable identifier in your phone/computer to identify yourself. We documented this in a 2018 paper https://t.co/R9areW1y92 https://t.co/Hq7nB6fS6q 2022-01-24 15:23:42 "the mix of quasi-noncha meme lords and truthful reply guys is really a piece of contemporary performance art" @MarijnSax https://t.co/66HSG1zzS4 2022-01-24 14:46:50 https://t.co/DcRDmGcjBW 2022-01-24 14:46:35 The ICO this month issued an enforcement notice to the Ministry of Justice over a backlog of 7,753 (!) data protection subject access requests, the vast majority solely from offenders, as MoJ had a policy to not give offenders full information as it would be too burdensome. https://t.co/GkLGQBec8i 2022-01-24 13:26:02 It is not the first time someone has called the mess left behind by a battle of people SARring eachother's emails chaotic: this was also the opinion of Warby J in Rudd v Bridle & 2022-01-24 12:57:00 @emilybell Suspicious. We Must be Told. 2022-01-24 11:49:57 RT @SectorplanDLS: Just a few more days to register for this exciting event organized by the new Data Protection Scholars Network that @Sec… 2022-01-24 11:29:14 Keeping manifestly illegal cookie tracking is an affront to the rule of law EP voted last wk that browser settings override even a right to ask consent. But letting Google take sole control over targeting w Chrome: not an option. Luckily the privacy-competition dichotomy is a lie https://t.co/ffCED9bXvf https://t.co/wE6XpqosPm 2022-01-24 09:19:07 RT @stokel: This is the documentary that did a pre-interview with me, asked for an advance copy of my book, got it, then ghosted me, then h… 2022-01-24 08:25:48 data protection enters POLITICO’s morning briefing on the Tory blackmail scandal: “Subject access requests are viewed in Westminster as a nuclear weapon that is never to be used, with everyone in mainstream politics relying on mutually assured destruction preventing total chaos.” https://t.co/NE7hA3QunI 2022-01-23 10:56:24 @colmocinneide @jamessflee Probably in an attempt to get social media coverage 2022-01-23 10:55:49 @colmocinneide @jamessflee High chance the All Souls College entrance exam this year will ask: "Sue Gray?" 2022-01-22 17:01:43 @jess_de_jesus That’s in later articles which the Presidency hasn’t opined on yet. 2022-01-22 09:02:35 @podehaye i am not particularly worried about the threat this JPG poses to my privacy in practice 2022-01-21 22:12:16 @PeterMaude i am ashamed i missed that one 2022-01-21 21:08:40 @ShannonVallor I think you’re over the worst of it. Actually no there’s one more very bad bit 2022-01-21 17:45:56 @cynddl @technollama you might own the hard drive it is on 2022-01-21 17:37:09 @davidallengreen IALS is open. I literally returned two books there last week. 2022-01-21 17:23:46 @mmitchell_ai yes, while the process wasn’t automated, it was handled well. the right would have existed in the UK since at least 1998 in this circumstance, although before 2018 there could have been a charge of up to £10 and they might have mailed the results. 2022-01-21 17:10:28 RT @matthew_d_green: I think it is excellent that perceptual hash functions are finally getting detailed security analyses, which is someth… 2022-01-21 16:38:35 @PaoloSandro2 I'm no expert in how different variants perform on tests — am just going with balance of probabilities. 2022-01-21 16:35:33 I had Covid last Dec in London, but didn't know which variant — NHS don't say. Was v mild 2022-01-21 16:20:00 French law, 1978 https://t.co/UhraYjQ7ID https://t.co/80gxDpYZYA 2022-01-21 16:17:20 @technollama i am sure, as a rigorous professor, he will come back with a clear response to your modest critique 2022-01-21 16:15:03 @technollama the harvard business school bullshit energy is strong with this one 2022-01-21 16:09:55 @daphnehk @EU_EDPS I think it's comparable in the institutional organisation and oversight sense, but as you say it certainly introduces risks. DPAs also have big raiding powers in many Member States and very low capacity at times. 2022-01-21 16:08:44 @daphnehk in a regulatory sense it will be within the oversight of @EU_EDPS regarding personal data processing during enforcement. i wonder if they will produce guidance. 2022-01-21 16:05:54 @tjmcintyre @daphnehk although at least the last decade or so saw a few barrier being put in the way of local councils using surveillance powers... 2022-01-21 16:03:57 @tjmcintyre @daphnehk Similar energy in the list of relevant public bodies in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 https://t.co/UTrz6Rj9e5 2022-01-21 15:57:02 @riptari https://t.co/ipmwzFpOH2 2022-01-21 15:52:23 @daphnehk would businesses have ground to take eg the EPA to state courts if the EPA used raiding powers, or would that have to be federal court? seems comparable? 2022-01-21 15:49:05 @daphnehk and CJEU does not limit what can be copied on to hard drives in such raids to just relevant business docs to the investigation, Case C‑601/18 P Prysmian ECLI:EU:C:2020:751 2022-01-21 15:46:47 @daphnehk is normal insofar as Commission has such powers for competition law too https://t.co/B7SzLj9rI8 https://t.co/ZQXN29xFHY 2022-01-21 15:28:26 That's all for now. I believe the text was given to POLITICO essentially but I keep trying subscribe to their PRO service and they won't even give me a quote. You can download it here. https://t.co/vEEmhRF8SF 2022-01-21 15:28:25 Some careful and welcome clarification that feedback loops have to be considered even when the outputs are not just 'used' as new inputs, but where they 'influence' them. https://t.co/05AZDBvOsD 2022-01-21 15:28:24 However that is a design requirement remember — if the Presidency choose to weaken the way law enforcement have to rely on the system instructions, this doesn't mean anything. 2022-01-21 15:28:23 Presidency however double down on the "four eyes" principle around biometric recognition: clarifying that systems for biometric recognition must be designed so that they are manually and *separately* verified by two natural persons. https://t.co/au73M2LdvV 2022-01-21 15:28:22 A proportionality test is introduced in the human oversight provisions — providers can now not provide human oversight functions if to do so would be disproportionate. Nice outcome if you can get it (and they will try). https://t.co/d3oyYj4hHK 2022-01-21 15:28:21 However, increase in transparency on "computational and hardware resources needed" which might allow better studies on the environmental impact of AI through the public database. https://t.co/IcTttdAHSG 2022-01-21 15:28:20 Weakening of provision designed to provide information to users on performance metrics on subgroups of the population. https://t.co/yBHSXidgsk 2022-01-21 15:28:19 Transparency provisions have been weakened in ways that will concern some: no longer an obligation to make 'interpretable output' from systems, just an obligation to make 'usable' and 'understandable' systems (not output). https://t.co/4AHGt7YSUK 2022-01-21 15:28:17 Some changes to the logging requirements but mostly just clarification and refinement, I don't see huge differences in substance here. https://t.co/rV1sAffaSv 2022-01-21 15:28:16 I-Is there a European definition of a "start-up"?? This seems like a way for firms just to avoid making rigorous technical documentation — which note, is important, because that's what's uploaded in the public database for scrutiny and accountability. https://t.co/QUGbywDecK 2022-01-21 15:28:15 Presidency add an interesting obligation for the provider to consider not just data minimisation when they make the models (already law) but with regard to future model users (not necessarily an obligation as they may not be GDPR controller at that point). https://t.co/nyjneVrE8S 2022-01-21 15:28:14 Some will say "but AI systems need data!!". But what about using pre-built models-as-APIs, piecing together larger general purpose models that the Council wants out of scope? There's no data in that stage of the process, and no ability for providers to go up the supply chain. 2022-01-21 15:28:13 There was always a 'catch-all' provision which said if your AI system doesn't use training data, then apply the spirit of this section. Now just says ensure soundness of validation data. But this section also about *design choices* — these obligations fall out without a reason? https://t.co/VGSekF70Zf 2022-01-21 15:28:12 Dataset reqs. also adapt what was already in the recitals of the EC draft to make clear that data is only free of errors "to the best extent possible" — looks like big change but concerns from (largely non-legal commentators) w the orig. text were overhyped and decontextualised. https://t.co/lfBwhcPjiw 2022-01-21 15:28:11 Obligations on datasets now restrict "bias" to discrimination in Union law/health & 2022-01-21 15:28:09 Here's a good one. The French presidency have invented the "reverse-technofix" — there is now no legal obligation in a risk management system to consider risks that can't be techno-magicked or information-provided away. This is certainly innovation, and it's horrifying. https://t.co/Zu8NVP2BAZ 2022-01-21 15:28:08 Risk assessment changes further remove obligations to consider risks that emerge from 'off-label' use. This is important because in practice, AI systems may be sold for one purpose but commonly used for another, with users adopting legal risk but benefitting from weak regulators. https://t.co/nSYowCdYch 2022-01-21 15:28:07 Scholars have long said that harmonised standards are not simply a substitute for the essential requirements laid down in legislation, but a de facto requirement. Note Art 9(3) of the AIA also makes reference to them universally compulsory. Law behind paywalls, made privately. https://t.co/ckBsebJqO3 2022-01-21 15:28:06 Remember that the AI Act hinges on proprietary, privately determined standards from CEN/CENELEC. The Commission always holds these are optional, but the proposal goes (further) in making it impossible to comply without buying them (~100 EUR) and referring to them. https://t.co/H6HNKKDeUn 2022-01-21 15:28:05 The French presidency of the Council send around a compromise text last week on arts 8-15 of the EU AI Act (some of the requirements for high risk systems). My analysis of them below: 1/ 2022-01-21 14:38:37 @ariezrawaldman I'm wary of sounding 'EU is great': it's not, doesn't even enforce rules on the books, let alone eg Unfair Commercial Practices Dir. But also: so many NGOs, legislators calling bullshit on eg Meta's policies I'm worried if academia doesn't recognise that, we seem out of touch. 2022-01-21 14:33:44 @ariezrawaldman the reason I parsed that word from you in particular is that you mention the GDPR a lot when you discuss this area, and so (more) global appears to be the scope you talk about these issues in. 2022-01-21 14:29:01 @ariezrawaldman is 'everyone' plodding along like it is cool? just one example: European Parliament just yesterday passed amendments that would forbid notice and consent boxes and agree buttons even *appearing* if an automatic objection signal was emanating from the browser. 2022-01-21 12:14:47 @janagooth Not quite a defacto ban as much as a defacto UI hoop — if they choose to ask for it, they can continue? 2022-01-21 12:13:38 1. Needs to be clear that legitimate interest is not an option. This probably needs enforcement more than anything, but the line is far too blurred, and organisations today illegally use legitimate interest to justify cookie placement. 2022-01-21 12:13:37 I also recommended this to the UK's data protection reform: the only way to get rid of cookie banners is force their hiding when automated objection is present. However, if I was the IAB I'd have several tricks up my sleeve that lawmakers need to further defuse: https://t.co/Wwp3WA3Lvl 2022-01-21 12:03:03 RT @CatalinaGoanta: Story time! I know a lot is happening around the DSA this week, but let me introduce you to some TikTok drama as anothe… 2022-01-21 11:58:25 @owainkenway https://t.co/N8L52t4NbW 2022-01-21 10:51:13 RT @POLITICOEurope: The dating app Tinder has surged in popularity during the pandemic. Its premium service grants extra features for a cos… 2022-01-21 10:30:09 @j2bryson Behind closed doors though? Council votes are not public. 2022-01-21 10:24:59 RT @SweeLengHarris: Interested in how law can be used to rein in big tech platforms? Committed to human rights & 2022-01-21 10:23:06 genuinely what is the theory of regulation or change of this entire effort. https://t.co/a3aoBXLmLk 2022-01-21 10:19:52 DCMS has this most bizarre history over the last five years of creating underspecified and outdated “standards” that only policymakers will read, and tapping themselves on the back and saying great, cybersecure, fantastic. High level BS of the highest calibre. https://t.co/dt7hAY4B8Q 2022-01-21 10:05:57 Yes, anyone can mint them (at a hugely prohibitive cost for most). That’s why you should expect to see para-copyright policies from NFT minting platforms blessed by eg Twitter that seek to protect the value of cliques and hypes not the originality of work. https://t.co/wtNH2NlNOj 2022-01-20 22:28:30 i mean it could also be because they don’t want to install the Teams app because it’s ‘expand to all available resources’ policy heats drains their devices and frankly I do not blame them. 2022-01-20 22:25:34 RT @mer__edith: There are those who condemn BigTech because they want the power it has/to discipline that power to their own ends. This is… 2022-01-20 22:24:03 Sounds good but if students are not only remote and know each other in real life then they just start a giant whatsapp group and disintermediate your platform so they can hide from your gaze https://t.co/EpeIicZPAN 2022-01-20 22:15:57 @protocol lina ffs 2022-01-20 19:36:44 @karen_ec_levy all my predictions soon available as cryptojunk 2022-01-20 19:31:46 @karen_ec_levy chaos platformised para-copyright drm, seeping. 2022-01-20 19:28:13 oh look it happened already https://t.co/1Rz8IHS3A8 https://t.co/V8jJAjQ6op 2022-01-20 11:49:44 @Klonick Worth also noting that a lot of the technical side of the creepiness where it cannot be explained by chance/salience will be from the proprietary and undisclosed functioning of 'Lookalike Audiences' and similar functions. 2022-01-20 11:47:48 @Klonick That combined with the way that you might have clicked a chat link, searched on a different device. People's mental models of how pervasive online tracking is are poor. Won't explain all (many well-profiled coincidence+salience) not "listening" doesn't rule out direct links. 2022-01-20 11:45:46 @Klonick Content interception no, but metadata usage is not ruled out at all. You talk to your friend, who clicks a cookie-laden attribution link to a very specific product. Your profile is linked to theirs by virtue of eg having messaged them on any number or platforms. 2022-01-20 08:55:22 @aselbst there’ll be some lessons on this from the beleaguered and flopped UK https://t.co/aRFFQs5AS2 VERIFY scheme 2022-01-20 08:34:56 RT @mathver: The European Parliament voted on different options to regulate online ads in the Digital Services Act #dsa. But what did it ac… 2022-01-20 08:27:05 @TC_IntLaw @CNIL Let’s hope the CNIL doesn’t think that just because Google answer 0 to a ill-posed question they’re legally prohibited from answering anyway, the fact their global Web tracking infrastructure operates on US territory isn’t a major national asset for the intelligence agencies. 2022-01-20 08:22:33 @TC_IntLaw @CNIL Basic mistake to think that what intelligence would want is the intrinsic information inside the ID. See the slides and news article above. They want to piggyback on the infrastructure. So important to lose the focus on ‘what’s in the data’. It’s not body cream data they *get*. 2022-01-20 08:21:21 @TC_IntLaw @CNIL Of course I’m not suggesting that Sephora is some terror honeypot. But the NSA literally tracks citizens for opportunistic intelligence. And the approach of ‘website by website’ makes no sense when the problem is tracking infrastructures splurged across the entire Web. 2022-01-20 08:20:00 @TC_IntLaw @CNIL Some websites = all websites, it’s a tracking infrastructure with shared identifiers. An e-commerce website where you can cross reference it to eg payment cookies, where you can then cross reference to identity. The question is not ‘which websites’ but ‘which trackers’. 2022-01-20 08:09:44 @TC_IntLaw @CNIL Lots of reporting on this previously in great detail. HTTPS cookies will have likely changed m their manner of use, but that’s not something Google will even legally be allowed to rebut under the Espionage Act, even were they aware (they may not be). https://t.co/R6M3WwtMWW 2022-01-20 08:05:21 @TC_IntLaw @CNIL That’s quite a simplistic view. NSA has significant documented history of exploiting and piggybacking on *specifically Google’s cookie tracking* infrastructure to distinguish Internet traffic. https://t.co/YuybFuFPlk https://t.co/lNjNvLWJcd 2022-01-19 22:42:13 @stokel at UCL https://t.co/RXlbMF2JjB (not on twitter afaik) 2022-01-19 19:05:28 There’s certainly a difference in incentives (and legal implications) for workplaces, universities, hospitality asking ‘are you vaccinated?’ versus ‘you… didn’t just test positive did you?’. 2022-01-19 18:57:54 If England ends mandatory isolation for those testing +ve for COVID-19 now, I suspect employers, some venues will seek their own prohibitions, potentially through contract, using diagnostic and proof systems. We delegate public health rulemaking to private entities at our peril. 2022-01-19 14:18:54 All I want for Christmas is for the EDPB not to press release stuff they haven't released as PDFs yet, only to silently release them at some arbitrary point in the near future. https://t.co/Vpf0q6rEwC 2022-01-19 13:52:20 Same energy as the watertight affadavits submitted by the Trump campaign in Michigan as "accounts" of voter fraud, where a "smiling, laughing couple" was spotted handing black garbage bags inside clear plastic bags to a USPS truck. Gotcha. https://t.co/3W5cWpxy1D https://t.co/K6xdJSx4JH https://t.co/N6LKEmfHAa 2022-01-19 11:16:56 @finck_m haha there are stil five weeks missing from the end of this one... 2022-01-19 10:22:21 @a_iule it's tricky to find a way in other than dart between two worlds in both education and practice. there are some interdisciplinary master's in tech policy but they often don't go deep enough in both sides because they need to attract a wide variety of students to make money. 2022-01-19 10:19:08 anyone have a PDF of the French Presidency's proposed Council compromise text on the second half of the EU AI Act that has been circulating a bit? 2022-01-19 10:09:44 RT @BeterOpDeFiets: That a private company, confronted for the first time with possible regulation, can issue such veiled threats - with a… 2022-01-19 09:56:18 @a_iule sometimes, but can be a very superficial level of interdisciplinary. technical researchers too suffer from GAFAM framing from their heavy presence of the conference scene. imagining alternative sociotechnical systems is more than a technical skill. 2022-01-19 09:54:13 Don’t forget too that GAFAM are powerful at all major academic conferences in the fields they care about. The worlds we imagine even in scholarship are significantly shaped by researchers who are deeply embedded in this vertical culture. 2022-01-19 09:49:31 Seems no way out of a dichotomy? (eg adtech cookie madness v Google Privacy Sandbox monopoly), maybe it’s bc there’s no resourced actor now incentivised to provide an escape. Play chicken. Make GAFAM’s very existence conditional on better trade offs. I suspect they might appear… 2022-01-19 09:46:00 So? - Resist framings of tech ecosystem possibilities that you might not even realise are GAFAM-specific. - Don’t accept false, constructed dichotomies (privacy/competition, scale/no moderation, no gatekeepers/security). Complex worlds rarely have simple dichotomies. 2022-01-19 09:43:13 But Apple/Google’s security & 2022-01-19 09:43:12 Examples are lol. But seriously, some academics/commentators need to realise that idea that ‘security/CoMo isn’t possible’ in a less madly centralised world is ITSELF a symptom of GAFAM having zero incentive to either design or help us imagine how it *could* work. https://t.co/CpfADIQ3rV https://t.co/507Xk3U9Cc 2022-01-19 08:47:52 from the annals of unhinged rightsholders and the ghouls of client-side trespass to chattels https://t.co/dWZHTOpsg4 2022-01-18 18:06:28 They genuinely have no idea how to build a website without putting Doubleclick on. It was on all the UCL blogs for teaching until I asked: why? No one is looking at this data! Defaulting consent to yes is one thing, but we have defaults in design to ‘just add Google’. https://t.co/WylltA4k1R 2022-01-18 18:04:01 RT @thezedwards: If you click "Order Free At-Home Tests" on this new government website, you'll be redirected to https://t.co/tn9EHZ6aL9 an… 2022-01-18 14:44:00 @amatwyshyn @tnhh Dogfluencer 2022-01-18 12:56:56 @finck_m they already get to enjoy another of your papers in the previous week (: https://t.co/d2q7WMpKDL https://t.co/H99dN4PdDR 2022-01-18 10:11:42 If the UK passes voter ID laws, will it also amend the law to mandate secret ballots? ICYMI, the UK records numbered ballot papers against voter identities in case of fraud. People can be matched to their vote. What’s the logic of keeping the latter once you have the former? 2022-01-18 10:01:26 @alixtrot apparently (i went down a search hole) they do kind of work https://t.co/17xSay1eXH but also people sell antigen tests for eg dogs that use fecal samples 2022-01-18 09:11:39 before ppl come all Apple Google Exposure Notification—yes it’s a big problem that no gov can build software (centralised or decentralised) on a phone w/o operating without platform blessing but it’s a diff one also—neither firm’s existence relies on finding continued use for EN 2022-01-18 09:04:59 Luca shows exactly why you can’t have private firms run a biz off public health surveillance techs. When there’s no pandemic, where do they go? They need reason for their own existence or the company folds & 2022-01-18 09:02:38 Leaky, centralised, profit-driven, public-private health technology, Luca, for QR code checkins in , ‘should not disappear after the pandemic’ — indeed should integrate and replace your identity card! Even though Länder ending contracts w it left & 2022-01-18 08:29:55 @finck_m just in time to amend my syllabus on this topic too 2022-01-17 14:49:36 @meo79 @mireillemoret so it may be that CEN/CENELEC draw upon ISO CD 42001 but mandated harmonised standards have to come from european standards orgs. I do not believe there is a 'mutual recognition' function with third countries in the New Legislative Framework. 2022-01-17 14:46:26 @meo79 @mireillemoret that means that ESOs can choose to use text from other standardisation organisations they have agreements with if they want (think copyright concerns), but doesn't mean that standards from other bodies can be blessed as harmonised ones without being republished by CEN/CENELEC 2022-01-17 09:30:46 @meo79 @mireillemoret nope. the commission is the only body that can publish harmonised standards and only does so in relation to standards from european standardisation organisations. harmonised standards are only a chunk of what cen/cenelec does, not the same as their normal standardisation roles 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-12 23:55:23 @lilianedwards i’ve been quiet for six years on this repeated topic 2022-01-12 21:55:56 @adrian_weller Foiled again 2022-01-12 20:58:13 @Nadya_Purtova @SRanchordas @TiltR you’re that way on my syllabus though! https://t.co/10OYqfMLfd https://t.co/mjeCNJTbbM 2022-01-12 20:56:39 @MissIG_Geek Used to have one https://t.co/rztITytYLc 2022-01-12 20:55:51 @adrian_weller True but we are not the only one https://t.co/xYdEXbQSqp 2022-01-12 18:25:08 @TC_IntLaw @gabrielazanfir @CNIL It’s very fair to critique Verge for this! I tend not to take it out on journalists because there is usually a very good division between editorial and commercial. see eg @riptari who writes among the best analysis of adtech and legal developments on a deeply non compliant site. 2022-01-12 17:08:56 If you disagree with the name you can email the Provost here https://t.co/PbyOxZIDSl 2022-01-12 17:07:31 Whoever needs to hear this: when I or anyone else sends you a bio, text, or paper to typeset with the name of my institution, University College London, please do not rename it to University College *of* London, it is not called that, that is not its name, please do not do that. 2022-01-12 15:16:55 Seems the arguments are based primarily on French law and arguments that relate to the fact that the GDPR definition of 'consent' is at play. Might be an arg you can make in France based on transposition logic wouldn't scale. And CJEU seems to agree more with CNIL (in FB v GBA) https://t.co/rh9PuItq4w 2022-01-12 14:21:02 @daphnehk @NicholasVinocur @vmanancourt hard to summarise EU competences in pithy tweet, gets harder when you talk about the area of freedom, security & 2022-01-12 14:17:22 @daphnehk @NicholasVinocur @vmanancourt bit of a diff world - this is police cooperation, a looser mode of EU facilitated gov w some MSs having an opt out (eg ). But there is combo of a data protection basis (TFEU16) + a treaty declaration (pic) that extends DP to police & 2022-01-12 14:00:13 @daphnehk @NicholasVinocur @vmanancourt Ultimately a lot in law enforcement left up to national law, so divergences. Europol governed by European law. So mismatch is natural and tied with sovereignty. 2022-01-12 13:57:30 @daphnehk @NicholasVinocur @vmanancourt Different laws. Europol regulation has EDPS as supervisor and applies its specific standards (narrower tasks). National law enforcement governed by the Law Enforcement Directive with national DPAs. The latter have weaker categorisation obligations (pictured) https://t.co/fN62VCgFpb 2022-01-12 13:54:20 This argument is a bit ridiculous because it’s only by luck that the Irish DPC is even competent for e-Privacy — in many member states thee are separate, with the latter having no even vague institutional link to a one-stop-stop… https://t.co/xw1N7Po9Hp 2022-01-12 13:48:13 @daphnehk @stokel @zachshakked @inputmag @rgorwa It strikes me that if this type of thing continues (assuming that’s what has happened here, from the limited info) the nature of extra legal pseudo IP could become pretty interesting. 2022-01-12 13:24:19 @ImmenseDisciple @stokel @zachshakked @inputmag @daphnehk @rgorwa I’m not undertaking a moral defence of it. I’m questioning the clarity and consistency of the privately determined policies which lead to takedowns by Apple, which here seem to diverge from something manifestly illegal under IP law. 2022-01-12 13:17:48 @MarijnSax https://t.co/ALcROWhSM3 2022-01-12 13:14:31 @MarijnSax #gesponsordecontent 2022-01-12 12:01:59 @stokel @zachshakked @inputmag @daphnehk @rgorwa I read that but story indicated it was others that were taken down too. Unclear there was an order or request esp since the infringement based on common law not registered TM 2022-01-12 11:58:33 @stokel @zachshakked @inputmag so Apple is removing apps that seem vaguely similar to a website despite no registered trademark & 2022-01-12 11:49:05 @stokel imagine how many things people have leaked or passed to him for him to not realise the significance or piece together the broader picture because of a sheer lack of on the ground knowledge 2022-01-12 11:43:02 @mattburgess1 yep, the CEO discussed it in an interview. there was also a commercial partnership with a ticketing firm… 2022-01-12 10:05:30 @DrNSearle @raceip which day is which? 2022-01-12 10:01:33 RT @DrNSearle: Secret’s out! Registration is now open for the Symposium, ‘Trade Secrets for Scholars and Practitioners’ For more info and… 2022-01-12 09:30:41 @mattburgess1 Luca was a bad idea that emerged before the regional elections last year as Länder were trying to portray themselves as hip vis-a-vis the centre, and got flogged an app that just wants to be a never ending and always expanding intermediary. 2022-01-12 09:29:30 @mattburgess1 and such a shame cause this can’t happen w the QR code system of the federal CoronaWarnApp, only Luca, a firm that tried to sideline public by hiring famous musicians to promote and not putting ‘Covid’ or ‘Corona’ in app description as not to get extra app store scrutiny 2022-01-12 09:15:30 RT @LauKaya: Examen ce matin en commission affaires culturelles de la proposition de loi de @BrunoStuder67 sur le contrôle parental pour l'… 2022-01-12 09:04:51 @neilmrichards I’d consider a section building on Philip Agre’s 1993 paper on ‘capture’ and the literature following and flowing from that, and analyse it light of current business practices. https://t.co/RxFHV42dMD 2022-01-12 07:59:21 @NicholasVinocur @vmanancourt thematically not wrong but IMO should clarify that the GDPR doesn’t apply to Europol in the course of its crime fighting duties, this is the distinct Europol Regulation. 2022-01-12 02:21:09 if they want to boast about reducing deaths they need to ask whether they just displaced those previous regular deaths to non employees or have causally encouraged enough vaccination in their workforce to have an effect 2022-01-12 02:17:26 “there are approximately 8-10 United employees who are alive today because of our vaccine requirement” — looking at the article, this org probably needs an urgent lesson on causality and sampling… (& 2022-01-12 00:48:13 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal @ArthurCPetersen @SFuntowicz (as in the bits towards the end veer into repeating the algorithm literature which is mostly about individualised prediction when modelling practice and use is so much wider, yet still value laden in more nuanced ways than bias, privacy, over reliance, etc). 2022-01-12 00:46:31 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal @ArthurCPetersen @SFuntowicz No problem! There’s loads written, people are time poor. One last thing would be that your paper implicitly assumes modelling is all about individuals and their actions or outcomes — that’s q a narrow view of policymaking and it contradicts some of your examples at times. 2022-01-12 00:34:49 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal @ArthurCPetersen @SFuntowicz Work on how modelling fits into regulation and regulatory decisions includes this excellent work too by my Laws colleague @MariaLeeLaw. Environmental law and policy is where you find modelling literature in the law field. https://t.co/wXJ9jtQJPl 2022-01-12 00:33:06 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal @ArthurCPetersen And in general the work on modelling, uncertainty, legitimacy and participation in consequential areas stemming from among others @SFuntowicz (post-normal science) is a huge takeaway. 2022-01-12 00:31:35 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal One of the biggest strands concerning modelling neglected here is the treatment of uncertainty in policy decisions. See @ArthurCPetersen https://t.co/NFULAuI5LE (including starting tale that in the 90s Netherlands there were scandals for government based *too much* on models) 2022-01-12 00:26:55 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal I think the general claim that modelling is upcoming and AI is current is weird? Eg the way back in 2012 this report took and published an inventory of 500+ business critical models in UK government and I can’t imagine picture is too different elsewhere https://t.co/HbynHEAiM3 2022-01-12 00:11:30 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal maybe it’s not the done thing to criticise so outright but I really can’t legitimately pretend that I was not absolutely shocked at the claims being made here, as if the social and technical aides of modelling in government isn’t an entire developed field in academia. 2022-01-12 00:08:33 @rcalo @PrincetonCITP @DukeLawJournal it would be worth having this paper reviewed by someone from policy studies/sciences, there is decades of research and practice in modelling for policy (which is far from in its infancy) that this paper erases through omission. see eg the work cited in https://t.co/iaGLgRZQX7 2022-01-11 22:52:59 @owainkenway and had a meeting and decided ‘yes, we will do this in angular’ 2022-01-11 22:49:44 RT @tjmcintyre: This is a very significant judgment of the ECtHR finding BG data retention law inadequate. In some ways it goes further tha… 2022-01-11 22:48:45 @owainkenway hey, at least one of those two is vaguely stable 2022-01-11 22:28:53 yawn, this may be an “unprecedented move” for athletes but many NGOs dealing in sensitive areas have done this for years and years (although some more diligently than others) https://t.co/6R6vE4BO6R 2022-01-11 22:06:52 @flyingspghetti “you’re not allowed to do this” [citation needed] 2022-01-11 15:31:17 @LauKaya I thought they all had blue ticks on Instagram already? 2022-01-11 11:46:48 RT @cori_crider: Guantánamo Bay, the first prison I visited as a 24-year-old lawyer, is 20. I felt column space was best left to former pri… 2022-01-11 09:31:54 @matthew_d_green @CosicBe Apple is letting net neutrality violations occur further up the stack, escaping the protections provided by current laws which binding internet service/access providers rather than end-user device manufacturers and operators. 2022-01-11 09:29:12 @matthew_d_green @CosicBe The question though is whether this is the carriers blocking, or Apple voluntarily accepting a signal from them and binding the OS not to do it. It seems like the latter, which lays the blame at Apple’s door more than the telcos. 2022-01-11 08:53:01 RT @vmantouvalou: On 25 January, 4-6pm, we have the great philosopher Sally Haslanger on 'How to Change a Social Structure' @UCLLaws. Very… 2022-01-11 08:30:33 @tforcworc Easier to challenge in some ways when governments do as public law is available. When two private entities agree to do something (Apple agree to disable tethering on request from telco/SIM), harder to challenge. Same w due process issues in ISP blocking in UK, largely voluntary. 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-05 23:55:11 @SarahNEmerson Now to do fair pay and conditions. https://t.co/v7U3TTus9S 2022-01-05 11:00:07 @JolyonMaugham @ChrisTMarsden Bear in mind that both the UK and Europe’s medical devices regimes are much more light tough than the US FDA’s, and that the US FDA has been roundly criticised for its testing of LFTs. Not sure US is a great role model for simple comparison. https://t.co/iAUs9MC9mp 2022-01-05 10:56:15 the correct analogy to the current ridiculous artificial scarcity is not the original MDH, but the many copycat pages at the time that languished with only a small fraction of occupancy before vanishing into obscurity. Their artificial scarcity died before the actual MDH’s did. 2022-01-05 10:50:13 lol of course the guy who as a Wiltshire school child set up that page is trying to cryptographically flog an autograph of it https://t.co/vvXqFxoQni 2022-01-05 10:46:56 Congratulations on reinventing the Million Dollar Homepage. https://t.co/DGl0heCgsI https://t.co/D7p2Njkr2Q https://t.co/VbEBd9fLTI 2022-01-05 09:03:44 @rasmus_kleis yes, a problem is that the test comes from ‘awareness’ and that doesn’t exactly line up with the policy question of who is influencing or well placed to do so. 2022-01-05 08:59:00 @rasmus_kleis Perhaps in a policy sense, but in terms of hosting immunities, Youtube v Peterson saw the CJEU state that recommender systems are of little consequence when assessing awareness. https://t.co/bTjBAo50w9 2022-01-04 22:15:43 RT @doctorow: This is fucking wild. Norton "Antivirus" now sneakily installs cryptomining software on your computer, and then SKIMS A COMMI… 2022-01-04 19:49:52 RT @rachelcoldicutt: Nice to see someone sharing this at the start of the new year. I think it’s the most hopeful thing I wrote last year,… 2022-01-04 14:07:53 @keelan_fh @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam I haven’t come across it as information editor of our UKRI comparative legal responses to COVID-19 project @lexatlasc19 2022-01-04 14:07:10 @keelan_fh @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam As far as I have ever heard or seen, the UK is alone in Europe in doing this. You definitely can’t in Germany, Switzerland, Nordics, all of these places have many antigen testing centres for this purpose. 2022-01-04 11:47:45 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam People can still get "NHS Covid Pass" by clicking a "Domestic" app button — no change. Tests can continue to be omitted from an "Int'l" button (except +ve PCRs, already shown there). No change/edu needed. This doesn't answer the Q of why the domestic pass needs a diff standard. 2022-01-04 11:04:36 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam I don’t think messaging challenges are complicated at all. An app can easily check if a domestically valid certificate and present it separately in the UI without making it a non-standard format. Individuals have to check int’l entry requirements anyway against what they have. 2022-01-04 10:52:18 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam I am not sure what metadata would indicate when the UK’s were *home* tests though and therefore unverified. Unless clearly distinguished I imagine it would just be that no EU MS would accept UK antigen results. 2022-01-04 10:43:40 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam the fact that there is an available certificate in ‘international’ is not currently any guarantee that that is acceptable to a state at their borders, the UK naturally has no control over that. 2022-01-04 10:42:28 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam why? EU green certificates were always capable of holding test results. they rely on the verifier to set a policy about their acceptance. The Commission even maintains a list of standardised ways to refer to different brands of antigen tests. https://t.co/1sgjvMhwwR 2022-01-04 10:22:11 @BenLaurie @tomskitomski @smithsam the division between the domestic and international certificates sounds increasingly like a strange internal likely-EU-related face saving exercise aimed at decision makers who don’t really understand the contents of the code. 2022-01-04 10:18:06 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam so they… semi standardised? in a format totally different to their original but still unreadable to international scanners? 2022-01-04 00:38:47 RT @JohnCarreyrou: Guilty on 4 counts, not guilty on 4 counts. 2022-01-03 23:19:14 @AllisonCGardner @timsquirrell We don’t treat all murderers or rapists, stalkers or harassers as terrorists. Should we? What would it add? What assumptions does it make about the way these people emerge, operate and organise 2022-01-03 23:16:00 @AllisonCGardner @timsquirrell Taking things seriously and taking serious action, with serious potential repercussions for individuals involved, isn’t always about treating something as terrorism though. Terrorism isn’t the same as ‘maximal response’, it’s a specific approach which may not always fit. https://t.co/Un8ClM6Nhw 2022-01-03 22:45:01 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow note however that google almost single-handedly killed RSS… 2022-01-03 22:43:57 @daphnehk @neil_neilzone @agidari @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow I feel so lucky that my law faculty never once pushed back about how I do mostly coauthored work. Everyone just gets it when I say rigour in my field often requires working together. I know many other places are stuck in a monograph-or-die culture. Also, what fun is that?! 2022-01-03 19:04:12 @jwiechers @daphnehk @agidari @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow an important piece of the puzzle, but widevine enforces policies from distributors and software or hardware levels but doesn’t forbid copyrighted content from outside those distribution channels from playing 2022-01-03 18:26:43 @WebDevLaw is that an online harm as a service 2022-01-03 18:20:11 @why0hy just stay indoors, 5G barely goes through windows 2022-01-03 18:19:03 hi everyone, for the sake of infrastructural sustainability i do not think that it is innovation, nor should it be legally permissible, for companies vying to displace established businesses by delivering things really fast on bikes to subsidise each order by *checks notes* $159. https://t.co/EphpC2Co8E 2022-01-03 18:13:12 @PJLeerssen implausibly you’re coming back from holiday with even more volume of the power broker to go than what you started with 2022-01-03 18:11:19 @neil_neilzone @daphnehk @agidari @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow there’s this scholarly challenge at the heart of it: as internet law and policy gets bigger and more interwoven with so many broader issues, no one person can know it all, yet so many new developments insist on synthesising it all together… 2022-01-03 18:06:28 @neil_neilzone @daphnehk @agidari @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow ah thanks! am more familiar with the TPM measures Neil listed, only know the broad outlines of US law on this and no saga details as not an IP person. I think that’s what interesting about this NFT business though — infrastructures it may summon may be the confluence of so much. 2022-01-03 17:30:08 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow theory or not, i do not think this idealistic community grapples enough w/ the way that if they summon DRM/rightsholders, they will 1) want to limit transferability or resale, 2) maximise attrition to ensure repurchasing, 3) deeply control limit users’ devices to circumvent them. 2022-01-03 17:23:42 @daphnehk @agidari @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow those particular wars are beyond my ken, but I think we would have a lot of notes to compare on this topic generally and discussion of this area needs to happen sooner rather than later 2022-01-03 17:22:13 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow the biggest players (eg Google, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify) will be the ones de facto setting a standard, following pressure from major rightsholders who prefer consumers to regularly repurchase rather than have access for life. and that standard seems to miss a bit on key loss… https://t.co/Av1MddcLFx 2022-01-03 17:13:26 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow so for that NFTs are just a more risky way (insofar as easier to lose access to w/ key loss) to store non transferable licenses for copyright, which layer onto existing DRM? that rely on good will of platforms to honour interoperably? doesn’t seem much of a value proposition 2022-01-03 17:06:55 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow if NFTs are just a standardised agreement for companies to deactivate existing DRM authorisation and transfer to another provider (eg Google to Amazon) then NFTs add nothing. If just a wrapper around IP, then you can’t trade in Europe due to no exhaustion (see CJEU Tom Kabinet) 2022-01-03 17:04:02 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow NFTs are certificates premised on the ability to sell them to others. The controversial part isn’t using the certificate to get access to a distributor of a file (although there are economic qs there), it’s how content is removed or deleted upon transfer of that certificate. 2022-01-03 16:51:57 @rizzn @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow and what is the process through which somebody who sells the license to a content becomes unable to play it on their device or copy a version locally before selling it? 2022-01-03 16:41:34 @mmasnick @daphnehk @agidari @CoryDoctorow that’s why i think it is likely to start with a ‘blue tick’ for certain content (eg avatars) and then just not extent abilities to use not authenticated content in certain (new) ways within enclosed vertical platforms — the same result, but a journey of adding not removal 2022-01-03 16:17:42 @daphnehk @agidari @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow It’s a possibility. TPMs in the past have been tied to particular channels of distribution 2022-01-03 14:53:45 @SarahLudford @timsquirrell @ISDglobal Certainly a relaxed attitude is worrying. Needs hard and ambitious problem solving. Agree strongly that insofar as this sounds like ‘this doesn’t seem to be terrorism thus… maybe we shouldn’t worry?’, totally wrong approach 2022-01-03 14:31:18 @daphnehk @mmasnick @CoryDoctorow Audiovisual content can potentially be altered to avoid a perceptual hash assuming the device still runs non NFT'd things. Virtual environments have assets which might be NFT locked, but typically you can't just BYO. I think concern highest in the middle space. 2022-01-03 14:24:47 @daphnehk @CoryDoctorow I haven't seen one, but I am far from immersed in this. I tend to look to @technollama for such things. If I had to guess a trajectory, it will start with social media sites adding a 'verified avatar' feature. 2022-01-03 13:49:35 more people talking about the same disconnect: https://t.co/O1ZOALvYQG 2022-01-03 13:29:54 @SarahLudford i highly recommend talking to @timsquirrell at @ISDglobal who has worked on all sides of this if it’s something that you might want to take to the house 2022-01-03 13:29:11 @SarahLudford not always a useful binary though — clearly some activity becomes dangerous and needs maximal response then but current methods of stopping this actually *emerge* misunderstand the issues and need nuance and connection across offline and online if they’re to work https://t.co/v3mtBO5uEd 2022-01-03 13:25:42 Internet policy needs to mature, fast. It’s throwing blunt tools (take down! refer to prevent! dns block!) at what are often complex *offline* policy failures it fails to understand. Both online and offline are real life. Good from @timsquirrell on incels https://t.co/JuqxDCFc4w https://t.co/RA04FOO8NK 2022-01-03 12:41:47 @rzanardelli i doubt that will be enough for these highly financialised interests. global capital flows aren’t big on etiquette 2022-01-03 12:09:21 @JamesHuctwith @stillcantdrive @kennedytcooper @fOrGiVeNcHy perhaps! it’s a german company that’s been operating for more than a century, one if not the first to sell baking powder in germany in the late 1800s. now they also sell frozen pizzas everywhere. https://t.co/t3OG94KtQx 2022-01-03 11:26:13 RT @StevePeers: EU General Court, data protection law WhatsApp sues to annul a decision of the European Data Protection Board - the first… 2022-01-03 11:06:25 @SFuntowicz I agree — but it’s hard to control that to ensure that those people are the ones in the positions and not ones who spend their time schmoozing, networking, misrepresenting and brand building. Policymakers struggle to see through this in my experience. So what to do? 2022-01-03 10:39:21 @SFuntowicz how do you feel that’s interacted with the personalities in science-policy? in my experience it has often attracted a cadre of lacklustre but ambitious people who want to get closer to power and use ‘I speak for science’ or ‘I unravel complexity’ to do it 2022-01-03 10:34:08 @j2bryson @ianwalker @jaylakhupota 1 chapter yes, but you could still add cites per para? Just consolidates them and reduces the amount of supertext. But really depends on your style, I have found it a good compromise in some popsci books which I found to be quick to locate sources but unobtrusive for readers. 2022-01-03 10:29:24 @technollama aye it be 2022-01-03 10:29:09 RT @technollama: @mikarv The endgame for many VC backers of blockchains is more control, riding on the back of decentralisation useful idio… 2022-01-03 10:28:35 @ChrisTMarsden @AndrewDMurray @CPSUK my appalling slow 5G is unfathomably twice as fast when i turn on a VPN to my home network and i haven’t even entertained the thought that Ofcom would care or act if told. 2022-01-03 10:24:34 imaging claiming to desire decentralisation but having no interest in transforming the gatekeeper firms that actually govern what code can and cannot be run in your vicinity, and welcome to the naïve folly of ‘web3’ 2022-01-03 10:21:14 @j2bryson perhaps where you’d be used to citing at the end of a sentence, citing at end of a para might train you to consolidate more in one place & 2022-01-03 10:19:07 @j2bryson while drafting, put footnotes or endnotes at the ends of sentences or even paragraphs if you don’t mind synthesising s few, publisher can work out how to present them & 2022-01-03 10:15:39 @l_dallacorte as they say, hoera (: 2022-01-03 10:14:11 @daphnehk @CoryDoctorow oh here it comes https://t.co/LeN7pK8aMo 2022-01-03 10:13:13 vertically integrated speculative NFT integrated DRM bullshit seems to be already coming to further stop you running code you want and media that copyright law may allow you to view on devices you bought https://t.co/LeN7pK8aMo https://t.co/visitDspSd https://t.co/DRlpOHbX1s 2022-01-03 02:25:55 @AilbheDarcy @BoisYeasty Buttermilk is also hard to buy in Europe in large containers. Except in the Netherlands where businessmen and women drink it with sandwiches at lunch in large cartons. 2022-01-03 02:08:16 @BarbiturateCat @stillcantdrive @kennedytcooper @fOrGiVeNcHy the shop pictured might also just be creaming some highly marked up powder from visiting americans who don’t realise that in ireland it’s called bicarbonate of soda. 2022-01-03 02:03:23 @BarbiturateCat @stillcantdrive @kennedytcooper @fOrGiVeNcHy the large cheap boxes that do exist in the UK are not sold in the food sections as they’re not packaged in food specific production lines (although they’re probably fine to use). you buy them in hardware stores instead… 2022-01-03 01:56:31 @stillcantdrive @kennedytcooper @fOrGiVeNcHy not sure about ireland but at least in the UK baking soda is usually in tiny little 150-200g pots in supermarkets rather than good sized boxes https://t.co/HSuvQwg1Jp 2022-01-03 01:52:29 @BoisYeasty in the UK at least it often comes in tiny pots on supermarkets, the arm and hammer boxes are much bigger than your usual container of it 2022-01-03 01:34:56 @clancynewyork @brandonsilverm i can’t appraise the likelihood of success of that argument though as i am not and have zero intention of becoming knowledgeable about the first amendment 2022-01-03 01:33:42 @clancynewyork @brandonsilverm sure thing. i suspect a distinctly US legal problem will be that firms will claim that forcing them to deploy code on their infrastructures to do analysis is compelled speech in a way that requiring them to disclose data might not be. 2022-01-03 01:27:16 @clancynewyork @brandonsilverm anything that is based on the metaphor of firms handing over data or information is built on quicksand 2022-01-03 01:26:01 @clancynewyork @brandonsilverm that legislation is a good start (better then the UK, about the same as the DSA in the EU post legislative process) BUT also falls into the fallacy that big platforms will have data on people, when several moving towards PETs/federation/edge optimisation to dodge law 2022-01-03 01:17:04 @ShannonVallor book’s shite too 2022-01-03 01:05:35 dot com bubble vibes anyone https://t.co/fMAPLBosiT 2022-01-03 00:53:09 @JackRhysider @airshanemode2 @Cpin42 worth noting that whether 'stealing' happened will depend on the jurisdiction and the status of theft of intangibles (computer misuse law is somewhat more standardised due to e.g. the budapest convention...) 2022-01-03 00:22:36 RT @_TechJess: https://t.co/FPNvX1nBYY 2022-01-03 00:21:36 This is a real shame because in copypasting Data Protection Directive–era models for information law (few adopting the GDPR innovations), countries are missing a real opportunity to explore and experiment with digital policy that may not come around again quickly. 2022-01-03 00:19:49 Interesting new article from @grahamgreenleaf & https://t.co/g9zUwNPSp1 https://t.co/3OaKmwHMT8 2022-01-02 23:38:47 like/hate and subscribe 2022-01-02 23:38:03 mildly meta take — this guy is on a dopamine rush for social media interaction, whatever the valence, reinforced by, although not solely due to, the dynamics of often machine learning supported algorithmic recommendation. https://t.co/2iqdlHpZWq 2022-01-02 21:57:08 @Klonick i collect NTDs 2022-01-02 21:56:21 @Klonick maybe there’s a new genre in it of minting and flogging takedown requests 2022-01-02 20:50:05 @tomskitomski @BenLaurie @smithsam both theoretical and practical confidentiality and security properties of both types of certificate are highly theatrical, and the differences appear very surface level… so are there two for reasons of gesture politics? 2022-01-02 18:06:44 @smithsam @BenLaurie yes, i know that, but business rules are also possible to put into a reader. i’m wondering if the justification has ever been made explicit anywhere. 2022-01-02 17:54:34 pretty sure £250 million is 0.625% of £40 billion not 0.01%, which is over 60 times less. @BWallaceMP https://t.co/JJ7IPpGq0q https://t.co/MGLk7ScRxC 2022-01-02 17:39:43 @smithsam @BenLaurie there is a mild privacy reason vis-a-vis a scanner for the domestic pass insofar as it does not seem to contain detailed vaccination data, but the whole thing still seems unusual even considering that 2022-01-02 17:37:33 @smithsam @BenLaurie has anyone documented or justified the policy logic behind a "domestic pass" and an "international pass"? it is also interesting to note that users of the UK COVID scanner break the T& 2022-01-02 17:35:14 RT @BenLaurie: Apparently, @NHSDigital don't want to document the contents of the UK Domestic COVID Pass. So I've done it for them: https:… 2022-01-02 17:24:54 @l_dallacorte it works for me, insofar as hudoc ever works. its inability to resolve its own ECLIs and its stubborn refusal to submit them to the EU's ECLI resolver have both led to severe deteriation of my just-in-time ethical capacities 2022-01-01 10:03:00 @alexhern I wonder how much, if any, of this relates to vertically integrated DRM stuff. It seems interesting to me how things video streaming services try to prevent with hardware like WideVine/Fairplay (ripping HD video) have to work a bit differently in gaming due to game streamers. 2021-12-31 12:03:27 @EmilyLaidlaw indeed! but also would make sabbatical terms harder… my undergrad Internet Law module is a full year but the LLM one is only a half year. 2021-12-31 11:37:17 @neil_neilzone thanks (: it’s for an LLM half year module 2021-12-31 01:09:10 @EmilyLaidlaw Here's my week 1 of that topic in case useful https://t.co/7URLYCUS0L 2021-12-31 01:03:03 @marcelsalathe Very useful. In England, it depends on where the guy is located. https://t.co/G97A3hvGe8 https://t.co/wJPsLGoalR 2021-12-30 23:09:00 @Slaterfe @amazon part of a long chain from this firm... @SylvieDelacroix and I looked at some in 2019 here https://t.co/CB6eCWlRQR https://t.co/nmIOgY2Ied 2021-12-30 19:26:08 @marcelsalathe do they variant analyse all PCRs and inform those taking the test in CH or did you infer? 2021-12-30 18:19:44 @tforcworc @russss @GNetworkComms for their many faults, the Nokia routers do support v6! But I've now routed it to a Fritz!Box which are lovely little devices. 2021-12-30 18:17:16 I should add that the email support from https://t.co/12fL972Ai0 has been good even if their policies are frustrating and issues required more detective work due to no documentation that I would have liked. 2021-12-30 18:11:43 @hoofnagle @nicoleperlroth Creative Cloud is malware. PDFExpert works nicely. If you're on a Mac then Affinity Designer is a great, one-off-cost replacement for Illustrator (Inkscape is a bit clunky). 2021-12-30 18:07:24 @sqrt2 @GNetworkComms If they hadn't moved my router to a bridge mode I would have caused a big net neutrality fuss. 2021-12-30 18:06:29 @russss @GNetworkComms @tforcworc ultimately Openreach is unlikely to get here if G Network is here already, and so I figured might as well get the infrastructure installed and do the pain of switching and hope some sensible market consolidation happens over time 2021-12-30 18:05:04 @russss @GNetworkComms yes, i've had to turn off all my IPv6 that I had set-up from my previous ISP, I asked them before signing up and they say it's on the roadmap... however I'm not holding my breath. Seems absurd to set up a new ISP without IPv6 surely, although maybe there are reasons @tforcworc 2021-12-30 18:00:19 Notably this seems to be a plague affecting other London new fibre ISPs, including the generally well-thought-of @Hyperoptic, as this Reddit thread indicates: https://t.co/4vHuDs8XQc 2021-12-30 17:56:59 this took me ages to figure out! I eventually did w/ the help of @emax . the only solution is to buy another router and waste energy and money using the device they give you as as a bridge 2021-12-30 17:56:58 While new my fibre ISP @GNetworkComms have ~1Gbps symmetrical & 2021-12-30 16:01:37 @rachelcoldicutt i'm not sure how much more granular data on differences across categories or sectors etc would really change things or is the barrier, but I find it an interesting development 2021-12-30 16:00:55 @rachelcoldicutt another tidbit that might be interesting to share: there is a programme by the boston women's workforce council that uses multiparty computation to compare particular roles between firm in a way that wouldn't see the companies disclose salary data. https://t.co/WgpdHY2pci 2021-12-30 15:55:47 @rachelcoldicutt not in that article was how at a time other countries realised the gendered effects that might arise from covid, the UK froze its gender pay gap reporting for a year *because* of covid 2021-12-30 14:53:35 @riptari have seen several anecdotal reports of many negatives then positive when trying throat (as the older LFTs used to advise doing) 2021-12-30 14:50:38 @riptari have you LFT'd your throat even if instructions only say nose? 2021-12-30 13:30:38 A range of interesting aspects of this case looking at the interaction between Dutch collective action law, the EU Representative Actions Directive, and GDPR art 80 do not get resolved (but could have triggered CJEU questions) as case did not meet earlier hurdle. 2021-12-30 13:25:24 Real-time bidding related class action against Oracle and Salesforce by @theprivacycoll1 fails in the Netherlands https://t.co/BlSPQMu2tM as the Rechtbank Amsterdam states that a 'like' without collecting contact details cannot establish a class. https://t.co/1EMSJzyULy 2021-12-30 13:06:02 RT @OpenRightsGroup: Data Protection Policy Manager 7% pension contribution Generous training & Parental leave … 2021-12-30 09:58:06 RT @Foxglovelegal: REMINDER: We are looking for a Caseworker focussing on platform power to join us. All the details are here: https://t.co… 2021-12-29 14:01:04 @Matthijs85 @steltenpower @Piratenpartij @FTM_nl @mrtbollen @privacyfirst @AwardsBrother @PPNL_Actie @tehwerner @wernerwafelman @marleenstikker @waag there are many issues with passes but what you are quoting around the UK is not accurate. the privacy policy for the app listed the GDPR categories of special category data as things that might be processed in a ‘template’ kind of way 2021-12-29 11:00:31 @TadeuszGiczan cc @PJLeerssen @PeggyValcke 2021-12-29 10:10:39 @ddimolfetta @F_Kaltheuner @meatspacepress make sure to get the hairdryer out and point it at least at the one on the right… 2021-12-29 10:03:55 @bricksilk @HLLibResearch @lexatlasc19 @jeff_a_king @octavio_ferraz we’re finding it hard to spread the word of what is an immense amount of work as no ‘headline’ summary of such a broad project, so if you have ideas after having a browse do get in touch! I assume you already know @jeff_a_king well to do this. 2021-12-29 10:01:55 @bricksilk @HLLibResearch @lexatlasc19 @jeff_a_king @octavio_ferraz the OUP site has the final reports (they’ll be updated twice more when up each, including to add the final three sections on end focusing on eg civil liberties). the country list on the project/blog page has preprints and info in extent. I’m horizontal project info/privacy ed. https://t.co/Ujdf1uyh8Z 2021-12-29 09:58:55 @bricksilk @HLLibResearch yes! we do @lexatlasc19. @jeff_a_king @octavio_ferraz eds, 80+ jurists writing 20k word reports on each country, @octavio_ferraz leading on comparative judicial deference. project info/blog: https://t.co/Rv2xG5kicF oxford uni press open access book page: https://t.co/eHIBcdXHW6 2021-12-29 09:30:10 @emilymbender in several jurisdictions, this is possible despite intermediary liability laws, as ‘algorithmic defamation’ cases show relating to holding Google liable for autocomplete results—that’s their content created algorithmically, not third party content simply hosted. but blurry area. 2021-12-29 02:40:58 @John_J_Howard no, that’s not tort law. 2021-12-28 21:40:34 @argressel @aselbst i guarantee the revised product liability directive will come out during the time i am teaching this 2021-12-28 21:34:23 @argressel @aselbst great, thanks! i forgot @aselbst had written that, remember vaguely flagging it to myself last year but there wasn’t a teaching need then (: please do flag panel to me when uploaded! 2021-12-28 21:33:04 @argressel @aselbst got that one thanks, and the parliament one too and the expert group one! but good to flag 2021-12-28 20:43:16 @stokel insurance does exist, the broad major constellations of cover are here although of course gotta read the policy carefully. very hard to get insurance for anything but stupid money if FCDO advise against travelling to that country. https://t.co/k3Fvqcs265 https://t.co/BtCok5Q3G2 2021-12-28 18:35:01 @mdekstrand no sorry the miles o’brien statue is canon no returns 2021-12-28 18:03:19 @IusOnDemand that’s data protection rather than tort… 2021-12-28 17:56:56 @HaimAbraham thank you! familiar with the first but not the second two! and indeed, also Law Commission reports (and forthcoming final report) on self driving cars too. 2021-12-28 17:40:56 @sebkrier the state should be more involved in the governance of platforms, as their support desk 2021-12-28 17:32:21 an update from the frontlines of souveraineté numérique https://t.co/QKdLhQfCVb 2021-12-28 17:27:26 hi all: can I collect your favourite readings about law and policy issues around tortious liability and algorithmic systems? extra points for a focus on English law. 2021-12-28 12:07:53 RT @defenddigitalme: Want to catch up with our #UnwrappingPupilData thread from this month? We've got all 24 facts, all packaged up, in on… 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-20 09:16:17 Does that mean everything I do in the context of poor work life balance is tax deductible? Asking for a friend. https://t.co/ZWOKHw7mLf 2021-12-20 09:07:41 Google Vision AI is so reliable it recognises a screenshot of its own product as being 90% certain as Azure. https://t.co/pWPDzSBNTd 2021-12-19 10:46:20 @npseaver Choreomania 2021-12-18 17:07:59 @baynoni The question of ‘who can do what with files where no transfer of intellectual property has occurred’ is not one that unaccountable private platforms should be taking the lead on making and sloppily enforcing. 2021-12-18 17:06:57 @baynoni NFT protections are ‘in the negative’ as they have no basis in law, which is a regime which enshrines people’s ability to reuse copyrighted materials for many purposes in the public interest. NFT purchasing has little to do with assigning copyright and rarely does. 2021-12-18 16:57:15 @baynoni you probably want to look at the failures of copyright detecting hash based systems today. meta tags don’t help you detect valid and important context, parody, reporting, educational use. 2021-12-18 16:51:13 @baynoni this isn’t just about minting images in an unauthorised way (i don’t lose sleep over people makings hashes), it’s about the use of these images on other platforms and systems, without the nuances of copyright’s many exemptions and similar. 2021-12-18 16:49:29 RT @mer__edith: I remember researchers being prevented from looking at bias against protected classes via YouTube ads for this same reason.… 2021-12-18 16:46:40 @baynoni that’s still a form of DRM 2021-12-18 15:50:43 RT @josh_wingrove: No politician is all that incentivized to bat an eye, because sorting this out will reduce their favorite metric -- how… 2021-12-18 15:36:53 @mdekstrand People were presumably posting the URL but accompanied by incorrect claims. But then Facebook bans the URL? 2021-12-18 15:30:13 They note this isn’t the first time a gold standard academic/practitioner publisher has been censured by Meta — even the Cochrane Collaboration has been shadow banned by Instagram. https://t.co/t44pcAUEyZ 2021-12-18 15:28:16 Damning letter from the outgoing & 2021-12-18 14:40:09 @markhughes bear in mind platforms like Youtube already operate hash checking of all content at scale under ContentID, many platforms do for CSEA and terrorism imagery under eg GIFCT, the technology stack is not new. 2021-12-18 14:38:37 @Equalit73659657 @nytimes I was responding to this point, noting that plenty of professors at Ivy league universities do not have PhDs, not whether or not Harvard has a school of journalism. Lack of PhDs amongst faculty is not exclusive to journalism or law schools. https://t.co/YfNlaZEepq 2021-12-18 12:59:31 @alexhern https://t.co/9Upn0iAqHB 2021-12-18 12:57:08 ‘the only reason’ is a bit harsh perhaps, people might want it for sentimental reasons or to boast, but *even that* in usable form requires platforms/similar to tag or highlight the owner of stuff by running code over content. 2021-12-18 12:55:32 @Equalit73659657 @Nidhi @AudreyTruschke @nytimes well almost all US law school profs, particularly the more senior ones, don’t have PhDs, so it’s not something to point out individuals for. and just scroll through the profiles on https://t.co/XaMS8XAJdj for example, a top ivy league journalism school you’ll find few w PhDs 2021-12-18 12:17:32 the only reason a ledger is important is if architectures of hardware and software force users to respect it, and force them to run or have run code they may not want to run on files they have stored. 2021-12-18 12:16:08 turns out a system based on checking a hash against the original full file isn’t great to stop people just nabbing the file! this won’t last, which is why as I’ve said before, NFT proponents will want to build an entire horrific system of DRM and automated control. https://t.co/HjAZQsTDfC 2021-12-18 12:05:40 There would be a good PhD to be done on the roles of platforms in bottom up copyright and other rights enforcement. https://t.co/4atxDogbYU 2021-12-18 09:56:27 @jeff_a_king while they may have specific reasons for this, worth nothing DARPA in the US is one of the most prominent funders of brain computer interfaces (BCIs) in the world, and has been for decades https://t.co/k5yMkwkvzm https://t.co/Omy5r0fZCr 2021-12-18 09:52:27 imagine if large private infrastructures were not relied upon to be public health decision makers https://t.co/hF9Khg8X38 2021-12-18 09:46:51 @Patil_AbhishekR @KishoreRNair1 @Equalit73659657 @Nidhi @AudreyTruschke @nytimes in the US also 2021-12-18 09:17:31 we need law and policy to stop DRM undermining environmental goals. https://t.co/ChO06NZFci 2021-12-17 19:58:07 RT @hutko: A quick write-up for the ADM crowd: the Slovak Constitutional Court on Risk Profiling and Automated Decision-Making by the Tax A… 2021-12-17 19:19:59 @simonhania @RDBinns Yes, but if you look at our paper, you’ll see there are questions concerning actors further upstream making significant decisions through the analysis and transfer of personal data back to other controllers, not offering services to EU residents themselves. 2021-12-17 14:12:42 RT @benwagne_r: Excited to announce that @tudelft is hiring a total of 8 (!!!) new 5-year fully funded PhDs on Justice, Rights, Democracy a… 2021-12-17 13:54:59 RT @guidonld: Folks please circulate widely this job advert for an AHRC-DfG-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the project "Fro… 2021-12-17 11:01:26 @NZahn42 in theory, yes! though scaling anything and maintaining it always require effort. yet no reason why could not syndicate. unis around the world should have taken the lead here. 2021-12-17 11:00:25 i remember working at the european commission in the unit on ageing populations, health and innovation and this woman was the only old lady in our stock image package. once you see her you cannot under her in the whole world, she is everywhere. i wonder what became of her. https://t.co/vEAvwZ6sYZ 2021-12-17 10:56:32 @NZahn42 They could do, and some do use Big Blue Button, particularly in Germany, but they’d still need to host a server to do the mixing or forwarding. Those services are only P2P for small groups. 2021-12-17 10:51:17 RT @GeradinLaw: If, like me, you are skeptical about Apple's security claims as an excuse to keep its App Store monopoly, have a look at my… 2021-12-17 10:50:03 Yet another consultation for UK data protection, governance and justice scholars… https://t.co/L0xvJJ1XJK 2021-12-17 10:47:16 @RuthHorry @sylviademars cc @lawvaughan who has magic ways 2021-12-17 10:44:23 @egelynbraun @arcapde @EU_Commission cc @CatalinaGoanta @nhelberger 2021-12-17 10:41:46 @jjarvisLondon because unis have already paid for many servers and extremely high speed internet. the analogy is to a university booking a room in its own building, not hiring externally. or for unis investing so little in building maintenance they are charged to book their own rooms. 2021-12-17 09:56:58 RT @SarahEskens: brave (mainly early-career) researchers at @AdamLawSchool speak out against questionable appointments and financing of 'pr… 2021-12-17 09:55:37 @EricTopol @marcelsalathe is that one test per sixteen NYC residents? 2021-12-17 09:54:45 RT @Write4Research: Despite the focus on Russell Group institutions as drivers of social mobility, it is actually universities outside this… 2021-12-17 09:50:34 this seems to be a relevant consideration in relation to the recent LERU statement @ucylpay… 2021-12-17 09:49:49 lest we note that through @JISC /JANET universities have historically had among the fastest network links between them in the country, before anyone else. Now they’re throttled by a U.S. firm. 2021-12-17 09:45:58 cc @utakohl re her talk yesterday. 2021-12-17 09:43:23 This further complicates the multi stage analysis @RDBinns and I recently undertook re Article 22 by creating a situation where you can also dip in and out of jurisdiction in multi actor data processing and decision making. https://t.co/0m0Rcfxzbg 2021-12-17 09:41:34 For anyone thinking of how the UK scrapping Article 22 of the GDPR might affect adequacy, the Commission’s current way of dealing with this in relation to countries like w no such rules is to say data subjects probably won’t need this right anyway in a situation of transfers. https://t.co/0o4f0mzfEA https://t.co/HfW0kVBCrP 2021-12-17 09:34:47 incredible and telling of the power of platforms itself that a university is being bound in participation in an online conference by its zoom license limit… https://t.co/IZQiIvCIWs 2021-12-17 09:19:42 RT @ambersinha07: The Joint Parliamentary Committee has concluded its deliberations on the Personal Data Protection Bill & 2021-12-17 08:47:06 @oliviasolon ‘Snopes’ would be a good name for a platypus 2021-12-17 08:39:33 note lack of signatures from permanent staff does not seem to be for lack of support. will these issues ever be solved through closed committees? academic freedom should extend to feeling free to be publicly shocked, else we should be worried about bureaucratic chilling effects. https://t.co/qJ6vx6ZfDr 2021-12-17 08:25:53 @oliviasolon i think when it was discovered and initially researched into a lot of zoologists receiving drawings or specimens thought it was fake… 2021-12-17 08:22:19 University of Amsterdam legal researchers angry at the stories of Ernst and Young purchasing and heavily influencing the choice of sponsored and not publicly declared low-tax tax law profs in the faculty. Why is it left to insecure early career researchers to sign this letter? https://t.co/Y9xO52e7JF 2021-12-17 08:18:26 RT @Jausl00s: Remember the @FTM_nl revelations on shady corporate sponsored professorships at the @AdamLawSchool last week? Together with s… 2021-12-17 08:17:12 RT @MarijnSax: The somewhat unfortunate outcome is that although many senior colleagues said they supported the letter, in the end it is (a… 2021-12-17 08:14:44 RT @MarijnSax: We wrote an Open Letter (https://t.co/EquPiBdV4s) to the @AdamLawSchool in response to the Follow the Money article from las… 2021-12-16 20:54:20 RT @FascinatingTech: It's exciting that our paper "Are iPhones really better for Privacy?" has been accepted by @PET_Symposium Quick summ… 2021-12-16 18:58:12 @marypcbuk @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters @ChrisTMarsden not an EU citizen in the US, no. a tweet sized summary - that they would have to apply them to EU based customers if the services as marketed to customers physically in the Union, or insofar as those services monitor individuals within the union (so possible roaming implications) 2021-12-16 17:45:19 @marypcbuk @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters @ChrisTMarsden but citizenship is irrelevant to applicable law 2021-12-16 17:43:55 @schulite cc @divijualsuspect, especially on 3 and 4. 2021-12-16 17:40:59 @zeynep ICYMI the official policy in England is also currently "test once a day if you have been flagged by contact tracers". 2021-12-16 17:07:05 RT @N_Countouris: [1/2] On the draft Dir. on Platform Work: as much as one would want to be informed about the use of automated monitoring… 2021-12-16 16:17:52 @IcelandCoE @RunMrb @CoE_endVAW @MFAIceland great news Dr @RunMrb! 2021-12-16 16:04:14 @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters @ChrisTMarsden I don’t disagree w how companies interpreting vague laws in ways that do not challenge exploitative business practices, my point is that an ISP doing this entails a whole diff set of legal regimes around confidentiality of comms, and so your example is bad in an EU context. 2021-12-16 16:01:29 @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters @ChrisTMarsden this is pretty unambiguously illegal under the EU e-Privacy Directive art 5 in a way other reuse of data is not as it’s a public communications network, which is why you are unlikely to see ISPs in Europe doing this. https://t.co/jsuPr2lR8c 2021-12-16 14:07:40 @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters @ChrisTMarsden if it was undertaken in the UK, the practice you identify in your screenshot isn’t just a civil offence under data protection law, it may well be a criminal offence of unlawful interception under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 s 3. 2021-12-16 14:04:45 @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters @ChrisTMarsden my point was that I don’t see why the GDPR would have anything to do with a US ISP profiling US-based users. do you think what Verizon is doing is illegal under US law? (and that compliance systems or organisational structures are failing to identify that ex ante?) 2021-12-16 13:49:13 @ChiOnwurah @jessicamordenmp @ThangamMP Very fair, holding a party to account is not my job. My view is as an academic worried most of Parliament see internet regulation as a ‘more’ or ‘less’ regulation issue without questioning the foundations of the OSB — making platforms so key to regulating they’re too big to fail 2021-12-16 12:58:04 @lilianedwards @annliffey @linnetelwin @sedyst @EurJRR they negotiated to create the technical infrastructure but they didn’t legislate as to what member states must recognise in it or not in relation to their national public health functions 2021-12-16 12:49:36 @lilianedwards @annliffey @linnetelwin @sedyst @EurJRR the EU doesn’t have the competence to do that to affect national public health in a legislative process but Member States can, but doing that wouldn’t change any of the arguments in the article - indeed strengthens many as global gaps increase (also, three doses are no panacea) 2021-12-16 12:42:28 as @annliffey @linnetelwin @sedyst and I wrote about earlier in the year in @EurJRR, immunity certificates were always ‘promises made to be broken’ https://t.co/DgmSijceUN https://t.co/PJbh0onrMa https://t.co/BYBH2jYtLj 2021-12-16 12:14:30 @jessicamordenmp @ChiOnwurah @ThangamMP but… the pre legislative scrutiny committee only just finished and released a 150+ page report earlier this week recommending significant changes throughout. why would parliament want the bill back before the response to that parliamentary report & 2021-12-16 11:03:26 @rowlsmanthorpe damn, hang in there rowland, I really hope both your personal situation and broader awareness of this improves 2021-12-16 10:42:31 @tforcworc Dactylocracy 2021-12-16 09:30:02 @owainkenway yes! they could be making turing complete NFTs! 2021-12-16 09:24:09 @timsquirrell it’s like people making computers out of minecraft blocks if they made the computer after breaking into minecraft by pretending to be an animated meme when actually they were a hacked Xerox printer output from the mid 00s 2021-12-16 08:37:23 this is a pretty incredible read giving an insight into how NSO used an flakey compression tool in XPDF used by old scanners with iMessage’s GIF functionality to simulate turing complete logic circuits and build a rudimentary mini computer in out-of-bounds memory. https://t.co/mk88WPU8s8 2021-12-16 08:17:27 @ariezrawaldman @PrivacyMatters I get broader point on CSR but no need for Verizon to comply with EU law wrt you, so why would GDPR be important to a US ISP? FWIW we had this saga in the UK with BT & 2021-12-16 07:47:23 RT @evgenymorozov: Does "3" in "web3" refer to the fact that there are *three* big VC firms - Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures,… 2021-12-15 23:39:24 @mireillemoret @MarietjeSchaake however if AIA is to do anything at all needs a much better resourced regulator that what the Commission envisage so if the Dutch are planning to support this nationally beyond the Commission expectations in the impact assessment that would be good news. 2021-12-15 23:38:15 @mireillemoret @MarietjeSchaake ah thanks, yes, potentially the old ‘put a pending european law in your manifesto’ trick. i remember the uk government claimed to have invented the right to erasure for children around 2018… 2021-12-15 21:05:53 @annalist @Frei_Fink just because the UK government does it does not make it right or correct (: 2021-12-15 20:21:39 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius that’s very kind! we shall see how it plays out and do our best as academics to inform the process. a concern i have is the ‘economy’ of the time of those scrutinising laws. the digital single market package amidst covid is wearing everyone thin, very limited analytic capacity. 2021-12-15 19:38:15 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius and by ‘they’ do you mean Commission or Council? Council have not got to grips with harmonisation issues yet, one big Member State told me they usually only realise at the end of negotiations… 2021-12-15 19:36:58 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius GOF? 2021-12-15 18:11:03 @lawrennd don’t accidentally think an NFT unit into being 2021-12-15 16:17:24 @Nadya_Purtova @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius i’m not in the business of predicting how such a case might go, but i think we shouldn’t leave it up to a challenge that relies on how a law was made illegally to change today the AI Act’s scope, which tries to pre-empt any regulations on the use of non high risk AI. 2021-12-15 16:15:54 @Nadya_Purtova @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius I agree the AIA stretches Art 114. A pretty simple reading shows it seems to pre empt use regulations on AI nationally, including by public admins. This will likely be used to try to strike down national laws by tech firms. A defence could challenge the treaty basis. 2021-12-15 16:10:35 @Nadya_Purtova @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius artificial sure, but likely legal — the court was pretty happy with the Data Retention Directive being based on internal market logic in C-301/06 Ireland v Parl and Council 2021-12-15 16:05:17 @Nadya_Purtova @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius but if they frame it as an internal market fragmentation issue, it gets subsumed under the residual power of 114. data protection is key example — EU regulating (before the specific basis was created) how administrations processed data using this internal market power! 2021-12-15 16:02:53 I am sorry to report that Germany is copying ‘digital is a noun’ DCMS. https://t.co/Q1socFAmzL 2021-12-15 15:36:20 @mireillemoret @Nadya_Purtova @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius Your eg being what that is excluded? I don’t quite follow. Article 114 brings a whole tranche of case law that shows it is hard to get ‘minimum harmonisation’ as the CJEU finds that goes against the purpose of 114. Low risk systems not out of scope, but in scope. See recital 1. 2021-12-15 15:13:12 Are you Foxglove’s newest platform power fighter? Incredible job going for someone who might not have years if experience in the area of technology, justice and civil society. Would be an incredible place to work amongst the best people. https://t.co/mLqoTN2PZ1 https://t.co/pj91LhJiv8 2021-12-15 15:02:05 @Nadya_Purtova @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius TFEU 114 though cuts across this in a dangerous way 2021-12-15 14:59:17 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius systems that are not ‘high risk’ according to the AIA are still in the act’s material scope if they meet the definition of AI system despite not being subject to any obligations and therefore domestic laws regulating their use can be sought to be disapplied. 2021-12-15 14:54:39 @rosamunde_vb mercikes! 2021-12-15 14:54:22 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius that will create a very strange scope of pre-emption indeed — if the algorithm is too sophisticated any new dutch laws will be at risk from the makers of the usual tactic of the tobacco industry of trying to strike them down based on maximum harmonisation. 2021-12-15 14:49:33 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius would be great to see the coalition agreement to get more info on what is proposed if it elaborates 2021-12-15 14:49:00 @mireillemoret @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius No i mean the votes in Council, not domestically 2021-12-15 14:44:07 @Nadya_Purtova @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen @fborgesius @mireillemoret yes, it likely harmonises use not just putting on the market. described in our paper https://t.co/aawuWFunFq 2021-12-15 14:31:54 @rosamunde_vb is there a link to the coalition agreement? 2021-12-15 14:29:29 @sqrt2 @janssen_heleen Someone needs to get this message to them. @fborgesius @mireillemoret it really looks like they’re about to vote for something that pre-empts their own domestic plans without realising. 2021-12-15 14:22:27 will this regulation be pre-empted by the AI Act? Who in the Dutch Government is thinking about this interaction (cc @janssen_heleen) https://t.co/XfQN7CSgoj 2021-12-15 14:17:19 RT @psychicyogamat: My article on the Snowden litigation in the UK before the IPT, ‘The Evolution of Elucidation’, is published today on th… 2021-12-15 10:39:25 @stokel @timsquirrell for the more extreme type 2021-12-15 09:35:42 RT @johnnyryan: Reminder that tracking-based ads are a problem https://t.co/RYYut5hezT 2021-12-15 09:28:50 RT @ringo_ring: nature has actually contacted me for comment about accusations that Sci-Hub is a threat, here is my full response / it is c… 2021-12-14 23:55:58 @ukstaiger an incredible book, I have in both EN and DE but have been struggling through the latter :) 2021-12-14 23:53:45 @MostFoolhardy @davidallengreen ah good to know, although still creates an arguable loophole (although i wouldn’t bet on a court siding with me over it) 2021-12-14 23:49:53 @Barristerblog can we also recognise the colour blue while we are at it? it has played an important part in our country’s history. 2021-12-14 23:49:10 RT @Barristerblog: Well, here is the proposal on including trial by jury in the proposed "Bill of Rights," and yes I'm afraid it is vacuous… 2021-12-14 23:44:51 @davidallengreen also it’s a pedantic point but i’ve never thought about the copyright implications of the way that iPhones don’t by default take stills, but record mini videos for each image, a function called ‘Live Photos’. 2021-12-14 23:42:15 @davidallengreen would only be more confusing if the camera owner gave the camera to a unknown catering staff member to take the photograph… 2021-12-14 23:16:42 @stephenhues @stsucl congratulations!! 2021-12-14 23:12:27 RT @Iwillleavenow: So, looks like hackers were able to get into Proctorio and use it to spy on student accounts and devices (including webc… 2021-12-14 22:04:43 just give Pippa her MBE already she’s done enough https://t.co/EawIBPIGhr 2021-12-14 16:46:36 @owainkenway at least they used capital letters to break it up, screen readers do read that properly if you do that. 2021-12-14 16:44:56 using audiovisual content that is not easily made accessible to absolutely everyone is not much of a problem if there is redundancy in communication as it may reach audiences other routes don’t but there is literally no benefit to this stupid practice, please @WHO PR team, stop. 2021-12-14 16:41:52 perhaps the WHO could just not limit accessibility so drastically and unnecessarily by using fake ASCII fonts that aren’t recognised by screen reader devices or operating system helper tools. https://t.co/P5pcL73Mxw 2021-12-14 15:19:00 @FusterGloria @RDBinns assume so yes, good spot 2021-12-14 14:50:41 RT @RaviNa1k: Really important blog on our case for @OpenRightsGroup @jimkillock @mikarv 2021-12-14 14:47:35 @PaulbernalUK @stokel no i’m pretty sure they’re demonspawn 2021-12-14 14:45:16 @stokel that’s one for our research impact lead @israblack… I’d certainly be up for commissioning you to give some training if the opportunity arose… 2021-12-14 14:42:40 @stokel i think this tango can create totally unnecessary distrust, academics think ‘they’re getting me to say stuff i wouldn’t!’ not realising it’s actually usually their fault for not properly phrasing stuff they want to say, not manipulative journos. 2021-12-14 14:40:32 RT @TinkerSec: If you run a scan on your environment to see if you're patched for #log4j... ...and find that you are already patched. Mak… 2021-12-14 14:39:38 @stokel Academics also often not trained to speak in quotable ways even when they do speak… 2021-12-14 13:37:52 FT piece on covid certificates puffs up modelling by the Tony Blair Institute which is based on tweaking the *resulting* R numbers from the Imperial model without evidence rather than actually, y’know, modelling… https://t.co/KWvo4KKhWG 2021-12-14 13:23:31 https://t.co/fxQMcoaklC https://t.co/eKuMLH486K 2021-12-14 10:04:14 @lilianedwards see also from @lexatlasc19 https://t.co/m0cE6q6Vmh https://t.co/oFjtlBqGYn 2021-12-14 09:48:44 RT @ImagesofAI: Today we launch the first images on our free repository https://t.co/TvzLeYbk04. Instead of defaulting to shiny robots or g… 2021-12-14 09:20:39 @halhod add to that the potential of two co-circulating strains. modelling and legitimacy of policy are going to have to dance a dangerous dance together 2021-12-14 09:17:56 @halhod i am fascinated to see how public discourse deals with multiple already-difficult-to-mentally-model variables changing at once 2021-12-14 08:29:40 @mireillemoret @vdignum I say accountancy firms not because they actually do accounting, but firms like Deloitte, Accenture etc sell a lot of the public sector machine learning tools to law enforcement, border agencies and similar. 2021-12-14 08:28:22 @mireillemoret @vdignum I also am not in favour of that — but need to tip the balances to make sure that big AI intermediaries selling packaged APIs do not use providers as liability shields for the subset of problems only they have the resource and supply chain position to assess and respond to. 2021-12-14 08:23:14 @mireillemoret @vdignum In my reading, ‘reasonably foreseeable misuse’ is not a test that governs entry to Title III but only applies once you are already through the gate. It’s not an obligation that applies to every operator of every (putatively low risk) AI system to think about. 2021-12-14 08:17:54 @vdignum @mireillemoret The main current regulated entity in the AIA is a European company that has public private partnerships taking AI apis from big tech and adding their own flourishes and re selling them to the public sector. Think the big accountancy firms and other actors like BAE or SAP. 2021-12-14 08:15:24 @vdignum @mireillemoret (that being said the council draft proposes social scoring prohibition applies to private firms too which might impact them) 2021-12-14 08:14:44 @vdignum @mireillemoret Don’t believe them, I see almost no obligations for the major big tech firms in the Commission draft or the Council one. Unlikely to fall within Title II or III, and Title IV is a joke which needs radically rethinking to even make legal sense (and is unenforceable besides). 2021-12-14 08:03:56 @mireillemoret @vdignum They definitely briefed against it (see Google and Deepmind consultation submissions). But they would have tried (likely successfully in the Comm v) to hide behind not intending to sell API access for a Title III purpose, therefore not being a Title III provider. 2021-12-14 08:01:51 @Kobotic @vdignum @mireillemoret They do different things: widening the definition of AI systems mainly has the effect of prohibiting or repealing more rules at national level through the effect of maximum harmonisation (allowing companies to use AIA as a sword), rather than increasing actual duties/obligations. 2021-12-14 07:59:49 @vdignum @mireillemoret best not to consider what is in/out of the Act with reference to only one of its basic definitions unless you’re interested in the question of harmonisation and pre-emption, it’s about what obligations actually apply to the small subsets of AI systems the AIA actually regulates 2021-12-14 07:57:48 @vdignum @mireillemoret So far it is covered by the scope of AI systems def but doesn’t fall within title III 2021-12-14 07:54:55 @mireillemoret @vdignum I would further argue that that exclusion is implicit in the Commission draft, but the Council version drives a stake into that weakness. 2021-12-14 07:53:35 @vdignum @mireillemoret I’m not convinced that part (Annex I) is the issue, and besides it can be amended by the Commission. The AI Act’s main problems around how it excludes the political economy of deployed systems don’t stem from its definition of AI. 2021-12-14 00:36:48 @biancawylie I thought they were getting to a wider consideration here but then it narrowed down again (without it being clear they were narrowing down on the phenomenon that they were really talking about, which as you say relates to collective meaning making and is very interesting) https://t.co/QUk2txFB4H 2021-12-14 00:33:02 @biancawylie I wasn’t really so clear about that being an app issue 2021-12-14 00:25:44 @biancawylie usually i really enjoy such pieces but simple facts let it down, the app did not cost 37£bn, they are conflating the cost of the entire test and trace scheme (including all tracing staff and all PCR tests, which make up the vast vast majority.) https://t.co/H10b3xPIVV https://t.co/SyK9pWmr6A 2021-12-13 23:33:59 @mireillemoret (I’m writing about some of these issues in more long form with @JeremiasPrassl which may be a better venue than a twitter discussion.) 2021-12-13 23:32:47 @mireillemoret Because Google would have to sell a system *intended* to fulfil a purpose in Annex III, else they aren’t considered a provider within Title III. They could be a provider within Titles II or IV. 2021-12-13 23:22:39 @mireillemoret General purpose systems do not fall under Title III even if they reasonably foresee misuse 2021-12-13 23:20:44 @mireillemoret I don’t believe a regime to regulate AI will be successful if it relies on these replaceable (and small pocketed) end-of-supply chain providers somehow shaking up the supply chain further above them. The AIA has no conception of the political economy of AI. 2021-12-13 23:17:16 @mireillemoret It’s like adtech in that way. Big API providers take slices of every query, used for illegal purposes, distancing themselves from direct illegality. Just like Google has always done with web tracking - make small firms at the periphery of the system bear the legal risk for you. 2021-12-13 23:10:30 @mireillemoret For example, systems used to analyse text or images, integrated into broader software pipelines. too expensive and difficult for providers of niche services like high risk AI to train themselves. AIA leaves it up to the market to regulate these key components of high risk AI. 2021-12-13 22:56:16 @mireillemoret Yes, the provider who was using the general purpose AI from eg Google, Amazon, the major companies who don’t make and brand high risk systems themselves. 2021-12-13 21:34:11 @Iwillleavenow I just wanted to know why my email was being spammed https://t.co/kUPskCe5Ln 2021-12-13 21:22:57 @Iwillleavenow i tried this once by making an access request but the org misunderstood and did an organisation wide SAR & 2021-12-13 21:17:44 @Write4Research and if as i hear getting a good clerkship (a route to well paid law job or being a supreme court justice or even US president like BO) is based on being on the law review, students pay schools 100K$/yr to write footnotes in this stupid style to run the entire country. 2021-12-13 21:15:38 @Write4Research Another part you’ll love: US law citation rankings are based on free text search of the exact Bluebook cite string (eg 86 MINN. L. REV. 1219) so in part it is sustained by desire to win at quantification AND the broken way US law school students do professors’ footnotes for free. 2021-12-13 21:10:31 @mireillemoret The analogy I’m making to the AIA isn’t about user-provider, it’s about provider-generalpurposeAIvendor, where the latter isn’t obliged by law to cooperate and help the provider assess its products. AIA hopes market forces will fix this 2021-12-13 19:20:02 @Write4Research Harvard send cease and desist letters from hired gun law firms to anyone who tries to automate a Bluebook style as they believe they have IP rights to scholarly forms of communication https://t.co/Rf8HiQx8WZ (I’m sure @fgbjr can tell more…) https://t.co/KzC8jRDMlZ 2021-12-13 18:38:11 NFTs proponents don’t want serious decentralisation, they want to summon some horrible inescapable gatekeeping DRM hellscape infrastructure where you can’t move files that are otherwise openly accessible unless you have the private key for some crappy digital receipt. i hate it. 2021-12-13 18:22:43 RT @BonaveroIHR: Join the core team on the ERC-funded iManage project led by @JeremiasPrassl researching algorithmic bias and discriminatio… 2021-12-13 14:40:59 The second question is also quite AI Act relevant insofar as it touches upon how much Article 22 pre-empts national law. 2021-12-13 14:40:58 The court points out a lacuna: if you locate the automation downstream, that actor has no workable obligations to provide information on the system because they cannot — they just have the result. This is the same as the AI Act re general purpose systems. (cc @mireillemoret) https://t.co/T0gpLUDYLd 2021-12-13 14:40:57 @RDBinns and I call this the 'locating decisions' problem (it has many variants): there are no easy answers beyond looking at a system more holistically & 2021-12-13 14:40:55 In particular, in the SCHUFA case, the referring court (Wiesbaden Admin Court) struggles with reconciling the idea that the score is just information with the fact it is relied upon by downstream actors. https://t.co/sAy3XPwlWW 2021-12-13 14:40:53 I hadn't quite appreciated how much the October CJEU referral on Article 22 GDPR in C-634/21 SCHUFA Holdings has to grapple w the tough Qs @RDBinns and I asked in our recent IDPL paper, on where in a multi-actor profiling pipeline a 'decision' happens. https://t.co/7TyyRCVOkc https://t.co/cg63n451Dz 2021-12-13 14:10:17 @Kira_UCL I was almost going to tag you in this tweet but I am sure you’re keeping a vague eye on this news story. (: 2021-12-13 13:58:07 Presumably this relates to the UK ‘domestic’ pass being not compliant with the EU gateway format, potentially containing less data revealed to the scanner (so designed for data minimisation?), but I haven’t been keeping track of the exact differences between the two. 2021-12-13 13:57:00 Current guidance also conflicts with the NHS Covid Pass Verifier App terms & 2021-12-13 13:50:11 @christinagiles robert caro wrote that lyndon johnson would do the same 2021-12-13 13:36:41 I would love to be able to control a computer with my voice but all dictation options I am aware of on MacOS are frustrating, unpredictable and unreliable. 2021-12-13 13:34:24 CMA should also look at why Nuance were forced to abandon their Apple MacOS product line for Dragon NaturallySpeaking because Apple had locked down the OS so much that their excellent accessibility solution became unfeasible, leaving only Apple’s rigid and non customisable thing. https://t.co/Rhi0UJKbS0 2021-12-12 19:57:16 @cfiesler wait until they cross borders and go to Oxford where the entry level faculty rank is now confusingly called 'associate professor' without the varyingly named lecturer/assistant professor role below it 2021-12-12 08:04:31 @Write4Research it’s also mandatory to use in US law publications 2021-12-12 08:04:18 @Write4Research American lawyers have a standard (in the Bluebook) for journal abbreviations that is different to all others and somewhat ludicrous, including abbreviating Policy to Pol’y. I suspect emerged because US courts cite law reviews in line in full not in footnotes or at end. https://t.co/lac8BbQ3Fj 2021-12-11 10:51:14 @timsquirrell social machines 2021-12-11 10:50:56 RT @timsquirrell: This reminds me: something less talked about wrt Telegram is how different its mechanisms of networking are than FB/YouTu… 2021-12-11 09:28:55 For the nerds, it concerns sections 165 and 166 of the UK DPA 2018. 2021-12-11 09:28:14 This is a long read I’ve co-written w/ my co-complainant @jimkillock & 2021-12-11 09:05:29 RT @OpenRightsGroup: The court’s response to our challenge to the @ICOnews’s treatment of our #AdTech complaint will shape the future of IC… 2021-12-11 07:44:15 @konsentraet @Carnage4Life to implement it* 2021-12-11 07:42:16 @konsentraet @Carnage4Life DRM requires a computer that is hard coded to object it at hardware or software level by a centralised point of control which is presumably the anathema to decentralisation… 2021-12-10 22:17:28 given we are between commissioners, I wonder who made this call? https://t.co/7BdBHZ24t5 2021-12-10 18:57:55 About as carefully anonymised as most users, so I assume this is judicial shade. 2021-12-10 18:56:44 Who could these carefully anonymised adtech firms be? https://t.co/ua69b6T76N https://t.co/TEGygX0MmR 2021-12-10 18:16:55 @PJLeerssen useful https://t.co/QBYrcVksrF 2021-12-10 18:14:35 RT @Foxglovelegal: Don't forget, Foxglove is growing - this Digital Campaigner position closes *9AM Monday* and we'll be posting another jo… 2021-12-10 16:37:36 RT @protocol: Apple once seemed unbeatable in Washington, but a group of small app developers — and companies like Tile, Spotify and Epic —… 2021-12-10 16:06:26 @lilianedwards @vmantouvalou @marc_mcgeemoore @colmocinneide @N_Lalafaryan @UCLLaws https://t.co/5oqrS8anbn 2021-12-10 16:03:34 @lilianedwards @vmantouvalou @marc_mcgeemoore @colmocinneide @N_Lalafaryan @UCLLaws hah, sadly no, it was cancelled even before this scandal! 2021-12-10 15:57:07 New Commission document summarising its views on its recent, pending and forthcoming initiatives relating to digital technologies and fundamental rights. Seemingly more of a synthesis than an announcement but useful as a navigation aid. https://t.co/wD9qxiuSxE https://t.co/yLgEEXKLCj 2021-12-10 13:06:35 Regulators need to get to grips with this new IAB charade of blurring consent and legitimate interests for tracking that legitimate interests can clearly not support. While they're at it, they might want to look at why cross-device tracking is 'strictly necessary'. https://t.co/AYfGgfxs5X 2021-12-10 12:07:30 @MarijnSax it's the article that keeps on giving (but not to the belastingdienst) 2021-12-10 11:58:01 you may be unsurprised to learn the researchers in question support the view of paying as little tax as possible https://t.co/0jl7bztxaq 2021-12-10 11:56:27 What on earth is going on at University of Amsterdam? Accountancy firms offer to sponsor tax law professorships as long as they are also the interviewers for them, have proposed the candidate, and even pay their salaries directly and contract with them? https://t.co/5RYEaQdfMU 2021-12-10 11:23:19 RT @carmelatroncoso: I just found this post from @UdacityDave and I want to shout loud: "eveyone should read this" https://t.co/HGo2ytW2Uo… 2021-12-10 09:40:11 Specifically open for applicants looking for a chair in Law and Technology… https://t.co/Oc8S1HHF1w 2021-12-09 13:45:19 RT @BantshireUni: STUDENTS: We've published additional guidance to explain the difference between our guidance and government guidance. Mor… 2021-12-09 13:39:42 This is the same ‘singing’ that @trishgreenhalgh et al indicates is one of the highest risk activities across all settings in the BMJ last year https://t.co/rpvrynbMpv https://t.co/qE08zx0Tpj https://t.co/AZL0oKhSca 2021-12-09 11:11:57 @valeriodeste @NicolasSchmitEU Here: https://t.co/gy8h9a4Bt6 2021-12-09 11:09:49 It looks like crowdwork systems eg Amazon Mechanical Turk would be in-scope (at least for workers in the EU). Would be interesting to consider how algorithmic management provisions would be applied in multi-sided markets where computational tasks are provided by other businesses. https://t.co/YVnsvK6WuM 2021-12-09 10:32:28 RT @JeremiasPrassl: Major #gigeconomy news: new #EU rules for platform work published today, incl employment status presumption and rule… 2021-12-09 09:27:29 @NicholasVinocur you forgot the AG opinion in PNR case 2021-12-09 08:06:32 US appellate case on PRISM use concerning the constitutional legality of surveilling communications of people in the US without a warrant by targeting those they are contacting abroad (where warrants and most safeguards go out the window). https://t.co/Cx9jXUtRjD 2021-12-08 20:43:12 @TimCauser which category is this on MyExpenses? 2021-12-08 20:03:09 @tabouchadi also because you’re a nerd: https://t.co/6NFRLUecCw https://t.co/YJleyBhYba 2021-12-08 19:57:35 @tabouchadi problem is that UK has distinguished ones for travel versus ones for domestic use which isn’t the case elsewhere so scanning might hit trouble just as presenting a UK travel one to eg a nightclub might not scan… 2021-12-08 19:56:17 @tabouchadi i believe it is on the agenda to do but would require more infra as unlike DE there is no point in the UK where you present information to transform it into a certificate, it gets drawn directly from your records (and unlike DE has a revocation mechanism for fakes) 2021-12-08 19:55:05 @tabouchadi not yet even if your GP adds it to your records which they can, but DE and CH ones will scan in the UK as UK is now part of the EU gateway. compare to DE where trivially easy to get one to the point of insecurity (I turned my UK ones into DE ones this yr with zero verification) 2021-12-08 19:52:12 RT @valeriodeste: What is really striking is a whole chapter on REGULATING ALGORITHMIC MANAGEMENT. Workers and their representatives will h… 2021-12-08 19:51:26 RT @valeriodeste: +++ BREAKING: The draft Platform Work Directive has made into the press +++ This text seems poised to make a huge differe… 2021-12-08 10:13:38 @Jackstilgoe @hutko (this is the second year it has run) 2021-12-08 10:11:04 @Jackstilgoe @hutko UG, it’s a full year module for third years and this is the first half (am just shifting it away from UCL’s closed reading list platforms so I can share and edit more easily) Other students can take if they have taken some of the cross dept law modules Laws offers in past years 2021-12-08 08:23:54 @hutko here’s my first term syllabus for undergrads with plenty on platform regulation, feel free to plunder https://t.co/10OYqfMLfd 2021-12-07 17:07:02 @alexhern could be very useful for profiling your users for how easily they part with cash for gimmicks 2021-12-07 08:49:11 RT @jessicaelgot: And the evidence on the prime minister’s intervention in the evacuation of Nowzad and its animals from Kabul is... well..… 2021-12-07 06:50:43 The pathologically generalist UK civil service is quite literally leading to death. This is not the way to make and operate in complicated policy areas in the 21st C. https://t.co/hTKshmVxNU https://t.co/e9XXtXQT56 2021-12-06 21:42:15 RT @ubuweb: If you can't download it, it doesn't exist. Don't trust the cloud. 2021-12-06 19:34:07 @PaulbernalUK @karenmccullagh You only have to move there just before the REF census date then can move back. 2021-12-06 19:28:40 Sad to see UEA do so poorly on this latest ranking @PaulbernalUK @karenmccullagh https://t.co/53xFARBoic 2021-12-06 15:07:04 @katebevan maybe a bit niche to commission something long on before you leave but i would love to read it… 2021-12-06 15:03:43 RT @linnetelwin: new lectureship position at Cardiff with the amazing @LinaDencik and co - a permanent and open-ended position https://t.c… 2021-12-06 14:58:52 @katebevan I don't know the reason and I don't think NOW is without fault (far from it), but I also think they're probably entangled in a mix of their own incompetence and total rightsholder DRM BS. 2021-12-06 14:57:03 @katebevan I think Google certified Androids support WideVine L1 which is hardware backed DRM, whereas Chromebooks (for a reason I do not know) do not. There is also often a quality limitation on systems that don't have WideVine L1 support so they can't go higher than 480p. 2021-12-06 14:46:52 @katebevan I am also v keen to hear your followers' takes on the technical side as while i am an associate professor of digital rights it is 'not that kind of digital rights' 2021-12-06 14:44:52 @katebevan and then in turn I would be unsurprised if rightsholders providing to NOW TV have demanded that they only permit protection if hardware based... but that's speculation 2021-12-06 14:43:46 @katebevan tl 2021-12-06 14:41:08 @katebevan i'm sure that's part of the whole shoddy picture. but I still think there's a deeper linux problem relating to things like stopping screen recording approaches to ripping videos. some info here https://t.co/3EHX9vdxX5 2021-12-06 14:38:21 The construct wasn't just set up to de-emphasise consent, it was set-up to move optional data processing into "legitimate interests", which has a i) balancing test and ii) right to object, unlike the "contract" ground. https://t.co/vN5GDAUhVt 2021-12-06 14:06:42 @katebevan this sounds like it comes from aggressive DRM operating system and hardware practices. people warned about impact ls when it demands certain vertical infrastructures when W3C started bending to rightsholders to build in DRM into Web standards 2021-12-06 14:00:26 RT @vmanancourt: In today's POLITICO London Playbook: UK urged to review lobbying rules after ex-Information Commissioner Liz Denham's quic… 2021-12-06 13:42:09 @maxschrems @POLITICOEurope @vmanancourt @DPCIreland @EU_EDPB I thought this was already well-known... or maybe not published. 2021-12-06 13:40:09 !!11 Gov could simply ban firms from submitting the price of temporary offers or promos & 2021-12-06 07:46:10 @stevemarple @PrivacyMatters I believe for example if you ever made a wordpress account with a confirmed email, and uploaded an avatar, it was uploaded using the gravatar service so an individual wordpress instance didn’t host the avatar. 2021-12-06 07:33:03 @PrivacyMatters it’s a very very old service that’s actually pretty neat, about having a shared and syndicated avatar across the web, and it’s likely you uploaded an avatar to a website 15 years ago that created a record in gravatar’s database which was queryable by hashing an email 2021-12-06 07:24:54 @profgeraintrees we don’t usually employ PhD students for their research positions everywhere, and some do bring their own money and are funded by employers etc. but students bring that themselves, unlike here we don’t advertise and facilitate that in an open competition. 2021-12-06 07:23:54 @profgeraintrees but they’re students signed up at our university which we ran the admissions process for and advertised the positions, they are clearly our researchers. they’re only at a third party company as we did not take the money for PhD students directly and give it out as normal stipends 2021-12-06 07:21:56 @johnc1912 @McGlynnClare if you think it is clearly illegal and are willing to raise JR-level funding I really think you’d have more luck taking direct precedent-setting action against one of the sites themselves. 2021-12-06 07:19:57 @johnc1912 @McGlynnClare it’s not just about the AADC, ICO enforcement side is paralysed and unprepared for any complex task. we’ve faced this personally w 3 y/o complaints on online tracking that led the ICO to 2 stakeholder events, 2 reports which highlighted wide illegality but still zero enforcement. 2021-12-06 07:15:36 @profgeraintrees i’m well aware of that but this does not put the legal risk on students. one of the main jobs of a uni in taking commercial funding is to insulate its researchers. 2021-12-06 07:13:47 @profgeraintrees But not, AFAIK, for contracts between students and FB that they are structurally pushed into by the framework contracts UCL has signed. That’s what we need. 2021-12-06 07:12:53 @profgeraintrees Issue not solved if students still made to sign unreviewed NDAs to participate in research but at least their funding would not be at risk if they publish what that FB’s law/policy teams dislike. Theoretical research not immune either if it highlights legal or reputational risk. 2021-12-06 07:09:58 @profgeraintrees I’ve only come across the ‘we will employ you for your PhD rather than give the grant through eg CASE’ approach from FB - is it wider? Grants that stem from contracts between students and UCL don’t expose students to nearly the same legal risk as contracting with FB. 2021-12-06 07:06:33 @johnc1912 @McGlynnClare even if* 2021-12-06 07:06:17 @johnc1912 @McGlynnClare fwiw, ICO enforcement division can’t conceptually deal with more than a data breach even if their policy teams are allowed to speak boldly. I don’t personally think this is the correct legal route to go but even the ICO did I don’t think they could organisationally carry it out. 2021-12-06 07:01:51 @profgeraintrees i have inquired all over and have never got a clear affirmative answer as to whether we have even thought about, or had any mechanism to vet contracts and negotiate on behalf of protecting students from a hugely litigious company. it’s such a risk. 2021-12-06 06:58:13 @profgeraintrees it’s immensely important to protect both students and staff from these contractual clauses, but there is a trend, also at UCL, for unis to agree for FB to fund PhDs through direct employment contracts rather than insulating them by taking funding as grants https://t.co/NaN9mng5LV https://t.co/E9rxdvCiTA 2021-12-05 23:07:02 RT @timnitGebru: “The anti-union documents include “...training materials for staff on how to campaign against unionization among persons t… 2021-12-05 13:58:15 @Orla_Hegarty @klillington @Failte_Ireland would be a really interesting cross over to think about in policy terms! perhaps a good opportunity to link @lexatlasc19 @jeff_a_king and @UCLlaw_env in some forward facing policy work 2021-12-05 13:52:48 @MarijnSax the dutch lower case plus so many dots makes me think more of URLs than qualifications 2021-12-05 13:51:56 @MarijnSax the only legit reason to publicly declare so many titles is to have a good laugh at Germans as they try and say them all 2021-12-05 10:37:32 RT @taylor_owen: According to this @MartinPatriquin @the_logic article the head of policy for Facebook Canada, who sits on the advisory boa… 2021-12-02 10:33:53 @tjmcintyre please regulate that regulation recommender system 2021-12-02 09:44:42 @BeterOpDeFiets tragic https://t.co/z37nP3oAqU 2021-12-02 09:19:59 even within wrongly marketised frame of HE the gov has, the UK uni sector cannot attract talent if jobs are casualised and yearly real terms salary cuts. They will not attract the students that unsustainably subsidise research, and they will go elsewhere. gov needs to see this. 2021-12-02 09:15:30 @math_rachel @jennifercobbe @jatinternet 2021-12-02 09:15:07 RT @math_rachel: On *reviewability* of automated decision making (ADM), rather than *explainability* Reviewability does not necessarily in… 2021-12-02 09:08:59 Strong picket yesterday #UCUStrike at UCL Laws. Strike action continues to Fri. Inequality, pay that shocks colleagues abroad, workload, precarity, damage a key sector and embarrass the UK globally. Demands to not strike next term are realistic and within employers’ abilities. https://t.co/0Vmedjdlmm 2021-12-02 08:48:01 RT @HAYLESBEN: UUK say ppl want precarious contracts in HE. Really? After my phd I spent 7 yrs on fixed term research contracts. “Luckily”… 2021-12-02 08:31:23 Did he even try to obtain a Norwich Pharmacal order? Did he confirm the platforms could not support identifying these individuals? That’s still a step you’d have to do regardless of whether you identified with the platform or not — oblige the platform to hand over the details. https://t.co/5ZXCbJge40 https://t.co/adpX11RL0N 2021-12-02 08:14:11 @nhelberger @NUnl filterkoffie bubbel 2021-12-01 18:21:48 RT @anna_cavazzini: It's official, our Internal Market Committee (IMCO) will work jointly with the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) on t… 2021-12-01 06:52:20 relatedly (and obviously outside of the US), has anyone written about platform liability and responsibility regarding contempt of court? https://t.co/ulrwpiZlEM 2021-11-30 22:57:48 @eMCz @bendrath Boardom 2021-11-30 15:45:35 USS's own modeller for my situation shows a pension cut of 27%. That doesn't look like 10–18% to me, and also does not adequately consider the new inflation cap that has been proposed. https://t.co/HOA2lVEEId 2021-11-30 14:41:14 @lilianedwards Haha if you like it then you should have put a database right on it 2021-11-30 13:27:55 @djleufer the general purpose thing was a late addition that made it more confusing, as that was in new Title V or something 2021-11-30 13:17:36 @djleufer thanks, this is useful info (although they did change some things later on, but I think this was to make definitions consistent 2021-11-30 13:17:10 RT @a_bacci: A stand-out observation in a v useful thread: the Council presidency proposes removing AI created for national security purpos… 2021-11-30 10:40:40 RT @Foxglovelegal: It's the most wonderful time of the year - annual survey time! Seriously though, if you could take a moment to fill this… 2021-11-30 10:33:19 @ckatzenbach @hiig_berlin the version you’ll have on there probably dates back from when skype was p2p… 2021-11-30 10:31:11 @ckatzenbach @hiig_berlin would be surprised if you could get skype working easily on a powerpc… might need to burn a disk and install lubuntu over OSX… 2021-11-30 10:25:32 RT @whiterhino1949: Good to see publication by @CabinetOfficeUK based on @CDEIUK work of Algorithmic Transparency Standard for the Public… 2021-11-30 10:18:44 @peterhense @DoraCrisan and very narrow circumstances and standing, far from a regulatory regime. if required for reasonably priced insurance might be impactful through market forces outside of courtrooms 2021-11-30 09:54:53 @thezedwards lol edge is turning into opera https://t.co/5XuYKZran9 2021-11-30 09:53:09 @DoraCrisan and how do you sue in relation to an ISO standard? 2021-11-30 09:38:44 @DoraCrisan how would you go about enforcing a UNESCO document or ISO standard? 2021-11-30 09:34:14 https://t.co/x6KGh3fLk7 2021-11-30 09:29:20 Note: I deleted a tweet in the middle as I realised I had misread. Likely that classification systems would still fall into ‘biometric systems’. https://t.co/VFQifFmxzm 2021-11-30 08:56:44 Oh, and the council paper is available here: https://t.co/vNmMur6pC1 2021-11-30 08:56:43 That’s all for now… may add more (there are a few other tweaks). For more of the thoughts me and @fborgesius have on the AIA, our paper, Demystifying the Draft EU Artificial Intelligence Act, is out here open access: https://t.co/aawuWFunFq https://t.co/nWKjkUF4P6 2021-11-30 08:56:42 I4. No changes to when a notified body is required to audit high risk system documentation rather than just a provider self assessing (ie when standards exist, never, otherwise, only biometrics). https://t.co/AHxcQGtj9d 2021-11-30 08:56:40 I1. Incredibly, the largely non-sensical (once you scratch the surface) set of obligations in Title IV on deep fakes, biometric categorisation and bots survives… with no changes at all? I’ve included our paper below with our Views on these ill thought through provisions. https://t.co/e643H19wFN 2021-11-30 08:56:38 The Ignored: (or neutral) https://t.co/tSMpUv14bi 2021-11-30 08:56:37 This allows cloud services to determine the underlying way systems work, do dodgy modelling without accountability, be governed only by market forces which they have no problem with, and take a slice of every high risk AI system query without any responsibility! Genius! 2021-11-30 08:56:36 The proposal clearly says that general purpose systems are not high risk. So? The conformity obligations fall on downstream provider who configures them for a purpose… https://t.co/q23DXIsTbF 2021-11-30 08:56:34 B4. A huge removal of a high risk system is to remove systems modelling and searching through giant crime databases. Likely because unlike many Annex III technologies, these are commonly used in MSs… In theory EC could propose its return one day but wouldn’t hold breath. https://t.co/FYEEf1aH8y 2021-11-30 08:56:32 B3. The proposal does little to stop the huge pre-emption of any national rules on use of AI, besides the reduction in scope of the AI definition which reduces the pre-empted scope slightly because not absolutely everything can be claimed to be ‘use of software’. 2021-11-30 08:56:31 B1. While the EU regulating national security *users* would be controversial, the text exempts systems developed solely for national security. NSO-equivalent firms just… fall out of the Act and its requirements, as long as they don’t sell more broadly. Even when selling abroad! https://t.co/CF6VVG8MSy 2021-11-30 08:56:29 The Bad. https://t.co/pOdIH0vwiH 2021-11-30 08:56:27 G4. Some changes to high risk in Annex III to include certain critical infrastructures, insurance premium setting, and to clarify that contractors and their ilk included in law enforcement obligations https://t.co/DiibzETuwZ 2021-11-30 08:56:26 G3. Was unsure whether to add this into ‘good’, but I don’t really mind the changes to the scope of the act, I think ‘modelling’ is still broad and includes complex spreadsheets and things (cc @mireillemoret), w/o including ones simply automating obvious actions. Jury still out. https://t.co/MacpXoLZOR 2021-11-30 08:56:24 G2. Social scoring now also prohibited by private actors, which is a pretty big deal. https://t.co/hJDwaI1RYo 2021-11-30 08:56:23 G1. The manipulation provisions are slightly strengthened by a weakening of intent and a consideration of reasonable likelihood. The recital also has several changes which actually seem like they have read our AIA paper, on sociotechnical systems and accumulated harms… https://t.co/EoI0JALmrO 2021-11-30 08:56:21 The Good: https://t.co/3i93KJrPC1 2021-11-30 08:56:19 The Council presidency compromise text on the draft EU AI Act has some improvements, some big steps back, ignores some huge residual problems and gives a *giant* handout to Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and similar. Thread follows. https://t.co/vAi4aBM18Y 2021-11-30 07:47:36 this is lawtech, and there’s not a blockchain in sight for miles. https://t.co/lXNOIEpPS9 2021-11-29 11:43:27 @markscott82 you could ask @grahamgreenleaf 2021-11-29 08:32:19 https://t.co/IMkL7bFBFt https://t.co/U9oUy3ayEY 2021-11-29 08:28:39 @GossiTheDog @AbirGhattas @sedyst 2021-11-29 08:01:52 @SusanMichie it’s interesting how the valve distinction has never been a visible part of any discussion in the UK, whereas in many other countries they’ve been publicised as ‘selfish masks’ since mid 2020 and even legislated against. 2021-11-29 07:55:15 @renatesamson omg you were right 2021-11-29 07:51:50 @renatesamson i’m really unsure whether this is a rolling substitute filler content or an actual scheduled report someone in a control room has turned on (or my preferred image, the r4 team perched outside NBH around a tethered laptop having VPNed into some beta control panel) 2021-11-29 07:48:13 @stokel that’s a bit harsh! it’s fascinating to see what happens when things fail as it’s when invisible infrastructures become more visible and easy to reason about. 2021-11-29 07:47:08 @renatesamson oh that’s odd, i’m on the app, are you on a DAB device? or even an analogue radio?!? 2021-11-29 07:45:06 @renatesamson @BBCr4today thought for the day, should you (and does jesus want you to) leave when an alarm bell rings or only ‘when someone starts to look a bit concerned’? 2021-11-29 07:44:07 @renatesamson it was really peaceful when silent before they rotated to radio ads 2021-11-28 17:16:50 RT @apps_ltd: We are considering @ICOnews’ report into #Adtech at our Strategic Committee for Important Documents, which reports directly t… 2021-11-28 11:26:40 https://t.co/0mwe1sKmFp 2021-11-28 11:20:31 @shengokai scrivener if you're comfortable with using a wild power tool and finding the bits that are useful to you, but does take a bit of learnin'. 2021-11-28 11:16:39 or else... we'll make another PDF https://t.co/wwq3djKtAm 2021-11-28 07:53:32 @lukOlejnik Brexit has not changed ECHR/Human Rights Act 2021-11-28 07:47:46 @lukOlejnik this isn’t a very new political approach, it has been in English defamation law since 2013, albeit under a further layer of shielding provided by the e-Commerce Directive. https://t.co/kTwvjnMMdx 2021-11-27 17:51:27 @AdamWagner1 should do sweepstakes for the one closest to the time the SI is laid before parliament, i think monday 10:45pm 2021-11-27 17:49:19 @timsquirrell omishambles 2021-11-27 09:44:56 ‘World leading’ regulator (according to the government) relies on good will (easily) to audit the bottleneck applying to a large number of consequential FOI cases across government. Perhaps… the ICO is not a world-leading regulator… https://t.co/g26rQaxsZd https://t.co/PyvaPyRhCX 2021-11-27 09:04:49 every time you mention a buzzword term coined by the WEF, the powers that be automate away the job of a kitten. https://t.co/ZbdQdCOJFf 2021-11-27 09:01:54 @tforcworc there’s also an alleged political reason behind skipping ξ… 2021-11-26 14:07:59 @PaulNemitz most cited by other (US primarily)law journals, interesting metric for an interdisciplinary field… 2021-11-26 14:03:38 @LaurieAnneB merci! i was looking at dutch language press liveblogs but it did not have these details (at least not on VRT yet) 2021-11-26 13:57:35 @mireillemoret @bodobalazs i registered but no link yet… so maybe it is too late unless i sneak in digitally (a both a little easier and a little harder than sneaking in to a uni you work at for an event you did not sign up for) 2021-11-26 13:56:25 @LaurieAnneB yup, am aware, just missing information (were they quarantining? i believe they were unvaccinated. when was the test taken? was it caught in a test before leaving or not? was it a transit flight or from community transmission in egypt?) 2021-11-26 13:49:34 @bodobalazs @mireillemoret it’s too late? or it’s not? 2021-11-26 13:47:13 @tforcworc while jury still out on impact highlights a very signficant time lag from detection to potential action, even if this ends up only being a drill. 2021-11-26 13:39:48 If this situation is as the tweet indicates then it looks like pretty bad news for variant containment strategies. https://t.co/Pl0VOex7Fm 2021-11-26 10:05:24 @markscott82 @LancieriFilippo @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan for big tech that know that their operations have significant legal risk, inaction is the desired regulatory outcome vis a vis citizens, as a decision in their favour is vanishingly unlikely. scoreboard isn’t wins and losses of pending cases, it’s the fact they are all pending. 2021-11-26 10:01:02 @markscott82 @LancieriFilippo @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan administrative rules on time limits on regulators handling of complaints, oversight mechanisms… business friendly is often about structural FUD more than structural bias. 2021-11-26 09:59:40 @markscott82 @LancieriFilippo @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan structural bias isn’t about an organisation’s tendency, it’s about the structures in and around that organisation, ease of access to courts, certainty of procedures, labour market, availability of cost control orders… 2021-11-26 09:57:36 @GerardARudden @NicholasVinocur @markscott82 @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan hah, all is not the right word, I apologise :). 2021-11-26 09:52:06 @markscott82 @NicholasVinocur @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan and I don’t disagree re ICO. But UK privacy law and counsel is so much bigger so that effect isn’t really likely to be important. 2021-11-26 09:50:41 @markscott82 @NicholasVinocur @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan it’s not always jumping in-house - as mentioned it has been indicated to me (as a non Irish legal world expert) it’s worth zooming in on the law firms that provide this expertise and support the imbalances. 2021-11-26 09:46:28 @markscott82 @NicholasVinocur @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan for all i know dealing w explicit complaints in the DPC re multinationals (of which there are few, listed in the annual report), this isn’t careful pondering & 2021-11-26 09:41:36 @NicholasVinocur @markscott82 @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan (but that again is a small country issue and relatively small sector issue) 2021-11-26 09:40:53 @NicholasVinocur @markscott82 @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan also though note the door out of high level DPC to big irish tech… doesn’t hurt to be known not to rock the boat if you’d like a sweet exit. 2021-11-26 09:39:26 @NicholasVinocur @markscott82 @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan it’s also a small country where all good lawyers are drawn to big tech clients and big tech money who likely try and conflict them so they can’t take on NGOs or DPC. I suspect that big tech have presented many law firms with the offer of business if they refuse certain others. 2021-11-26 09:36:46 @markscott82 @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan Note that its strategies are empirically flawed — has been more successfully challenged by complainants than procedurally by big tech (Schrems, Nowak, etc). 2021-11-26 09:34:40 @markscott82 @MarkkuPatynen @SamuelStolton @clothildegouj @NOYBeu @johnnyryan Few think DPC actually corrupt. Has institutionally failed due to the legal strategy of big tech and its own failed response to that strategy. DPC has become so bullied by controllers who threaten to appeal everything procedurally it has become too risk averse to enforce the law. 2021-11-26 08:38:10 @RDBinns @1Br0wn it’s all data movement and transfer, not the use of data in training and querying local models. a promise within privacy sandbox not to explicitly hoover up data from chrome? was that even ever part of the plan? 2021-11-26 08:22:51 @RDBinns @1Br0wn even to construct cohorts? or directly? 2021-11-26 08:19:11 @1Br0wn do you understand what that last sentence means? I don’t. 2021-11-25 16:38:18 @MissIG_Geek i worry what would have become of you rowenna without the representation we see today. perhaps you would be working in adtech. 2021-11-25 16:37:34 @MissIG_Geek i think he's missing the big picture here, while men have been driven to illegality, at least crime by women has vastly reduced. the times when you could not safely and without fear take a dalmation out on the street are coming to an end. 2021-11-25 12:09:59 @moltke is this a stag do 2021-11-25 11:57:44 RT @mathver: The European Commission proposed its proposal for a regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising toda… 2021-11-25 08:30:32 @AndrewDMurray @neil_neilzone on a related note, such schemes often include a blacklist which is shared between orgs with unclear legal basis and which there is little recourse against, and where the right of access is typically refused. have been approached by many a journo over the years looking into this. 2021-11-25 08:20:55 @why0hy as it’s belgium company car tax handout land, only a little less clogged i imagine… 2021-11-25 08:08:03 please both furnish us with some stats on how many comms offences/hate speech prosecutions actually fail because of lack of identifiability, in a world where social media rakes in the dosh w/ tracking & or is this just a ‘nudge’ requiring a dangerous infrastructure? https://t.co/uSLtmN7qGC 2021-11-25 07:57:18 @tnhh https://t.co/Lzl3Jy6ays 2021-11-25 00:30:44 @clancynewyork they do indeed read twitter and have pseudonymous accounts, as various of their executives often remind me by alluding to things i have tweeted when i meet them. (hi apple) 2021-11-25 00:23:57 Apple also looking to get some of their consumer and NGO shine back (à la ‘Apple v FBI’) by shouting about this case from the rooftops after being surprised by being reputationally burned by their underdeveloped client side scanning infrastructure proposal. https://t.co/0lIBScudZv 2021-11-24 23:01:16 @RonMorrison_ @t_streinz ian hacking, oscar gandy jr, and martha poon are all good places to jump off from 2021-11-24 22:49:58 @in2scienceUK @profgeraintrees @uclnews @LeadingRoutes @UPSIGN_Network @DavidBogle5 @WCHN_UCL @SashaRoseneil @rebecca_mck @Cambridge_Uni this looks like a great scheme, although i think the definition of ‘all disciplines’ might need some refining… 2021-11-24 22:30:52 @jimrobottom @David__Foster @guardian hardly justified given raab after all wrote ‘the’ book on the echr, or something. 2021-11-24 19:18:32 RT @adefty: The Intelligence & 2021-11-24 08:53:46 tfw you see a new genre of consent dark pattern despite plenty of screen space https://t.co/uPB7flAILC 2021-11-24 07:57:37 Presumably with the powers in the Market Surveillance Regulation in combination with the Toy Directive. The same regulatory powers underpin the draft AI Act (although with regulators staffed by 1-25 people, according to the EC’s plans…) https://t.co/h7ujzwvVTs https://t.co/vS7TWR1kBK 2021-11-23 15:03:48 @colmocinneide we won't truly be free until we have guns 2021-11-23 14:39:56 @hroyAvocat @maxschrems @johnnyryan hah, no need to NDA as we don't plan to disclose anything 2021-11-23 11:36:10 @junszhao @oxfordccai @OxfordHCC (but also no pressure, feel free to keep it quiet until you want to make a splash :) ) 2021-11-23 11:35:45 @junszhao @oxfordccai @OxfordHCC hah, while you might want to not publish it until officially accepted, there's no rule about stating the topic of your accepted research. CHI explicitly allows even publishing a preprint on arXiv or similar before review https://t.co/EMTju6JMGw :) 2021-11-23 11:28:14 That's not to say I support Edward Elgar's restrictive green open access policy! 2021-11-23 11:27:21 How does SSRN (owner: Elsevier) get away w/ being constantly classified as a not-for-profit subject repository by publishers like Edward Elgar when they specifically highlight Research Gate or Academia-edu as 'commercial'? SSRN is a for-profit institution. https://t.co/XamAnugFyb https://t.co/nO52r4n1VL 2021-11-23 09:52:25 @MarijnSax new meanings to slashing tyres 2021-11-23 09:51:13 @ProfWoodward @matthew_d_green see also https://t.co/ZCiEHLp9hp @shubhamjain0594 et al 2021-11-23 09:49:18 RT @Senficon: https://t.co/95r4qnX3nA https://t.co/2MRLuuP8Nq 2021-11-23 09:04:08 @junszhao @oxfordccai @OxfordHCC what’s it about though jun!! 2021-11-23 08:58:14 RT @maxschrems: Seems @JohnnyRyan was met with similar demands by the @DPCIreland im favor of Google -- in this case even requiring to keep… 2021-11-23 08:51:25 RT @UGambini: @zoobab @EP_SingleMarket Yes Interoperability for ancillary services both hardware & as well as for messaging servic… 2021-11-23 08:49:30 @LinaDencik it also seems to (as i think you indicate) reveal a certain pathology in the organisational and ministerial mind that thought this up… 2021-11-23 08:47:52 @LinaDencik if it had a job offer they’d just be able to get a standard visa, i think the ‘special draw’ of this is that a big prize winner could apply without a sponsor. but under what situations would that even happen? they should call it the Wandering Sage Global Excellence Visa 2021-11-23 08:42:21 @LinaDencik the idea people with nobel prizes would just fancy to move to the uk without a job offer because they love it 2021-11-23 08:33:42 older thread with more info https://t.co/8YtzxEAtwx 2021-11-23 08:29:51 These complaints have been active for over 3 years. Both are listed in the DPC’s own annual report every year. https://t.co/ETITQeuwDk 2021-11-23 08:26:17 Along w/ @maxschrems (on data transfers) & 2021-11-22 13:30:50 @binocularity on regulating recommender systems, EU and US definitions in proposed laws are remarkably similar. US AI regulation more nascent and being led by the White House Office for Science and Technology. There is no definition of algorithm in proposed US bill with it in the name. 2021-11-22 12:09:56 @lilianedwards possibly! I didn’t go there as not at all comfortable with implications in that jurisdiction compared to eu, uk, us 2021-11-22 08:56:16 Today in their LLB Internet Law & 2021-11-22 08:00:27 RT @lexatlasc19: The #LAC19 network has now published its #legal, #constitutional and #ethical principles for mandatory vaccination require… 2021-11-21 22:04:22 @AlecMuffett I don't disagree PETs are useful regulators. The tweet quoted would mean giving up on regulating unless there is a clear access point or (willing/coercible) gatekeeper for user-side policy enforcement. Plus unless illegal, displacement would follow (see SDKs, in-browser tracking) 2021-11-21 09:23:32 good luck mandating technical solutions for ‘invulnerability’ from facial recognition and other biometrics https://t.co/PiCQKbMk1d 2021-11-20 11:58:55 @alexhern i think so, i noticed it last week. iirc you can’t choose to be an academic or a professor, you can only choose to be a college or university… 2021-11-19 17:12:22 @smithsam @lilianedwards yup, so only matters if your designated legislative proxy ends up pushing your idea or not. 2021-11-19 17:02:35 @smithsam @lilianedwards in the same stage, yes it does matter. you can’t table an amendment to have another go or overturn an amendment that went the other way within the same stage eg reading, committee. 2021-11-17 17:18:25 @JFLenhard :( 2021-11-17 17:17:37 RT @NoraNiLoideain: Less than 24hours to go! Thrilled to be chairing tomorrow’s Keynote Panel and can’t wait for the 2021 Annual Lecture b… 2021-11-17 14:18:39 RT @jeff_a_king: Brilliant LAC19 blog by Prof Dr. Karl Stoeger (Vienna) on Austria's lockdown of the unvaccinated and potential legal compl… 2021-11-17 12:41:04 RT @AniceeVE: I so approve of @CranfieldUni teaching booths https://t.co/5icSOR1DVU 2021-11-17 10:45:28 @NickRevell @faisalislam @AmericanExpress the EU regulation doesn’t apply to Amex when it doesn’t operate as an intermediary between banks and retailers, so it’s uncapped and reliant on the desire of Amazon to take Amex and swallow the fee. 2021-11-17 10:44:04 @mcelhearn @faisalislam it’s more complicated than that. IIRC in CJEU jurisprudence branded Amex cards (eg BA, nectar etc) get capped but Amex in its fully vertically integrated format (where retailers can choose to take it or not and this doesn’t affect ability to interface with banks) is not capped 2021-11-17 08:59:11 @technollama that is new information to me, as i have been watching from distant sidelines. thanks! 2021-11-17 08:50:50 @technollama however it probably is worth noting that unless some pretty wild financial vehicle is made, the artist doesn’t gain so much from a resale… so not like patreon unless you argue that the original value reflects its future sale potential… 2021-11-17 08:49:22 @technollama it’s definitely the most obviously solid reason and if people feel the same attachment to a cryptographic hash as they do to a signed book then sure, knock yourself out. patreon meeets ‘pictures or it didn’t happen’. 2021-11-17 08:45:19 @technollama i can’t quite place the balance of NFTs’ value between baseless hyping by speculators, misunderstandings of intellectual property, and modern digital artist patronage. 2021-11-16 15:48:43 @Iwillleavenow thanks, sent! 2021-11-16 13:15:21 @AnnemarieBridy @technollama i think i died a little when i learned reference managers and those doing open source automation of it had to call it the ‘indigo book’ to stop the harvard cease and desist letters… 2021-11-16 13:03:02 All the systems are designed to manage and sort populations to move risky people to different places than non risky people through profiling. Conceptually mapping them can help discuss their legitimacy and how these infrastructures can change purpose over time. 2021-11-16 13:03:01 Conceptually contact tracing technologies often sort individuals at the boundary between home & 2021-11-16 12:37:08 @AnnemarieBridy @technollama also interesting as it's v hard to auto parse references from footnoted PDFs (G Scholar is comparatively bad at footnoted articles) so gotta get the exact cite after the title right in a single monoculture style to be text searched else no quantification 4 U. Root of a lot... 2021-11-16 12:32:28 Prof Elen Stokes' ace @UCLlaw_env Annual Lecture on Ministries for the Future in Environmental Law is now online, digging into the Welsh experience w/ the Future Generations Commissioner & 2021-11-16 12:11:32 RT @petros_ter: Our evidence w/ @mikarv on the @LordsCommsCom ‘Digital Regulation’ inquiry and, in particular, the proposal for a Digital A… 2021-11-16 09:00:29 @1Br0wn it uses the term paradox extremely loosely from my relatively quick read. not sure what it finds are reliable nor paradoxes 2021-11-16 08:58:27 @1Br0wn i have difficulty trusting a study to correctly report multi homing when the study cannot explain why its respondents tend to report using 5 search engines. clearly lacking a sorely needed qualitative dimension. 2021-11-15 19:12:40 @ruskin147 A powerful illustration of the limited power of close family faculty members against the academic administrative Machine. 2021-11-15 13:09:01 Don’t miss this opportunity to be a kickass data rights and digital power solicitor with an absolute dream team of colleagues. Downside is that you might get me as a client. https://t.co/j4QndU16OE 2021-11-15 09:12:16 Really great, lengthy and well-paid postdoc opportunity with @ProfCCostello at Hertie in Berlin for a law & 2021-11-15 08:56:31 @PrivacyMatters @tforcworc @1Br0wn the report claims the doc was altered iirc. 2021-11-15 08:39:39 RT @martinwolf_: Martin Wolf: UK university pensions suffer from misplaced prudence https://t.co/78CdgsXRCU 2021-11-14 13:31:51 RT @GeorgeGreenwood: A large Covid-19 testing provider is being investigated by the UK’s data privacy watchdog over its plans to sell swabs… 2021-11-14 12:38:46 @restofworld @abolgaresc you should try and get a pay rise… 2021-11-13 11:02:33 RT @1Br0wn: Register now! Alternative recommender systems in the #DigitalServicesAct: How to protect free expression, create competition… 2021-11-13 09:57:23 RT @JanetGunter: The most amazing funded PhD opportunity with @nicolasnova in Geneva - ethnographic research of reuse/modding/hacking dis… 2021-11-11 06:49:43 @davidakaye @MarietjeSchaake they’re her trade secrets now… 2021-11-10 19:11:42 @clancynewyork @rosafurneaux @TfL allegedly (I have thought this too when on board) this is actually to aid the existing ventilation. In my experience TFL often do their technical homework but it’d be interesting to see their decision process here. https://t.co/UkR9Nzuo1j 2021-11-10 16:15:18 @gwbstr I’m not so sure. The result of Apple’s many restrictions are limits on the kind of ways you can use your device. The causal link btw airbags & 2021-11-10 14:49:19 sure, you can always have better privacy and security if you exert more and more and more control over your users. the question is, where does that stop — and who stops you, Apple? 2021-11-10 14:47:06 “Cook said sideloading apps on iOS is comparable to an automaker selling a vehicle without safety features like airbags or seatbelts.” not really Tim, it’s like an automaker selling a car able to drive in any direction, on any road or with any passenger… … like they are https://t.co/3e24z5AwGX 2021-11-10 14:41:12 @robinberjon one of the most interesting things about the safari workaround is that the ICO afaik did nothing 2021-11-10 14:08:20 @robinberjon doesn’t mean it wasn’t illegal or not able to be subjected to regulatory fines 2021-11-10 10:50:28 One win and one loss for Google today it seems. https://t.co/59A1cCM2Hw 2021-11-10 08:24:22 this great story from @mattburgess1 shows that Sweden hasn’t really moved on from being the country that criminally prosecuted Bodil Lindqvist under data protection law for operating a parish website. https://t.co/4z3o4iZLzM 2021-11-09 21:50:00 thredd https://t.co/okZwMHHfGd 2021-11-09 21:48:43 RT @sedyst: I admire @FrancesHaugen's guts & 2021-11-09 21:48:27 RT @BeterOpDeFiets: Haugen seems to want Facebook to be gently coaxed into being the benevolent monopoly it wants to be deep down. She dism… 2021-11-09 21:19:15 Imagined limited certification of static, one-off ‘immunity’ is giving way to a dynamic infrastructure for proof-of-whatever, enabling profiling on interventions (eg vax), characteristics (age, vulnerability), context (who scans?), diagnostics… https://t.co/NeSG0xGuA1 https://t.co/Hsr1dSruYh https://t.co/G3qffCNTsR 2021-11-09 19:13:23 Incredible that @EU_Justice thought they could fix the image problem of rapid product safety alert system RAPEX by rebranding it to ‘Safetygate’. Now it sounds less like a system for sexual abuse informatics but instead like a continent-wide product fault scandal. https://t.co/xip2dGqrHM 2021-11-09 16:15:34 @fborgesius @neilmrichards and full workshop day for me, but i hope it goes great! plus I just came back about an hour ago from guest teaching that paper in physical atom italy, albeit venice not milan, can’t have too much of a good thing… 2021-11-09 16:01:05 Does someone have link to the statutory framework around this LeaveHomeSafe? Seems to work in a relatively decentralised QR code manner in the England Wales and the German CovidWarnApp QR feature. Possibly NZ code base and poss this way to make compatible with GAEN policies. https://t.co/Bo76YRu31T 2021-11-09 14:55:43 Happening 5pm UK/6PM CET today, register here https://t.co/qyDqeEGfwr https://t.co/OBpILflxKr 2021-11-09 12:30:40 On perfectly normal island, a Gordon’s Wine Bar spin off company widely deploys facial recognition off the back of deeply suspect legal advice that any private stores can use facial recognition without an authorising statute by claiming it constitutes substantial public interest. https://t.co/yBdddmThjK 2021-11-09 10:11:38 RT @arcapde: We are hiring! @beuc is looking for a legal officer to join our legal team and strengthen our work on consumer law enforcement… 2021-11-09 09:34:55 As the UK moves to dismantle digital rights in part because some neighbouring countries have them, this needs someone really stellar bringing litigation knowledge, please spread the word! https://t.co/53D2liVrzf 2021-11-09 09:32:27 RT @OpenRightsGroup: Head of Policy & 7% pension contribution Generous training & 25 days paid ann… 2021-11-09 09:31:47 RT @hayleyjhooper: Job at @BonaveroIHR Fund for Global Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Oxford https://t.co/oRdWhoqHFy 2021-11-09 07:54:48 @JeremiasPrassl @DrVenca @RDBinns And the more practical point is that 114 harmonisation allows firms to take potshots at laws arguing they are within AIA scope which MS won’t have anticipated are even pre empted and therefore won’t have notified, gathered evidence for, etc etc. 2021-11-08 22:12:24 @aj_boston @sckottie what’s the copyright side of this? people then *have* to sign over copyright to elsevier in order to publish there? 2021-11-07 13:26:40 Anyone know where I can get hold of this Ghanaian decision of the Accra High Court, striking down a Covid-inspired telecoms data gathering executive instrument (EI 63)? Usual sources failing and GhaLII doesn’t seem to have High Court rulings in yet. https://t.co/SaZVqWK3fs 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 19:50:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 18:59:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-02 09:22:54 RT @DavidErdos: #dataprotection requires data behemoths like Google being robustly & 2021-11-01 22:03:00 or four years… https://t.co/PycAwpSCV5 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-10-15 09:08:56 @mer__edith @jathansadowski classic playbook highlighted by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway in their 2010 book Merchants of Doubt https://t.co/R61po0PRPB 2021-10-15 08:18:35 RT @rossjanderson: If you build it, they will come: a detailed analysis of the risks of client-side scanning, which the intelligence agenci… 2021-10-15 08:17:37 RT @SteveBellovin: A new white paper on the risks of client-side scanning, by Hal Abelson, @rossjanderson, Josh Benaloh, @mattblaze, @jonca… 2021-10-15 08:07:26 @icl_prof @Warwick_Law ffp3 power! 2021-10-15 08:06:27 "Differences between Apple & 2021-10-14 22:22:42 @clancynewyork @ruthstarkman @mmitchell_ai @aclanthology @jakusg +1 2021-10-14 22:22:18 @clancynewyork @ruthstarkman @mmitchell_ai @aclanthology @jakusg I agree. I’m just worried about its fragility in a context of neglect and underinvestment. It is certainly the leader in parsing PDFs, looking across websites, finding mirror links. 2021-10-14 22:20:47 @ruthstarkman @mmitchell_ai @aclanthology @jakusg I meant that they have access to the full text to eg parse references even if they don’t grant readers that same access. 2021-10-14 17:06:24 @SlippersRobert @UCLLaws how can we go on?! 2021-10-14 16:51:49 @ruthstarkman @mmitchell_ai @aclanthology not sure. What I haven’t seen is the infrastructural details of GScholar. in particular, G appears to have unpaywalled access to everything, and runs it through a probably very messy PDF parser to pull out refs, which a replacement service would struggle with. cc @jakusg 2021-10-14 15:52:04 @mmitchell_ai @aclanthology GScholar seems like a neglected, underinvested and unloved product that occasionally twitches to life in updates, yet universities don’t step up combine forces and provide a public interest alternative infrastructure for what is one of their core businesses. 2021-10-14 15:49:19 @Elinor_Carmi @jen_m_mcarthur @EmiliaSmeds I believe the ace @elliecosgrave and the org she now works for may have some fascinating projects on lighting too… 2021-10-14 15:47:05 @k_irion would also be nice if we got the money that covered our costs of delivering our undergraduate education from the government. across UCL we don’t even get it from the fees so cross subsidising is the norm… 2021-10-14 15:36:40 @Elinor_Carmi night tube already underprovides for nighttime workers and exercerbates nightttime transport inequities, v good study by @jen_m_mcarthur @EmiliaSmeds and Enora Robin https://t.co/48wPz93GxX 2021-10-14 15:08:31 @StKruno @UCLLaws allegedly it existed but has already been fully utilised for this week 2021-10-14 14:49:50 @blakereid five pages in giant font! ours is 150 pages in tiny font :(. merciful indeed. 2021-10-14 14:48:08 RT @linnetelwin: this is a big deal for several reasons. what does it mean that country after country is creating first ID systems, then th… 2021-10-14 14:27:58 @alixtrot @ginasue impressive ratio though https://t.co/3KZDza7nFn 2021-10-14 14:25:50 @alixtrot @ginasue thankfully on digital issues we have a sensible and principled opposition par– oh, wait https://t.co/2U1IAbmEZS 2021-10-14 14:20:15 (who said we are milking international fees?!) 2021-10-14 14:19:05 @ginasue @alixtrot in many EU countries though, Gina’s statement v right, CCTV has to be public as they haven’t made a clear national basis for private entities to ‘fight crime’ too 2021-10-14 14:18:06 @ginasue @alixtrot judgment bit more nuanced than a ban, focusses on breaches re transparency in situation of 2 angry neighbours rather than legality of private (incl domestic) CCTV, typically justified under ‘crime prevention’ lawful basis. 2021-10-14 14:12:37 no gold top unpasteurised though 2021-10-14 14:11:14 The only staff room milk politics @UCLLaws is (thankfully) an ideological one about which one you choose. https://t.co/EBdvi5N1ZP 2021-10-14 13:05:18 @oballinger @CASAUCL congratulations! finding the ID card building was the final test 2021-10-14 07:23:38 @psychicyogamat is there a phrase for this? moral… completism? 2021-10-14 07:20:42 @psychicyogamat i think the correct response to them is to find another author they didn’t realise refused israeli-based publishing house translation rights, who they read and enjoyed, and point out that means they aren’t allowed to have views on Rooney 2021-10-14 07:18:13 @piratetomski @BigBrotherWatch @DavidDavisMP @SpeechUnion he literally took a legal case which changed all of european law to stop, amongst other things, the chilling effects of data retention of mobile phone and similar data, alongside tom watson. 2021-10-14 07:15:26 Even before the Online Safety Bill. This is not a vaccine sceptic. Does Google believe that because some legislators in the US believe vaccines are ineffective or dangerous, all countries must have some similar legislators? https://t.co/YhhTP1tSBS 2021-10-14 07:06:47 General monitoring & 2021-10-13 17:53:32 @daphnehk and https://t.co/jdTvKCJ88v 2021-10-13 17:52:33 @daphnehk #bobek https://t.co/pSjExBNjv6 2021-10-13 09:05:25 @TheSimonEvans not disagreeing that it would be great if ideas could be more lucidly debated, less knee-jerk overreaction. it would be nice if the problem was uni management: could be localised, diagnosed, dealt with. but IMO it isn’t, much broader. simplifying perpetuates politics of villains 2021-10-13 09:01:29 @TheSimonEvans A model that imagines student’s courses translating rapidly (within 1st years? 1 yr masters?) into views in unions doesn’t seem to fly IMO in practical terms. It’s more generational, senses of belonging to a movement, justice, rooted in broader societal disenfranchisement. 2021-10-13 08:57:34 @TheSimonEvans You implied that university org choices are a source of this problem, but I think that vastly overstates their current role, as well as the efficacy of any potential culture-shaping tools, in the views and actions of student movements. 2021-10-13 08:34:15 @DaveMichels_ @neil_neilzone @TheRealRevK @rsmck @NexusUKOrg will share it again when i add the other 3/4 of the course to this site 2021-10-13 08:33:18 @TheSimonEvans curious, what actions should they have taken to make sure it did not get ‘this far’? 2021-10-13 08:25:37 @neil_neilzone @TheRealRevK @rsmck @NexusUKOrg tutorial 1 (T1) here (i’ll publicise the syllabus more for broader learning when it’s a bit more complete, am migrating it from UCL proprietary platform i’ve lost patience with) https://t.co/10OYqfMLfd 2021-10-13 08:23:14 @neil_neilzone @TheRealRevK @rsmck @NexusUKOrg this was (in slightly less daunting terms for them) the question for our third year undergraduate internet law students in their tutorials on DoH, code and law this week. 2021-10-13 07:52:29 RT @Jackstilgoe: New paper! The politics of scaling. https://t.co/1B4K83SGfq. I was delighted that @smpfotenhauer and co agreed to cite the… 2021-10-13 07:46:44 RT @DavidHenigUK: As promised, worth taking some time over a remarkable speech, one that demonstrates the UK government seeing the world qu… 2021-10-12 15:59:54 @wendyg @m_c_elish yep! if i was writing this in a footnoted essay and not a tiny tweet would have cited @m_c_elish’s powerful work as providing a very useful metaphor. 2021-10-12 15:58:41 @sergey_nog @IPFS Who will integrate it in our tools 2021-10-12 15:57:42 @sergey_nog @IPFS IMO it’s crucial to consider likely cryptosystems, not zoom in too much on primitives. The economic driver to sell cloud is staggering. Primitives can provide no guarantees of in whose interests cryptosystems are configured, and political economy matters. https://t.co/Gv2Vxq2mlD 2021-10-12 13:10:51 RT @TheABB: @mikarv They’ve required ‘consent’ for a long time for their additional services. I believe they may also exceed processor role… 2021-10-12 10:55:05 RT @VTeagueAus: This article should be titled "DPC IT backups holding QR code check-in data indefinitely" because it specifically includes… 2021-10-12 10:51:51 Upon writing, @ThreeUKSupport now state 'Here are our terms, where you will not find any of the legally required information on traffic shaping, advertised or expected speeds, or similar. You can leave if you like!'. Perhaps the kind of surrealism @Ofcom should be interested in. https://t.co/7dxwqgkX3B https://t.co/VhN8nOsA7A 2021-10-12 10:00:04 @PJLeerssen it’s a whole tweet genre https://t.co/C02MT50RlS 2021-10-12 09:55:46 @PJLeerssen i hope you cut it up into portable chunks to save your poor academic back https://t.co/6XQo8IN8tm 2021-10-12 09:51:48 @TORCHOxford @EthicsInAI @jamalgreene Get your bingo card out for unevidenced assertions that ‘anonymous accounts are the source of abuse’. I guess Facebook, with its real name policy, is a sunny and abuse free utopia! 2021-10-12 09:47:44 It’s not just Americans that need a Bill of Rights against the misuse of AI by the United States with regard to individuals and communities around the world under the wide reaching powers of the NSA and the FISA Court. But extremely unlikely this will even get a report mention. https://t.co/vBpwucGJxg 2021-10-12 09:41:51 @TheRealRevK @Apple you can in a long winded way, click on the screenshot thumbnail, press share icon in top right, copy, then close that menu and press done and delete. could be much easier… 2021-10-12 08:25:29 But will it solve or worsen centralisation problems? FHE’s primary use case is ‘more cloud, all the time’. Confidentiality but what about availability — all your services can be gatekept and switched off by an external party. https://t.co/yqPldJYDRv 2021-10-12 08:19:30 at the same time, this is also true: https://t.co/XveH295KpC 2021-10-12 08:07:00 @technollama @Kirst3nF @bendrath yes, thanks to the unexpected and rapid interaction between intergalactic copyleft licensing and network effects in the 2300s 2021-10-12 07:59:52 @Kirst3nF @bendrath (in other words, a world where enterprise software works for its users, har har) 2021-10-12 07:59:23 @Kirst3nF @bendrath there’s also an underlying optimistic assumption that across the universe, every species perfects computer interface design so perfect it can be picked up by (perhaps trained) other species almost instantly. 2021-10-12 07:53:49 Is this the first legislator and ex-MP to state that the Online Safety Bill should be careful of relying on giant rich platforms to be there for evermore in order to regulate Internet content? Of making them indispensable? One is better than none I guess… https://t.co/CrtW7gkMXq https://t.co/uS1JFQWaYI 2021-10-12 07:45:42 This is not a company caring about privacy or protecting children, or the #AADC, it’s a company strongarming schools and possibly even forcing liability onto them to get what they want in a broader tracking ecosystem. 2021-10-12 07:40:45 Alternative: G obey the law, rely on granular refusable consent for unnecessary profiling & 2021-10-12 07:35:10 Google were effectively required in law to stop invasive and unnecessary tracking/profiling, but high quality consent is there as a loophole. Instead of accepting a ban and making realistic changes, Google forces consent. But consent doesn’t work for U 13s, so end up here. https://t.co/TWHPEMk9Gn 2021-10-12 06:59:35 This is a great article posing social rights around technologies and their infrastructures as an alternative frame to more individualised fundamental rights. It gives policymakers a (somewhat) familiar footing to take these questions further. https://t.co/LBTWu0O7Di 2021-10-11 22:31:14 RT @WolfieChristl: Highly relevant study on how 24,000 out of 570k identified free Android and iOS apps transmit personal data to third-par… 2021-10-11 22:20:20 @vendorprisey @1Br0wn @lilianedwards @mireillemoret @SandraWachter5 i don’t know anyone working on that but would like to know 2021-10-10 15:22:00 @TimCauser that’s one for @israblack’s seminar… 2021-10-10 11:07:20 @ThreeUK @Ofcom @ChrisTMarsden New advice: "Look at the privacy policy". 2021-10-10 10:57:58 new 5G contract is going well, literally reading UK legal reqs on published transparency re traffic management/net neutrality over phone, only for @ThreeUK to say 'we do not publish them'. phone uploads about 5x faster when VPN'd! @Ofcom @ChrisTMarsden https://t.co/NFSomhRXC8 2021-10-10 08:45:40 @katebevan pretty sure Google Blitz was a failed social network at some point 2021-10-10 08:35:47 @DisabilityStor1 @histoftech imo there is enough bad technology without people making more up. twitter is becoming a hazardous place to RT things on, particularly given the platform’s role in academic consumption of these ‘case studies’. 2021-10-10 08:33:40 @DisabilityStor1 @histoftech horrifying, but original thread with these photos in seems to conclude it was a troll app designed to trigger angry publicity such as this, rather than a real service. this is becoming a whole new genre (eg ‘Spinner’ adtech to convince targeted women to have more sex w husbands) https://t.co/DP4TFVUqYJ 2021-10-10 08:25:58 RT @GeorgePeretzQC: The current government’s problem is that its new objection of dogma/principle to the role of the CJEU cannot plausibly… 2021-10-09 15:58:50 This deeply reported story (link: https://t.co/S4V7R6SijR) is nauseatingly horrifying and unjust. https://t.co/ioUU1BFZbh 2021-10-09 12:46:26 The inevitability of centralised "app stores" as only way get software is increasingly reified by law. Take Australia's Online Safety Act 2021. The def of "app distribution service" might haved turned for its breadth heads 10 years ago — what about the web, and executable files?! https://t.co/7ro44os3a7 2021-10-09 10:09:34 Keeling schedule begone https://t.co/6k5obXaxX0 2021-10-09 09:19:51 @PW507 @katebevan once you call this number there is no safe way to hang up without triggering a police visit to you during your nighttime journey? in this climate? is that it? the more you think about it the more absurd the whole thing is. 2021-10-09 09:17:21 @katebevan I think app wouldn’t even work by the time they looked into how apps and location apis worked, this would be a phone number at best. I would bet the app statement was added by some nitwit who just piped up and said ‘we could also do an app’. 2021-10-09 09:15:45 Great look for both Twitter and Spiked. https://t.co/rWdxC9qeq8 2021-10-09 09:10:38 @katebevan the # of false +ves from thefts alone would scupper it operationally before even considering the impact of more women at night w/o phones, surveillance normalisation, and before even getting to its minimal impact on how crimes would play out. cheap, insulting technosolutionism. 2021-10-09 09:03:33 @katebevan is the idea that people will actually have the phones to their ears while walking? the way all phones get stolen by thieves on mopeds and cyclists? what could go wrong? 2021-10-09 08:59:38 @sylviademars @BikesNBukes Equity delights in ponies. 2021-10-09 08:58:45 @nataliesedacca if only there was a way for many different but related legal persons to team up in financialised networks 2021-10-09 08:57:50 @sylviademars @BikesNBukes now we have washed ours hands with warm soapy water and sung happy birthday twice, we may trigger the law of equity 2021-10-09 08:54:29 “The colleges are separate legal and financial employers, so cannot be covered by a single agreement” - ah yes, I imagine there is no legal or contractual instrument that humans could envisage that could rationalise this situation https://t.co/PxzSWJG1YS 2021-10-09 07:07:36 Getting executive political will to overhaul infrastructures like these in both public and private sectors was a hidden, under-explored and I suspect pretty large pro-innovation and pro-data analysis effect of the GDPR/similar regimes. https://t.co/CVzLXuZRu0 2021-10-09 06:57:16 @Livingstone_S @5RightsFound @MediaLSE @LSEnews As well as formal apps and platforms, have seen through anecdotal evidence that teachers rely heavily on selections of smallish websites (to teach concepts in maths, programming, etc) with huge numbers of trackers and no affirmative consent. 2021-10-09 06:55:39 RT @Livingstone_S: DFC 'dismayed' at scale of learning data used for commercial purposes #digitalfutures #edtech ⁦@5RightsFound⁩ #DFC ⁦@Me… 2021-10-08 22:29:10 Deeply astounding graphic. https://t.co/F0AJy5O0U2 2021-10-08 21:45:15 RT @BenPatrickWill: Illuminating puff piece on how integral to edtech AWS has become - Rekognition for proctoring, automatic answer checkin… 2021-10-08 21:44:54 RT @BenPatrickWill: "From idea to IPO and beyond, AWS supports EdTech to start, grow, and optimize their business as they deliver on their… 2021-10-08 21:31:46 @sandervdwaal interesting! i wasn’t aware of this project, will look into it, resonates a lot with our current research areas here. 2021-10-08 16:46:02 RT @C___CS: When fewer and fewer companies own more and more aspects of the soft and hardware that makes up the Internet, what could possib… 2021-10-08 15:48:03 “Big Tech platforms are [realising] unless they have some sway in distribution, their power will be limited. And [they] seem to be managing to buy up stakes in the internet’s backbone much more competently and quietly than their cable counterparts have managed the reverse.” https://t.co/vSiZ4aD6Fr 2021-10-08 15:29:12 RT @vmanancourt: This is significant: The British Information Commissioner's Office has voiced "strong concerns" over plans to bring the re… 2021-10-08 12:24:16 @omertene @JulesPolonetsky Did you call it that by that term, or did @Nadya_Purtova? 2021-10-08 10:43:14 RT @tjmcintyre: Every lawyer should have a copy of this excellent book on Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures edited by Stephen M… 2021-10-08 09:30:51 @katebevan people use it… without the meme?? 2021-10-07 11:18:53 @DanielHiltonCFC @AlexandraPring what a coincidence! - I had just seen her tweet when searching, the most recent tweet on this platform mentioning the author before the announcement (to gauge how unanticipated this was) https://t.co/wAabujnqRx 2021-10-07 08:33:04 RT @torproject: "Trawling through Google’s search history database enables police to identify people merely based on what they might have b… 2021-10-07 08:20:21 @mrchrisadams they’re under ‘fb’ https://t.co/LhQ18mSmCj 2021-10-07 08:19:53 @mrchrisadams various repos on here https://t.co/4QOGZjDquI 2021-10-07 07:57:07 (arguably in the current draft general purpose models are already pretty shielded from liability anyway, if they’re not being sold for the tasks in the Annex). More in our paper https://t.co/8uQ7tq0EuU https://t.co/f4WSTSmdik 2021-10-07 07:50:25 what of responsibilities on providers to allow users to assess compliance? access to how models were trained? training data? ability to test them with a copy they can put in a sandbox, not query through costly APIs? users cannot assess black boxes. ‘foundation model’ washing. https://t.co/AYdPLA6g9D 2021-10-07 07:48:47 @DOTEurope what if responsibilities on providers to allow users to assess compliance? access to how, and datasets upon which, models were trained? ability to test them with a copy they can put in a sandbox, not query through costly APIs? orgs cannot assert compliance of black boxes. 2021-10-07 07:42:39 RT @HJAcivillibs: We are recruiting a full time Paralegal to assist a partner and associate solicitor who specialise in actions against the… 2021-10-07 01:25:10 RT @jsrailton: 3/ WILD: @billmarczak warned Princess Haya's lawyers about #Pegasus. Within HOURS, NSO had sent @CherieBlairQC to call the… 2021-10-06 15:54:47 RT @jennifercobbe: Seven more thoughts on recommender systems ONE. Law needs to identify specific platform activities to regulate, rather… 2021-10-06 15:48:33 @djleufer I call them baubles as they are drawing attention away from the AI Act as a serious, huge and in some ways unprecedented deregulatory project that is abusing TFEU 114. 2021-10-06 15:47:31 @djleufer I disagree that by criticising a parliamentary resolution I’m belittling civil society, but serious concern that a fight to obtain what will be compromise bans that please Council is not worth the cost: pre-empting all regulation around use of AI systems in EU outside Title III. 2021-10-06 15:40:53 @CrBravoR @steltenpower It would be nice if this were the case but commissioned studies are not official EU positions nor official views of the Commission. 2021-10-06 07:30:30 RT @ddenissmith: This makes me feel sick: “Law firms had some of the highest gender pay gaps. Women were paid 47.4% less than men per hour… 2021-10-06 07:26:05 @sjmurdoch @m_j_chalmers yeah i had to scrub that off and usually do for PQ, total madness. same issue for journals that transform the DOI links on the page into uni proxied ones (although I think this is also to do with the proxying tech replacing them) 2021-10-06 07:06:53 @m_j_chalmers @sjmurdoch oh, how stupid. also in a private window? it might have laid an institutional cookie. the url looks very institution agnostic (am interested as am trying to make a more institution neutral public reading list and sometimes proquest comes up) 2021-10-06 07:02:48 @m_j_chalmers @sjmurdoch yes, the first one had a sneaky and quite difficult to eyeball institutional ID flag in the proquest URL 2021-10-06 07:01:08 @m_j_chalmers @sjmurdoch even on the second link i sent? i edited it to remove the ucl specific component 2021-10-06 06:56:23 RT @BeterOpDeFiets: FB has gaslighted policymakers and commentators for years with the conceit of protecting free speech and privacy as the… 2021-10-06 06:43:02 Sounds good but devil will be in the details of the amendment. For example, will it criminalise those in England (UK?) contracting to write essays for a foreign company which is offering a service to students? How will jurisdiction work given education is devolved competence? https://t.co/DW8ilERaqG 2021-10-06 06:23:38 also lol at libertarian crypto CEO arguing for a view of freedom of speech which realises that some speech makes others less likely to express themselves. https://t.co/nXQ6mf6gsX 2021-10-06 06:21:22 that’s cause by ‘success’ you and your ilk want to run companies that are not just selling widgets for cash but actually becoming privately held foundational societal infrastructures and people rightly demand legitimacy and accountability. sorry if that hurts your feelings bro. https://t.co/GGjc4eiu40 2021-10-06 06:18:00 they just buy them brian and brick their products https://t.co/mW5mYIoH7E 2021-10-06 06:16:46 in essence, if privacy sandbox is tweaked and made sturdier as not leak information to third parties, this doesn’t make it good. 2021-10-06 06:14:33 Industry criticism of Privacy Sandbox continues equating privacy with confidentiality. Even if they weren’t leaking information, your devices are shaping your world through running protocols without you having a say. Confidentiality and information leakage lens fails. https://t.co/o5HhPuQ8Tz 2021-10-06 06:10:34 Parliament making its views clear on AI, but when actual AI Act comes to the table, it needs to get into the weeds focus on the effect of harmonisation, removal and preemption of use rules in Title III and elsewhere, and not only get distracted by Title II prohibition baubles. https://t.co/jocBRlObJc 2021-10-06 06:04:36 @m_j_chalmers @sjmurdoch https://t.co/Bznxw3dgxW and select institutional login 2021-10-06 05:55:38 @MannanMorshed @cohelongo I am pretty sure libraries get free access to https://t.co/Qxdh72ZMIf by becoming members 2021-10-06 05:32:59 *choose to be based https://t.co/bLPrSK2nFD 2021-10-06 05:08:36 RT @rmack: News: the @Wikimedia Foundation won a Florida defamation case thanks to intermediary protections: "Section 230 helps Wikimedia s… 2021-10-06 04:48:51 @ruskin147 Perhaps healthcare (and management of many often rare disorders) is not best served by a monolith gatekeeping all sensor use and hardware adaptation and expansion according to ideas of mainstream consumer, and needs to be based on something more pluralistic, open and flexible. 2021-10-06 04:35:46 “[Apple] watch's new features have historically been introduced by engineers, not the clinical staff [..] often designed for consumers, rather than patients [.. discouraging] Apple's medical experts with more specific ideas for studies, algorithms, and apps.” https://t.co/x1jpNOFvIG 2021-10-05 19:56:21 Facebook want to reform intermediary liability laws to make huge tech companies indispensable. Only social media services that cross subsidise communication with huge ad revenues capable of supporting moderation should be allowed to exist at scale. https://t.co/2QNdLrFLMO 2021-10-05 19:38:20 @lilianedwards am not saying go back to the past — indeed I am on record lecturing just yesterday that there was plenty of misogyny and exclusion on the growing internet! more like maybe community governance is the foundation — not governance by wizards 2021-10-05 19:36:28 RT @linnetelwin: It is so not nice to have correctly predicted that vaccine certs would become an immigration hurdle. 2021-10-05 16:22:36 RT @jennifercobbe: @mikarv Otherwise - absent any real and serious attempt to identify and address those many and varied drivers, incentive… 2021-10-05 15:41:07 @oliviasolon in general we have loads of tools for analysing audio, video, text, and contextual advertising is underdeveloped technologically so when people say microtargeting works they’re comparing an overdeveloped area to a comparably rudimentary one. 2021-10-05 15:39:53 @oliviasolon Maybe if kids don’t want life insurance YT shouldn’t rip off life insurers by selling impressions on cartoons. unless it’s a very long game… 2021-10-05 15:36:46 @EinsteinsAttic @SarahLudford it also disregards EN/WA case law like Bridges. 2021-10-05 15:35:20 @oliviasolon did the FTC’s order stop contextual advertising too then? ie this is a child’s cartoon rather than this is a child. 2021-10-05 15:33:28 RT @sleary: Specifically in the context of choosing not to remove content that was stoking violence in Ethiopia—where, she notes, six langu… 2021-10-05 15:31:04 RT @colmocinneide: It's interesting how critics of the HRA struggle to find substantive, clear-cut examples of its misuse. This one, from D… 2021-10-05 15:28:25 The solution to tech giants is tweaked tech giants. So the Online Safety Bill, DSA would have us believe too. Maybe the only real direction to online societies without ridiculous overscaled-up side effects starts with a smaller, cosier, more pluralistic Internet. 2021-10-05 15:26:20 Facebook’s line of ‘but we are trying hard to fix stuff now! do stuff now!’ shows that Facebook still only believes a ‘solution’ involves it steering and optimising sociality on a huge scale, just as it has done to extract value from individuals and communities for over a decade. 2021-10-05 15:17:15 Just pointing out the fact that @Facebook did not collectively and openly explore, independently audit, air and publicise the social issues with its infrastructure. Instead it buried, denied and sociopathically reputation-managed them and now looks like a dishonest, bad actor. https://t.co/lKDwePAtQW 2021-10-05 14:18:29 @tforcworc total lack of appreciation of the importance of having people comfortable and spontaneous when they visit eg the computer lab, for collaboration, ideation, investment, general ‘excellence’ 2021-10-05 14:07:21 @tforcworc absurd 2021-10-05 13:34:47 And it’s hardly about proof: for US residents they accept your CDC card, the equivalent of the NHS bit of card you get when you have the actual jab. 2021-10-05 13:33:17 New methods of playing out the theatrics of bordering. No African countries. No Turkey. See @linnetelwin @annliffey @sedyst and me writing on this in @EurJRR https://t.co/NeSG0xGuA1 https://t.co/OoSIFQyM4Y 2021-10-05 10:56:43 @InterwebzNani @SmithaKhorana @systemicjustic_ cc @nataliesedacca @colmocinneide @vmantouvalou 2021-10-05 10:31:02 Aiming high then. https://t.co/WglNqOBibn 2021-10-05 08:03:46 RT @rasmus_kleis: Cross Check programme, but enshrined in law, with little clarity on what exactly constitutes a media outlet, journalist,… 2021-10-05 07:54:08 Now Facebook is back up more journalists can review and report upon these false statements it has made over the years and compare them to what whistleblower documents have revealed. https://t.co/gQYAnalUrU 2021-10-04 21:47:28 RT @mattblaze: Imagine if FB owned AWS (or something with a similar footprint) right now. 2021-10-04 21:46:15 news sites become inaccessible because DNS adblocking approaches trigger the tracking walls. https://t.co/4zv9LfUXdP 2021-10-04 21:44:16 RT @robinkunde: @vogon @0xabad1dea FB leadership didn’t mind spreading disinformation until they started spreading incorrect BGP routes 2021-10-04 21:36:02 RT @Cloudflare: “Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Well it can, and here's how. https://t.co/V0fW2n0a4I 2021-10-04 21:16:58 RT @scobie: On a side note, it’s times like these you realise just how much the platform has taken over. The ENTIRE internet is currently r… 2021-10-04 21:16:16 RT @thezedwards: I just realized 50% of "Jedi Blue" / "Project Bernanke" has been offline for hours... Think of all the Google auction par… 2021-10-04 20:25:28 @neil_neilzone IIRC i am returning localhost, am speaking colloquially above to add pathos 2021-10-04 20:21:07 every two seconds, my raspberry pi replies “google’s dead” “google’s dead” “google’s dead” 2021-10-04 20:19:54 I have a neat JBL waterproof Airplay speaker that has optional Google Assistant. I don’t want it to contact Google so I block its DNS queries w/ my local Pi sinkhole. It consequently asks ‘where’s Google?!’ frantically every couple of secs, nonstop. FB devices surely doing same. https://t.co/wem76fop3h 2021-10-04 19:04:29 turns out the Internet literally routes around more types of damage than initially thought. 2021-10-04 19:01:01 probably not the GAFAM choice https://t.co/tjLf5gtlDq 2021-10-04 18:17:15 RT @1lucabelli: Fortunately, many of us use @Signalapp and other apps to communicate for our personal and professional needs but for many o… 2021-10-04 18:01:53 flashback to when Pakistan tried to route YouTube into oblivion with BGP ten years or so ago and somehow everyone followed through some absurd propagation of those settings. 2021-10-04 17:58:13 RT @mattblaze: Looks we made a serious mistake building up our stockpile of DNS jokes while neglecting our stockpile of BGP jokes. 2021-10-04 17:35:24 excellent timely example for my internet law tutorials on DNS, law and policy next week. https://t.co/0ITg3z3qfX 2021-10-03 10:03:52 @MarietjeSchaake I don’t have total figures. Something notable is how *little* money they give to social science, law & 2021-10-02 13:15:10 @emax this was the plot of an episode of star trek voyager 2021-10-02 13:14:20 RT @emax: w h a t 2021-10-02 08:10:44 a good column https://t.co/4hya2EonDD https://t.co/UxfrMDnR3Y 2021-10-01 11:22:03 RT @martinjemoore: How can democracy be protected from #BigTech? Read Regulating Big Tech – published today – chapters by @ChrisTMarsden @1… 2021-10-01 08:27:17 @TimHarford in the FT has bought the KoolAid of ‘algorithms are great as long as they’re debiased’. He and others should read @AggieBalayn @sedyst recent report on Beyond Debiasing highlighting what this very limited frame misses. https://t.co/3QBlkEuRzM https://t.co/llDobpUvRn 2021-09-30 19:25:02 RT @verge: Apple’s fortress of secrecy is crumbling from the inside https://t.co/gawgvmNogZ https://t.co/Kpzk6QHoFL 2021-09-30 16:21:44 RT @JesseLehrich: the full slides released by @WSJ are WILD. in this presentation, Facebook researchers explain exactly how & 2021-09-30 11:39:39 please have mercy on internet law professors this term https://t.co/IvKoyR2U5i 2021-09-30 09:08:07 Save the open internet and move away from US hegemony... by giving a body representing Facebook and Google companies permanent observer status at the UN? https://t.co/9GMFNSXcno 2021-09-29 14:54:59 The reason Jersey leads the world for financial services? It is a secrecy jurisdiction designed to obscure the origin and destination of the money held in trusts. Running data trusts with the secrecy of Jersey trusts is a guaranteed way to multiply informational harms. https://t.co/620fe3xXub 2021-09-29 14:48:00 @RossanaDucato @AberdeenUniLaw i see what you did there 2021-09-29 14:47:13 RT @geoffreyfowler: New @washingtonpost: Meet the smarter smart speaker Google doesn’t want you to have: https://t.co/N58JiHiwaI @Sonos c… 2021-09-29 07:14:49 RT @johnwilander: As I said, the Google AMP cache is the cross-site tracking stunt of the decade. How did they get away with serving others… 2021-09-28 08:17:32 wait until they find out they’re not based in the UK… https://t.co/lTJKV7V8OE 2021-09-27 12:56:04 @Write4Research @AWHarzing @LISResearch @LISResearchAu (bear in mind FB is currently issuing preliminary legal threats against NYU PhD students for scraping in this way) https://t.co/Cs9TanqVdc 2021-09-27 12:54:38 @Write4Research @AWHarzing @LISResearch @LISResearchAu I assume it uses page by page web scraping and retrieves the BibTeX file from each record manually. I don’t believe GScholar provides an API. If Google redesigns the look of scholar, the web scraper will likely break. 2021-09-27 12:48:50 @AWHarzing @Write4Research @LISResearch @LISResearchAu (tools like your own seem to achieve this through what i can only guess is reasonably tricky and fragile adversarial interoperability. if they change the site, that’s a lot of work to fix). 2021-09-27 12:47:45 @AWHarzing @Write4Research @LISResearch @LISResearchAu I think it would be even more justifiable to do this work (in part for Google) if Google itself followed the law here and made your publication and citation data downloadable in a machine readable format according to data portability rights under article 20 of the GDPR. 2021-09-27 09:10:30 @leotanczt looks great! and no tracking code too! 2021-09-27 07:58:24 @cyberleagle That’s fair. Was why I clarified, and I’d agree that if we are talking only about the ledger, it is not a computer. I don’t think the initial tweet was elegant or accurate, just that it wasn’t the most incorrect view in that thread. 2021-09-27 07:49:01 @cyberleagle ultimately I think it depends if you call a service that provides computation a computer or not. 2021-09-27 07:47:47 @cyberleagle viewpoint matters. focussing on miners, ethereum is a protocol lots of computers (virtual or physical) run. focussing on users, they pay (gas), provide an algorithm, get the result, so the system (I am calling the whole system the BC) is a functional (if expensive) cloud computer 2021-09-27 07:30:49 @cyberleagle many people run virtual machines though which are distributed and parallelised across many physical machines, and I would still describe those virtual machines as a computer, conceptually turing complete, etc. 2021-09-27 07:02:35 beyond thrilled to welcome @divijualsuspect to @UCLLaws, and really excited to try to tackle some big international questions of power and technology together! https://t.co/GOktAHLnIp 2021-09-27 06:59:01 @cyberleagle i think he’s getting a lot of flack for this point which isn’t actually so mad if he’s talking about the creakingly slow, inefficient and expensive virtual machines that eg the ethereum blockchain supports. 2021-09-27 06:53:53 @alixtrot also you presumably can through an article 15 access request, especially if it’s so interpretable :) 2021-09-27 06:52:42 @alixtrot yes, when i went it felt the same (and they didn’t scan or even try to verify anything). the paper appears to refer only to June last year, and doesn’t end the story with whether this is even still being used or not, or include an evaluation of use on the ground. 2021-09-27 06:38:14 incredibly naive thread on the trajectory of financialised decentralised systems, which as we have seen also move to exploit ppl through misleading, cult-like sale of objectively worthless bullshit like NFTs and random crypto tokens to vulnerable users to inflate their own value. https://t.co/o2eeE3wZL5 2021-09-27 06:26:01 RT @GeoffreyHuntley: #COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure I'm here all by myself reading actual peer-reviewed public… 2021-09-26 12:22:05 RT @nataliesedacca: Great to see @UCLLaws have launched a new PhD scholarship specifically for ethnic minority groups that are currently un… 2021-09-26 09:01:03 finally we see what the mischief behind the overbroad yet underwhelming deep fake user labelling provisions in Title IV of the AI Act is! Imputation of ancient tablets! https://t.co/IZiZxRAhpP https://t.co/JVQQw15n2m 2021-09-25 06:30:09 @JFLenhard what a pleasant saturday morning read 2021-09-24 11:33:35 @lottelydia this sounds like a hybrid teaching subtweet 2021-09-24 09:10:25 RT @PollicyOrg: New Report and Upcoming Event We're releasing the first of our 3-part series: “Engendering AI: A Gender and Ethics… 2021-09-24 08:18:12 @Write4Research if you do not understand files and folders and similar, you cannot see when a platformised UI, optimised for engagement not for problem solving, is holding you back. 2021-09-24 08:17:05 @Write4Research this article is about setting computing tasks, so that knowledge is crucial. plus, academics need strong knowledge of the principles of information storage because we manage & 2021-09-24 08:08:45 RT @caiwuunion: #ATTENTION Facebook cleaners have announced their protest dates!, pls join us on Friday 24th Sept and 1 Oct Suppo… 2021-09-24 08:06:45 RT @drrhianelinor: To my precarious/fixed term/postdoc/PGR/hourly paid/zero hours/otherwise casualised comrades: many of you will have star… 2021-09-24 07:17:04 It might seem extreme but this is not so far away from saying ‘these laws were passed by a previous Government, so let’s rewrite them without Parliament’. Retained EU law is no longer only arcane product regs, it is a core part of the regulation of modern societal challenges. 2021-09-24 07:13:59 The narrative that these laws are illegitimate (despite de facto UK veto power over them) looks absurd when the gov now argue that to increase legitimacy they should be rewritten by the domestic executive, without Parliament. This is not about Brexit any more. 2021-09-24 07:09:14 UK’s plan to allow the substantive alteration/repeal of retained EU law by ministerial decree is a democratic risk. The GDPR is retained law. Flight compensation is retained law. Net neutrality is retained law. UK gov wish to legislate quietly, rapidly, w/o scrutiny or debate. https://t.co/JiRrkBT2gT 2021-09-24 06:52:47 When teaching, we should expect a lot of coughing if this article is true, but should try not to think it must all be COVID. Will rightly be hard and distracting and nervewracking for some. https://t.co/matn30UdCk 2021-09-24 06:48:12 @alvar_f zoom out a bit… i’mnot fan of Google’s tracking but the point you make relates to varied definitions of PII in US law not the giant trying to redefine the GDPR. I suspect it’s to make healthcare providers feel they’re not violating HIPAA or similar (not a HIPAA expert) https://t.co/6VnN1aaZOT 2021-09-23 17:05:54 @bazzacollins it looks like they’ve asked every organisation to make their own pages and fuse them together without thinking. it has the aesthetic of a pamphlet with advertising i made for £300 for a rotary club classic car event when i was 13 2021-09-23 17:03:44 @nidhalaigh don’t worry keep reading they’ll be balanced out by every other colour background 2021-09-23 17:00:03 but ok let’s get angry about the ICO mailing their staff some christmas chocolate instead of holding a modest party during a pandemic instead 2021-09-23 16:54:30 who will be the first to FOI the design costs for this meandering UK government… AI… policy… magazine (???), ‘ALGORITHM’ https://t.co/diIwUFsn5O https://t.co/Kb2hjNnvRt 2021-09-23 15:16:50 RT @DavidErdos: The ICO Annual Report details just 3 #GDPR fines and 1 Enforcement Notice but +30,000 complaints. Sadly unlike previous ye… 2021-09-23 11:08:47 @owainkenway currently experiencing a situation where there is entirely different permissioning on teams windows & 2021-09-23 11:06:27 @owainkenway thanks, i hate it. had to explain to my colleague today who asked ‘why has my teams suddenly changed so all my messages are black text on black bg’ that ‘i’m sorry, it’s just how software is now, it’s changed, no one here can fix it for you and no one at microsoft will help you’ 2021-09-23 11:02:36 @owainkenway i’m not getting this yet, now i have a sense of foreboding. this story probably ends with me moving to thunderbird where someone has hopefully written an add in to remove this. 2021-09-23 10:42:20 @xotoxot @rosamunde_vb @mireillemoret @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @IRMA_privacy @GDanezis I think they can survive that. Hard hats aren’t painted in a bad light bc they don’t protect against asbestos. PbD is necessary not sufficient for just infrastructure. We aren’t yet good at articulating the normative digital systems we want in politically salient ways though. 2021-09-23 10:40:22 RT @linnetelwin: #covid19 vaccine passports are being used by the UK as a new layer of #migration control (based on zero evidence of risk):… 2021-09-23 07:14:43 @mireillemoret @rosamunde_vb @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @xotoxot @IRMA_privacy @GDanezis what this mix can should look like in a global context is part of the work we are doing at UCL with @petros_ter (and soon @divijualsuspect) 2021-09-23 07:11:11 @mireillemoret @rosamunde_vb @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @xotoxot @IRMA_privacy @GDanezis You’re right, the mix is necessary for safeguards. A challenge is that many countries lack RoL / human rights protection, yet PbD is being exported to them (eg via vaccine certs) as if it ‘solves’ these problems, when on its own it can legitimise and even amplify social sorting. 2021-09-23 05:55:43 RT @edri: Are you our new Policy Adviser? Come join @edri & 2021-09-23 05:31:37 RT @zararah: And how many of those people work only in English? Reminder that in 2018, Facebook had outsourced content moderation in Burmes… 2021-09-23 05:27:57 @1Br0wn LTSC for them https://t.co/hPIlFVmeCs 2021-09-22 18:26:40 RT @nataliesedacca: This was the bit that really got me in the Kemi Badenoch leaked messages- along with the boast about making Kimberlé Cr… 2021-09-22 17:39:15 @PrivacyMatters i commented on your initial post to clarify that this isn’t a very new service, but you asserted there was a lot of work that went into it, so i engaged. i know you’re not a spokesperson, but i thought from that statement you were aware of what might be different. 2021-09-22 17:33:52 @PrivacyMatters brave talk is only free for two ppl (as when you use jitsi for two people it is peer to peer, and 3+ it’s not, so needs server capacity). it costs money for 3+ people. they admit on the website it’s literally jitsi, who they pay to provide it. i simply do not see what is new. https://t.co/b8bubyuZbI 2021-09-22 17:27:38 @PrivacyMatters that’s a bit of a cop out answer. the article and the brave website describes features I already recognise and even the UX is clearly just jitsi. Not sure why I should pay that money over using Jitsi Meet, or a university Jitsi instance… 2021-09-22 17:23:58 @PrivacyMatters (i am sure there is plenty of integration work, but i fail to see how it is more private, or frankly even more functional) 2021-09-22 17:22:41 @PrivacyMatters what does it do that a jitsi instance with the e2e option and video bridge doesn’t provide? 2021-09-22 17:17:37 this seems literally to be just a Brave-branded Jitsi instance hosted by Jitsi’s commercial arm. https://t.co/huRcIpXJuj 2021-09-22 17:06:38 @annaeveryday @npseaver also, for those with locked down uni emails and similar, microsoft bookings does this too and you can set up MS teams meetings quite easily for office hours. i know some colleagues cannot use their uni calendar with calendly because of permissions so that may be alternative. 2021-09-22 07:42:59 @nataliesedacca oh that’s worth knowing! i booked mine and paid long in advance as the free UCL vouchers can come too late to get any and stock seems relevant… 14£ is a pretty ok price i think, although of course would be nice if it was free and easy. 2021-09-22 07:39:46 @whvholst @rop_g England and Wales require a query to get a fresh printed QR code each month in the app or site interface, they have a month expiry date, so can ‘revoke’ with 1mo lead. Paper letter without QR also available. 2021-09-22 07:13:05 but it’s on-device so it’s fine! right? right? (wrong) https://t.co/u2GWMevgOm 2021-09-22 07:01:00 @lawrennd /dev/null… you massive nerds 2021-09-21 08:01:39 RT @sedyst: Our report on why we need EU institutions to go beyond debiasing and show a more genuine engagement in the inequalities of AI i… 2021-09-21 06:44:48 If consumer regulators only reacted to complaints for highly visible issues that trigger consumers and did not investigate e.g. non obvious toxic chemical paint on toys, that would be pretty bad. (although having cookie banners without reject buttons does irritate consumers!) 2021-09-21 06:42:22 It’s good to fine nuisance calling organisations, they frustrate me and many others too! But a big organisation with the wide competences of the ICO needs to be able to understand varied enforcement in parallel rather in series. Prioritising doesn’t need to look like queuing. 2021-09-21 06:27:39 Yet companies who lack permission to track you across vast numbers of apps and websites and build up an intimate picture of your activity are subject to no enforcement action. https://t.co/o2iTTaHCf7 2021-09-20 15:31:43 RT @halhod: In March I requested some documents from the Cabinet Office. It is now September. I have just received my 7th (SEVENTH!) letter… 2021-09-18 21:30:12 The latter will be particularly disruptive around international students and I expect will feel extraordinarily unfair. 2021-09-18 21:29:28 Furthermore there are even more restrictive rules if you get contacted by Test & 2021-09-18 21:26:54 The telling geopolitical aspect is that the UK *does* accept handwritten US CDC cards which can be forged with a home printer and medium weight cardstock. So it’s unclear what logic this exclusionary policy is based on at all. https://t.co/fNACo8W8xw https://t.co/q7IFjifKSg 2021-09-18 08:27:26 @5RightsFound @ICOnews it’s easy to have hope in the enforcement will of the ICO only to be sorely disappointed… time will tell. 2021-09-18 08:25:00 @Lima_India_Zulu @drdrmc interesting finding re automation perceptions! but maybe also worth stating that the QR code triggering decisions were extremely human mediated, so the 80% isn’t wholly wrong in some ways https://t.co/Yk9YqWSiAp 2021-09-17 07:26:48 RT @hiddenmarkov: The final version of our paper on disparate vulnerability of ML models to privacy attacks is out! It will appear at the n… 2021-09-16 10:27:25 RT @rachelcoldicutt: Really pleased to share the Discovery report from the Civil Society Foresight Observatory this morning, written by me,… 2021-09-15 23:05:47 Hereditary peer too. https://t.co/f32FgJB2Fy 2021-09-15 16:01:26 New minister in charge of data protection in the United Kingdom. https://t.co/zvAIy6dfWx 2021-09-15 15:50:37 well, it looks like that was a fatal reshuffle for the open Internet 2021-09-15 12:57:43 *listen*, the sound of UK Internet law all googling Nigel Adams at the same time. 2021-09-15 07:41:50 RT @sedyst: Spread the word and get in those submissions! 2021-09-15 07:40:54 the material effect of the student overshoot. has anyone seen sector-wide numbers or analysis? even though applicants were up, presumably some unis have lost out to the grade inflation and have underrecruited? and financial strain and impact on precarious workers follows… https://t.co/3Hmf6VX26f 2021-09-15 07:37:00 @katebevan not to me anyway (thanks for reminder). i don’t know if they have some server load balancing to make sure everyone doesn’t try to fetch the file at once and that is why. 2021-09-15 07:34:16 @katebevan would help if apple pushed a notification despite having ‘automatic updates’ switched on. 2021-09-15 07:08:27 @neil_neilzone implementing a new feature? it’ll be monitored hugely as is the agile way. but you need to mandate someone to be at that huge monitoring table (already exists, paid for, normal practice) to ensure that uncomfortable things for the business are being monitored too. 2021-09-15 07:06:51 @neil_neilzone It’s a very bad starting point for those reasons. 2021-09-15 07:06:19 @neil_neilzone No, because it’s not an ability to study and ask specific questions rigorously. This information isn’t on the surface, but requires a programme of study. Easy to just not ask the difficult questions, or use a crap method, and not surface problematic information. 2021-09-15 07:04:34 @neil_neilzone with some independence (tweet ran out of space to elaborate). Plenty of laws seek to ensure internal people have some degree of isolation from business pressures (eg financial services rules). Agree defining platform too tricky for a tweet but not impossible for these purposes. 2021-09-15 07:01:52 @neil_neilzone It’s also in my view the only way you can create the evidence base needed to mandate platforms to take explicit measures that are determined by clear and legitimate and accountable external decision making, rather than imposing nebulous and unclear duties. 2021-09-15 06:59:09 @neil_neilzone Large firms already do huge amounts of internal research on these issues, as this illustrates. I wouldn’t suggest it’s something small platforms should do nor would be an approach for governing a world of interoperable small platforms, but also that’s not the world we are in. 2021-09-15 06:48:36 Regulation needs to push platforms to do detailed analysis of myriad issues, ideally by groups with some independence and ability to use the infrastructure to run studies, and *then to candidly release it*. Tricky balance fraught with potential organisational chilling effects. https://t.co/qiZUFqXJSq 2021-09-15 06:43:50 @FantaAlexx note: The draft AI Act explicitly excludes from its manipulation definition times when the manipulation is caused in the system by the users (recital 16). 2021-09-14 06:51:00 "Trump's account was covered by XCheck [..] so too are those belonging to members of [..] the [European Parliament]" Perhaps MEPs should make access requests re XCheck, when they were added, by which team etc. to FB w/ the GDPR. cc @AlexandraGeese @kimvsparrentak @SophieintVeld https://t.co/MGZF6KEZQZ 2021-09-13 12:31:51 RT @JacStJohn1: Home Office finally respond to my FOI request from Oct 2019: ‘disclosure of information about the dispute at Grunwick [1977… 2021-09-13 00:37:42 @TheSweetKat not sure what you mean given the point of the paper is, among other things, to state why short password lifetimes fail in practice. 2021-09-12 18:24:22 @TheSweetKat 1999, good classic https://t.co/NgoG9nSa2D https://t.co/aM03xZ1GFh 2021-09-12 16:41:16 RT @PLBarghouty: What happens when wellness influencers discover the perils of international supply chains: https://t.co/WRyf1pZccb 2021-09-11 13:52:45 RT @mer__edith: In which "democratize" means "sell access to AI APIs" -- aka the standard AI biz model AI booster rhetoric continues to… 2021-09-11 08:11:45 crucial to read on the AI angle of DCMS’ data protection consultation. https://t.co/blus6xoI0k 2021-09-11 08:10:33 RT @RDBinns: Having spent years listening to the AI sector, to understand whether and how DP law might be ambiguous regarding AI, I was pre… 2021-09-11 08:10:32 RT @RDBinns: First, the report could not 'pin down one particular compliance challenge'. That suggests to me that existing UK GDPR and ICO… 2021-09-11 08:05:34 “There is no course at UCL where the [home] undergraduate fee covers the cost of providing the course [..] we’re already supporting the education of British undergraduates with both international student and postgraduate student fees.” https://t.co/4iIjGMIeOq 2021-09-10 17:50:22 @JonPorty auditing gonna be key to watch out for. if i was NSA or GCHQ this would piss me off if main way to Whatsapp messages was PRISM/successor. However also poss other mechanisms beyond backup access are now used, that WA know that, and can make this without too much toe stepping 2021-09-10 17:47:33 @JonPorty thanks! there was no link in their twitter and I see it’s dated today. 2021-09-10 17:43:02 @jamesgswilson @OUPPhilosophy @UCLPhilosophy @UCLHHCentre @UCL_EI @ArtsHumsUCL can’t wait to get a copy! to wait for the inevitable OUP review vouchers… 2021-09-10 17:42:00 gonna publish a white paper on that? and have your deployment of it publicly audited? https://t.co/Q6HO6SfaSs 2021-09-10 16:12:54 @zacharylipton cc @RDBinns 2021-09-10 16:06:06 @rachelcoldicutt damn. your best and quickest door to door bet i’d think would be john lewis. 2021-09-10 15:59:27 @rachelcoldicutt the talks sound like they must have been particularly and repeatedly frustrating 2021-09-10 15:55:28 @rachelcoldicutt just looked up two potential places including craft shop cocktail bar round the corner i knew but both killed by covid. there seems to be a haberdashery shop open 1830 in Angel but I imagine you already considered that from maps. https://t.co/CGmNnxnLoY 2021-09-10 06:40:56 and in contrast to the US, particularly salient around the recent saga of Neal Katyal, Nestlé and child slavery. https://t.co/kW5w9VbUyx 2021-09-10 06:36:56 Particularly ridiculous as next-to-no companies admit to meeting the daunting conditions to even trigger Article 22. Reform looks to take aim at rhetoric without understanding it. https://t.co/fUSXMZ9VwU 2021-09-10 06:19:38 RT @LizStokoe: Here’s a little case study of the ripple effect of UK government mixed messaging - universities and face coverings. 1. “Fa… 2021-09-10 05:46:14 EU data protection concours, EU citizens who wish to work in the institutions should apply. https://t.co/Yjm21EhB3p 2021-09-10 05:23:44 @kuziemsky naughty 2021-09-09 16:49:26 @TheEconomist @1843mag no mention of the presumably british invention ‘biryani sauce’, a tasteless arbitrary slop that comes with biryani in restaurants as if it could not be eaten alone. 2021-09-09 16:46:40 which, even if they cared to enforce, they can only impose by having the power to brick your device or deny it functionality. servitisation and cloud is about control and regulation of people. @sedyst @amatwyshyn https://t.co/Zjo8O8oeKZ 2021-09-09 14:21:01 problems such as countries objecting to the NSA having access to everything https://t.co/aUu1YIXIFL 2021-09-09 14:18:33 If by a data Breton Woods Liz you mean regulatory institutions that structurally ignore and indeed amplify US surveillance power and influence then no, we don’t need that. https://t.co/9YFWknjbVd 2021-09-09 13:30:54 Sovereignty concerned more with surveillance, which might help limit NSA exfiltration (if T-Systems is good enough), but a mentality that in the long run doesn’t deal with broader issues of value laden technical decisions chosen by California-grown monocultures. https://t.co/PDkxaFQZK5 2021-09-08 19:53:38 Working prisoners are trapped in broader state mediated structures of exploitation as @vmantouvalou argues. Courts are not seeing or analysing the whole picture here or in many other areas of structural injustice (which VM writes about elsewhere). Atomism is eroding human rights. https://t.co/DjNo0ZJWdK 2021-09-08 19:46:34 RT @vmantouvalou: I just published a blog post @labour_blog on Human Rights for Working Prisoners https://t.co/VzJmKQwBT5 via @wordpress… 2021-09-08 15:24:55 UK gov launching (measly but notable) client-side scanning ‘challenge fund’ for organisations to… suggest technologies to Facebook? Presumably to be able to threaten a technical capability notice under the IPA 2016… once the HO works out what technical capabilities might be… https://t.co/QaHyMpWsXi 2021-09-08 06:55:46 @agorismlabs few do, but that doesn’t change the purpose of the statement? i’m not talking about looking anxiously at the Task Manager. 2021-09-07 18:55:25 @CompetitionProf @mireillemoret i suggest you read up on why miners solve ‘puzzles’. as i said, the very purpose (not the side effect) of them is to slow the computer down. 2021-09-07 18:50:17 @CompetitionProf @mireillemoret i’m not sure you understand how the bitcoin blockchain works. i don’t care about it. the creators of the protocol do. 2021-09-07 17:51:26 perhaps journalists could describe bitcoin mining not as ‘solving a complex mathematical problem’ but ‘undertaking an otherwise useless computation designed solely to expend so much processing power it slows the computer down’. 2021-09-07 12:38:01 ‘resource’ does not include time in this concept. people are not hired with a measurable mission to give people on the ‘frontline’ more time, a resource they sorely need. https://t.co/SrAIerLpHj 2021-09-07 12:20:59 @JFLenhard @chrisdburr @maria_axente @turinginst yes, would be interesting! (worth noting I believe HSBC is currently Turing’s largest non public sector funder at 1.5m£ a year. Ethically embroiled Facebook content moderator contractor Accenture is also just shy of a million a year.) 2021-09-07 11:31:25 @nielstenoever @petros_ter @UCLLaws i hear it can be quite cold 2021-09-07 11:14:19 @nielstenoever @petros_ter @UCLLaws i do not think so 2021-09-07 11:13:35 Really looking forward to working with Petros on this project, and UCL followers at Laws and beyond take note of this excellent new colleague! https://t.co/I2N9hUiMwi 2021-09-07 11:11:57 RT @finck_m: Come work with me! I have recently joined @uni_tue as Professor of Law and AI and am now hiring for my chair. There are… 2021-09-07 08:31:12 @colmanareilly @rachel_norfolk @OliverDowden that’s my point… 2021-09-07 07:51:14 @rachel_norfolk @OliverDowden not true if the UK mandates sites to obey do not track signals and dismiss. no cookie banners needed if no non essential cookies are laid, that can work in UK and EU. 2021-09-07 07:03:49 @BrenAbolivier @OliverDowden no, GDPR has nothing to do with EU citizenship at all. 2021-09-07 06:18:06 RT @stokel: What happens to Afghanistan's internet? It depends not just on the Taliban, but on the international community. My latest for @… 2021-09-07 06:17:49 @RDBinns On Paym of Death 2021-09-07 06:15:51 Outstanding article. Afghanistan and US sanctions must not combine to silence voices of those on the ground through Internet shutdowns. https://t.co/D8RZLxq6z7 2021-09-07 06:07:54 RT @JusTechne: Surreal platform reg news from> 2021-09-07 06:06:01 RT @CBridge_Chief: Cookie banners: G7 urged to consider solution to pop-up notices - BBC News > 2021-09-07 05:55:02 @neil_neilzone put them in eScrow 2021-09-07 05:28:37 What I think more contentious is whether it is legal under foreign law to allow an automatic accept across all websites regardless of the terms. That consent isn’t informed. If sites standardised the exact kind of tracking they impose, that’s different. But they only pretend to. 2021-09-07 05:26:04 If @OliverDowden wants to get rid of cookie banners for UK users he must realise that sites outside the UK remain obliged to show them according to their own national laws of place of establishment. However, they can be dismissed with an UK imposed automatic reject despite this. 2021-09-07 05:22:11 The legal change the ICO (& 2021-09-07 04:46:00 RT @carmelatroncoso: Come work with us! Positions open for a wide range of security and privacy topics! whether you like crypto, systems, p… 2021-09-06 20:56:10 @keelan_fh (*you can’t sign up the same number to more than one account, I mean) 2021-09-06 20:55:19 @keelan_fh You can’t sign up to Paym with more than one number, it makes you deregister it at another bank. Seems pretty easy for Monzo to say ‘is this number with M, if so, offer Monzo transfer, if not, try Paym transfer’. 2021-09-06 20:51:33 Sometimes I think about how Monzo pretends they’ve innovated into existence ‘send money to your phone contacts’ when Paym mapping mobile numbers to accounts has existed between all major banks since 2014. Monzo has not signed up to Paym. Fake your USP until you make it! 2021-09-06 16:31:50 RT @TheRealRevK: @PaulbernalUK Banning encryption is, quite simply, ducking stupid. Apart from the fact you can’t ban it, criminals can alw… 2021-09-06 14:07:53 RT @C___CS: My @oiioxford PhD thesis "Changing Minds & 2021-09-06 12:15:55 RT @ringo_ring: Today is Sci-Hub anniversary the project is 10 years old! I'm going to publish 2,337,229 new articles to celebrate the dat… 2021-09-06 08:41:07 @IelTop Or a delay to the first term. Lots of options have been proposed. 2021-09-06 08:19:48 RT @linnetelwin: as the debate continues over vaccine passports, a new paper from @mikarv @annliffey @sedyst on why 'immunity theatre' does… 2021-09-06 08:15:53 in practice you can write this story every year because the system structurally relies on a high proportion of disappointment in order not to implode. 2021-09-06 08:14:58 What this story misses is that the entire English uni system (at least in Russell Group) is predicated on a large %, even 50%, of students not making their offers. Places overoffered on that basis. Unnecessary if students applied after, not before, grades. https://t.co/6C9LVL8dJU 2021-09-06 06:18:02 @trishgreenhalgh Stone is such an excellent teaching text. 2021-09-06 05:41:59 EU students in the UK will drop and drop due to prohibitive fees. Even if UK unis financially compensate w more non-EU students, what a loss for soft diplomatic power! So many Europeans once called the UK home & 2021-09-06 05:32:06 RT @CatalinaGoanta: The coming years will show privacy is not the only sector of EU law other jurisdictions can take inspiration from. Conp… 2021-09-05 15:31:28 @mightybarnski @katebevan it really shouldn’t need saying, but perhaps nightclubs being accessible to disabled people isn’t a sign they are not cool or for young people https://t.co/HFUtcCTIxM 2021-09-04 18:52:57 Why would the Council of Europe and the ECtHR go so far as to give every case an ECLI but not register them with any ECLI resolver so they link to HUDOC? How do they hope to 'use AI' to sort out their backlog if they can't even link files? 2021-09-04 15:40:56 @SophiaIgnatidou @RDBinns we are sorry 2021-09-04 07:31:47 @vendorprisey @mireillemoret @JohnSumser @k8bisch @merbroussard @jfinlayson @annehill @JamarJLJohnson @KatrinaKibben @mikekrupa @Victorio_M @joeyvpriceHR @tmrasberry @RichardRosenow @jackyeclayton @erin_hr @heysolangehey @mpbennett @megbear @1Br0wn @ChrisTMarsden @lilianedwards @SandraWachter5 @NOYBeu @Noybe @WoojeongJang & 2021-09-02 09:24:06 @C___CS https://t.co/baKwzYeedp 2021-09-01 19:42:36 @C___CS i sent a report to /dev/null but no response yet 2021-09-01 16:24:07 @jatenas ironically the new one is called ‘clarity’ 2021-09-01 13:38:21 @merbroussard the sheer amount of set-up admin and separate systems for a day long class was bewildering. 2021-09-01 13:35:45 @merbroussard crap I just realised that this is horrifying as i taught a short course at NYU this year which required me to understand the interplay between two Awful Technologies called 'NYU Classes' and 'Albert', and if I do this next year I assume there will be a third Awful Technology. 2021-09-01 13:31:08 @merbroussard thank goodness someone arranged seamless high quality migration of all the previous content 2021-09-01 13:29:59 @merbroussard short for 'let me scream' presumably 2021-09-01 13:26:15 Noyb now hiring permanent senior positions in strategic data litigation now, 60K+ or 80K+ EUR depending on if mid- or senior level. Great for people who are sick of helping data brokers and want to jump to NGO world, or who bring experience from activism already. https://t.co/f2bZdpys6E 2021-09-01 12:43:00 RT @RDBinns: I've seen lots of great commentary on Apple's on-device CSAM-scanning Neurohash. But if you're looking for a basic primer on p… 2021-09-01 12:36:51 it's definitely Crowley from Good Omens, after he finished the M25. 2021-09-01 12:35:15 back from holiday for only a few hours and already want to issue a European Arrest Warrant for the perpertrator of ManuscriptCentral. 2021-09-01 12:11:40 @luke_stark service appears to be quite a broken north american idea! people create admin jobs that aren't needed and hand them out like they are favours. in UK promotion criteria include an equiv of 'service' inside your own institution, but don't put much weight on external stuff. 2021-09-01 12:08:15 Working on geospatial data & 2021-09-01 11:56:16 @a_b_powell @luke_stark last time we talked about Canada my mind was so blown by AP's Canada Facts that I'm not sure I'm ready for any more. 2021-09-01 11:49:37 @luke_stark I would love to go there! I just don't always need to go *from* there :) 2021-09-01 11:28:33 University College London's new travel agent's stellar booking tool manages to prioritise London, Ontario and East London, South Africa above the actual London the university is in. Great design, what could go wrong? https://t.co/UZwrfjHNC7 2021-08-30 15:04:10 @alexhern who would win in a fight? https://t.co/SaC6CbDgb0 2021-08-29 16:51:12 RT @marcelsalathe: Finally published at @pet_symposium earlier this summer: CrowdNotifier: Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Presence Traci… 2021-08-29 08:37:00 @sunildvr mos was remain supporting… 2021-08-29 08:18:20 @biscuitsgod @alexbloor the mail on sunday, where this comment is from, backed remain https://t.co/tCGouJnnNh 2021-08-27 14:03:57 RT @divijualsuspect: ...and it's out! Our report reviewing the status of algorithmic accountability policy/law/regulation for the public se… 2021-08-27 14:01:08 RT @madhumita29: The Indian railways carry more than 20m passengers DAILY. Now its busiest routes including Mumbai locals will carry facial… 2021-08-25 10:09:49 @cori_crider @RDBinns Foxglove gets a shout out in footnote 14 2021-08-25 10:00:51 now back to my significant holiday with as little automated processing as possible. 2021-08-25 09:59:56 New from Reuben & Article 22 GDPR (not again!) is hella confusing when you have the layers of humans, machines, triage, anomaly detection etc seen in real life. Feat. seven (7!) diagrams for picture lovers out there. Forthcoming IDPL. See R’s . https://t.co/x01We7HK94 https://t.co/F8G3noiFdz https://t.co/dFvV1XavAJ 2021-08-25 09:40:11 RT @RDBinns: New paper from @mikarv and I: 'Is That Your Final Decision? Multi-Stage Profiling, Selective Effects, and Article 22 of the GD… 2021-08-17 07:39:25 RT @lawvaughan: We're hiring @UCLLaws Permanent post, Lecturer in Public Law. Grade 8. Read the job ad carefully. We expect to make one pub… 2021-08-17 07:39:19 RT @InaBrass: Job Alert! Looking for the next superstar in #standards researchJoin me on the @PETRASiot REG-MEDTECH project, in collab wi… 2021-08-01 19:55:21 RT @rachelcoldicutt: Come and join the Careful Industries team! We’re looking for a Research Projects Co-Ordinator to help make our project… 2021-08-01 19:55:04 @oliviasolon i’m repulsively certain this eyebrow-raising abuse is only one of a shitload only you know of & 2021-08-01 14:09:21 @tforcworc @simonjhix @PJDunleavy oh there’s definitely precedent on private sector vaccine conditionality, but not sure nursery kids made their A level offers... i suspect somewhat challenging now uni-student contracts have been signed in their current form without new legislation to fend off a legal challenge. 2021-08-01 12:51:55 @vmanancourt it’s here no? that one just the editorial https://t.co/R1mDIyzSC2 2021-08-01 08:36:51 @simonjhix @PJDunleavy I think it’s the reverse, no? They realised the legal and practical difficulties in mandating it. They’re not enacting a prohibition on unis imposing vaccine conditionality (although the contracts between unis and prospective students may already imply one). 2021-08-01 06:58:53 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Join the expanding Ada team, and support our work on data & 1⃣ E… 2021-07-31 15:42:56 @finishedloading cc @alexandrasinc10 2021-07-31 15:17:09 @MindyWishart @richove @HelenLawLibrary @OUPLaw It’s a hard case to make here at UCL too. Extortionate. And a pretty dated interface and platform too. I also suspect contractually we aren’t allowed to say exactly how much. 2021-07-31 10:25:05 little do they know it will soon be regulated by the subversive handmaid Ofcom https://t.co/sKIyzPyLLB 2021-07-31 10:18:34 zoom marketing meeting: yes, i think gilead’s ruthless patriarchal theocracy accurately represents our brand, sounds like a great placement campaign. https://t.co/wSjmqzttbU 2021-07-31 09:37:41 @AnthroPunk @VerintAccess @Elinor_Carmi @PrivacyMatters @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @jiahong_chen I’m not sure it’s that universal. There are many situations where recorded conversations are more sensitive than images. That’s why the law in that area looks at purpose, context, etc, rather than tying specific media to specific harms. 2021-07-31 09:29:25 @AnthroPunk @VerintAccess @Elinor_Carmi @PrivacyMatters @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @jiahong_chen conceptually similar obligations in EU data protection law, which seeks to be technologically neutral. no special specific rules for cameras over microphones. 2021-07-31 08:13:24 RT @Channel4News: Exclusive: The Science Museum has signed a gagging clause in its agreement with Shell International to sponsor its climat… 2021-07-31 08:11:39 @agstrait well now you’ve deprived the world of a chance to ascertain this. i hope you are happy. 2021-07-31 08:07:26 @VerintAccess @Elinor_Carmi @PrivacyMatters @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @jiahong_chen it’s a live-in landlord. should all live-in landlords notify individuals that there is a voice assistant? would be different if they were not live-in. 2021-07-31 07:06:30 @Elinor_Carmi @PrivacyMatters @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards you’ve hit upon a difficult conceptual debate about the scope of the household exemption in data protection law (cc @jiahong_chen) 2021-07-31 06:45:12 @agstrait why would you have donated this? 2021-07-29 18:06:29 @RMGirlUK @katebevan @nmsonline @ShoeEmbassy @newscientist in the end, they have significant resource to enforce many aspects and shouldn’t need to have priorities limit enforcement of absolutely clear breaches. there are diminishing returns in all areas and more resource doesn’t mean more enforcement: need better organisation & 2021-07-29 18:01:19 @RMGirlUK @katebevan @nmsonline @ShoeEmbassy @newscientist on nuisance calls, yes, but AFAIK they’ve done next to nothing about illegal banners that frustrate consumers by not giving them the chance to reject on the front page. people are annoyed by banners they can’t clearly say no to, and have the legal right to say no as easily as yes 2021-07-29 17:59:20 @katebevan @RMGirlUK @nmsonline @ShoeEmbassy @newscientist CNIL currently doing an interesting few rounds of enforcement against websites without reject on cookie notices. I think ICO in those cases would rather the rules fitted their preferred enforcement strategy rather than fit their enforcement strategy from the law. Creaky org. 2021-07-29 17:57:25 @katebevan @RMGirlUK @nmsonline @ShoeEmbassy @newscientist give em hell 2021-07-29 17:56:52 @katebevan @nmsonline @ShoeEmbassy @newscientist yup, hence last sentence :) but ico is not interested in enforcing those kinds of specifics in my experience… 2021-07-29 17:55:18 @katebevan @nmsonline @ShoeEmbassy @newscientist unfortunately they do have permission if they offered you an option to opt out and you didn’t, conditional on being a previous customer. however, i suspect if it wasn’t clear enough for you to have opted out, it wasn’t clear enough to be legal. 2021-07-29 15:58:07 RT @DavidErdos: FROM AUSTRIA TO THE UK ! Really pleased to launch New Reports on Law & 2021-07-29 15:22:36 See also, the occasional publication of Keeling Schedules, an archaic approach to non machine readable track changes in legislation created in the 1930s by frustrated MPs. Useful but also an absurd plaster on a much deeper issue. 2021-07-29 15:15:29 Although correction, we don’t lock PDFs… they’re just rubbish by virtue of being PDFs. I think PDFs quite trivial to unlock but this just emphasises stupid nature of the measure. 2021-07-29 15:14:21 UK too. EU better — usually about a week after a Commission proposal you can get a docx from Eurlex. US nostalgic style of drafting format particularly painful to skim (not to mention, I presume, quite inaccessible for those who need screenreaders etc). https://t.co/OskgBjgJFm 2021-07-29 13:13:19 @FinancialTimes @PJDunleavy again an article on this with no mention of international students @GeorgeWParker… 2021-07-29 13:10:38 German hate speech put back and keep up orders — important illustration that European law works both ways (and may surprise casual US watchers) cc @AlexandraQu https://t.co/2VTa8r3Q7x 2021-07-29 07:40:58 RT @ilumium: Hey @PoliticoEurope, can we please stop calling @ECIPE publications "studies"? They claimed in a "study" in 2013 that #GDPR w… 2021-07-28 22:47:28 @Jackstilgoe can’t believe they forgot Heythrop College 2021-07-28 14:26:22 @tforcworc home sweet home since 31/12/1999 2021-07-28 14:18:29 Further reading https://t.co/tIj8ytCjsi 2021-07-28 14:16:35 Cursed image https://t.co/gh1TtPdjth 2021-07-28 12:39:11 @paulgailey no, not cross border data transfer related. Art 3(10) of Regulation 2021/953 indicates that the UK won’t be connected until it agrees a reciprocal and non discriminatory arrangement. Not sure the Commisison has legal competence to just grant connection unilaterally. 2021-07-28 12:31:06 @paulgailey it’s not just about following the standards, both sides need to be connected to the EU’s interoperability gateway. 2021-07-28 11:47:21 @halhod @charlottejee what about the word 'leverage' 2021-07-28 08:39:40 RT @chelloway: We (@sedyst, @lindorferin, @ErnaKotkamp, @krlos__hdez, Fernando, and Menghua) just updated our university cloud adoption pap… 2021-07-27 15:42:21 @mamezito no, i'm referring to English/Welsh certificates not working in the EN/WLS verifier app. No barrier to the Commission including the UK certificate in the system under Reg (EU) 2021/953 art 8 through implementing act. They've already done it for Switzerland https://t.co/h3UdnvyelR 2021-07-27 15:23:03 @FusterGloria by the time the contracts are actually drawn up, they are eligible to have their data processed under 6(1)(b) 2021-07-27 15:18:51 Actually, new theory. I think it could be uploaded as proof of parental leave. But even if that was questioned, please, please let's not enter a world where reviewers don't believe women when they say they gave birth... 2021-07-27 15:15:33 @FusterGloria It could be. Still, I do have concerns about whether those under 5 are capable of managing such a multifaceted project to completion. 2021-07-27 15:11:15 Maybe it's Art. @ArtDecider 2021-07-27 15:10:32 it gets worse... they appear to be birth certificates (maybe incorrectly uploaded) of two very young children who share a surname with someone affiliated with the bid. Perhaps exactly to illustrate the reasons why you should Not Do This. 2021-07-27 15:01:05 Reviewer 2: The proposal is very solid, but I have unresolved concerns than the PI may have never been born. 2021-07-27 14:59:56 Genuinely doing a peer review on for an EU country (on data and privacy issues) where the reviewers are forced to download the identity cards and birth certificates of the PI in order to view the proposal. https://t.co/hrcECUNwD1 2021-07-27 14:34:27 @jwildeboer @michaelmeasures Yes, but that's not related to the issue I described in the opening tweet. 2021-07-27 14:33:53 Interesting automation in Belgian Covid Pass verifier. Does not just verify a cert is valid & 2021-07-27 14:25:15 @jwildeboer @michaelmeasures Thanks, but I have both and also have valid German and UK codes to compare. Both decode correctly with the same data structure. The UK one performs as expected using EU verifiers, parses but has an incorrect signature. 2021-07-27 14:07:35 @jwildeboer @michaelmeasures This is of UK domestically created passes, not EU passes. They both follow the EU standard, thoguh. 2021-07-27 14:04:40 is this a known current limitation @michaelmeasures? I don't see it documented: the repo says it can and does recognise international mode certificates. Tried with two people's valid ones, PDF and app based. gives '2D barcode not recognised' error on travel ones. https://t.co/8LkzmttHOo 2021-07-27 13:58:10 Q: why does the NHS Covid Pass Verifier App only recognise English Covid passes generated through the 'Domestic' function of the NHS App, and fail to recognise ones from 'Travel'? (it also fails to recognise EU ones despite same standard, but UK not AFAIK in the 'Gateway' yet). 2021-07-27 13:14:27 @AllysonPollock @ScotGovFM Germany considers infection plus 1 iab the same as a two course vaccination. 2021-07-27 13:03:58 @mircomusolesi @tforcworc some public health measures are *absolutely* abt population management, population control, & 2021-07-27 12:58:36 @tforcworc I was specifically referring to the privacy sandbox example as it’s informational, but sure, i think it also accurate describes a component of the test and trace effect. regardless of perceived valence of the term, no point calling the same mechanism two different things. 2021-07-27 12:53:25 @tforcworc i did not say it was a bad thing. the aim of that app is indeed population management. but conceptually important when thinking about what PETs do and don’t do in the world. 2021-07-27 12:51:26 (on that note, did anyone ever check to see how England/Wales implemented proving pings for covid payments? I believe the app presents a button after a notification. Is it anonymous token? Or just an obscured or even generic link…) 2021-07-27 12:48:32 In the English/Welsh approach this effect should be limited as no actual consequence beyond guidance of app notifications. But also possible to build confidentiality preserving disciplining systems (eg no anonymous tokens earned for cloud services for no protocol participation). 2021-07-27 12:47:14 Also why even decentralised contact tracing, despite little to no info centrally learned, is still a form of population control. Confidentiality ≠ privacy. Similar: Google’s Privacy Sandbox — you may avoid clinging links as Web may change for you in response. Chilling effect. https://t.co/sE3luwwSMM 2021-07-27 12:24:39 @TheSimonEvans *hypo 2021-07-27 12:24:11 @TheSimonEvans The core point being that that dynamic wouldn’t have needed to be considered if the riots didn’t have an indoor dimension. There are pieces that I agree hypercritical (but also AFAIK not so scientifically certain) comparing big spreading events outdoors. Indoors is different game 2021-07-27 12:21:53 @TheSimonEvans Indoors it’s not about 2m, it’s about airborne virus. And no reason to think the virus originated from rioters. Could have been the other way around, from legislator, or from the police, lingering (potentially for long time) in rooms or places of shelter. 2021-07-27 12:15:43 @TheSimonEvans also, hard to observe in both cases are what i believe public health people tend to be worried about for big outdoor events — that people may mingle en masse indoors afterwards rather than separating individually. 2021-07-27 12:14:12 @TheSimonEvans isn’t there a big indoor-outdoor distinction here? i agree would be hypocrisy if comparison was spreading at outdoor protests both times (no reason to think worse than outdoor stadia), but most of those capitol clippings concern spread between lawmakers, unmasked, inside congress 2021-07-27 12:00:12 @lilianedwards @MarisaMcV the people who would likely take this in the UK would be ClientEarth, not sure they have a pending E/W case on this issue though. Forum shopping key. Netherlands has had some long fought for strong judgements re corporations, particularly Shell (also conclsn of the Nigeria case) 2021-07-26 15:57:38 RT @Caffar3Cristina: Facebook and Google #especially love to talk about Jean Tirole’s idea of #participative_antitrust - see Quartz 3 years… 2021-07-26 12:14:13 the UK has a structural reliance on fees from int’l students from countries w little to no youth vaccination 2021-07-26 10:16:53 gold-plated open access 2021-07-26 10:16:27 thanks wiley, i hate it https://t.co/B7GDjRNvQD 2021-07-25 10:49:41 @israblack one more thing: coauthorship, especially with your friends, is fun, and i learn a lot. and why am i doing this otherwise?! 2021-07-25 10:43:42 @tforcworc it definitely limits the design space if those institutional structures are already decided upon. hopefully that clarifies a bit! 2021-07-25 10:38:12 @tforcworc consequently not sure reissue is trivial in that approach because people would have to go to a pharmacy every month as that is the source of the information for many, not a login or similar, or an app authenticated by anything but the original QR. 2021-07-25 10:37:22 @tforcworc sure. just explaining how it works in DE. you go to a pharmacy, show them eg a signed yellow card, and they print out a static, one off, QR code of EU standard for each dose in a foldable passport. you can optionally scan it to put into one of two apps. so no option to refresh. 2021-07-25 10:21:33 @israblack (also because people work together a lot more in labs, with PDRAs, etc. but not only. tech law is also significantly full of coauthorship.) 2021-07-25 10:20:37 @israblack very glad that UCL laws appreciate and understand coauthorship! in computing where i often publish its actually the opposite. you almost never see single authored pubs, instinctively treat them with suspicion, maybe they aren’t rigorous enough or had enough diversity of thought… 2021-07-25 09:33:37 @Bilal_A_Mateen @stokel 2021-07-25 09:11:40 @openpolicynz @WebDevLaw yes, i’ve been told about that, at other events too. but being picky is not an option - having an ex privacy regulator rather than something much worse is less institutional damage than the ad led people to expect. 2021-07-25 06:38:15 @1Br0wn I’m pleasantly surprised that they seem to be considering another common law privacy Commissioner. That is compatible with enforcement. 2021-07-25 06:34:40 @WebDevLaw If it John Edwards, then fears of many about that advert won’t be coming true. I don’t think his defining characteristic is ‘Facebook hating’, it’s just a convenient Times story. I would much rather have another common law experienced privacy commissioner than many other options. 2021-07-24 10:31:23 @travelling_wolf @ProfChalmers Also note that I believe the risk threshold system of the Scottish app is calculated entirely differently from the England Wales one. 2021-07-24 10:11:57 @ProfChalmers Yup, it’s certainly a mix. We were trying to tell interested countries to focus on heath system integration soon after protocol publishing but few took it so seriously (several seemed more institutionally interested in tweaking technicalities, which are probably less intractable) 2021-07-24 10:02:28 @ProfChalmers I also suspect the active usage of Protect Scotland is not nearly as high as the NHS Covid-19 app due in part to the lack of legal QR mandates and the distinction between the optional Scotland QR app and the Exposure Notification app. 2021-07-24 09:40:58 @tforcworc yes, the law permits the creation of revocation related data, but it was not implemented in the deployed certificates. 2021-07-24 09:38:46 @tforcworc the EU design does not expire after 30 days. you do not have to print out a new EU card every 30 days. 2021-07-24 09:36:43 @tforcworc that's UK design, not EU design 2021-07-24 09:22:30 @jwildeboer https://t.co/FWKWvl5Flq 2021-07-24 09:22:02 This may all be fine if you are happy w/ a minority of fake certificates circulating. But it underlines that it is disproportionate to securitise people's lives through checkpoints and verification practices as if this truly provides assurance, when the foundations are so shaky. 2021-07-24 09:18:12 This is not to mention that the German approach to creating these certs involves pharmacists looking at a bit of paper, such as a WHO yellow card, and just typing in the existence of the vaccination event. Even without the ability to create fake pharmacists, fraud seems trivial. 2021-07-24 09:15:30 Handelsblatt also reported a range of certificates from Germany are already being sold on the darkweb. As Carmela pointed out in April, you cannot revoke certificates without invaliating them en masse 2021-07-24 09:12:57 Specifically, Handelsblatt (paywalled) invented a pharmacy in an apartment block, photoshopped an operating license (many pharmacies proudly upload theirs online), and swiftly got credentials to create vaccine certificates the next morning. https://t.co/BPE6QjxHdL 2021-07-24 08:58:20 Carmela's excellent thread on EU vaccine certs coming true bit by bit. Earlier this week much of Germany suspended cert creation as Handelsblatt showed forged docs could create non-existent web portal pharmacists who could mint irrevocable certificates. https://t.co/NR46ZHE6NG https://t.co/H4eqtYhq6I 2021-07-23 15:10:20 RT @ADCUnion: Huge victory for ADCU at licensing appeal heard at the Old Bailey (Crown Court). Another surveillance data failure by @TfLTPH… 2021-07-23 13:08:01 RT @CNIL_en: The CNIL chair gives formal notice to forty other organisations that still do not allow Internet users to reject #cookies as e… 2021-07-23 13:05:31 RT @motherboard: NEW: Hardcore porn is embedded all over regular-ass websites because a porn company has purchased the domain of a popular,… 2021-07-23 12:52:19 RT @MindyWishart: @RaceMeToo Not just interpersonal- also in research B4 being Dean- I mention possibility of student exchange with Asian… 2021-07-23 12:52:06 RT @MindyWishart: @RaceMeToo What would they learn: At US conference white man spouting his genius. Me: I came in late, did u discuss Japa… 2021-07-23 10:28:31 https://t.co/LTakJVmTBZ https://t.co/zNd7OXnP5O 2021-07-23 06:50:41 RT @GHEvers: A-ma-zing PhD opportunity, with supervision by ao @fborgesius. PhD Candidate: Predictive Policing https://t.co/O9nrsZ6U86 2021-07-22 16:40:47 RT @nielstenoever: Another day in which we experience the consequences of consolidation and centralisation in the Internet infrastructure.… 2021-07-22 15:39:18 RT @LordsJHACom: Call for written evidence! Committee invites evidence for new inquiry on technologies and the application of the law: http… 2021-07-22 11:32:37 @octavia_reeve now that one i can do :) 2021-07-22 10:28:29 @octavia_reeve damn, haven’t read that one yet and won’t have time to by then. looking forward to more! 2021-07-22 10:27:27 Two really cool roles at Ada: one UK focussed (data policy) and one EU focussed (AI Act). https://t.co/0NDk6n2GW6 2021-07-21 20:33:13 @colmocinneide in his defence, the logical bar is low https://t.co/iD18MbE7UR 2021-07-21 16:20:21 this is absolutely reprehensible e-waste. a single use semiconductor, arm processor and Bluetooth LE interface, attached to a lateral flow test, for some fake semblance of secure result assurance. horrible. https://t.co/73qxZuKhwC 2021-07-21 15:10:10 a remarkably bizarre way to oppose vaccination certificates. https://t.co/YgipdFCimq 2021-07-21 15:00:06 @bialasiewicz @EurJRR @CUP_Law @alemannoEU @fabiochiusi @vitalbaa @SaraFregonese @nandosigona so great to be part of this, and really clear editorial! I think our article is stuck in typesetter purgatory still but hopefully it comes up on FirstView in the next couple of days! in meantime shortened version of the argument is here https://t.co/2FQqh1tmIS 2021-07-21 14:15:17 @paulwaugh @Helen_Whately https://t.co/YhY3wb2AEH 2021-07-21 14:03:49 @stokel @EerkeBoiten @mattburgess1 @EinsteinsAttic @coronawarnapp (on a per article basis, anyway) 2021-07-21 14:03:37 @stokel @EerkeBoiten @mattburgess1 @EinsteinsAttic @coronawarnapp academics can only imagine writing articles for money 2021-07-21 14:01:33 @EerkeBoiten @mattburgess1 @EinsteinsAttic @coronawarnapp @stokel ah yes, missed it was @stokel's piece, sorry 2021-07-21 13:56:08 @mattburgess1 in relation to the Apple/Google points that @EerkeBoiten @EinsteinsAttic raise in your piece, you may wish to note that the German Apple/Google exposure notification app, @coronawarnapp, integrates their national vaccination (EU Digital COVID) certificate. 2021-07-20 14:01:54 RT @lilianedwards: COOL JOB ALERT Fulltime, permanent Lecturer: Digital Law, Policy & 2021-07-20 10:30:27 Here are the questions. Promises to be interesting. https://t.co/362SMwiTt8 https://t.co/y62jIE1Hh7 2021-07-20 10:25:34 RT @maxschrems: #PrivacyBREAKING: Austrian Supreme Court asks #CJEU if @Facebook illegally "undermined" the #GDPR by bypassing consent via… 2021-07-20 10:17:54 Today our case against the ICO on the issue of adtech, procedural and substantive duties of the Commissioner, is being heard at the Upper Tribunal. We’re represented by @RaviNa1k and his team at @A__W______O, Maya Lester QC, Julianne Kerr-Morrison and Nikolaus Grubeck. https://t.co/yhfOkgYbw7 2021-07-20 10:13:44 RT @OpenRightsGroup: @jimkillock & 2021-07-20 10:04:56 make it stop https://t.co/enVfVYDkCr 2021-07-20 09:50:36 Another Foxglove win!* Getting ridiculous now. Public sector buckles after another pre-action protocol letter. While no satisfaction of case-law, Foxglove are making the rule-of-law great again. *partially, & 2021-07-20 09:46:26 RT @Foxglovelegal: VICTORY in our #NHSDataGrab case! Last night the government announced a serious roll back - they’re going to do (some o… 2021-07-20 08:57:16 EU AI Act paper w/ @fborgesius now forthcoming in Computer Law Review International (CRi) in Aug. Some minor tweaks in the updated pre-print, available freely on SocArXiv: https://t.co/aawuWFunFq Thanks for all feedback — glad to see more debate on the devils in the details! https://t.co/LB7LbyHK5e 2021-07-20 08:49:17 RT @alsothings: to quote a colleague '_this_ is how 5g kills you' https://t.co/HsMyxtbXtd 2021-07-19 19:21:09 RT @rachelcoldicutt: Also, somewhere in the rabbit hole of links and press releases, it states that “digital ID is worth £800m to the UK ec… 2021-07-19 18:58:49 Consultation now open: https://t.co/qiwZeLRn6z 2021-07-19 14:39:22 RT @CampaignFoI: Now @CommonsDCMS has issued a statement: "Ministers have failed to provide a preferred candidate to become the next Infor… 2021-07-19 14:38:09 RT @juanandres_gs: These remarks on the limitations when inspecting iOS devices should give us pause… there’s a mistaken belief that privac… 2021-07-19 14:33:03 @Jausl00s what do you mean?! don’t you want to be Professor of the Free Movement of Non Personal Data?! 2021-07-19 14:21:45 RT @EU_EDPS: On July 14, the brilliant #EDPS and @EU_EDPB trainees hosted a conference on biometric surveillance. The recording of the con… 2021-07-19 14:21:24 RT @EstelMP: Want to join the @accessnow Brussels office? We are hiring a Facial Recognition Policy Fellow. Apply by 11 August 2021 here:… 2021-07-19 12:50:41 Double Reuben trouble with a very interesting new paper from @RDBinns @ReubenKirkham about how equality and data protection law interact with questions of fairness in machine learning in relation to people with disabilities. https://t.co/Ij3k7UFc55 https://t.co/rKNBfKfC3D 2021-07-19 12:00:04 @TheSimonEvans alternatively, Rumour Milliner 2021-07-19 11:53:15 @TheSimonEvans I wonder: is a tin foil hatter someone who wears such a hat or who makes them? 2021-07-19 11:50:38 @MadelineCarr @steapp @ucl @uclisec @emilianoucl @sjmurdoch @GDanezis @m_a_sasse @mjvasek @Daeinar Enjoy the move! Hope to see your team blogging on Bentham's Gaze! :) 2021-07-18 18:38:28 This is extremely interesting. Does NSO block the ability to target US phones? Why? (Is this commonly known?) https://t.co/CcGOaSbtG1 https://t.co/PuOL7hkDbz 2021-07-18 18:35:05 RT @mryderqc: This @guardian joint scoop looks to be the biggest communications surveillance story since @Snowden revelations. The scale o… 2021-07-18 13:06:45 RT @WebDevLaw: Per Politico: The government’s pick for Information Commissioner to be questioned by the digital, culture, media and sport c… 2021-07-18 13:04:47 @meerihaataja there’s a newer version in the paper but even in this version… they are? 6th from the top? 2021-07-18 06:28:56 @PaulbernalUK @JaneFae @lilianedwards @guy_herbert @carolinejmolloy hence if this barrister ignores it, he is breaking the law, which isn’t a good look at the bar council i imagine. 2021-07-18 06:27:54 @Tedward_edward @CampbellTCC @JonArmstrongLaw @RupertMyers @thetimes @BBCr4today this is not a notification from the app though, this looks like a text message from T& 2021-07-18 06:26:39 @PaulbernalUK @JaneFae @lilianedwards @guy_herbert @carolinejmolloy that’s not the app, that’s a text message. nothing to do with the app. 2021-07-17 16:30:50 as an academic I am so much more interested in what you have to say after the greeting than the way you do it. https://t.co/2DDnuNDa1T 2021-07-17 12:16:33 @MarijnSax @fborgesius @algorithmwatch tasty vitriol 2021-07-16 18:07:55 Important because the IAB’s very questionable idea of ‘global consent’ has been that opt out is always per site but opt in is universal… https://t.co/KZ1pvUOsMq 2021-07-16 16:03:59 Hansen: GDPR assumes clear organisations and responsibilities, tricky with crowd-based systems and protocols, particularly when trying to improve unlinkability. https://t.co/GMF53t18Y9 2021-07-16 16:02:56 Hansen: Big players are so hard to grab for illegal practices, the court rulings take years — this demotivates everyone involved from DPA employees to SMEs. DPAs driven by individual complaints, less energy for structural change. #HotPETs 2021-07-16 15:59:35 Hansen looks at what 'state of the art' means in DPbD art 25 GDPR. Mix of maturity and quality. Wants to expand it more into the less mature but very high quality PET ideas — DPAs need to be more active in engaging with frontier research. https://t.co/PpV4JF4V6D 2021-07-16 15:42:04 Head of the Schleswig-Holstein DPA Marit Hansen at #HotPETs talks about how tricky it is for DPAs to assess changing systems — after a case like the Facebook fanpage tracking case (Wirtschaftsakademie), a small change may occur, but precipitates slow, effortful reassessment. https://t.co/A9McndvREp 2021-07-16 14:29:05 cc @echo_pbreyer who is working on this in the EP 2021-07-16 14:29:04 Fascinating talk @shubhamjain0594 at #HotPETs on how reliable client-side scanning (eg for CSAM) in encrypted messages is. Conclusion — images q easy to perturb to avoid detection, upping threshold to stop it wld flag 1-in-3 safe images incorrectly. Paper: https://t.co/ZCiEHLp9hp https://t.co/E6h4jD6zGx 2021-07-15 17:31:47 @owainkenway definitely one for the @V_and_A Rapid Response Collecting if they can get hold of one… 2021-07-15 15:51:46 @TheRegister enter @drdrmc from stage left https://t.co/urpbxF3X00 2021-07-15 08:29:03 CJEU with Art 17 looks headed towards another ‘in principle it is possible to do legally’ while not grappling with ‘in technical & Constant CJEU referrals to test safeguards are not practical or possible. Reminds of LQDN data retention case. https://t.co/st7L8Vu1h7 2021-07-15 08:13:03 RT @eLAWnora: OUT NOW: AG Øe advises CJEU to rule that Art 17 DSMD is COMPATIBLE with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (C-401/19) https… 2021-07-14 15:05:37 @tforcworc @a_b_powell people still haven’t put VNC and Wi-fi in every projector :( 2021-07-14 12:33:11 RT @EU_EDPS: “An Orwellian Premonition: a discussion on perils of #biometric surveillance” conference organised by #EDPS and @EU_EDPB tra… 2021-07-14 09:09:41 RT @paulwaugh: Fact that Google, for example, wasn't subjected to PM's strong words was down entirely to them not having been able to make… 2021-07-14 03:36:51 @tforcworc @trishgreenhalgh @SadiqKhan yes, but easier said than done when you don’t have special staff for that or the authority of the british transport police. i predict that once on the tube, enforcement will not occur. 2021-07-13 21:08:21 @podehaye @patwalshe_ https://t.co/37goF08Sup 2021-07-13 18:18:20 @trishgreenhalgh @SadiqKhan Will be interesting to see if or how adherence changes when statutory enforcement powers of civil penalties disappear. 2021-07-13 18:08:31 RT @infolawcentre: CALL FOR PAPERS - ILPC Annual Conference 2021 Data in a Pandemic Topics of interest include: Emergency powers & 2021-07-13 17:35:59 RT @maxschrems: [RT & 2021-07-13 16:23:04 RT @KKollnig: We at @OxfordHCC analysed this issue, the lack of consent to tracking, in the context of mobile apps. > 2021-07-13 11:02:43 Runescape drama meets GDPR drama. More https://t.co/fsMEBG0C2k https://t.co/lKNiRONNIc 2021-07-13 09:59:14 BBC is a joint controller for these purposes (CJEU, Fashion ID), as is the IAB whose Transparency and Consent Framework the BBC rely on (CJEU, Jehovan todistajat). More info https://t.co/PZwHKzmLNI 2021-07-13 09:57:44 BBC now facilitating cookie/fingerprint profiling of users on the basis of legitimate interest, in breach of consent reqs under PECR when there is storage or access of information on a web browser. UK users should write to the BBC and then complain to the ICO. https://t.co/UO0gFSRj9m 2021-07-13 08:24:14 Embarrassing non-report. Waste of time of people interviewed (myself included) and those submitting evidence. Contains no analysis. Wouldn’t get a passing grade if submitted as an assignment. https://t.co/79ZvE5jKcC 2021-07-13 08:20:50 @1Br0wn @PaulbernalUK @lilianedwards @silkiecarlo @GusHosein @TomSamaki Yes, I was interviewed. 2021-07-13 08:04:20 RT @IzzieHahn: Super excited to be moderating this panel tomorrow alongside a fantastic lineup of speakers! Join us to hear more about the… 2021-07-13 05:26:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: Reminder of open postdoc positions at the SPRING lab. I will be @PET_Symposium the whole week. If you are interested i… 2021-07-12 14:04:11 @SarahEskens oh i see, that might link the invited guest’s account to the office365 user database of the VU… 2021-07-12 13:42:49 @stuartleech I have never managed to find the doc there before that way on the others' accs, but there may be a way to do it. I think it's catch 22, you can't make it recent until it's used. It may be poss to get it to appear on their OneDrive but I struggled adding it to their files before. 2021-07-12 13:40:42 (the core reason for needing to access in desktop is so we can both use Zotero. so I am not going to self-host Collabora, I do not want to use GDocs, and I already run an home etherpad instance for lighter things.) 2021-07-12 13:38:10 Every time I try to consult my mental model of how O365 works or silos anything across organisations I get too much of a headache to continue. I am semi-aware you can both give up and use Live accs somehow (though I don't know what Live really is and how it links to my licenses). 2021-07-12 13:36:55 MS Office geeks: I often collaborate on Word docx w/ ppl w/ O365 accounts outside my uni. We need to both edit in desktop apps, but they are restricted to editing in browser. If they try to 'edit with desktop app' they get login page for *my* uni. Is there a way to achieve this? 2021-07-12 12:00:58 RT @montezumachavez: Exchanges of Personal Data After the Schrems II Judgment https://t.co/FAXZlWXa6G @1Br0wn’s blog pots: https://t.co… 2021-07-12 11:17:36 narrator: they were not. 2021-07-12 11:17:11 if the idea is to have a chilling effect, it achieves it though the perverse theatrics arising from how people currently incorrectly think they’re truly anonymous on mainstream ad-funded social media. 2021-07-12 11:14:59 does the BCS present evidence that the lack of identifiability of these accounts is the block to prosecution? i) social media companies make their entire business from constructing identities across devices ii) uk law enforcement have huge powers to identify people from metadata https://t.co/gOBSGW73Co 2021-07-12 08:07:43 @Cybermatron (but that’s England ofc) 2021-07-12 08:07:05 @Cybermatron Are they definitely a solicitor and not a conveyancer? I believe the conveyancing regulator is much more pro-tech-innovative-change-stuff so you might have to look at them rather than the SRA. 2021-07-11 19:47:52 @hadleywickham that seems to be trying to format it in US legal Bluebook style which uses both first page number only and shortened ‘Journal’… quite strange. 2021-07-11 19:34:23 @techreview @salesforce what a joke of an ‘article’, no substance or evidence of any effectiveness or even real examples of use, paragraphs don’t even follow from each other, illustrated with contact tracing apps which do not use ‘AI’. embarrassing for @techreview. 2021-07-10 19:51:23 @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender @FryRsquared I really hope the final episode doesn’t misuse your words and views or pit you in some stupid dichotomy. 2021-07-10 19:49:05 @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender Radio 4 differs heavily by programme. Some programmes focus heavily and rigorously on research and academic papers (The Life Scientific, Thinking Allowed, In Our Time, and @FryRsquared’s show). Others tell a defined story and can definitely end up with the situations described. 2021-07-10 07:00:43 @mvandenbroeke in february… old news. 2021-07-10 06:34:55 @Nadya_Purtova @eleni_kosta an evaluation premised on objectivity when the process is strung together from donated labour from other exhausted academics. 2021-07-10 06:20:42 RT @rachelcoldicutt: Some good/important tech strategy jobs going at Ofcom (where I’m a non-exec, and no, I don’t know where they got “guru… 2021-07-10 06:20:35 @rachelcoldicutt @edsaperia a true guru too! no false gurus for Ofcom. 2021-07-10 06:18:49 @PaulNemitz At the moment, the AI Act places bot disclosure obligations on providers not users, a distinction which falls apart in practice and risks becoming nonsensical. How does a *provider* of synthetic voices usefully disclose their artificiality? https://t.co/aawuWFunFq https://t.co/LTTbOsoOm6 2021-07-10 05:51:48 Actual date of implementation of these changes: 7 November, 23 December, Github was ahead the first time, lagged the second. https://t.co/TLvrqUY6vC 2021-07-10 05:50:03 @alexhern i gave an interview around this on sky news and the presenter said ‘keir starmer says it’s like taking the batteries out of a smoke alarm’ and I almost said NO CLEARLY ALEX HERN SAID THAT AND AN ADVISOR NICKED IT 2021-07-10 05:48:43 @alexhern @russss Dates for both changes here: 7 Nov, 23 Dec. https://t.co/TLvrqUY6vC 2021-07-09 20:50:53 If you need another reason to read our AI Act paper, it’s a laugh-a-minute.* *May also induce tears of anguish. https://t.co/67njF2jwxO 2021-07-09 19:47:36 They’re not *gathering* data. They’re preparing infrastructures for surveillant, ostensibly private (really just confidential) edge computing. The White House is being played by Apple, Google, Amazon like a bull with a red rag. https://t.co/enMpQXfXjP 2021-07-09 16:55:00 @nidhalaigh i’ve been talking about the app all day to media and carefully saying england and wales so i was bound to slip up sometime :) 2021-07-09 16:23:10 @nidhalaigh yes, sorry, totally right. 2021-07-09 16:22:14 @daphnehk @lilianedwards @PJLeerssen @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner @permacc It’s indeed mostly useful for government pages which refuse to put timestamps or register changes, which I think is a problem they should solve rather than the citers. 2021-07-09 15:22:06 @RunMrb @SussexDocSchool @technollama @ChrisTMarsden til hamingju!! 2021-07-09 15:20:40 @daphnehk @lilianedwards @PJLeerssen @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner Oh I do agree with that generally (and often use @permacc for that reason!), but I suppose editors skipped this one as we weren’t really asserting much at all :) 2021-07-09 15:14:15 @daphnehk @lilianedwards @PJLeerssen @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner i mean that lack of rigour is worrying, how will we know if the trolley memes page has changed to no longer illustrates the flowery point we were making? what if the memes have significantly degraded in quality?! what will future generations do when it vanishes? 2021-07-09 15:11:16 @daphnehk @lilianedwards @PJLeerssen @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner it is a US one and I do vaguely recall a fight about that footnote with an editor but apparently we won… 2021-07-09 14:32:20 @PJLeerssen @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner That is a @lilianedwards footnote! You can tell by the gratuitous use of latin. 2021-07-09 14:26:18 @why0hy @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner Believe it or not that is the toned down version of that sentence 2021-07-09 14:14:17 @ka_iwanska @MiiBlinn @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner Oh I just mean we will finish the sentence. 2021-07-09 13:58:03 @ka_iwanska @fborgesius @sarahchander @djleufer @F_Kaltheuner ahahaha that’s clearly a footnote that shouldn’t be there and isn’t quite finished although in context it’s quite funny, and correct. we will tidy it up but keep the intent true. 2021-07-09 13:19:49 @vmantouvalou @UCLLaws @TNovitz @colmocinneide wahoo! go dr @nataliesedacca! and also go go go for first full new academic year in your lecturer position! 2021-07-09 10:25:26 Changed once in late October/early Nov (made a lot more sensitive, features in the @ChristoPhraser lab study as an exogenous change to ground the validity of the observational method), and once in January (made a little more sensitive). File history: https://t.co/znsE8CjOp7 https://t.co/1mMQHCcc48 2021-07-09 08:43:38 @tforcworc as i said, not saying it's illegitimate to include vaccine data, i'm saying that you can't technically restrict misuse of such bits once they exist. in a protocol like GAEN, when you introduce bits that can distinguish between different 'types' of ppl, you need public scrutiny. 2021-07-09 08:37:13 @tforcworc (let's pretend apple and google would let an app do that) 2021-07-09 08:36:47 @tforcworc because it distinguishes between ppl. not necessarily illegitimate, just needs scrutiny. e.g. if statitical correlation between non-mask wearing and an ethnic group, is it ethical to broadcast a bit declaring the group riskier? can have real effects on behaviour. 2021-07-09 08:17:54 My understanding (this metadata was not part of DP-3T) is that phones can only decrypt this for keys that have been uploaded after a positive test. What is in there woudl need to be carefully scrutinised as distinguishing riskiness of different 'populations' is value-laden. 2021-07-09 08:11:30 Trickier if trying to allow individuals to *receive* less risk from vaccinated people who later turn out to be +ve despite (expected decreased transmissibility?), but technically possible using the many encrypted reserved bits in the Exposure Notification Bluetooth payload. https://t.co/xrZuR0WApG https://t.co/AhmpnRNqW1 2021-07-09 07:47:45 @lilianedwards @RDBinns the impression from shapps on #r4today was that they’re shafting governance of everything onto rail operators in order to be able to declare freedom day (from policy set by elected officials) 2021-07-09 07:12:22 RT @sedyst: When governments went for apps, they turned contact tracing, a public health activity, into an engineering, and therewith an op… 2021-07-09 07:09:42 might even be cheaper than £3.2bn of off-label lateral flow tests 2021-07-09 06:36:29 @ProfWoodward @ruskin147 yup, am quoted saying that at the bottom (although I’m aware the EN/WA app doesn’t quite work on the 15min/2m logic, explained during interview this is clipped from). agree alerts should be based as far as possible on epidemiology not optimisation goals. change the intervention. 2021-07-09 06:28:11 @AdamWagner1 also under the current functioning of the app, scanning a QR code will never trigger a self isolation ping, just a ‘be cautious’ or ‘take a test’ ping. 2021-07-09 06:26:29 This is not to say allowing transmission now is good/not. Unpacking this individualisation of risk. The ‘use common sense’ approach doesn’t logically work if the problem is a collective action one (all wear masks, if you defect you benefit) based on source not wearer protection. 2021-07-09 06:23:20 If the UK allowing removal of masks that typically *only protect others* on crowded trains etc, where are the free (expensive) FFP3 masks which do *protect the user* for those still not fully vaccinated (for many reasons)? It’s all about acting according to your own risk, right? 2021-07-09 06:06:37 Presumably TikTok hasn’t taken off in Scunthorpe if this is the level of engineering they apply to content moderation (hint: it’s not). https://t.co/57RVeMgPm1 2021-07-08 20:57:10 @vgalaz Greenpeace did a report a couple of years ago, I forgot the name. Else, I’ve heard anecdotally from people inside such corporations. 2021-07-08 20:24:21 Wait til you see how much Cloud services like Microsoft Azure and AWS make from selling compute to extractive industries… https://t.co/Ih6RZBCI1p 2021-07-08 19:55:39 RT @EqualRights: Today we and @anticorruption launch our new report: DEFYING EXCLUSION: STORIES AND INSIGHTS ON THE LINKS BETWEEN DISCRIMIN… 2021-07-08 16:03:44 @AndyPKopp @JoannaChataway @VeikoLember @InaBrass @rainerkattel @UCLSTEaPP @IIPP_UCL @EPSRC @MulugettaYacob congratulations!! 2021-07-08 15:58:07 @Hannahcknox @UCLanthropology congratulations hannah! 2021-07-08 15:53:53 RT @amunyua: Firefox extends privacy and security of Canadian internet users with by-default DNS-over-HTTPS rollout in Canada https://t.co/… 2021-07-08 15:00:04 RT @PaulQuinnBxl: The UK government expects EU Member States to recognise its vaccination certificate but refuses to recognize the EU covid… 2021-07-08 11:00:04 @tforcworc Immaculate Virgin 2021-07-08 10:58:37 @tforcworc @oliviasolon @virginmedia @aaisp I use AA at the moment and they’re the best thing on the openreach FTTC network. 2021-07-08 10:57:55 @tforcworc @oliviasolon @virginmedia @aaisp for the 50mbps upload package? that’s less than half of what they offered me. 2021-07-08 10:56:01 @tforcworc @oliviasolon @virginmedia @aaisp (it’s also several times more expensive than hyperoptic!) 2021-07-08 10:55:22 @tforcworc @oliviasolon @virginmedia @aaisp lucky with fibre, mine in KT was not even DOCSIS 3.1, I called to try and get a static IP and it took 3 people before anyone knew what an IP address was. agree re wired unless you’re on new expensive wifi, but i’m using own server too… prosumer life 2021-07-08 10:17:40 @oliviasolon @virginmedia virgin are a minefield, and it's not even fibre. pathetic upload rates (even if they say 1gbps download, it 2021-07-08 09:52:05 RT @carmelatroncoso: We have two postdoc openings at the SPRING Lab @EPFL_en! Applied crypto and Privacy-preserving systems https://t.co/tI… 2021-07-08 09:22:15 @Jackstilgoe @stsucl @uclsts I think a 0.8 role at Waymo while staying at UCL 0.2 will work fine for all concerned. 2021-07-08 07:16:06 If anyone still thought Open Access didn’t help visibility… the lobbyists are getting in on it as a tool for impact! (perhaps of interest to @ucylpay) https://t.co/cuGMZ848EA 2021-07-08 06:55:25 @stsucl @Jackstilgoe @uclsts now you can say what you *really* think about automated cars! that’s how it works, right? so many congratulations, your work and approach to scholarship around technology and society has long been inspirational to me. 2021-07-08 06:53:05 RT @stsucl: Huge congratulations to @Jackstilgoe, newly promoted Professor in @uclsts! https://t.co/3haupGgd2a 2021-07-07 21:55:58 @RobertHGeorge 2021-07-05 17:38:40 @Marion_InfoLaw @LordsJHACom oh, exciting, congratulations! 2021-07-05 16:00:59 RT @ElectoralCommUK: Today the UK Government announced plans to strengthen Parliamentary oversight of the Electoral Commission. Read our fu… 2021-07-05 13:03:30 @RDBinns @timsquirrell Yes, if they have ability to spoof whatever number they want, they may just to your number ± (1, 999) 2021-07-05 12:48:40 @timsquirrell yes, but why would they spoof a similar one to the one they're calling? it's still a random phone number... 2021-07-05 12:45:09 (there is more than one number with this characteristic) 2021-07-05 12:44:55 I'm getting a large number of fake, illegal robocalls claiming to be from the National Crime Agency to my mobile. The weird thing: many of these calls ostensibly share the first 8 digits of my mobile phone number, with the last 3 being different. Anyone know why this might be? 2021-07-05 10:13:30 RT @sammacbeth: Recently my team at DuckDuckGo have been working on trying to reduce the number of sites that are broken by the privacy pro… 2021-07-05 09:51:48 @tforcworc @whvholst @1Br0wn @superglaze legally, the app notification is guidance, and does not have a binding effect with penalties for non compliance as a phonecall does. i do not know if T& 2021-07-05 09:18:02 RT @1Br0wn: Oh dear. Native speaker @ilumium says this Google translation is inadequate and @Monopolkom wants to *limit* the real-time data… 2021-07-05 09:16:16 @EerkeBoiten @1Br0wn @whvholst @tforcworc Indeed, but if people aren’t interviewe (also with regard to whether the visit was risky), those aren’t triggered. many GAEN apps failed bc no one could get the codes from healthcare. instead of running with a simple solution, energy was to engineer it more not integrate it… 2021-07-05 09:07:36 @1Br0wn @whvholst @EerkeBoiten @tforcworc Similar to other tweet, danger that then fewer people will use it, additional benefit will be lost. I’m not (and have not been) convinced that a lot of these kind of extensions are socially feasible trade off points, they’re just nice in engineers’ minds. 2021-07-05 09:05:51 @1Br0wn @whvholst @EerkeBoiten @tforcworc I think you’d need evidence for that. Danger of overengineering. Remember also (also key to central/decentral) that uptake is the core driver, not risk adjustment. the more invasive and complicated a system gets, running a risk of backlash that could undermine marginal benefits… 2021-07-05 09:03:34 @1Br0wn @whvholst @EerkeBoiten @tforcworc Also (slide illustrative, from @AllysonPollock, related to vulnerability not exposure), note that ‘where do you stop once you start profiling’ becomes important and controversial. If concerned about individuals and risk, when do you say more freedoms for thin and healthy people? https://t.co/FcgKPdFWcD 2021-07-05 09:00:53 @1Br0wn @whvholst @EerkeBoiten @tforcworc I think a q is if you actually need a complex risk score in an app or whether you could just give differing guidance to people on what to do when ‘exposed’, and what the logic of broadcasting a risk level was and what that discloses about an individual. Danger of overengineering 2021-07-05 08:58:47 @whvholst @1Br0wn @EerkeBoiten @tforcworc Other than the fact the UK never released a full protocol so we can’t compare details, CrowdNotifier has a mechanism that prevents an authority triggering venues without their awareness and agreement (eg as a defence against targeted venue profiling, voter suppression, etc) 2021-07-05 08:43:04 @whvholst @1Br0wn @EerkeBoiten @tforcworc England/Wales uses a (weaker in some ways) version of the CrowdNotifier concept in its GAEN app, so the firms do not object to that. 2021-07-05 08:41:18 @1Br0wn @EerkeBoiten @whvholst @tforcworc control is important but i don’t think it’s very particular to GAEN for Apple, the company is so hellbent on control generally (hi apple execs!). they’ve built their world like a precarious jenga tower so that if they lose control of one bit can undermine everything. by design. 2021-07-05 08:38:12 @1Br0wn @EerkeBoiten @whvholst @tforcworc also important to think ‘where if anywhere are the lines drawn’. decentralisation? GPS? (and the effect of all this on battery life and abuse potential). finally, platforms don’t want to have to deal with accommodating every state’s individual desires at once in short time frame. 2021-07-05 08:36:29 @1Br0wn @EerkeBoiten @whvholst @tforcworc if any CT app to work, apple had to build update. unwillingness to let just anything run in the BG i) battery life 2021-07-04 17:10:36 @AmooreLouise Agreed. 2021-07-04 16:28:00 Weird logic because the England/Wales QR feature of the COVID-19 app *never* tells individuals to self-isolate, only either to be cautious or get tested. https://t.co/CjfMsfKWnn 2021-07-04 14:53:42 @technollama systems do and can memorise usernames etc though, see https://t.co/64ojYaz1X9 2021-07-04 14:47:45 @technollama however i wonder if the emails are real or just simulacra 2021-07-04 14:46:56 @technollama often they are! (an early dutch contact tracing app hardcoded emails in their github repo…) also we wrote about this problem here https://t.co/9d4Rqq7KJl 2021-07-03 20:19:19 @marc_mcgeemoore Need to check Bentham House for panoptic cameras. 2021-07-03 20:16:30 @marc_mcgeemoore Should put you on SAGE 2021-07-03 09:44:52 RT @cyberleagle: @cliffmanning @DCMS Someone at @DCMS doesn't understand the difference between disapplication of a liability shield and a… 2021-07-03 06:57:58 @stokel the European Commission think Member States can enforce their new AI regulation, which even has internet content related rules (eg on synthetic content) with 1-25 more staff per country. 2021-07-01 17:47:47 RT @k_irion: “Traditionally, secrecy was the exception. In recent years, law enforcement has turned that exception on its head, developing… 2021-07-01 16:28:23 @annliffey @data_ctive @ERC_Research @david_berra @Kolenyo @KerstiRu total role model of how to run a project! thank you for giving ECRs a beacon of *I want to do something cool like that* 2021-07-01 09:08:45 RT @Jackstilgoe: A new one from me in the journal of Ethics and Information Technology. How can we know a self-driving car is safe? https:/… 2021-07-01 09:01:30 @CatherineFlick @Jackstilgoe solar geoengineering 2021-07-01 08:59:29 @Jackstilgoe (But in the end the Earth is saved by a humble invention) https://t.co/ZNeRIZU3WY 2021-07-01 08:57:01 @Jackstilgoe @UCLlaw_env < ‘blockchained’ < 2021-07-01 08:54:37 @Jackstilgoe @UCLlaw_env including a very questionable verb. look forward to it! (sort of) 2021-07-01 08:54:04 @Jackstilgoe @UCLlaw_env oh, there’s a subplot that is much worse than that that almost made me abandon it. 2021-07-01 08:50:23 RT @UCLlaw_env: Online | Ministries for the Future in Environmental Law | UCL Faculty of Laws - UCL – University College London https://t.c… 2021-07-01 08:50:11 @UCLlaw_env oh! i’ve just read this book. excellent choice of event, looking forward 2021-07-01 08:07:04 @timsquirrell gateskeeper of grammar 2021-07-01 08:05:23 @timsquirrell i was using a windows laptop at work the other day and tried to type an em-dash and realised i had entered a world of hell 2021-07-01 07:38:04 @tforcworc @riptari (I have not seen people say that in the current situation, this is the roll out speed for Pfizer we would use if we had limitless resources.) 2021-07-01 07:36:41 @tforcworc @riptari The shakiness I was referring to was not of biological modelling but to say whether evidence re bigger gap for Pfizer can confidently support it as better strategy than faster vaccinations in light of the current wave in UK and it’s impact on the unvaccinated across Europe. 2021-07-01 07:30:24 @tforcworc @riptari I’m sure there are countless theoretical or lab Pfizer gap studies, I just read there was only one Pfizer gap field study, but surely many even observational ones in pipeline. Either way seems the Pfizer gap is a (sensible) decision but currently needed primarily due to supply. 2021-07-01 07:23:42 @riptari It seems UK has high vaccination capacity and that if supply was available you’d just plough everything into it. But the AZ delay does seem justifiable given weaker protection against aspects other than severe disease. 2021-07-01 07:20:20 @riptari Outside my expertise. I did read that only one study, relating to older patients (not main current UK Pfizer recipients) relates to gaps for Pfizer. I also find it hard that shaky science on the need for bigger gaps outweighs firmer science on importance of 2nd doses re Delta v 2021-07-01 07:11:24 @riptari apparently it’s not about flow of vaccine, it’s because there’s an order which apparently won’t come until late August creating a gap that leads to a core 2nd dose speed limiter https://t.co/Kbcl2J3md8 2021-07-01 06:52:10 (the UK's interesting narrative on it is here https://t.co/qfufOQDxmS in a somewhat insecure sounding Gov Response to a consultation saying a lot of *we did vote for it at the time!* while also admitting that redrafting all the regs in a diff style will incur costs for business) 2021-07-01 06:47:33 Not a single word in this BBC article on new 'UK' repairability legislation (far from a 'right', but okay) indicating it is the UK choosing to adopt the same implementing measures to the Ecodesign Directive that the European Commission did this March https://t.co/4uCpNA7h1s https://t.co/7nH5ZTOQ7X 2021-07-01 06:09:40 @mer__edith Best to go with the differently blacklisted reporters who have long given up on getting privileged embargoed tech sector stories in my experience. 2021-06-30 21:37:09 RT @technollama: Is GitHub’s Copilot potentially infringing copyright? https://t.co/eSXHIx1OFR 2021-06-30 21:21:50 @mark_riedl @technollama anything new and uncertain is of course about appetite for legal risk but ‘probably is’ doesn’t seem a well-founded way of stating it (and a bold statement to make given your initial statement as not being a copyright lawyer!) 2021-06-30 21:18:43 @mark_riedl @technollama enforceable implies there is an infringement but not worth it to follow up. but as the blog argues, below a threshold that this seems unlikely to meet, there’s no copyright infringement. this tl 2021-06-30 20:54:48 @mark_riedl You may wish to look at copyright and software licensing legal scholar @technollama's blog, which strongly disagrees with your position. https://t.co/JyXt1ky3ga 2021-06-30 19:32:44 A good check for truly controversial opinions is that they also commonly trigger people who feel queasy when they see a new WEF initiative. https://t.co/uXzwJudM2j 2021-06-30 15:06:25 @PaulbernalUK @halhod While the Blanchette paper is 2002 (and there is work before that), I think this quote from @Lawprofaallen ('Unpopular Privacy') in 2011 is great https://t.co/FKN6uXTNsb 2021-06-30 15:01:16 Fighting for a financially independent, insulated academia in issues of technology and power matters. https://t.co/q5Nq9hatMI 2021-06-30 14:59:49 RT @tjmcintyre: Support your local digital rights organisations. This is what we’re up against. https://t.co/O2qrvEH9Sd 2021-06-30 14:59:44 RT @MalJayaram: That’s a lot of affairs. #tech https://t.co/NhgZTcnL1x 2021-06-30 14:57:55 @halhod yes, including https://t.co/IWYIpjxeAQ https://t.co/JiE9xnOxFJ 2021-06-30 13:02:08 @technollama @RDBinns @eevee but what about where it reproduces chunks (although arguably this 'origin tracker' could then flag hey, you need to copyleft this...) 2021-06-30 11:22:02 @technollama then i will be caffeinated and mAkE mORe coNtENt 2021-06-30 10:51:40 @technollama I guess people always put adverts with bank details in the private eye classifieds, just a more ‘social’ continuation… 2021-06-30 10:48:43 @Caffar3Cristina @1Br0wn @drphilipmarsden @jcremer Indeed, it restricts both. GDPR can and does regulate use, even if the regulators of it do not act like it does. The distinction between first and third parties is an industry interpretation that does not have significant textual support. 2021-06-30 09:33:15 @TomOrrell86 That may be how some people use it, but not all. People used to say that everything posted online or on Facebook was fair game. With automatic employee rating and ranking systems LinkedIn data can be q sensitive if used at scale. Yet they present privacy options which are lies. 2021-06-30 09:07:04 RT @RachelTobac: Wow, Gmail SMS 2FA code with an ad tacked on -- Google didn't include the ad, the ad was injected by the carrier. Looks li… 2021-06-30 08:42:58 RT @emilianoucl: The new @MSCActions work programme is out. As things stands, Brexit means @ucl cannot participate. Short Thread. 1/ 2021-06-30 08:32:18 https://t.co/ZqhqebjNAF 2021-06-30 08:04:50 RT @RMac18: Malcolm Gladwell's recent post for his Facebook-run newsletter extols the promise of self-driving cars. Nowhere in that newslet… 2021-06-29 17:16:34 RT @summer__heidi: https://t.co/GO0zDijwgD 2021-06-29 17:10:08 RT @lexatlasc19: Don't forget to drop in on the outstanding line-up in the EU Law Live/Lex-Atlas: Covid 19 event tomorrow on C19 Vaccinatio… 2021-06-29 14:10:36 The European Commission: "We have seen some very convincing napkins which appear to us to constitute an effective judicial remedy under—" 2021-06-29 14:09:27 But sure, Privacy Shield II. https://t.co/nt72JungrY 2021-06-29 14:08:38 RT @ashgorski: From PCLOB Board Member Travis LeBlanc, a damning critique of the agency's recent review of EO 12333 surveillance, which "re… 2021-06-29 09:01:04 Not said: “However, if you have a data breach, due to no agreed cooperation, you could now be fined by us and by European regulators!” https://t.co/Z7zPqfBqk5 2021-06-29 08:40:59 @data_and_policy cc @linnetelwin 2021-06-29 07:48:14 This seems to be because the UK and the EU have not agreed to recognise future database rights, and there is little value in protection that only applies in the UK. https://t.co/DPg2INgxnu 2021-06-29 07:42:49 RT @ilumium: The German DPA @UlrichKelber has given German government institutions until the end of the year to quit #Facebook or else face… 2021-06-29 07:35:16 Last day to apply! 2021-06-29 07:32:25 @alexhern Place all national treasures into state ownership. 2021-06-29 07:27:49 @ruskin147 why do people love the idea of hypothecation so much? funding policy problems to the arbitrary amount of unrelated taxes is a recipe for inefficiency. perhaps they think it becomes politically difficult to abolish as it’s very salient? (though people do like abolishing taxes) 2021-06-29 07:21:08 @RDBinns let a thousand flowers bloom (and be tended to slightly differently) 2021-06-29 07:14:53 Final day to apply for this 2 year research fellowship! https://t.co/acjL4B0jYa 2021-06-29 07:12:19 I also think the government misunderstands adequacy. If you’re a UK firm acting as data controller for EU citizens, the EU GDPR (often) still applies extraterritorially. It’s just that transfers in are possible, easily. Firms still have to comply with the EU rules. https://t.co/dEm44TADBQ 2021-06-28 17:30:35 @CarissaVeliz @HarvardBiz Strange not to give a single word to the ethics of randomised experimentation in AI. A/B testing (& 2021-06-28 17:14:47 RT @UCL_CLES: https://t.co/0wcJxIoI2j looking forward to hosting this fascinating workshop on Wednesday! @UCL_CLES @UCLLaws 2021-06-28 17:13:58 @jeff_a_king @TomRHickman Presumably means dessert at #EUCO was this classic. https://t.co/81nUUvXqJ4 2021-06-28 17:01:00 @TomRHickman @UCLLaws @BBCr4today thanks Tom! such an early bird 2021-06-28 16:24:00 This is good from @ShannonVallor. But a Q: if coopted, supine versions of tech ethics are to be reclaimed, who is going to effectively call out and hold to account the co-opters and their structures — including powerful and well funded gatekeepers in the academy — and how? https://t.co/456QKtMmEL 2021-06-28 14:54:12 RT @markscott82: Lolz. UK govt says its future data transfer deals will be “based on what maximizes innovation,” not what maximizes privacy… 2021-06-28 13:52:50 Also interesting that this is HMRC data not a survey. 2021-06-28 13:51:36 Also interesting data point there regarding Guildford College (and local knowledge economies) which I *suspect* is because it's not an architecture course but a 3D CAD course and Guildford is full of 3D design and games companies that need good who want to stick around in Surrey. 2021-06-28 13:47:47 UK academia is 100% sustainable and definitely appropriately remunerated when undergrads quickly earn higher salaries than associate professors in the places they graduate from... https://t.co/DarIwkbqz6 https://t.co/utG1kwEPoi 2021-06-28 11:23:54 @mer__edith @ginasue @PopTechWorks Perhaps ridiculous lack of organisation but I believe in 'this round' it largely relates to the firm pending a policy for academics and so refusing them based on the category. Later in the year allegedly they will extend to academics. https://t.co/T5HC5sj8ww 2021-06-28 11:19:21 @Caffar3Cristina 100%. 2021-06-28 11:19:12 RT @Caffar3Cristina: Dial is moving. Can no longer get away w “There’s tension between competition & 2021-06-28 11:13:21 @DouweKorff Note that reaching this stage was totally predictable 2021-06-28 11:10:00 @EU_Justice @EU_Commission @VeraJourova @dreynders @EU_EDPB @EU_EDPS @DigitalEU @BrunoGencarelli @W_Wiewiorowski @EUdelegationUK @ChristianWigand Read alongside the European Parliament resolution pointing out the incompatibility of thie decision with CJEU case-law, and scholarship pointing out among other observations the lack of critical analysis of the UK's surveillance regime: https://t.co/ohtaorV3kH 2021-06-28 11:06:54 The European Parliament resolution passed on 21st May 2021 pointing out some of the gaping holes in UK adequacy is required reading alongside this Commission decision, https://t.co/f4cOv3KtNl alongside @DouweKorff's critical analysis of the final text https://t.co/ETqwb3LT8y https://t.co/MiKfdflt47 https://t.co/PuwreDfWP2 2021-06-28 10:34:52 @MissIG_Geek the commission does not like to hold an adequacy sword of damocles, that’s really up to either the general court (VERY difficult to have standing) or a preliminary ruling (EU courts only, no route UK subject to UK controller). 2021-06-28 10:33:09 @MissIG_Geek oh, i see what you mean! still no, because the EC doesn’t have to act on complaints that the UK is inadequate and likely never will due to politics, and no effective route to a judge for UK people by questioning adequacy (as they wouldn’t have standing wrt to EU-> 2021-06-28 10:29:46 @MissIG_Geek and adequacy doesn’t mean that the UK is part of the one stop shop and similar regulatory cooperation 2021-06-28 10:28:47 @MissIG_Geek not unless the controller operated in the EU, which given the UK continued EU adequacy already, wasn’t really an issue. there are possibly some weird edge cases but in general it doesn’t extend powers of EU DPAs to UK soil any more than they already are 2021-06-28 09:12:49 RT @lexatlasc19: Chuan Feng-Wu on the very slippery slope of privacy in Taiwan's recent use of digital applications for C19 monitoring. Wh… 2021-06-28 07:59:39 RT @jennifercobbe: This is right, to an extent, but if someone has an idea to use AI for something and your response is only that the tech… 2021-06-28 07:07:55 RT @X_net_: Great event on June 29th by @data_ctive with lots of dear and smart friends @annliffey @nielstenoever @FiekeJ @DataJusticeLab @… 2021-06-28 06:14:10 RT @rosamunde_vb: Proposed Belgian data retention law obliges chat apps to build in a backdoor into encryption and retain metadata #surveil… 2021-06-27 18:45:36 @GBNEWS @mattburgess1 (if they do, it will be wholly political (as all these can be effectively legally ignored), which raises an interesting legal point of whether FOI receiving public bodies can *positively* discriminate in favour of some applicants) 2021-06-27 18:43:44 @GBNEWS looks like your journalists need a copy of @mattburgess1’s excellent FOI-making book as it is obvious to people who make such requests that none of these points are going to get an adequate response. 2021-06-27 18:39:37 RT @stokel: Thank you, @GBNEWS and @tomhfh, for giving me a "here's how not to do an FOI" example for my journalism students 2021-06-27 18:39:06 @stokel @WhatDoTheyKnow hey i use that and i’m clearly the 1% 2021-06-27 18:38:01 @stokel this is ridiculous, has tom harwood never written an FOI request before 2021-06-25 15:29:53 @mattr3 @lilianedwards shh 2021-06-25 14:58:16 @mattr3 @lilianedwards that’s actually almost my nearest shop now 2021-06-25 12:39:11 RT @carmelatroncoso: More than two months after writing this thread about the COVID certificates, the Digital Green Certificate is now the… 2021-06-25 08:04:17 RT @JeniT: Question appearing in a worksheet my 15yo non-binary child had to complete for their computer science GCSE studies. We really s… 2021-06-25 07:56:45 This will also affect Uber users’ and workers’ data rights, which are generally weaker under PIPEDA in Canada than under GDPR in the Netherlands, but may also give the @PrivacyPrivee a clearer in-jurisdiction target, especially when a revision to PIPEDA is completed as expected. https://t.co/VelgFgLBbO 2021-06-24 15:10:23 RT @abe_218: Thanks @mikarv for sharing this, an open access version of my article – now published in the latest edition of Judicial Review… 2021-06-24 14:51:59 RT @linnetelwin: this gig-spying app was originally marketed as a way for gvts to gather data 'for international development'. it underline… 2021-06-24 14:49:11 RT @Iwillleavenow: Bold stance that having no federal privacy law is exactly as useful as the EU having Union-wide privacy laws. https://t.… 2021-06-24 07:36:55 RT @DavidSacks: Apple hates the proposal by Rep. Cicilline (D-RI) to allow “sideloading” of apps on iOS devices, but it deserves serious co… 2021-06-23 15:31:06 Does anywhere other than California have a 'bot disclosure law' or similar on the books? 2021-06-23 14:38:59 @CJSprigman @daphnehk @sfmnemonic Not to say that balancing isn’t often messy, arbitrary, contested. But if balancing is the game, and legislators don’t agree and implement specific balancing frameworks, and two qualified rights come into tension, then— well, like Daphne, I’d like to see other models. 2021-06-23 14:35:41 @CJSprigman @daphnehk @sfmnemonic It appears to me that the ECtHR saying they will stay out of this and give Contracting States a hefty margin of appreciation to decide their own balance in the issues of the benefits of societal forgetfulness versus FoE is the opposite of freelance moral philosophising. 2021-06-23 14:29:07 @CJSprigman @daphnehk @sfmnemonic I’m not sure statements that the ECtHR is seeking to ‘dictate’ or acting in an ‘aggressive’ way represent what happened in this case: an applicant asked, following exhaustion, for the Belgian regime to be declared incompatible with Article 10, and the Court declined. 2021-06-23 10:06:23 RT @gabrielazanfir: One of the details that put the risk assessment issue to rest (for me) in the EDPB Supplementary Measures Rec, at least… 2021-06-22 22:32:18 I’m going to bed before the United States 1st Am death cult explodes in outrage at this judgment (which luckily is available only in French) 2021-06-22 19:05:52 @rachelcoldicutt remarkable how little the UK understands the industry behind AI 2021-06-22 15:17:06 Ireland to consider introducing measures relating to socioeconomic status in their equality law. https://t.co/06QyKGw5gB 2021-06-22 08:26:32 New CJEU data protection case (full judgment not out yet). Takeaway points seem to be: - Criminal offence (data) is autonomous EU concept, can incl admin offences eg road offences. - Latvian law publishing such data in name-and-shame style is not necessary, in breach of EU law. https://t.co/LdsJUfmLhM https://t.co/TVoDmKkAKG 2021-06-22 08:10:08 RT @JPQuintais: On whether platform operator benefits from hosting safe-harbor (14 e-Commerce Directive), the Court fall back on the neutra… 2021-06-22 07:44:10 @katebevan yup, but if they don’t help securitise, Home Office ain’t gonna fund those… still I agree perception risks being -ve. NYC had similar issue, delayed roll out of smart cards/mobile payment (using TfL’s and Cubic’s IP) to their turnstiles 2021-06-22 07:39:09 @renatesamson i tuned in and apparently pseudonymous data can be used to pre-fill in personalised forms now, that’s some neat ‘technology’ 2021-06-22 07:33:15 @katebevan Home Office, at least in part. https://t.co/rlRlLoNOX7 2021-06-22 07:26:39 Matt Hancock: Data saves lives etc Also Matt Hancock: I believe a royal yacht is a great idea and will pay for itself many times over. #r4today https://t.co/LHB4wEqeXF 2021-06-21 21:16:42 RT @ADCUnion: Desperate, desperate stuff ahead of the ADCU 24 hour @boltapp driver's strike starting at midnight tonight. @villigm, Galvin… 2021-06-21 19:27:19 @Elibietti I don’t know, I found @jennifercobbe @jatinternet’s recent piece explaining the legal sides of AI as a Service incredibly useful… https://t.co/MwccT7Pc4B 2021-06-21 19:18:23 About a week left to apply for this 2-year Research Fellowship @UCLLaws to figure out how society retains a say in the deployment and use of privately owned global infrastructures of increasingly precise sensors deeply involved in shaping our world, physicality, social relations! https://t.co/acjL4B0jYa 2021-06-21 17:52:58 CJEU C-682/18 Youtube/Cyando judgment due tomorrow 2021-06-21 13:11:54 HR pushing academic managers to look for rules broken by academics writing in their out-of-office that they are off work due to stress. “Not something you would get in other industries”, as parts of UK academia -> 2021-06-21 13:08:02 RT @DavidHarvieUCU: On January 18 I submitted a Data Subject Access Request, seeking copies of communications about me between various @uni… 2021-06-21 12:41:42 RT @Ned_Donovan: Fascinating FOI that Anton has discovered. The Department for Trade has admitted that Justin Welby is a member of the UK’… 2021-06-21 11:18:46 @MissIG_Geek i am here for the people who will reply but not click the link 2021-06-21 09:55:33 RT @alexhern: Amazon sets up a system where it charges sellers by the month to store stock in its warehouse, offers a service where it will… 2021-06-21 06:42:12 @grahamgreenleaf @Katharine_Kemp haven’t seen an official evaluation of the venue checker yet, which has gone rapidly up in use beyond 300 despite only limited cases now (see graph). there is however an official evaluation of England/Wales decentralised bluetooth contact tracing in Nature https://t.co/lbPhLoUcrk https://t.co/RTuwrUodd6 2021-06-20 13:24:37 RT @_jack_poulson: Today I Learned Twitter openly admits that it sells the entire Twitter firehose to NTT Data, which then resells to facia… 2021-06-19 22:19:21 @johnwilander Confuses privacy and confidentiality. The issue is hyperpersonalisation, regardless of whether it is done in confidence. Opening up the door to personalising using more and more intimate, on device information is deeply problematic regardless of if it ever leaves. 2021-06-19 12:39:58 RT @bruntonspall: Ok. Here’s a thread about the UK’s national insurance numbers (NINO’s), and things you probably never knew. 2021-06-19 12:27:12 @SethAbramson They appear to have cancelled themselves 2021-06-19 11:21:05 @SarahLudford @paullewismoney UK regulators are trained to be scared of using their statutory powers against complex, entrenched or novel illegality. All talk, no enforcement. 2021-06-18 15:27:14 RT @jennifercobbe: Funny world where competition regulators are more interested in adtech than data protection regulators https://t.co/eTW7… 2021-06-18 15:25:47 RT @jason_kint: Super good leadership by @RKSlaughterFTC here. I imagine she and @linamkhan won’t be warm to Ad tech complex’s argument yes… 2021-06-18 15:17:11 RT @hhesterm: Remember that the past debate in the UK produced a consensus that AZ was clearly, utterly clearly not in breach of its contra… 2021-06-18 15:16:41 looks like (surprise!) the big pharmaceutical company was telling porkies and all newspapers filed way too soon https://t.co/hG65WQXykw 2021-06-18 15:14:30 RT @hhesterm: A tale of how to rule in partisan 24/7 journalism. With journalistic failures by the Guardian, Telegraph and Express. (thread) 2021-06-18 12:48:45 looks like we’re waiting for the published judgment https://t.co/sdewBola3T 2021-06-18 12:39:12 There’s clearly spinning both ways. AZ have indicated this is a victory for them and highlighted that they are on track to meet court ordered commitments. https://t.co/imvgK2gOqq Looking forward to someone blogging or demystifying who is spinning the outcome more. https://t.co/0RgG1mBEey 2021-06-18 12:36:14 @vonderleyen I’m struggling to square this with this: https://t.co/oKTuLmj3Sy 2021-06-18 12:14:24 RT @RDBinns: There is no Wayback Machine for all the iPhone / android apps. A lot of weird dead apps will have vanished (except for their a… 2021-06-18 12:11:37 RT @Foxglovelegal: Hey, Foxglove is 2 today! Happy Birthday to us - here’s a quick recap of highlights: https://t.co/aQxOeqszdY 2021-06-18 12:10:52 RT @jason_kint: This may seem minor but these are all important signals. Note how WSJ accurately uses lowercase to describe it as an “overs… 2021-06-18 12:08:54 @cori_crider @martha__dark if data is oil you can’t let it get on your shoes 2021-06-18 10:41:31 RT @Jackstilgoe: This report features a magic number. The growth of Connected and Automated Vehicles "is predicted [to create] an additiona… 2021-06-18 10:39:55 RT @RDBinns: As depicted by @keiichiban back in 2010: https://t.co/1dLTmVYaQK 2021-06-18 09:16:16 @MarkkuPatynen @grahamgreenleaf @Katharine_Kemp QR codes in abstract can be used in every member state. What protocol or server is behind them, and what it does, matters, particular in relation to data protection by design. The situation may also interact w national public health provisions mandating venues to collect info. 2021-06-18 09:14:27 The ridiculous bubble of cryptocurrency means that phishers are now finding it profitable to manufacture and send fake hardware to try and siphon from the biggest hodlers. https://t.co/hgxX7VpUF4 2021-06-18 08:29:31 RT @KKollnig: My first academic article, together with @RDBinns @PiDewitte @emax Ge Wang @SteadyBits Helena Webb @Nigel_Shadbolt, will appe… 2021-06-18 08:29:24 RT @RDBinns: *New paper*! Led by our intrepid PhD student @KKollnig ! - Most mobile apps send your data to trackers for unnecessary purpose… 2021-06-18 08:26:04 @MarkkuPatynen @grahamgreenleaf @Katharine_Kemp there is no pan EU system for presence tracing 2021-06-18 08:14:44 @grahamgreenleaf @Katharine_Kemp yes: https://t.co/4wavef7t8V 2021-06-18 08:08:24 On how university rankings are so absurd that a *single* scholar affiliated with a ranked university co-authoring/signing a few global collaboration papers in the Lancet w *100s* of differently affiliated scholars can increase that uni’s position by over 120 places in 2 years. https://t.co/DfOz4QoUMk 2021-06-18 07:50:27 this looks really ace https://t.co/rLjEENbk5H https://t.co/wA3iQeyG8w 2021-06-18 07:48:55 RT @TiltR: TILT is hiring: Post-doctoral researcher with expertise in competition law and/or platform regulation https://t.co/zYYmdj8bsO 2021-06-18 07:46:26 RT @empo11on: If you're a junior researcher interested in shaping research on international data governance for maximum policy impact, then… 2021-06-17 22:03:42 RT @ruchowdh: As someone who has been the target of this group in the past, it is vile and brutal. Their motives are caste-driven, sexis… 2021-06-17 16:21:07 Important new report laying out and analysing market interventions for the world of platform gatekeepers from the stellar @mathver, do read . https://t.co/ygzWdzOB43 https://t.co/OdUdr80iRI 2021-06-17 16:19:24 RT @vfranz73: New paper “Regulating the Digital Public Sphere: Limits and Opportunities of Market Interventions” by @mathver Thank you to @… 2021-06-17 10:55:07 @FantaAlexx uninterrupted? 2021-06-17 09:28:41 RT @LydNicholas: Argh those moments when you have LITERALLY written foresight stuff and been told to cut it out because it was too far fetc… 2021-06-16 20:15:21 Reminder: Submit your talk proposals on privacy technologies, practice, society and all things in between to HotPETs @PET_Symposium by 25 June! Bonus points for talks that first make you laugh, then make you think. And it’s BYOIC. https://t.co/1D6nI62vUU https://t.co/hSgdieZT0W 2021-06-16 20:09:38 @TiltR @mario_gug @JBAGerritsen also worth categorising which and when need notified bodies within high risk… 2021-06-16 19:58:17 @tsimonite gets it. Local processing is only always good insofar as we confuse confidentiality w privacy — both useful but we need to truly consider *both*. Apple and Google both seeking (sometimes cool) on-device processing and machine learning for /themselves/, not individuals. https://t.co/tkHta8BZEd 2021-06-16 15:09:57 @JoshuaRozenberg fantastic work @NatalieByrom! long overdue 2021-06-16 14:43:36 @john_ritzema yesterday the European Court of Human Rights found a violation of Article 10 in favour of a woman called Ms Melike who was fired for her Facebook likes. https://t.co/WzlUMN4DIF 2021-06-16 14:41:04 @tsimonite @technollama patented debiasing method for large image and language models https://t.co/6cVZ3V5fNX 2021-06-16 14:30:20 Searching for hope https://t.co/MMybsoUE1g https://t.co/fhGA1CUtZp 2021-06-16 14:26:17 RT @Foxglovelegal: *This* is why we're helping @allthecitizens take on this gov't's unlawful policy on disappearing messages. Key policy is… 2021-06-16 14:18:08 RT @zeynep: They cleared the library books to avoid “spreading germs” but are telling people to check out the bars and nightlife instead ON… 2021-06-16 13:14:19 @k_irion Shoot the messenger 2021-06-16 12:29:20 CJEU rejects efforts to annul the early termination of AG Sharpston @akulith post-Brexit, dismissing both as inadmissible and manifestly inadmissible. https://t.co/YWuVpbNW5i 2021-06-16 12:00:33 RT @tjmcintyre: Great to see @SenatorMcDowell come around to the Digital Rights Ireland perspective on the issue of privacy and mobile phon… 2021-06-16 11:52:36 RT @colinlachance: Important in development in open access to law in the UK. Great to see @BAILII selflessly contribute to a larger visio… 2021-06-16 10:10:46 @Kira_UCL AI regulation starts at home 2021-06-16 10:08:59 RT @Kira_UCL: I can also add a review from an industry expert: "Thanks for this. It was a fascinating read that took up much of my morning.… 2021-06-16 07:55:15 @marc_mcgeemoore it’s @jeff_a_king to thank! such a useful reference and synthesis point 2021-06-16 07:54:08 but it’s local processing, the neural network is built into the CCTV camera! so that’s ok then! (or: let’s start to talk about power and edge computing and not give platforms nor law enforcement a free pass) https://t.co/2RvAO6wknh 2021-06-16 07:50:32 @cronokirby @vonderleyen doesn’t anyone have anything better to do 2021-06-16 07:49:21 @marc_mcgeemoore https://t.co/JiG7tOLrNT 2021-06-16 07:47:22 RT @EU_EDPS: However, one major area of concern remains to be resolved: #retention period of large datasets by @Europol 3/3 2021-06-16 07:42:41 Does @vonderleyen need to take a plane to Denmark and then Greece in the same day during a climate crisis just to ceremonially sign off on the allocation of some jointly issued EU borrowing? The message seems quite flippant. https://t.co/7yIaG4ZMmo 2021-06-16 07:34:13 RT @TheABB: How many children is this going to be once those without #SettledStatus get treated as from third countries, next month? Lookin… 2021-06-16 07:20:33 @1Br0wn But they motivate innovators to innovate in the first place to get bought out and have their innovation prematurely stifled! 2021-06-16 07:06:39 RT @internetfreedom: 1/ Fact check: We would like to caution against news reports of any social media entity (a significant entity) losing… 2021-06-16 07:02:50 RT @gikii: Remember to send your abstracts! The deadline is July 1st. https://t.co/wGRRC4NY0K https://t.co/6LJRFUnLKP 2021-06-16 06:59:43 RT @johnnyryan: We are going to court. Our lawsuit takes aim at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Verizon, AT& 2021-06-16 06:57:37 RT @JosephineCumbo: In a statement this evening, #UCU said university employers “can either work with us to push #USS (pension scheme) to… 2021-06-16 06:17:57 RT @1Br0wn: This now seems politically even less likely > 2021-06-15 18:10:13 RT @philosophequeer: accessibility dot jpeg https://t.co/lAbUQ1QGtk 2021-06-15 17:27:15 This piece with @Kira_UCL is now published in Regulation and Governance @RegGov_journal in open access — have a look if you're interested in the concept of certifying AI or ML systems! https://t.co/s6wH0Qzq6H https://t.co/5SSP9JnFKN https://t.co/v5UUltg4ET 2021-06-15 15:36:30 RT @robinberjon: Whenever I point out that Google just straight up helps itself to other people's work and property, people think I exagger… 2021-06-15 15:09:31 @PJLeerssen I think you’re thinking of Richard Allan, Facebook’s director of EU policy until 2019. 2021-06-15 15:07:08 RT @MrDanDonoghue: Secretive UK Government polling on public attitudes towards the Union must be published in the next four weeks, a tribun… 2021-06-15 15:04:02 @PJLeerssen https://t.co/elndOqVH8t 2021-06-15 14:58:04 @PJLeerssen the question is... who are these people https://t.co/gShKrY2oIH 2021-06-15 14:57:22 @PJLeerssen good luck, but i think you're gonna struggle as worldcat says no-one has bought the book nor ebook institutionally yet... 2021-06-15 12:58:26 @FusterGloria indeed, i have now read and may post a little later… 2021-06-15 12:24:09 what could go wrong except for ableism and arbitrary discrimination? https://t.co/1FQgd5Ke0j 2021-06-15 11:29:44 @_louhicky @a_b_powell that sounds great, would love to hear about that work! 2021-06-15 11:15:21 @mryderqc @JPP_Paiva @jimkillock no, our complaint tackles the actors behind the system that incentivises them to do this, not individual websites trapped in the illegality-incentivising orbit of Google or the IAB 2021-06-15 08:51:32 @JPP_Paiva @mryderqc because there is no enforcement of the law and no serious effort by regulators to enforce it — so they make it up. @jimkillock and I are going to the upper tribunal next month against the ICO in relation to their lack of enforcement of the law in this area https://t.co/0tUDaYYBcX 2021-06-15 08:48:18 @jiahong_chen if it does not have the same number of clint eastwood references as the AG opinion i’m not interested 2021-06-15 08:46:09 @realhamed @technollama https://t.co/9RNPYxOWyN 2021-06-15 08:43:57 RT @F_Kaltheuner: A truly devastating testament to the current state of online hate and discourse. 2021-06-15 08:37:12 ECHR violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) for an employee being fired for her Facebook ‘likes’, specific distinction made between ‘likes’ and content which will be of ongoing interest. Nominative determinism also at work — the claimant is Ms Melike. https://t.co/562tTT5d3A 2021-06-15 08:34:44 @N_Hervieu @LauKaya @Facebook cc @vmantouvalou 2021-06-15 08:28:53 @mryderqc if all of these boxes relate to cookies, that’s nonsense as they all trigger EPD considerations. however the last one looks like fingerprinting. The ICO clearly states such fingerprinting triggers PECR too. https://t.co/AjwTsQ9L2T 2021-06-15 08:26:58 @mryderqc they’ll be trying to claim legitimate interest on the basis it either does not ‘access or store’ info on your terminal device & 2021-06-15 08:22:02 RT @EstelMP: The EU and the US will be discussing data flows today: is a new transfer deal possible? Not yet. Third time won’t be the char… 2021-06-15 08:20:32 @a_b_powell sold as accessibility tool but wait til the marketers see you can extract inaccurate scraps of out of context words from a stadium of thousands with high res cameras… 2021-06-15 08:18:49 @a_b_powell i agree! i spend several pages of my PhD comparing lipreading to emotion recognition from p192 onwards https://t.co/8aG3OrdfZw 2021-06-15 08:07:14 Devil will be in the details in this one, requires the full judgment (not out yet) to see how much the one-stop-shop mechanism can be avoided. Facebook will be unhappy with this result — but how unhappy? And will it clear the Irish DPC blockage? https://t.co/cfjzduo7ee 2021-06-15 08:05:03 RT @EUCourtPress: #ECJ: General Data Protection Regulation - the Court specifies the conditions for the exercise of powers by national supe… 2021-06-14 19:55:30 @empo11on @k_irion @fborgesius Busted 2021-06-14 19:36:46 missed this https://t.co/o9yzSey7T3 2021-06-14 19:20:11 the world would be a better place if people speculated on the book price of critically important communication professors instead of cryptocurrency 2021-06-14 15:25:38 Never got your hands on Oscar Gandy Jr's incredible, prescient 1993 work The Panoptic Sort on profiling, race, population manipulation (our librarian noted scarcity inflated the price 1150%), OUP got the rights & 2021-06-14 15:01:52 @lilianedwards @sarahbmyers @agstrait @VICE oops was gonna add link https://t.co/8aG3OrdfZw 2021-06-14 15:01:40 @lilianedwards @sarahbmyers @agstrait @VICE ah yes, never got round to publishing the full draft paper from 2018 (?) we wrote on it yet but the regulation of automated lip reading is pp 192-220 of my PhD 2021-06-14 12:09:26 @wildebees You should read more carefully. https://t.co/qdkn2erdgw 2021-06-14 09:57:14 @blogisch @signalapp i see it as a function to ensure security by default for users who do not do much configuring or could misconfigure. of course, e2e backups are possible, and will likely come to platforms once they want another face off with state apparatuses. 2021-06-14 09:52:02 @TimandraHarknes was always suspicious https://t.co/0qSDiLa22b 2021-06-14 09:50:59 RT @nielstenoever: The #G7Summit2021 communiqué got interesting bits about technical standards and standard setting. Two things stand out:… 2021-06-14 09:45:06 .@signalapp does not offer such a function for this reason. 2021-06-14 09:44:31 Unless you use the cloud backup function, which you are nudged to do by WA/defaults to on, in which case law enforcement and intelligence services can and do read otherwise end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp messages. https://t.co/gaPJhZCVlK 2021-06-14 09:42:58 @WhatsApp Unless you use the default-on backup function in which case law enforcement and intelligences services can, and do. 2021-06-14 09:38:58 @zsk Your version of the article was bizarre in omitting that law enforcement typically just access WhatsApp messages through iCloud or Google backups that WhatsApp makes, which are unencrypted at rest. Was this a deliberate omission, or edited out by subs? 2021-06-14 06:46:26 @fborgesius @mantelero @SjoeraNL @floorter cc @defenddigitalme 2021-06-14 06:45:54 RT @fborgesius: In-depth “DPIA on the use of Google G Suite (Enterprise) for Education, for the University of Groningen and the Amsterdam U… 2021-06-14 06:43:08 @neil_neilzone @aimaz DP right to rectification to the DPO (ha)… or perhaps call the centre booked to check what they expect. I can imagine this would be tricky if you’ve had Moderna. 2021-06-14 06:39:00 @neil_neilzone @aimaz From what I’ve read you won’t be allowed to book for a different vaccine than the one you’ve had. Your first vaccine triggers an allocation event for the same brand as your second. Doc for vax centres: https://t.co/8AS9LKOYr9 2021-06-14 06:33:46 @neil_neilzone @aimaz :( then other than just seeing if there’s a local walk in centre for them, that’s the end of the idea train… 2021-06-14 06:32:31 @neil_neilzone @aimaz have you just called 119? 2021-06-14 06:19:50 @aimaz @neil_neilzone (also, fwiw, lots of 2nd dose walk in centres popping up, could be one near you in your clinical commissioning group too) 2021-06-14 06:19:07 @aimaz @neil_neilzone I have heard this too. 2021-06-13 22:29:40 G7 Carbis Bay declaration says will tackle algorithmic bias through... harmonised principles for data collection? Right. https://t.co/fygW3nhphm 2021-06-13 08:54:53 @EerkeBoiten wow, this is pathetic from @techradar, really low editorial standards 2021-06-13 08:46:17 @j2bryson @Caffar3Cristina @doctorow @SandraWachter5 @lilianedwards @rossjanderson @emax @linnetelwin @1Br0wn (on coordination capacity more generally, from an excellent book https://t.co/B0hMQiibTs) 2021-06-13 08:43:43 @j2bryson @Caffar3Cristina @doctorow @SandraWachter5 @lilianedwards @rossjanderson @emax @linnetelwin @1Br0wn and firms can use their huge funds of legal resource and lobbying to push attempted coordinated efforts out of sync with appeals, challenges and delay tactics to disrupt concerted attempts to regulate them across regimes. 2021-06-13 08:42:36 @j2bryson @Caffar3Cristina @doctorow @SandraWachter5 @lilianedwards @rossjanderson @emax @linnetelwin @1Br0wn legal regimes (eg competition, data protection, innovation funding, platform regulation) work firewalled from each other, not often in sync or dialogue nationally and certainly not to the extent needed internationally. little international coordination even within regimes. 2021-06-13 08:37:59 @j2bryson @Caffar3Cristina @doctorow @SandraWachter5 @lilianedwards @rossjanderson @emax @linnetelwin @1Br0wn the problem we are in that the system has been made resilient by large tech such that you can’t transform it into a better state by just doing one thing, you have to do multiple things, across silos and jurisdictions, in tandem, and public sector coordination capacity is low. 2021-06-13 08:36:55 @j2bryson @Caffar3Cristina @doctorow @SandraWachter5 @lilianedwards @rossjanderson @emax @linnetelwin certainly, a concern of dominant ‘open’ standards set by large firms is real. but can’t escape from that w/o shrinking those players though, which interoperability may help do. a long game. needs countervailing and complementary efforts. @1Br0wn is thinking carefully about this. 2021-06-13 08:33:00 souveraineté numerique… https://t.co/RBLKQwc1Gj 2021-06-12 18:38:26 @profgeraintrees And they *can* do them excellently. The first NHS Covid 19 App DPIA was absolutely abysmal and ignorant of the law. (https://t.co/Df5dfbhVtB). Yet the current one is exemplary. 2021-06-12 17:33:55 RT @1Br0wn: “When accessing Facebook through [Free Basics 2.0] Discover … it wasn’t stripped much – just 4% of images were removed from Ins… 2021-06-12 13:18:33 @lilianedwards @medConfidential i already did this morning 2021-06-12 11:06:55 @openpolicynz @lilianedwards With Apple VoiceOver they hear ‘Thread’ 2021-06-12 10:57:56 @lilianedwards i use it that way because the emoji proposal to the unicode consortium told me to https://t.co/9phct8opkg https://t.co/Bn3vd48Gfh 2021-06-12 08:55:29 As @AllysonPollock has been calling out for a very long time, the US have such grave concerns about the Innova LFTs and their validation data they’ve recalled them all and asked individuals to destroy them. https://t.co/QZCk2i2Yjg https://t.co/RidgvqdBjR 2021-06-12 08:51:42 here’s the letter from @michaelgove stating that the DPIA should remain secret. Note that the ICO recommends DPIAs are published https://t.co/kwihwJRA3B(although notes it’s not a legal obligation). They remain FOIable. https://t.co/ki288RQH7e 2021-06-12 08:47:18 See the @bmj_latest set of panels last week on Covid certification, the public health evidence and the politics of infrastructures. https://t.co/Wo5w8X84vw 2021-06-12 08:47:17 “Whatever decision is taken, having the infrastructure in place is a requirement of being able to move ahead.” says Transport Secretary Grant Shapps of Covid certification. We’re far from politically debating about what infrastructures we want or do not before we build them. https://t.co/efZssmSDd2 2021-06-12 08:17:27 The Government did eventually, it turns out, produce a DPIA for the vaccination proof function of the NHS App, but wants it secret, saying they are “internal … routinely iterated and therefore not made public”. Asked the Select Committee not to publish. https://t.co/HvKktOedrI https://t.co/G9kOh2Pmct 2021-06-12 07:25:35 Company obsessed with engineering the world tries to rate-limit the law… https://t.co/GDHMRrxDwQ 2021-06-11 18:20:08 @k_irion @lilianedwards @TiltR @Jausl00s @fborgesius @APD_GBA @johnnyryan @PiDewitte @bitsoffreedom @mensenrechtenBE @panoptykon @EUCourtPress clearly the court needs to get to grips with data protection as a facilitating architecture for control not an infrastructure for unwanted redaction (of dr erasure!)… 2021-06-11 17:31:24 @lilianedwards Likely because unlike in England it’s not a legal requirement. 2021-06-11 15:42:57 Legally customers *must* be able to scan an NHS QR code (in England and Wales) instead of providing any details to a venue obliged to collect them, but it’s not actually the ICO’s job to enforce that. See https://t.co/4wavef7t8V https://t.co/Qco4HXMd9D 2021-06-11 14:25:13 @IgorBrigadir @BarryOSullivan @Abebab @JedrzejNiklas yes https://t.co/TdjtfBVKDB 2021-06-11 14:15:34 @BarryOSullivan @Abebab @IgorBrigadir If I recall there were 2-4 NGOs depending on how you count it, of 70 (?) members. To answer the 'who was missing' question, see s III of the critique https://t.co/c8ix4SezVv & 2021-06-11 13:52:58 @schock cf public sector socio-economic equality duty in the Equality Act 2010 - commenced in Scotland but not in England https://t.co/R7KJdLYSHd (but applies to fewer activities than the general public sector equality duty that refers to the conventional discrimination def you describe) 2021-06-11 13:48:01 @BarryOSullivan @Abebab @IgorBrigadir I would count being nominated by an employer as self-nomination. I'm referring to how genuine diversity usually requires an active search by the entity establishing a board or group - 'who is not at the table?' - an issue the HLEG-AI composition demonstrated clearly. 2021-06-11 13:28:58 @BarryOSullivan @Abebab @IgorBrigadir Were any members selected who did not nominate themselves through this call? https://t.co/7fFDlIceTF 2021-06-11 13:15:24 @jorisvanhoboken @Abebab yes, although totally self-nominated, no attempt to think ‘who is not at the table’? https://t.co/7fFDlIceTF 2021-06-11 13:14:09 @ukstaiger @BMBF_Bund this was very illuminating for a non scholar https://t.co/yfsJvU8p9R 2021-06-11 13:09:41 RT @AmericanEUDude: Folding chairs this time... good call 2021-06-11 13:05:16 @TiltR Adding Mephistopheles to the notified bodies list 2021-06-11 12:48:53 RT @RichardMoorhead: The recording of the UCL Post Office Event where @FloraClairePage @PaulMar72224296 @forensicgod Tony Edwards Dineshi R… 2021-06-11 12:36:23 In this EU AI Act rush to affix the CE mark to somewhat certify the ethics of software products, let us not forget that, as the Commission noted in the early 90s, the CE mark may in fact be the mark of the devil himself found in the Book of Revelation. https://t.co/1hG076DgVO https://t.co/XkcqzrWRUC 2021-06-11 08:42:20 @Abebab no surprise a majority of self assessed experts support self assessment regimes… 2021-06-11 08:12:28 RT @RDBinns: 8 years ago today. I remember watching it over and over, thinking: Caspar Bowden was right! Easy to forget that this was previ… 2021-06-11 08:08:53 Consultation closes on the 8th July. 2021-06-11 08:08:08 The CMA consults on proposed ‘commitments’ from Google re Privacy Sandbox. Interesting: not to self-preference by linking data btw eg Chrome & Key as privacy techs might even profile on heart rate saying it was confidential and fine! https://t.co/vc426hS00Q https://t.co/4ea86LffkF 2021-06-10 18:10:53 @rcalo Apple devices tend to need certain sensors (e.g. TouchID) to be re-paired (not repaired) to the secure enclave in order to function if disrupted 2021-06-10 17:44:22 RT @johnwilander: Check out all the updates to Apple's ad attribution features SKAdNetwork and Private Click Measurement: "Meet privacy-pre… 2021-06-10 16:45:51 "This will just make it harder and harder for legitimate travellers from anywhere outside the Global North to move" – @linnetelwin on @bmj_latest #covidunknowns https://t.co/EMlokaqmed https://t.co/4RKrdxA8eE 2021-06-10 16:38:26 "If the [Israeli] Green Pass 'succeeded' because it was never enforced, then what is the lesson we should take from its use?" — @EffyVayena at the @bmj_latest vaccination certificates webinar #covidunknowns https://t.co/EMlokaqmed 2021-06-10 15:10:05 Join us talking about vaccination & 2021-06-10 13:29:01 @stokel @Telegraph wow the subeditors really clickbaited your balanced article 2021-06-10 12:47:07 @C___CS terugspoelen is mogelijk 2021-06-10 12:21:13 I'm speaking about the EU's proposed AI Act at this conference now with a talk 'The AI Act and the Product Safety Paradigm: Adjustments Needed'. Likely too late to register to join the Zoom meeting room, but it's livestreaming here: https://t.co/8zVkoc8uMn https://t.co/8cboJy8Hlc 2021-06-10 11:27:54 @emax it’s not even a privacy harm residual to confidentiality, it’s a system that doesn’t actually protect confidentiality, let alone privacy… the horse doesn’t even leave the stable 2021-06-10 10:48:51 This is an extremely clear paper with many insights that are not widely reported, such as how smaller particles associated with speech and fitness can cause more severe disease than larger ones, and that masks may prevent even infected individuals from worsening their infection. https://t.co/ESJDK8ncGr https://t.co/iFyfHKsD71 2021-06-10 09:07:32 @marc_mcgeemoore (although you might also want to read the letter from ~100 Brewdog staff past and present today claiming '[t]he true culture of BrewDog is, and seemingly always has been, fear.') https://t.co/2bhtun0pK8 2021-06-10 08:23:07 @meilaoban who is ‘we’? UK law for example specifically does not permit the Government to mandate compulsory vaccination. https://t.co/9b8QU06OcC 2021-06-10 05:51:42 @daphnehk they both probably dislike notification of national rules under the AVMS Directive and the Commission’s role there subsequently (it’s also what scuppered age verification in the UK, as DCMS forgot to notify and had to embarrassingly kick the can down the road…) 2021-06-10 05:09:56 @daphnehk Agreed, linking this practice to a generation is distracting nonsense. I think the more powerful comparison is not a generational subsidiary, but a market practice with an effect not too dissimilar from state aid. 2021-06-09 19:37:10 @JamesLarus ah, but don’t forget the boring ones — Philips, Cisco, etc! 2021-06-09 18:28:37 ‘in 20xx there will be 362947 bazillion connected devices, say McKinsey, controlled by *checks notes* 8 organisations’ 2021-06-09 18:26:55 Researchers of IoT have wasted so many public millions pondering about how to make diverse systems work together securely, assuming diversity is the natural end state rather than platform homogeneity and monoculture control. (& 2021-06-09 18:23:21 (however I don’t think it’s inherently European in any way — perhaps just a result of anti-vaccination being less politicised or partisan!) 2021-06-09 18:21:19 @1Br0wn As far as I have heard, none. 2021-06-09 18:20:52 I think many (of course not all) vaccine-keen academics in European institutions would look upon their university instituting such a policy with horror. Conditional vaccination policies seem to be being politicised in a totally different way in the US than many places outside. https://t.co/ch8J8eqiIq 2021-06-09 16:11:36 @rachelcoldicutt i guess if the blue isn’t going into your eyes it has to go somewhere 2021-06-09 13:21:28 In Hertfordshire at least, more people are using data rights to access data the council holds on them than ever before — a nationwide trend? https://t.co/1KJMK58gA9 2021-06-09 13:18:34 looks like “Private Relay egress nodes brought to you by Cloudflare” https://t.co/oXUS1Swxc5 2021-06-09 13:16:58 @alexhern allegedly twitter going to change this (perhaps as part of ‘blue’) https://t.co/8NTkB90rsl 2021-06-09 13:15:59 iCloudflare https://t.co/8gcaguEJtp 2021-06-09 13:05:55 @xotoxot @1Br0wn I guess the question (as ever with changing standards) is ‘by whom?’ (as well as considering potential protocols’ latency effects etc). Apple’s approach certainly is closed with no indication they want to promote open infrastructures or standards. 2021-06-09 13:01:25 @hoofnagle He has a vested interest though because his firm provides an ad measurement service that Apple is building APIs to replace locally… so if by ecosystem he means himself… https://t.co/4kjmbfDmUO 2021-06-09 09:06:54 RT @jennifercobbe: The queen has enormous wealth, privilege, and power. Her face is on every English banknote and every coin. Everywhere th… 2021-06-09 08:15:29 There’s certainly some ways to make existing systems more efficient (reduce search costs, assign jobs better in space and time) but I suspect the magnitude of these savings is perceived as much greater than their contribution. Worth detailed PhD study (if not already happening!) 2021-06-09 08:09:01 And good riddance to the subsidisation practices of intermediaries. It perpetuates a myth that tech creates some golden efficiency when firms simply frontload VC cash to bazooka incumbent systems and prepare themselves to be new, extractive middle men. https://t.co/XP34EMIQao 2021-06-09 07:00:39 RT @1Br0wn: We still have no public clarification as to whether the UK’s -status certificate will have the same privacy problems (I heard… 2021-06-09 06:46:05 RT @cryptosaurus6: Let's do an English thread on the French (and EU) Health Pass. It launches tomorrow (mandatory for large events), and i… 2021-06-08 16:06:51 @marypcbuk Apple too since at least 2017 — that was the one announcement that wasn't made yesterday, sorry, not enough characters to make all that clear! 2021-06-08 15:28:40 These can be really cool products and they achieve things that are difficult to achieve otherwise, but their politics differ quite strongly from existing privacy technologies to date. 2021-06-08 15:27:42 Apple leading new genre of privacy protections requiring large, closed infrastructures: Private Relay: like Tor w servers Apple pays for (exit nodes = 3rd parties) Mail: Cache images on a server to foil trackers Local differential privacy: requires bns of people to outweigh noise 2021-06-08 12:02:28 @cori_crider The Curse of Digitalis Purpurea https://t.co/QbGARoNH20 2021-06-08 12:00:09 RT @cori_crider: We're now 5 for 5 on judicial review. Just sayin'. 2021-06-08 11:28:03 RT @C___CS: Footnote: I also wanted to put in a link to my PhD research on the topic of the politics of Internet infrastructure, but it's u… 2021-06-08 11:26:02 RT @C___CS: Why is your internet broken today? A thread from an @oii dr. of Internet infrastructure: TL 2021-06-08 11:25:05 @edsu indeed, the main learning lesson at this point of the course is that you can legislate for technical net neutrality but there are plenty of other reasons that some packets arrive more quickly than others, and these reasons are tied up with power, money, vertical integration 2021-06-08 11:22:36 Also talk to dr @nielstenoever (: 2021-06-08 11:18:11 @edsu if you click below to maximise the one below is more illustrative. 2021-06-08 11:11:52 @Vecchi_Paolo We don't cover CDNs as a data collection technology, we cover them in the part of the course looking at net neutrality, vertical integration of platforms and regulatory access points. 2021-06-08 11:06:33 At least now my undergraduate law students understand why they were taught about CDNs in an LLB course. https://t.co/ZhqCIEIcqc 2021-06-08 10:59:56 @technollama are those @ass_deans? 2021-06-08 10:55:07 tragically I have found a way to access turnitin, but I will not share it in case I get attacked by academics 2021-06-08 10:50:15 @GHEvers do en or ma al ge zi cht 2021-06-08 10:43:30 an earlier attempt https://t.co/baEV5QhwS6 2021-06-08 10:42:50 @alexhern @verge alex hern resorting unconventionally to twitter to comment on current events well i never 2021-06-08 10:39:16 it took me a long time to post that tweet as I couldn’t add the emoji on my desktop. this is why. metaaaaa. https://t.co/dFYqZBA558 2021-06-08 10:36:50 RT @mikarv: If journalists want to talk to someone about the power of CDNs they should talk to Dr Corinne Cath-Speth https://t.co/KX2SdA0NpO 2021-06-08 10:35:01 https://t.co/YYGQEdTFH2 2021-06-08 10:31:50 If journalists want to talk to someone about the power of CDNs they should talk to Dr Corinne Cath-Speth https://t.co/KX2SdA0NpO 2021-06-08 10:24:22 not to worry, it only includes the UK government website https://t.co/2RhJnYReZz https://t.co/y2q0EDoNxY 2021-06-08 10:17:25 https://t.co/81QO59y1au 2021-06-08 10:17:01 @technollama lol i was literally about to open it to get grades too, i guess procrastination wins 2021-06-08 10:15:27 infrastructure becomes visible upon breakdown (Susan L Star) — happening now, again, with the failure of content delivery networks that are one of many forms of invisible and questionable Internet centralisation https://t.co/2w3Uc2A9IT 2021-06-08 10:10:15 @Natanael_L @xotoxot yup, have been using the example also used in that thread in talks on this topic for several years now, still need to put the paper out https://t.co/jyhwHUO6dx 2021-06-08 10:00:56 @realhamed exit stage left, dragged away by authorities while screaming “I trusted you, Intel!” 2021-06-08 07:37:00 RT @realhamed: “Apple's new 'private relay' feature will not be available in China, Apple said it also will not offer "private relay" in Be… 2021-06-08 07:22:35 Important 2015 blog @xotoxot who knows more on this than anyone (he created similar systems in research projects): “an intriguing paradox that exactly because [confidential ID systems] are privacy friendly by design, the could create privacy problems.” https://t.co/ykabd7yHC5 2021-06-08 07:18:50 RT @xotoxot: Important thread by @mikarv See also our earlier work on the risks of privacy friendly identity management with attribute base… 2021-06-07 20:24:23 @jennifercobbe @CompLawSecRev this is the paper I need in my life (or one of them) 2021-06-07 20:23:47 RT @jennifercobbe: New paper coming in @CompLawSecRev - "Artificial Intelligence as a Service: Legal Responsibilities, Liabilities, and Pol… 2021-06-07 20:13:34 Bear in mind Apple are trying to make their devices home to all your sensitive data, locally, starting with medical records, inferred health status ('walking steadiness') and lab results. A device filled with more and more confidentially attestable characteristics every update. https://t.co/ukJxuERTmZ 2021-06-07 20:07:55 A platform like can help solve a problem like a club scanning & The cost? Allowing new, attestable characteristics (possibly from Apple sensor/cloud ecosystem) to be spun up quickly, by the private sector. 2021-06-07 19:58:25 @TiltR (there is also a difference where such credentialling systems are built, deployed, and changed only through legitimate processes of a democratic state, and where the extent of what can be proven (incl. from non-state infromation) is ultimately a private decision) 2021-06-07 19:56:11 @TiltR But that's exactly what I'm talking about? Anonymous credentialling systems help with problems of confidentiality but a world where attestation is incredibly low friction (including even of verifiable device usage patterns stored on the phone), this itself brings problems. 2021-06-07 19:50:57 Useful thread of insights from @hackylawyER including this https://t.co/BtgBay0LZk 2021-06-07 19:47:18 Insofar as this puts existing ID cards on a phone, there isn't a huge difference. The point is: what can this system be expanded to, in time, facilitate people to prove? To whom? Who decides? You have to analyse infrastructures by their possibilities. 2021-06-07 19:42:04 Apple continues its confusion of privacy and confidentiality by getting deeper into the ID business, laying the pathway for people to be asked to prove any characteristic, to anyone, at any time, with limited to no friction. But it's in a secure enclave, so that's ok then! https://t.co/WYG0YvXZYu 2021-06-07 18:02:27 RT @ashk4n: New #privacy feature from @Apple #WWDC21 - Safari will 'hide your IP address from trackers' - App Privacy Report show all th… 2021-06-07 17:57:21 @bricksilk @BinghamCentre Can I also highlight useful thoughts on this from my colleague Maria Lee @UCLlaw_env on i) DEFRA's draft Environmental Principles Policy Statement https://t.co/IC13gg3mKb and ii) the new Office's function & 2021-06-07 13:32:25 We ignore rebound effects at our peril. https://t.co/fpqADJsUxs 2021-06-07 10:17:08 @PJLeerssen The DSA is just another instance of EUtrophication 2021-06-07 10:14:05 @PJLeerssen The reason Observatories are not working is that they are on the sea floor. 2021-06-07 10:07:16 @PJLeerssen i argue for the establishment of a platform aquarium commensurate with the extent of the fishy business. 2021-06-06 17:11:36 Blogs on conditional and mandatory vaccine policies from the UK, Italy, Norway, Israel, Chile, Brazil, China, Spain, the US and more general pieces https://t.co/xK47Nv6hIq 2021-06-06 17:09:52 In the US, it looks like legislation on limiting private sector conditional vaccine policies is being seen as a flagship anti vax proposal. In Europe, it’s being called for more often on equality grounds. We have a @lexatlasc19 symposium on the topic here: https://t.co/3j8S9Ro530 https://t.co/Sn5f8gAjDs 2021-06-06 16:00:16 @SmartEnergyGB are the new ones smart enough they are guaranteed not to brick when you change supplier as they used to? 2021-06-05 18:59:32 @clancynewyork @BostonJoan @MarkGraham indeed a tool designed for controlling indexing is not going to fit so well automatically with archiving. disrespect can be good too :). legally, it’s important no one really looks too closely at the IA else it will disappear in a puff of smoke I fear… 2021-06-05 18:51:14 @BostonJoan @clancynewyork There used to be a way to get this result with a specific entry in robots.txt but not sure if it’s still respected by the Internet Archive. 2021-06-05 08:53:13 RT @Foxglovelegal: Morning! There’s been a TON of news in our NHS GP data grab case – here’s the latest for people catching up. First… 2021-06-05 08:37:36 RT @alexjkmarshall: ICYMI here is the now deleted tweet by @JustEatUK CEO @jitsegroen joking about one of his workers riding on a treachero… 2021-06-04 22:08:40 The former US solicitor general, the executive director of the Knight Institute, & 2021-06-04 19:43:42 Sad news for scholars who wanted to study firework MOPI and data protection jurisprudence from filthy rich pathological litigants. https://t.co/3qi8xdH8w5 2021-06-04 19:36:49 RT @rcalo: Italian (and other) junior law and tech scholars can apply for the European Centre for Law, Science, and New Technologies Prize:… 2021-06-04 19:31:45 @TimandraHarknes luckily @lilianedwards did, nine years ago https://t.co/FgGmXlSXka 2021-06-04 19:29:45 More legal certainty that it will be up to them to work out if the country they are transferring data to operates a secret fundamental rights infringing surveillance regime. https://t.co/tlnC698daN 2021-06-04 19:27:15 Also potentially causing a constitutional crisis if true, as the Malicious Communications Act does not extend to Scotland. The Times might want to check their reporting/not lay off their legal reporters. https://t.co/mEL0fLztzz https://t.co/wUFCvcVrKG 2021-06-04 19:24:38 @TimandraHarknes I'm not hugely confident of the reporting in the Times piece because the Malicious Communications Act does not extend to Scotland. It is likely a charge under the Communications Act 2003 instead. 2021-06-04 17:12:04 RT @gabrielazanfir: While attentively reading the new #SCCs today as one should, keep in mind that identifying a transfer tool to rely on (… 2021-06-04 16:59:00 @nhelberger @HumaneAI2 @DtdmUva And if you linger too long in the University Priority Area you may be liable for a parking ticket… 2021-06-04 16:48:14 RT @benzevgreen: Really excited to share a new paper draft! I survey the significant limits and fault lines of “tech ethics,” characterizin… 2021-06-04 16:45:30 @nhelberger @HumaneAI2 @DtdmUva great! hopefully they don’t have to announce themselves as a Postdoc In University Priority Area…, bit of a mouthful. 2021-06-04 16:44:44 RT @nhelberger: Looking for a colleague: postdoc in law. University of Amsterdam. AI in justice. Responsible, yes, but what does AI in jus… 2021-06-04 16:41:14 @nickclegg @OversightBoard please stop with the legitimising ‘ruling’ language as if this is a court full of judges rather than an organisation your firm funds that binds you at your pleasure. https://t.co/Kx56wouM4z 2021-06-04 13:52:21 @katebevan are you sure this thread is not it and you are not from the Future? 2021-06-04 13:18:27 @katebevan there was a week during my undergraduate where on one day i almost ran into him on my bike and a separate day almost pushed him into the road as he suddenly got out of a cab. was getting ridiculous. 2021-06-04 12:40:33 @rachelcoldicutt (related factoid insofar as it is also about Serif Fonts and Power) 2021-06-04 12:39:38 @rachelcoldicutt tangent: a font you may find interesting as a software object is is Liberation Serif. it is designed for 'metric compatability' with Times New Roman, yet to be open source, so you can switch the font and all the characters are guaranteed to remain in exactly the same place. https://t.co/ZPCvTKFl7d 2021-06-04 12:31:04 @Kira_UCL always learnin’ 2021-06-04 11:54:35 RT @bendrath: All technical details will be specified by the Commission by way of implementing acts (no @Europarl_EN veto powers). So we do… 2021-06-04 11:52:33 RT @Caffar3Cristina: Uh okay. @EU_Competition will take 3 years to issue a Statement of Objection. Hope @CMAgovUK will inject a sense of sl… 2021-06-04 11:09:47 There's a lot more in the paper than we can summarise here, and it was a real pleasure to write this w the ace @Kira_UCL who I've been working up to a proper collaboration w since my UG! We hope it's a useful bridge & 2021-06-04 11:09:46 At this point, many may think 'but Fair Trade is nonsense & 2021-06-04 11:09:45 Drawing on frameworks from the regulation literature, we then go through a range of areas of consideration to document what the scholarship has learned from decades of institutions for private governance of sustainability issues, and apply them to a machine learning context. https://t.co/9RCHIyGh86 2021-06-04 11:09:44 In the literature on governance of value chains with the above characteristics however (e.g. coffee and certs that fall under the @ISEALalliance), the entire regime is different, because while the standard might be the desired outcome, it is not itself the mechanism of change. 2021-06-04 11:09:43 These value chains are driving a discussion around standards and certification, but the discussion is driven in computer networking fora like IEEE, where standards are about conformity (and come with their code-based regulatory mechanism — you can't play unless you adhere). https://t.co/GgWq9rw9XJ 2021-06-04 11:09:42 We see networks of labour implicitly in the ways platforms shape societies to serve the input needs of data-driven intermediation systems, and explicitly in e.g. practices of labelling such as gig workers or CAPTCHAs. 2021-06-04 11:09:41 ML systems are increasingly parts of global value chains. Networks of labour (construed in many ways) are utilised to create them. There are clear core-periphery inequalities. The value chains are fragmented and modular, with APIs, datasets and platforms all plugged together. https://t.co/gJqlIczFoT 2021-06-04 11:09:40 Insofar as we treat ML as a good/service capable of certification to govern a portion of the issues related to it, qualities we care about are often upstream and/or difficult to observe or attribute. In this way (but not all ways!), ML resembles commodities like coffee or cocoa. https://t.co/Vvcc9jMxbk 2021-06-04 11:09:39 Computing folk proposing AI standards/certification mimic regimes in networking (eg IEEE), yet the issues often resemble socioenvironmental ones. In a new paper forthcoming in Regulation & 2021-06-04 08:00:54 RT @mariafarrell: Thread forensically dismantles the legal basis for Irish government's refusal to obey GDPR subject access requests by wom… 2021-06-04 07:27:22 RT @rachelcoldicutt: I’m always a bit baffled by this quasi-religious framing of AI as having bottomless potential, and society as having a… 2021-06-03 23:17:36 @tforcworc (so i was careful in initial tweet *not* to say that updating should be impossible, instead that updatability of a potentially hugely influential, pervasive infrastructure is not nec something that should go w/o oversight. equally, it could be cooped by US government under FISA!) 2021-06-03 23:15:05 @flocked Identifiability isn’t really the concern here. It’s about shaping entire populations while individuals remain unidentifiable. 2021-06-03 23:14:25 @tforcworc it’s crucial to patch devices, and ofc patching low power devices always been a problem. but apple make a big deal re the characteristics of their systems currently which may not hold dynamically, & 2021-06-03 19:20:03 RT @Elibietti: NEW PAPER ALERT Delighted to share a draft chapter that traces a genealogy of platform regulation discourse, and in partic… 2021-06-03 19:16:54 @Iwillleavenow corporate fomo 2021-06-03 18:54:22 (if you care, come do a postdoc https://t.co/xat7sR8oQo or PhD https://t.co/q6U8woYmFK specifically on this topic with me!) https://t.co/acjL4B0jYa 2021-06-03 18:52:15 Those with AirTag stalkerware concerns will welcome this news, but seemingly without realising it this article highlights a more subtle issue. Apple can remotely update all AirTags in its network. What else could an update change? How adaptable is this infrastructure? https://t.co/e7Q57XxYuF https://t.co/CT39UW2bMF 2021-06-03 16:47:38 @emilybell these three reasons for https://t.co/sZyJ25xZBB are such a joke... the first one is nonsense and UX-based, the third can be done by identifying and blocking tweets w harmful links in rather than profiling all users app usage behaviour. Yet it justifies a 'no opt out' policy. https://t.co/AQRorES9OR 2021-06-03 16:43:53 @emilybell also a clear indication that 1st major social media to offer a sub version isn't planning to reduce tracking (ie cloaking all links in nasty https://t.co/sZyJ25xZBB), targeting or ads for the paying. Even the undo feature looks underwhelming as it seems to just be a post delay... 2021-06-03 16:35:27 RT @RMac18: An academic paper criticizing Apple's recent iOS privacy changes from profs at U of Florida and Harvard Business School has bee… 2021-06-03 15:25:10 @psychicyogamat @n_srnck ‘if implemented correctly’ is also doing a lot of work here 2021-06-03 15:24:49 @psychicyogamat i suspect @n_srnck has Thoughts 2021-06-03 14:19:31 @moltke interscandinavian burn https://t.co/Aoc30VZ8mX 2021-06-03 14:06:28 @drkatedevlin @SwiftOnSecurity indeed and if is a medical device it triggers the AI regulation if it also had ML components. But it looks like many wouldn't by virtue of being an intimate use of ML. Thanks! 2021-06-03 13:50:26 @drkatedevlin @SwiftOnSecurity (they regulate toys in general but they are defined in terms of being used by children) 2021-06-03 13:49:58 @drkatedevlin @SwiftOnSecurity quick q: in relation to proposed EU AI Act I was examining product safety laws (which interplay with it) and was surprised to (seemingly) find the EU has not explicitly regulated (the more conventional) product safety of sex toys. Is that your understanding too (also byond EU)? 2021-06-03 13:00:36 @FredericJacobs Know Your Criminologist 2021-06-03 12:59:34 @RFrancisLee do¢ent 2021-06-03 12:54:47 wow, scandinavian academic salaries are sweet! https://t.co/Q7Q6cxWVck 2021-06-03 10:34:55 RT @linnetelwin: Looking forward to taking part in the @bmj_latest 's webinar on covid certification on thursday june 10 at 5 CET, with the… 2021-06-02 17:56:38 Informed takes on StackOverflow's acquisition by 'investment and holding company' Prosus welcome. https://t.co/p6lf2FwCqi https://t.co/6E3ZXNUPtz 2021-06-02 17:37:27 @MajaBrkan wow! congratulations!! 2021-06-02 16:17:22 @ChrisTMarsden now you need a fast lane 2021-06-02 16:16:54 @realhamed i will. just genuinely overwhelmed with marking and regulatory proposals and general exhaustion… there is so much happening 2021-06-02 16:13:34 @PJLeerssen (though i'm not sure people come to the uk for cheaper alcohol) 2021-06-02 16:13:01 @PJLeerssen hamsteréééééén 2021-06-02 16:11:47 @realhamed i'm glad this is all being skewered on its own, i was so worried over the last few years that it was going to be confidentiality as a free pass (important to not just skewer it on lack of confidentiality now). also never got round to finishing a long-standing paper on it... 2021-06-02 16:03:24 @PJLeerssen trust me i cannot wait to get on the eurostar. i’ll even get on the boat to hoek van holland. 2021-06-02 16:02:27 @johnwilander the law is pretty easy to understand, the practices of innovative illegality are the trickier bit to analyse… 2021-06-02 15:57:40 @johnwilander (i mean 1 and 3) 2021-06-02 15:57:22 @johnwilander pain to teach those last two to lawyers though… 2021-06-02 13:42:59 @alexhern https://t.co/vOICgngqvp 2021-06-02 08:39:50 RT @Senficon: Germany has adopted its #copyright reform implementing #Article17. At #KluwerCopyrightBlog @joschkaselinger and I analyze the… 2021-06-02 08:08:51 we heavily reward the destruction of hard-won, established systems and the false creation of minimal viable products based entirely on lies, but undervalue the act maintenance to a sickening and dangerous degree. https://t.co/M7PIxTHn1d 2021-06-02 08:05:09 @Abebab @TimandraHarknes @BigDataSizeBook if i remember it was even more ridiculous as it had to detect and zap all of one sex of mosquitos but not the other to make the gene drive or similar work… 2021-06-02 08:03:39 @Abebab @TimandraHarknes has a whole chapter in her book @BigDataSizeBook about solutionism and ML zapping mosquitos! i think you went over to see a mosquito zapping human no? was a particularly ridiculous section. 2021-06-02 08:00:35 @katecrawford @julie17usc I was reading trying to parse it in European terms and I’m not sure we stood in denial clasping onto sharp but dated FoE weapons as platforms reconfigured human relations… I think we just watched and gawped in a confused way. Denial still perhaps, but less 1st A-style passionate 2021-06-02 07:46:53 .@julie17usc’s new piece on tech law stages of grief is v stimulating. As we languish in the ‘depressive mode’ of coregulation, she hopes we can focus on higher rule of law principles to redesign legal institutions to intervene in networks of power https://t.co/juB4vdnbdd https://t.co/a9cyAsbHFc https://t.co/uVDTWdKQqY 2021-06-01 20:58:14 @omertene @ucl trying to grab the last anglophile tech policy postdocs before they all disappear, never to return 2021-06-01 20:13:56 Postdoc position now here https://t.co/C708kGhPyA 2021-06-01 18:19:28 @je5perl @ReclaimYourFace (technically england and wales high court before pedants come) 2021-06-01 18:14:47 @je5perl @ReclaimYourFace this argument was made and dismissed in the UK High Court in the Bridges case broadly on the basis that the system individuated people from each other. 2021-06-01 17:10:40 @blakereid sorry we only serve lexis is that still ok? 2021-06-01 17:01:54 @cynddl @natematias @TheOfficialACM I think this would be a clear example of a legitimate interest of a third party and would very likely be legal in Europe. A *secret* list (that you weren’t informed you were on?). Less possible. 2021-06-01 16:38:45 Please get in touch if you have any questions. And please do share this job broadly! There is a complementary PhD position that is closing in a few weeks too 9/ https://t.co/66GlpJ8RpD 2021-06-01 16:38:44 .@UCLLaws is an absolutely fantastic place full of really great, smart, friendly people. It's a *suspiciously* good part of academia and I still look around warily in case it's a trap (no evidence yet). The project is funded by @FondationBotnar. 8/ 2021-06-01 16:38:42 Deadline: 29 June. It's not just for lawyers, for tech policy people more broadly. Not even just for ppl w doctorates (if you have sig. writing & 2021-06-01 16:38:41 Yet in this pandemic (and not just now) there has been huge demand to manage or learn about the physical and social world in digital ways. That demand will not go away. This postdoc is about how we live with and manage this tension through law, policy and technology. 6/ 2021-06-01 16:38:40 This isn't about collecting all the data. This is about controlling crucial infrastructures. Thanks to vertical integration, firms have the power to coerce the world by witholding or extending other crucial infrastructures. Using cryptography, they can do this confidentially. 4/ 2021-06-01 16:38:39 Just as platforms wanted to be the only ones who could sell access to populations based on how they use devices, they want to determine and extract value from how physical space is used and configured. There is huge public value from this knowledge, and huge public risk. 3/ 2021-06-01 16:38:37 Concerned with platforms' power to map & 2021-06-01 14:16:55 @digitalurban @CASAUCL @grafana Was just wondering about the size really. And CO2 ones are quite costly! 2021-06-01 14:09:05 @digitalurban @CASAUCL @grafana Does it do CO2 too? 2021-06-01 09:09:50 @rachelcoldicutt @lilianedwards @EinsteinsAttic One thing I find strange though is that they say there is an opt-out deadline at all, yet they also say the data will remain linkable to you if it is required to be for some reason. These seem incompatible. 2021-06-01 09:09:10 @rachelcoldicutt @lilianedwards @EinsteinsAttic It arguably would be 2021-06-01 08:20:57 @agstrait @JazzaJohn @Better_UK i’m with the Camden ones and I will rain down plagues of regulatory and legal havoc on your business if you even try, Better. Maybe your Twitter team can pass that on to legal. 2021-06-01 08:12:18 @JazzaJohn @Better_UK And explicitly say you have already talked to the controller (Better) about it in person and they gave a seemingly final statement on their position. 2021-06-01 08:11:07 @JazzaJohn @Better_UK it’ll go to a case worker so you’ll need to spell it out. Copy paste from the ICO’s consent guidance and emphases this is art 9 *explciit consent* to biometric data so a higher bar still. https://t.co/oQW64RO42t https://t.co/F07A4Fu6sR 2021-06-01 08:06:04 @JazzaJohn @Better_UK They claim explicit consent and then legitimate interest. Explicit consent must be as easy to refuse as to give. If you have energy I would suggest filing a quick complaint to ICO news emphasising the conditionality of this consent. https://t.co/XafczRs1J6 https://t.co/4mzK9xpZge 2021-06-01 08:02:12 @JazzaJohn @Better_UK Which one? Requiring facial recognition with no alternative is almost certainly in breach of the law. 2021-06-01 07:54:01 @rachelcoldicutt @lilianedwards @EinsteinsAttic They would likely argue that it is still currently ‘prior to the processing’ https://t.co/9N0D3JPQ9q 2021-05-31 23:28:44 @mer__edith @FrankPasquale @RDBinns Poking around for new places to intermediate and insert middlemen. 2021-05-31 18:40:57 @FrankPasquale @RDBinns from physiognomy to trepanation… 2021-05-31 12:12:53 @1Br0wn @NHSDigital @ICOnews When I first read that I assumed was misreporting so thought no more. Worrying if true. 2021-05-31 11:20:52 @maxschrems Looking forward to watching it all play out! 2021-05-31 07:49:22 @empo11on @1Br0wn all modes lead to coregulation 2021-05-31 07:44:13 @1Br0wn I think it can be both :) let's see if DPAs/similar want to act as the release-your-private-files stick that NGOs can use to push compliance before formal complaint... history doesn't look great for that in most jurisdictions 2021-05-31 07:39:18 @Cellular_PP @EU_EDPB not sure the relevance of this case, this is the line of case law (later CIA Security, Unilever) that shows you can disapply contradictory MS law based on clear directives 2021-05-31 07:27:09 @Cellular_PP Sure, but that’s a breach of national law. 2021-05-31 07:25:36 @Cellular_PP @EU_EDPB I don’t disagree there may be many ways to say these are GDPR non-compliant. But it is not always going to be straightforward and will be easy to blur and appeal. Hence the importance of the EP Reg. 2021-05-31 07:24:37 @Cellular_PP @EU_EDPB Directives don’t have horizontal direct effect on private entities, even if they are clear, but the issue is not non-transposition. GDPR regulators don’t magically become e-Privacy regulators with those sanctioning powers just because definitions are cross referenced. 2021-05-31 07:21:15 Will it be months or years before an annulment at the General Court? https://t.co/aLjts5o8yP 2021-05-31 07:17:42 Positive that there isn’t a government mandated certificate, but will they prohibit employers from requiring status (as some countries have), or just leave it to a free-for-all? https://t.co/l6OTUz39EB 2021-05-31 07:11:49 A further point: it’s not clear noyb address a core criticism @fborgesius and I make of CMPs: that you can never consent to 100s of trackers at once in a single click, without invalidating consent. Risk that this complaint reifies a status quo. https://t.co/PZwHKzmLNI https://t.co/3A5OPSTdU2 2021-05-31 07:05:57 @TheRealRevK @neil_neilzone *proxy 2021-05-31 07:05:43 @TheRealRevK @neil_neilzone confusingly, depending whether individuals become jointly and severally liable as they control ‘who can use the service’, or become an ‘access facility’ and avoid liability. unsure access is a great product for federated control. https://t.co/aZORle68bP 2021-05-31 07:01:12 7. One issue not dealt with in the FAQs is the distributive choices here. Publishers often feel at the end of a desperate system that adtech are leading and extracting cash from. Will tackling the publishers really help? en masse, maybe. 2021-05-31 07:01:11 4. The ‘ransomware’ part is an interesting case management system where controllers can fix and demonstrate compliance. Will be interesting to see who, if any, adapt to that. Low hanging fruit? 2021-05-31 07:01:10 2. Fines are much lower for EPD related breaches right now compared to GDPR ones, and separating the two will be confusing. 2021-05-31 07:01:09 Innovative approach that could even be called regulatory ransomware (without a cash demand) — issue a draft complaint to non-compliant cookie websites and require changes, or send the complaint to a real regulator. Some uncertainties remain: https://t.co/oKL1YfgBcl 2021-05-30 08:55:54 RT @TimandraHarknes: It’s true that allowing your health data to be used for research can help society BUT why doesn’t this video mention t… 2021-05-30 08:41:03 RT @fborgesius: Maastricht Law and Tech Lab and the Department of Private Law of Maastricht University are looking for an Assistant Profess… 2021-05-30 08:35:11 RT @ViliLe: Even as English search results are moderated, @YouTube's algorithms continue to promote religious vaccine disinformation in sma… 2021-05-30 07:55:28 RT @JFLenhard: Ah so glad many Americans became poverty ridden gig workers - some call this entrepreneurs - with unstable incomes and sched… 2021-05-29 17:36:15 @StevenFalk1 (however Germany only recently got a weaker exemption of this type and I don’t know about China. I don’t think the law covers that activity taking place outside of the UK). 2021-05-29 17:34:07 @StevenFalk1 The analysis of your images *may* fall under the Text and Data Mining exemption in UK copyright law. The republishing of them would not. Even if it is legally permitted, may still be good practice to get permission. https://t.co/hZA7jitjTj 2021-05-28 13:26:27 @Abebab @LeroCentre @UCDCSL looks like a good complement to @mireillemoret’s paper Privacy as Protection of the Incomputable Self: From Agnostic to Agonistic Machine Learning https://t.co/CmPTFbWn8o 2021-05-28 13:15:05 @RichardMoorhead @jjarvisLondon @watten1 @SecretBarrister I am not sure what this entails 2021-05-28 13:02:59 @RichardMoorhead @jjarvisLondon @watten1 @SecretBarrister You should be suspended for propagating fake news about fake suspensions relating ostensibly to the propagation of fake news. 2021-05-28 12:57:32 Amateur hour for the private sector QR code check in app Luca that schmoozed and fooled German Länder continues ad nauseum, as German cybersecurity agency says code injection plausible and the system was never deeply tested. https://t.co/xAAtTX3Hya 2021-05-28 12:54:47 @marc_mcgeemoore @TimCauser it’s an xpltv 2021-05-28 12:52:48 @marc_mcgeemoore @TimCauser can you remake UCL health and safety training marc? it would be better with CONCERNED SCOTTISH MAN WARNING FIRMLY AGAINST THINGS WITH EXPLETIVES backdropped with some strange auto-forwarding slides on the HR platform. Vice Dean (DONT FCKIN DRINK/TOUCH/USE THAT). 2021-05-28 11:53:42 @halhod @mariafarrell we even pub quizzed mildly successfully almost exactly on the other side of the first lockdown 2021-05-28 11:12:44 @mariafarrell @halhod telly medicine 2021-05-28 09:02:03 I became aware at some point that at least one of the streams of technology being developed around immunity certification within the UK gov is being developed closely with the Danish Coronapas people, if some journos fancied digging into that... (it could have been dropped since) https://t.co/MyTVXxpUAP 2021-05-28 08:34:28 RT @RDBinns: People say 'I don't care if my data is used to make ads more relevant' But adtech is so much more: e.g. 'influence policing',… 2021-05-28 07:48:56 @tabithagold @NickFerrariLBC I fear that there is no appetite in government for regulation or public scrutiny, and that AI and data strategy is actually being written solo by someone very fresh and unqualified in the Cabinet Office. 2021-05-28 07:36:59 @CiolosDacian @SarahLudford @USRPLUS_EU forget networks of mayors on expenses-paid jollies, surely this is actual city diplomacy @MicheleAcuto 2021-05-28 07:18:49 @RichardMoorhead And oral consent can be perfectly valid for data protection too (although in the UK university sector data protection consent for research is rarely if ever needed). 2021-05-28 07:05:17 @merisamartinez The history of affective computing is that it has been pitched as an accessibility/user experience technology and developed into or monetised as a marketing/surveillance technology. IMO accessibility tech should be facilitated locally to create minimal durable infrastructure. https://t.co/puAej8IpoX 2021-05-28 06:40:17 @MarijnSax is it ethical to remove him from such a beautiful and clear-cut world? like telling a fish in a tank about the ocean and predators. 2021-05-27 23:43:49 @amatwyshyn @jorisvanhoboken @julie17usc i knew it! your secret is out, all. 2021-05-27 22:22:46 @javherriv I don’t think the research was carried out illegally/unethically, & 2021-05-27 21:59:57 @julie17usc here’s a recent one I learned some interesting things from: Yates and Murphy 2021 Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 https://t.co/3uUWrPcztq https://t.co/0ZrpYgztfX 2021-05-27 20:58:12 @ruchowdh @madhumita29 @lindsmccallum @LukeMorris @WSJ This is making me wonder whether we have lost the ‘Letters to Editor’ section for post publication debate (maybe it exists, but hidden) as newspapers moved mainly online, and need to recreate it somehow. But hard when people consume news via link rather than via publication. 2021-05-27 20:48:14 @NicoleMatherLS @profgeraintrees @FinancialTimes @NHSDigital @NHSEngland 1. The data is not anonymised 2. You can support data use whilst recognising that rushing this with no analogue notice or digital opt out is *madness* for trust. The problem is not with the FT. https://t.co/ku7kYb0P3s 2021-05-27 19:20:52 @AnthroPunk fucking hell 2021-05-27 18:58:08 (Perhaps MSR’s public facing efforts to seem like a place you can be critical in tech ethics while getting paid a lot, compared to the recent Google AI ethics dumpster fire, has its limits) 2021-05-27 18:53:07 Still waiting for comments from the wide variety of people usually critical of emotional AI and affective computing at MSR or who receive (or maybe desire?) MSFT money. https://t.co/OngOLQnPk3 https://t.co/CrcRY86u2w 2021-05-27 16:59:14 @AskKlarna @esraefe @Klarna 'only non sensitive data was shown' says your blog — what insipid spin. well, I'm glad you didn't reveal any information about health, religion, sex life, trade union membership, biometric data or ethnicity. everything else is of course fine! https://t.co/EHSIvjp917 2021-05-27 12:20:41 @realhamed @steltenpower ‘your research project is full of eels’ 2021-05-27 08:49:36 @guardiannews no silverfish lining 2021-05-27 08:29:56 @cyberleagle I’d write to my MP but it’s Starmer… 2021-05-27 08:29:41 RT @cyberleagle: Commons Public Bill Committee has been considering the #PolicingBill. Much discussion of Cl.59 'serious annoyance' codific… 2021-05-27 08:27:54 @Jausl00s I wonder if they’re asking if eg an absence of rights could be non-material damage… 2021-05-27 08:27:11 RT @Jausl00s: AT Supreme Court files preliminary question with CJEU on scope of Art. 82 GDPR: Does the award of damages require, in additio… 2021-05-27 08:15:13 RT @EU_EDPS: Press Release As part of #EDPS 'Schrems II' Strategy for EUIs, we are launching 2 investigations: - use of Cloud services pro… 2021-05-27 08:09:58 RT @AdamJKucharski: If (and given early data it’s still a big if) B.1.617.2 is > 2021-05-27 08:08:42 Importantly, the EDPS can make decisions that, if an EUI decides to appeal, go to the General Court, which can then be appealed to the CJEU. Faster than a preliminary reference if more clarity regarding EU law and cloud computing is needed. https://t.co/IrVRoR9cCz 2021-05-27 08:06:29 RT @SamuelStolton: .@EU_EDPS opens two data protection investigations into EU institutions today, focussing on: - Legality of EU use of Am… 2021-05-27 07:41:54 As a platform side note I was only made aware of this paper because Microsoft sent it to me this morning as a promoted tweet… that’s one method of societal engagement I guess. https://t.co/4xPV09Gvv3 2021-05-27 07:34:11 @JessicaLennard @MicrosoftTeams A point I raised in my PhD — the use case posed by early builders in the field like Picard was computing that would realise when you were frustrated with it and become easier or offer help. Of course that did not come to pass… https://t.co/T7XZgh9paq 2021-05-27 07:30:23 @Elinor_Carmi Hmm HCI does do plenty of interviews though. They do do qualitative research in this particular paper to understand the system too. Just not evaluate how the infrastructure may reshape broader dynamics. 2021-05-27 07:23:45 The research team is driven by interesting Qs. Together Mode examined mental fatigue—useful! But running all faces through emotion APIs creates reusable, expandable computational infrastructure. HCI is very crap at evaluating its societal effects, as it lacks a theory of power. https://t.co/z2zb9qt0l2 2021-05-27 07:12:37 Usually I think that Microsoft Research is far far away from product in Microsoft, and often that is true. However Teams seems closer. The overlapping team that wrote this paper also designed Together Mode for teams, which was rapidly deployed last year. https://t.co/ybWehSN9De 2021-05-27 07:07:57 ‘if we’re not careful it could come to pass’ — maybe being careful means tell the corporation you lead not to design, build and deploy these things (even speculatively 2021-05-27 07:05:08 Meanwhile yesterday (can’t make it up) Microsoft prez Brad Smith concerned about powerful entities able to watch you like 1984, that technology might be racing ahead. Well it will do Brad if you flog face surveillance as a service to employers… https://t.co/ut0BkIT2CD https://t.co/9l4tbVMmr3 2021-05-27 07:00:41 @GHEvers use the teams apis to make a deep fake version of your own face. exactly the same, just passes it through, except it filters out eyes widening, , and similar. 2021-05-27 06:56:57 Also note that Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it is opening up its Teams APIs to try to become a much wider platform to eat all remote work, so even if Teams didn’t decide to implement this directly, employers could through third party integration! https://t.co/IlRjsolxjt 2021-05-27 06:51:36 @VeraJourova the European Parliament voted 541:1 to open infringement procedures against Luxembourg and Ireland last week. Sure, resolutions are non-binding, but as a civil service that serves at the pleasure of a European demos, maybe have a listen? 2021-05-27 06:47:47 @ErikJonker yes. it would only trigger a requirement to inform individuals you were doing it in that Act (not even an opt out). would not fall under high risk or prohibited practices. 2021-05-27 06:43:16 @tforcworc They more or less have a paper on that too at CHI https://t.co/BUV1Zik5AS without the embeddings.. 2021-05-27 06:39:32 Requires constantly pouring all face data on Teams through Azure APIs. Especially identifies head gestures and confusion to pull audience members out to the front, just in case you weren’t policing your face enough during meetings already. https://t.co/i2A1oHhbGa 2021-05-27 06:33:43 Hey Microsoft Research people who think that constant facial emotion analysis might not be a great thing (among others), what do you think of this proposed Teams feature published at CHI to spotlight videos of audience members with high affective ‘scores’? https://t.co/9CDS2k20Eu https://t.co/mR1KjtxTAu https://t.co/QzbRk08c1q 2021-05-26 22:44:54 Alternatively they can say ‘rule of law is working fine, all the illegality is sorted out in the UK’s own legal system’. However this ruling was only possible due to one of the last breaths of the supremacy of EU law in the UK regime. Lots of ways this can be spun by all sides. https://t.co/wMYHGE4V3a 2021-05-26 22:40:41 @aj_jawad I don’t know what the claimed controllership situation is of GP records. 2021-05-26 22:07:36 RT @Peston: On a normal day this story about @OliverDowden re-running the Ofcom chair appointment process would be very big. The allegation… 2021-05-26 21:54:20 @ram_ssk @EU_Commission @katecrawford @omertene @aselbst @s010n @manish_raghavan I would add to this paper and say that what it missed out unfortunately is perhaps the biggest issue: the problem of explainability in most systems is that the input variables are abstract and do not have human interpretable meaning. Thus you cannot explain ‘in terms’ of them. 2021-05-26 17:19:39 @puzzlesthewill (Major Threats to Our Business Include The Lying Stopping) 2021-05-26 17:18:50 @puzzlesthewill If people stopped lying you’d be out of a job mate, you’ve got a structural incentive to perpetuate nonsense 2021-05-26 15:51:49 @ram_ssk @EU_Commission @katecrawford @omertene See also (relatedly) problematic assumptions in 'counterfactual' or 'principal reasons' based explanations, highly subjective and manipulable by system controllers, summarised here by @aselbst @s010n @manish_raghavan https://t.co/lRlSzO4YTG 2021-05-26 14:02:06 @tsimonite @stokel @jeremywired make sure you have turned the main power off before inspecting your AI 2021-05-26 14:00:33 @carlissc I had this in the communal corridor of a flat i’d just moved into once 2021-05-26 13:57:59 @pieter_haeck @StevePeers @DeutschJill @simonvandorpe is that the palais de justice?! how kafakesque! 2021-05-26 13:17:30 @rachelcoldicutt you’re missing procurement reform discussion and Bent Flyvbjerg discussions 2021-05-26 12:57:19 Security by Ozscurity https://t.co/tb1HcqgARd 2021-05-26 11:55:28 @colmocinneide Wonder if this will create an impetus to refresh a range of law. Maybe we will get 'refresher clauses' to complement 'ouster clauses'... 2021-05-26 11:45:44 @lilianedwards I think you mean @karenmccullagh 2021-05-26 11:38:45 @futureidentity that screenshot is from the GDPR, not the judgment 2021-05-26 11:32:26 Not to mention Schrems II and a trade or data deal with the United States... 2021-05-26 11:31:48 (although it's all moot I suppose if an Act sought to selectively set aside supremacy and CJEU judgments in the case of data protection as a whole — given DRI, Tele2/Watson, PI/LQDN decisions on data retention, it would not surprise me if the UK tried that) 2021-05-26 11:29:45 Of course, they might be politically concerned it would endanger UK adequacy to make something that the CJEU might consider to disregard the essence of the right to data protection, but that's a political choice. 2021-05-26 11:27:59 If I understand right (calling Withdrawal Act SI experts like @alexandrasinc10), a SoS is bound by Art 23 GDPR restrictions on permissible DPA18 exemptions to data rights if adding by Regulations (EUWA 5(2)) BUT would not be if these were added through primary legislation. 2021-05-26 11:20:10 @mattr3 @OpenRightsGroup @the3million All job descriptions which permit application must themselves define the scope of the employer's viewpoints on the Schedules of the DPA. 2021-05-26 11:13:45 @mattr3 @OpenRightsGroup @the3million You went from one organisation arguing in this case against the immigration exemption to another organisation arguing in this case against the immigration exemption. Victory for both! 2021-05-26 11:10:38 Courts do not usually this ability to set aside contradictory parts of an Act (unless secondary legislation involved). This case is a remnant of the vanishing shadow of the supremacy of EU law in the UK. Of interest to @jeff_a_king (a teaching case for post-Brexit Public Law?) 2021-05-26 10:58:42 This judgement does not necessarily mean that the EP's concerns are resolved. Even if the scope of the limitation is defined, they may still be concerned that the newly clarified scope does not respect the essence of Charter rights and is not nec/prop in a democratic society. 2021-05-26 10:58:41 This is also going to interplay with current political discussions about UK adequacy. Just last week the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the Immigration Exemption. https://t.co/NgHDEQ5KeS 2021-05-26 10:58:40 It looks likely that the outcome of this case, at least at this stage, may be the Secretary of State, by regulations, amending Schedule 2 of the DPA 2018 to limit the exemption's scope in law. This has consequences for other exemptions made in the extensive DPA 2018 schedules too 2021-05-26 10:58:39 This is different from the DPD1995, so cannot be meaningless. He does not disapply the measure immediately but invites further evidence on relief. https://t.co/hg1KbTNxWZ 2021-05-26 10:58:38 However, Warby LJ judges the case more narrowly on a reading of Article 23(2), which permits Member States to restrict a GDPR right for public interest only if a 'legislative measure' contains limiting provisions. https://t.co/EGJhUAdJtv 2021-05-26 10:58:36 Big UK GDPR case: Court of Appeal rules in favour of the @OpenRightsGroup @the3million: Immigration Exemption to SARs is incompatible with Art 23 GDPR. This is a new exemption from 2018 the Home Office uses to withhold data rights info in 59% of cases. https://t.co/4Qht3Znvt0 2021-05-26 09:49:06 @nmsonline @halhod hah, I was thinking of online view counts on the official site. surely no-one takes a gamble on what is on or not on BBC Parliament 2021-05-26 09:46:59 @nmsonline @halhod let's foi it, sealed letter, all come together for drinks and winner doesn't pay a round 2021-05-26 09:45:50 @halhod I am more confused as to why there is no more Parliament of Tuvalu site at https://t.co/UJ36XV0v1B. Seems to have disappeared some time in 2019. https://t.co/I4IJrKCOHm 2021-05-26 09:43:50 @halhod probably before this one it was the Cambridge Analytica ones 2021-05-26 09:23:27 @stokel @jeremywired it's possible that @tsimonite has been writing a piece about Wickes' new AI strategy 2021-05-26 09:20:55 @stokel It is possible they are confused with the famous magazines @wiredinUSA or @Eurowire_Mag https://t.co/LNwSvJm7CP 2021-05-26 09:19:31 @stokel review section https://t.co/ksIMqeybMG 2021-05-26 09:11:28 @halhod I've been watching the LIBE committee instead 2021-05-26 09:10:45 RT @Foxglovelegal: ⏰BREAKING: HMG quietly rolled out a scheme to seize - & 2021-05-26 08:24:16 @SarahLudford @NHSDigital Only 87% of adults used the Internet in 2019. That’s not a small residual. https://t.co/TnePQzCf8w 2021-05-26 08:18:33 This is exactly *not* the way to get public trust that you need for data usage. The lessons learned from https://t.co/HssmErEn7O appear to be to provide no practical information or choices lest you mess up and lose trust. In taking this stance, they have indeed messed up. 2021-05-26 08:16:35 The timeline is absurd. The data is only pseudonymised yet they seem to deny opt-out after transfer, which would appear technically possible. No mailshot for the still large proportion of people in the country w/o Internet 2021-05-26 08:14:32 Despite potential benefits from well-governed use/sharing of data for (even commercial) research, NHS Digital’s actions are absurd. No full digital opt-out (in a pandemic where GPs operate remotely!), needing a paper form 2021-05-26 07:51:36 @gabrielazanfir also good second use of it 2021-05-26 07:24:41 @gabrielazanfir great use of the word panoply despite the late hour! (and important points in general!) 2021-05-25 19:41:17 RT @mer__edith: The number of people in the academy (and beyond) who will believe perpetrators (who have power in their fields, who cite th… 2021-05-25 16:59:53 RT @lexatlasc19: The closing date for our paid Research Fellow position is next Wednesday, 26 May 2021! Do apply if you have relevant mixe… 2021-05-25 16:54:12 New long blog from me for @lexatlasc19 on the law in England/Wales around QR codes and Covid check-ins, highlighting tensions & 2021-05-25 16:10:09 RT @CiTiP_KULeuven: We're looking for a new research fellow, with focus on Technology (Security/Privacy) and Law. Application deadline… 2021-05-25 11:47:44 I am also regularly reminded of this sentiment about one of the main actors in tirelessly bringing and supporting these cases, @benjaffey, who (despite this disappointing judgment) has achieved a huge amount in so many areas of UK surveillance law. https://t.co/vtGpbYoxBa 2021-05-25 11:42:36 @cyberleagle Let alone (as you point out well in your blogs!) turning content into secondary data, potentially through machine learning, text analysis and extraction, and so on. Hollowing out 'content' even further. 2021-05-25 11:40:38 @cyberleagle Luckily GCHQ just published a flashy document on the ethics of AI which contains no hint or mention of this, so I am sure Everything Is Fine. 2021-05-25 11:39:05 @rosamunde_vb I do use one of these (an older version) sometimes which is great because it's big and like reading on paper not an iPad https://t.co/gRrCqp7MtT 2021-05-25 11:34:10 @AmberMDarr Most people are not as foolish as me to comment on such a long document immediately. I wouldn't have so quickly if it wasn't clear that the Grand Chamber largely follow the Chamber's logic. @NoraNiLoideain @eleni_kosta @cyberleagle are likely to have great insights soon. 2021-05-25 11:31:44 @colmocinneide let me know when! i’m in once (or twice) a week 2021-05-25 11:30:41 @colmocinneide @vmantouvalou there really is. if we need funding may be able to rustle some out of a recent grant that covers this topic too… maybe can be the first in person thing! (though ucl still forbidding room booking for non teaching purposes) 2021-05-25 11:27:07 @colmocinneide glad was interesting! we could discuss it if we were yet in normal times (ECtHR printer trip). we will do soon. https://t.co/51anDzpGjD 2021-05-25 11:25:29 Also important to state. This whole legal process w the many applicants (Privacy International, Liberty, Open Rights Group, BBW, etc) did lead to change and oversight, but of the legitimising type. Snowden leaks did not blow open the cross-border transfer enough. They survive. https://t.co/4EYq6botgG 2021-05-25 11:19:35 @rosamunde_vb I keep all my judgments with notes on and don’t print out academic papers. What about the environment from buying a book you’ll regularly teach from? People print out plenty of things they don’t read and use regularly (eg emails!): let’s reduce there. 2021-05-25 11:18:05 (Ofc you can also say all is irrelevant bc if the ECtHR ruled against the UK’s intelligence system, UK would leave ECHR rather than stop bulk powers. But ECtHR go even less far 2021-05-25 11:13:06 @pedrostella5 dream on 2021-05-25 11:11:20 Twitter gets a mention too in the dissents, as an eg of the 'absurd' situation the majority vote leaves a Twitter message in — GCHQ simply grab a copy of a UK resident's DMs via the NSA and are exempt from the need for independent programme authorisation allowing them to do so. https://t.co/EfkVFVQwfh 2021-05-25 11:06:17 What I am personally concerned about is that all this came before the very widespread use of machine learning in these systems (although it was used). Could a warrant specify the 'results of a risk scoring algorithm based on metadata' as its subjects for comms examination? 2021-05-25 11:04:17 @CJFWeatherhead I know you can cross reference headers in MD but paragraphs are trickier no? and numbered paragraphs even more unwieldy 2021-05-25 11:00:28 He really does not let up in his dissent. The Court's attitude to ignoring evidence is 'incomprehensible', particularly in ignorance of how bulk powers aimed at individuals within the territorial jurisdiction of the State, and how it is used for much broader purposes than crime. 2021-05-25 10:57:35 @CJFWeatherhead how do you do cross referencing in markdown? 2021-05-25 10:56:16 Judge Pinto de Albuquerque in his own dissent has further harsh words for the Court, stating that it relied on 'educated guesses' about the way the UK regime operated 2021-05-25 10:53:27 They further hit back saying that the Court is allowing independent oversight of only vague criteria ('grounds', circumstances') for selection but then leaves the rest up to internal oversight. Again, falling between the cracks in an unhappy global-local medium. https://t.co/UCXR8EYHop 2021-05-25 10:50:36 This confusion can work both ways. In the BBW case, Js Lemmens, Vehabović and Bošnjak point out that the Court is taking a 'global assessment' when it is convenient, which also undermines individual safeguards too. Unhappy medium. https://t.co/3XXi2W6j5a 2021-05-25 10:46:44 This happens all over, not just in data law. For example, @vmantouvalou has been writing about structural injustice forcing and trapping workers in exploitation. Courts have trouble providing oversight over complex sociotechnical systems. https://t.co/HfiDMZzcGu 2021-05-25 10:44:41 We see a failure in information law across the board of dealing with practices which construct systems. They get looked at atomistically, in isolation, and courts end up missing the forest for the trees. 2021-05-25 10:41:15 We see 'stages' pop up all over in data law. In EU data DP too, a 'stages' approach is appearing regarding tracking, ignoring the effect of the entire system. Data might look like it flows, but information's journey in practice is more like building architecture than a river. 2021-05-25 10:39:15 In effect, w a result v similar to the Chamber judgment, the Court looks at bulk surveillance in 'stages', and does not believe that the obtaining of mass communication & 2021-05-25 10:26:31 The Court makes a bigger specific deal than the Chamber does of ensuring the 'categories' of selectors that can be used are part of the initial authorising warrant. But they are not specific on how granular these 'categories' are or should be (names? names of types of people?). 2021-05-25 10:20:31 The GC does not waver from majority view of the Chamber in not requiring pre-authorisation/oversight to be by judges in their roles as such, instead focussing on possibility of sufficiently independent bodies that have some legal power to stop a process (current sit. w/ IPCO). 2021-05-25 10:12:41 The Court in general throughout this judgment adopts a mode of 'if it's technically difficult, we have to adapt our tests'. They do this on notification and on bearer selection/external communication/foreseeability, for example. https://t.co/vlv0lH1h1C 2021-05-25 10:07:46 Court also flummoxed by the clunkiness of Microsoft Word's cross-reference function. https://t.co/KCBOim5IZ8 2021-05-25 10:06:09 Going to post some interesting pieces (not a judgment summary!) here. Firstly, that Contracting States can transfer Convention-compliant bulk intercept material to non-Contracting states that only have minimal protections (e.g. on keeping it secure/confidential). AKA the USA. https://t.co/Vv4x1vKomi 2021-05-25 09:40:22 and we go live to Strasbourg https://t.co/5T1sjKMwXx 2021-05-25 09:38:39 @PaulFScott I informed my Privacy, Data and Surveillance law LLMs that they did not have to consider this judgement in their coursework (due on 28 May). Maybe I'm too soft. 2021-05-25 09:33:37 Big Brother Watch now out. Looking at the dissents, it does not look good for anti-surveillance campaigners: 'with the present judgment the Strasbourg Court has just opened the gates for an electronic “Big Brother” in Europe' https://t.co/1HqKz64qS5 2021-05-25 08:19:34 @chey_cobb @accessnow yup, our research found a majority are illegally configured in the way you describe https://t.co/Qh13lwMYtc 2021-05-25 08:12:45 RT @OpenRightsGroup: Watch the video + Take Action On this #GDPR day, we’ve joined forces with partners across Europe to stop illega… 2021-05-25 08:03:58 RT @NoraNiLoideain: Ahead of the two major rulings of the ECtHR Grand Chamber today (Big Brother Watch v UK), here is my work on the approa… 2021-05-25 07:54:33 RT @accessnow: The #GDPR turns 3 today! This EU legislation was pitched as the new global standard for privacy & 2021-05-25 07:16:55 RT @1Br0wn: Facial recognition cameras in “contactless corridors” to end airport passport queues (in 2025), with “upstream risk analytic… 2021-05-25 07:11:05 @alexhern twee-ter 2021-05-25 06:45:21 €3m, of course… 2021-05-25 06:44:54 Meanwhile, in actual policy posted yesterday by the Commission on its EU Neighbourhood Policy site, the EU publicised £3m in grants for Belarusian NGOs to ‘strengthen the voice of youth in society’. https://t.co/qEzlkVb63Z https://t.co/ZmiKcfkf8g https://t.co/uglbsNfHuF https://t.co/mTewejChzi 2021-05-25 06:16:55 @plmaheu @mer__edith federated databases are also real technologies. 2021-05-24 20:08:34 @JoannaChataway @UCLSTEaPP looks like a quite narrow pipeline to generalist consultancy more than path-opening education… interdisciplinarity builds on depth, whereas this school seems to envisage replacing it. perilous. 2021-05-24 19:45:23 RT @johnnyryan: Help please! We at @ICCLtweet are hiring a Technology Fellow to make automated decision making transparent. Thanks to @EUa… 2021-05-24 19:15:22 @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @mcmillan_majora students in my law classes in the UK had heard of it and knew what was in it! crossing disciplines too. 2021-05-24 18:28:23 @frankfletcher @MissIG_Geek @katebevan @VanessaFurey @charitychap @lilianedwards I suspect it may not be appropriate for Twitter 2021-05-24 17:54:50 RT @SamJamesMorgan: #EUCO but it’s Pixar To infinity and beyond! https://t.co/h8Snulsi0C 2021-05-24 17:46:15 @owainkenway did this not happen to you @emax 2021-05-24 17:46:01 @owainkenway I thought Nvidia just passively aggressively sent GPUs to computer science academics to put in their offices to get them addicted or something 2021-05-24 17:43:13 We will be in the Upper Tribunal this summer seeking to overturn the ICO's dropping of this complaint. We may have to go further. You can support our legal fight to set precedent that means the ICO cannot simply dodge accountability with a donation here https://t.co/0tUDaYYBcX 2021-05-24 17:41:01 They also condemn a range of other major flaws, omissions and deliberate misunderstandings in the decision, many of which are outlined by @DouweKorff here https://t.co/D7NlccxIh4 https://t.co/XQmYFUafBa 2021-05-24 17:28:03 In a Resolution passed by the whole European Parliament on Friday pointing out myriad holes in the draft UK adequacy decision, the EP condemns the UK's ICO, pointing to their dropping of the adtech/RTB complaint @jimkillock & 2021-05-24 17:13:31 @emax they aren’t listening. although sometimes they read my tweets with pseudonym accounts. hi apple privacy team! 2021-05-24 17:10:10 @katebevan @VanessaFurey @charitychap @lilianedwards AFAIK land registry data doesn’t have a special regime around its reuse (like electoral registration data does) so this is probably why it is happening. also, land registry data is quite good open as it allows offshore companies to be mapped eg https://t.co/6QUhjxJ46Y 2021-05-24 17:07:55 @katebevan @VanessaFurey @charitychap @lilianedwards if it’s post, they can try and rely on legitimate interest. if electronic, avoiding consent is harder. i would argue some random estate agent didn’t have legitimate interest to use land registry data that way but the ICO will deliberately be fuzzy on it and avoid taking a stance. 2021-05-24 16:37:44 @owainkenway a puppy is for life not just for FY 2020/21 2021-05-24 16:36:37 @owainkenway Is this the time of the year where you open a Sponsor-A-GPU-For-Life scheme? 2021-05-24 15:43:36 RT @1Br0wn: This @USSenate testimony on #SchremsII is useful, but it tellingly repeats a common mistake (also with regards to the UK): “Neg… 2021-05-24 15:41:07 RT @mer__edith: @safepress @mikarv They're bullshit the way most startups are bullshit: a handful of people are getting very rich thanks to… 2021-05-24 14:49:44 @mer__edith cloud blockchain was such a beautiful double scam too, for the busy libertarian who wanted an easy centralised approach to decentralisation 2021-05-24 14:47:07 RT @TomValletti: Dear @FinancialTimes, It’s obviously your choice to accept op eds from pseudo researchers from pseudo think tanks. But can… 2021-05-24 14:46:17 @mer__edith if blockchain was a scam why are big cloud tech companies developin— oh, wait https://t.co/y5q2qmAdOd 2021-05-24 14:41:17 RT @PET_Symposium: The 2021 HotPETs call for talks is out! https://t.co/f3kxDKb8tu Short, written talk proposals should be sent by Friday… 2021-05-24 13:55:21 RT @SylvieDelacroix: #JustPublished 'Computing Machinery, Surprises and Originality' #openaccess: When #Turing translated #AdaLovelace's "… 2021-05-24 10:38:32 @alexhern how will cars driving around the inner ring of the M25 ever leave the motorway? 2021-05-24 08:15:05 Weird definition of protection to describe an infrastructure designed to query health records on demand and show yes/no results of a query to an arbitrary verifier. It’s not a maths exam. You don’t need to show the working to produce a (concerning) result. https://t.co/6xjgqWU1vI https://t.co/xo1zoXVsdZ 2021-05-24 07:40:57 Worrying developments in Ethiopia as opaque blockchain Digital ID actors take hold & I’m shocked that The Conversation has published what amounts to blockchain advertorial. Read for yourself and decide. https://t.co/Uta9x1xRi9 2021-05-24 07:35:11 @TC_Africa @Iwaleso If ‘Atala Prism’ is open source — where is the source code? How is it licensed? All I can find is a statement from January on a forum saying there is no intention to make it open source. This article seems misleading. 2021-05-22 13:33:54 @j2bryson @natematias @OSFramework @arxiv @UniofBath @KeeganMcB are you submitting the preprints through @socarxiv? 2021-05-22 13:29:27 @zittrain Yes. Could be interesting to measure the success of our passive archiving infrastructures (as much as I enjoy using https://t.co/EeRbpPv5kY) 2021-05-22 12:51:22 @j2bryson @OSFramework @arxiv @UniofBath oh that is interesting! and yes I think OSF still working on preprint profiles 2021-05-22 11:58:20 if you are doing contract cheating i am happy for you to pay me for me to carry out a check to confirm that yes, you are plagiarising. 2021-05-22 11:56:52 Great to receive an email from a contract cheating business for doctoral theses that advertises their services both as writing your thesis for you and doing the underlying research but also doing plagiarism checking! So comprehensive. https://t.co/jyVDrBwv2f 2021-05-22 11:18:56 A subject access request revealed an academy trust trying to take over a local primary school sent covert notetakers to spy on campaigner meetings & 2021-05-21 23:14:31 oh no, FEBO have infiltrated new york and convinced its denizens they are now hip and desirable. https://t.co/TwDwA0nshz 2021-05-21 16:04:50 @tsimonite @parmy “the proposed structure didn’t make financial sense for Alphabet given its total investment in the unit and its willingness to bankroll DeepMind” no shit! 2021-05-21 16:04:31 RT @tsimonite: Wholly-owned subsidiary of giant online ads company will remain wholly-owned subsidiary of giant online ads company https://… 2021-05-21 14:51:38 @zittrain @nytimes In this study, did you also look at the proportion of the lost links that were successfully archived on the Internet Archive? 2021-05-21 11:27:09 RT @tjmcintyre: There’s been some concern that the HSE’s injunction regarding the ransomware attack might be so wide that it would inadvert… 2021-05-21 11:08:42 @halhod @tomskitomski @rachelcoldicutt @sarahtgold phishing concerns I think drove the do-it-with-the-app choice in many places. Plus, you can’t be notified without an app unless you take steps to enter more data or make the QR code preformulate eg an SMS. Australia spoofing example here https://t.co/HcgBPZdX75 2021-05-21 10:36:48 Middle-aged North Korean officials all forced to get computer training or to face losing their roles. https://t.co/CEqLHGUuEA 2021-05-21 08:33:50 @DavidPriceUCL within other scholarship maybe, but citation data in eg WoS or Scopus doesn’t include policy reports, parliament, grey literature, and google scholar only does so sporadically (and if the policy report uses footnotes generally won’t pick it up!). extremely biased impact. 2021-05-21 08:22:17 RT @ProfSteveFuller: I'm afraid that #STS is complicit in all this. The founding editor of Social Studies of Science, David Edge, was all a… 2021-05-21 08:19:48 @owainkenway (the FISA court is secret 2021-05-21 08:19:24 @owainkenway Or is it that it’s visible for PR in a market where they want to monetise perceived privacy (or confidentiality, as they prefer to conceive it as). We don’t know if Apple challenged PRISM in the FISA Court. It’s like a bit of both (naturally rule of law and China matter too!) 2021-05-21 08:15:56 @owainkenway And the hypocrisy of why it takes certain fights (eg the PR reasons between the Apple v FBI saga that never got to court.) 2021-05-21 08:14:53 @owainkenway True, although Apple’s arrogance often sees it ignore laws it dislikes or thinks it does better (including European data rights), so the story is really about the tension between its corporate culture, PR and legal reality of operating in a market it makes a shedload from. 2021-05-21 08:10:06 @owainkenway Behind the headline though seems to be a longer game about secure hardware https://t.co/ERdF4Rurd9 2021-05-21 08:04:00 @jiahong_chen @lawsheffield looking forward to coming up to see you and others! https://t.co/quHNRMjDGN 2021-05-21 07:58:44 @mireillemoret @lopalasi @riptari @HNissenbaum @FrankPasquale I think for scheduling it is quite debatable. Some of the dimensions come out in this piece https://t.co/9dll2mfCp4 or blog https://t.co/4VuNYl9o56 2021-05-21 07:56:39 @mireillemoret @riptari @HNissenbaum @FrankPasquale became interesting to see arguments both ways regarding contact tracing apps as to whether an alert of a potential risk was a diagnosis. of course, all diagnoses come with uncertainty, but where to draw a line? 2021-05-21 07:52:18 @lopalasi @riptari @mireillemoret @HNissenbaum @FrankPasquale yes, though some can be a grey area in the new medical devices reg that can be argued. agree that it does not cover all health systems that may concern. 2021-05-21 07:19:32 @HetanShah lots of his work on the constitution is already fiction 2021-05-21 07:10:25 @riptari @mireillemoret @HNissenbaum @FrankPasquale it is, indirectly, as medical devices are included in the Title III regime. 2021-05-21 06:09:57 RT @VTeagueAus: If you're a geek who's eligible to vote in Upper Hunter, could you kindly download a copy of the iVote javascript & 2021-05-20 18:10:33 @protocol relevant from 2019 @issielapowsky https://t.co/5vfSe8PYs2 2021-05-20 18:08:37 @benmschmidt @velocirobter i found out yesterday it was created by the guy who made blogger 2021-05-20 17:55:44 RT @bricksilk: @mikarv @UKHouseofLords The amazing thing is how well it works, in a House with median age of 71. These things do not happen… 2021-05-20 17:45:02 @bricksilk @UKHouseofLords Your points around backchanneling too are excellent and worth emphasising more widely. Might look rude in person but that’s a norm we need to overcome when the purpose is obtaining information and undertaking effective scrutiny. 2021-05-20 17:39:39 @bricksilk @UKHouseofLords Excellent speech. From the other side having given evidence at one Lords & 2021-05-20 15:38:09 @ProfChalmers @colmocinneide It’s *exactly* this kind of judgment I hope the Judicial Review Bill will stop. Activist laureates. 2021-05-20 15:00:13 @claesdevreese useful, especially from the UK where we don’t have a tenure system. always confused when UK universities advertise ‘tenure track’ jobs as if we do… 2021-05-20 14:45:14 RT @LauKaya: PJL anti-piratage: Le Sénat rejette l'amendement du gouvernement, qui demandait la suppression de l'article garantissant un ar… 2021-05-20 13:42:25 RT @zittrain: From the Epic v. Apple battle over Apple's centrally-controlled app store: to justify only allowing Apple-approved apps on iP… 2021-05-20 11:25:16 RT @vmanancourt: Parliament narrowly votes AGAINST the EPP/ECR resolution on the data flows deal. 335 for, to 350 against. That mea… 2021-05-20 10:21:40 RT @jeff_a_king: This symposium on compulsory vaccination was terrific - all collected here in one place. 2021-05-20 09:03:53 @tforcworc @lilianedwards @emax @1Br0wn i think that’s so it can be printed as well as shown 2021-05-20 08:41:08 RT @Nadya_Purtova: Tomottow @ #TILTing2021 [13:30 CET, session 14D] I will present my new paper “From knowing by name to personalisation”,… 2021-05-19 22:26:28 RT @Reuters: Apple made more than $100 mln in commissions from 'Fortnite' - executive at trial https://t.co/iAMxUe0ne5 https://t.co/mHGqTPQ… 2021-05-19 12:14:16 RT @doctorow: Bruce Schneier coined "feudal security" to describe the dominant Big Tech security model, in which you surrender your autonom… 2021-05-19 12:13:01 @Joe_R_Atkinson also should tag @JeremiasPrassl to check out the blog, as I think it’s up his street! 2021-05-19 11:49:05 @atscmc @BVLSingler (technically not a manel as they did feature @ClareAngelyn, just not in that particular clip, but it’s certainly erasure of the work of Joy, Deb, Timnit nonetheless) https://t.co/LyNdyPh1ky 2021-05-19 10:44:14 of interest to employee surveillance scholars across disciplines (linking legal remedies w theoretical views on surveillance)—will do a rare FYI tag to flag junior scholars' work @lilianedwards @LinaDencik @katecrawford @iajunwa @Lawgeek @Joe_R_Atkinson @luke_stark @rosamunde_vb 2021-05-19 10:44:13 Jeevan Hariharan & Even where cases not egregious enough, this view reframes the nature of risk & 2021-05-19 10:07:01 RT @mikarv: Come do a fully-funded PhD (full Home/Overseas fees+stipend) w/ me @UCLLaws on future international regulation of platform comp… 2021-05-19 07:37:00 RT @FusterGloria: dear all #dataprotection academics! if you're attending #tilting2021 make sure you check your virtual goodie bag, you wil… 2021-05-19 07:24:40 RT @TC_IntLaw: The ECHR Grand Chamber will (finally) publish its judgments in @BigBrotherWatch & 2021-05-18 19:47:19 RT @NothiasT: Alright, it’s time to talk about Facebook’s latest connectivity experiment, "Discover". A thread. Please read, share, and if… 2021-05-18 19:00:10 @j2bryson *awkward british compliment face* thank you! 2021-05-18 15:26:18 RT @JehadAbusalim: Arabs are writing Arabic like it used to be written 1500 years ago (without the dots on the letters) in defiance of shad… 2021-05-18 15:25:23 @JehadAbusalim @Hammonda1 @ObfuscationWS @sedyst 2021-05-18 15:23:43 @mathver @sedyst https://t.co/dQhDJOcdJ3 2021-05-18 13:59:47 @xotoxot @blogisch @murakamiwood just send .exe files asking for the signatures you need 2021-05-18 13:54:05 @sedyst and you get to work with @sedyst in the same project! the dream 2021-05-18 13:53:10 @coolharsh55 @murakamiwood try to send someone that as a file and ask them to edit it, or print it, or pass it on, or all sorts. great for the web but doesn't have 'portability'. 2021-05-18 13:52:18 @murakamiwood also a reminder that it created a whole academic field of conferences of document engineering to try and undo the damage they did and work out What Is Inside PDFs https://t.co/0GkfhJ9c1I 2021-05-18 13:49:24 @murakamiwood PDFs have done immense damage to society and yet we are stuck with them... 2021-05-18 13:48:26 @murakamiwood no 2021-05-18 13:47:03 @murakamiwood thanks david! pushed for an international scholarship too, a rarity (which now is also needed for EU applicants who don't have 3 year residency) 2021-05-18 12:27:07 @rosamunde_vb @linnetelwin @annliffey @sedyst @lexatlasc19 @SurvSoc_Journal looking forward to reading! the full piece is coming out whenever typesetters finish it. 2021-05-18 11:20:07 @Kira_UCL Will do! Will be after it gets advertised to redeployees if no-one suitable comes up at that stage. 2021-05-18 11:08:05 There is also a closely related 2 year post-doc post on the way, hold on for that if you're already PhD'd up, or nearly there. 2021-05-18 10:51:18 (the full PDF file description in the images of the first post is a obscure link at the bottom of the link above, I think this should take you to it https://t.co/GY9phYzvhV) 2021-05-18 10:50:08 Open to anyone with a (broad) background in law or technology policy (the qualification is a PhD in Law, but our PhD programme doesn't only have lawyers studying in). Email or DM me with queries about the position! The turnaround is fast so *please* do share among your students! 2021-05-18 10:50:07 This position is part of a larger project on software/hardware building blocks for human-rights respecting systems facilitating public health response, led by @carmelatroncoso, funded by @FondationBotnar. You'll work w/ computer scientists, critical technologists, epidemiologists 2021-05-18 10:50:06 Who gets to run what code on computational infrastructures such as phones, computers or environmental sensors? This is a messy world of gatekeepers, standards, and many different types of current or proposed law. 2021-05-18 10:50:05 Come do a fully-funded PhD (full Home/Overseas fees+stipend) w/ me @UCLLaws on future international regulation of platform computational and sensing infrastructures! How to govern protocols and power in legitimate, globally representative ways? (pls share) https://t.co/3dVJSxSHAx https://t.co/PqJgOzdn2e 2021-05-18 08:46:08 @nataliabielova @PrivacyMatters @RDBinns @lilianedwards Thanks for the question! Lots to think about going forward. For me it’s about how to avoid uses of PETs that try to dodge the law when they should not, while enabling times that PETs can let us have our cake and eat it (eg analysing global health records for bigger studies) 2021-05-18 08:43:49 @nataliabielova @PrivacyMatters @RDBinns @lilianedwards I think a court would often look at the ‘mischief’ or injustice that a case brought in front of it would be trying to remedy. They often work back from solving that rather than forward from atomistic principles. This doesn’t always give the most consistent results. 2021-05-18 08:41:51 @nataliabielova @PrivacyMatters @RDBinns @lilianedwards It’s certainly been something that people have considered post-Schrems II. I think it’s a subtly different question from if the resulting model is personal data though. 2021-05-18 08:40:42 @nataliabielova @PrivacyMatters @RDBinns @lilianedwards I’m not sure there’s a clear answer to that question. There are many ways you could approach it, such as considering what a transfer is and the like. If the resulting model leaked personal data, more likely to be categorised as a transfer than if not. But both could be processing 2021-05-18 08:32:27 Large language models already contain plenty of queryable personal data of course. I just asked OpenAI’s GPT-3 who studies privacy law, and it told me @DanielSolove @HNissenbaum @Lawprofaallen. We can’t let this be a way to avoid obligations that relate to holding personal data. https://t.co/g2dOvRhSlj 2021-05-18 08:25:28 @Natanael_L Encrochat 2021-05-18 08:22:48 Highly relevant to the argument I made with @RDBinns @lilianedwards a few years back that machine learning models might themselves be personal data and trained and transported as arbitrage. How about a large language model containing all search results? https://t.co/uqFQsNlCrq https://t.co/a3qAqCPKD4 2021-05-18 08:18:05 @PrivacyMatters @lyria1 @VTeagueAus @GernotHeiser You’re right, it’s nuanced — I’m referring to how businesses can choose for the endpoint to be Facebook’s own servers and tools. 2021-05-18 08:14:25 @PrivacyMatters @lyria1 @VTeagueAus @GernotHeiser E2E is going when you talk to businesses. That’s the entire update’s purpose, practically. 2021-05-18 08:11:50 Your own report admits DLT is barely used practically outside of cryptocurrency — hardly solving the ‘biggest problems’. What a joke this whole organisation and initiative is, captured by hype-merchants flogging standardisation and cloud by crayoning on pointless cryptography. https://t.co/zrTiKiOEsc https://t.co/GbCCXxSPbT 2021-05-18 08:03:25 RT @ThinkUpstream: @KimZetter @darth @CNN Almost everything we heard about this story was wrong. The hackers didn’t breach operating system… 2021-05-18 08:03:19 RT @KimZetter: .@cnn has now confirmed what I wrote 4 days ago, that CP shut down pipeline because they couldn't bill customers. Per CNN: "… 2021-05-18 08:02:45 @PrivacyMatters @lyria1 @VTeagueAus @GernotHeiser Although the new WA terms of service presumably mean that as a business account, messages to and from this ‘channel’ are stored serverside in a decryptable form. 2021-05-18 07:59:12 @simonhania will look into more, thanks :) 2021-05-18 07:56:41 @katebevan @lyria1 @VTeagueAus @GernotHeiser perhaps they’re too busy coveting and hoarding zero-days 2021-05-18 07:54:37 @PaulQuinnBxl about time but won’t fix congestion… perhaps tax reform might treat more than the symptoms… 2021-05-18 07:45:52 Incredibly a journal I am submitting a final manuscript to has moved (during revisions) from ManuscriptCentral to a new platform which works even less successfully and has therefore been unable to take my revisions for two weeks due to a pantomime of inexplicable errors. https://t.co/tyrewS69X3 2021-05-18 07:39:24 @simonhania That’s for authentication though, no? I recall previous Dutch case law on the topic. Not for crime detection or security, either ‘remote’ or ‘post’ as the AI Act considers? AI Act doesn’t ban authentication biometrics… https://t.co/p1O5YVWuPk 2021-05-18 07:28:44 RT @jennifercobbe: @PaulbernalUK @technollama As someone who normally lives in England, is registered with a GP in England, but was vaccina… 2021-05-18 07:25:04 The incorrect Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission believes there is no ‘legitimate’ reason for a law-abiding citizen to encrypt anything or *even own encryption tools*. Important piece by @lyria1 @VTeagueAus @GernotHeiser on this madness. https://t.co/DLCuewIlHB https://t.co/W1cMQwddms 2021-05-18 06:53:30 @nataliabielova @IEEEAccess Amazing that they ask you to do it in 7 days but say their entire process is expedited to only take 4-6 weeks… 2021-05-18 06:49:27 Best thing about this video is where he says he will not read out his username or password to the viewer for security reasons but enters it crystal clearly on camera. Some computer security risks that seem obvious in hindsight are extremely easy to overlook at the time. https://t.co/ygubRADGii 2021-05-18 06:24:21 @AnthroPunk indeed… 2021-05-18 06:23:59 one way of reading musk’s companies is a personal obsession with how many new, durable and frankly illegitimate private infrastructures one rich man can invent to prove his own enduring agency on the world. 2021-05-18 06:21:14 infrastructure, not products or services, sit crucially below many of the tycoon’s other firms too: charging/swappable batteries and Tesla 2021-05-18 06:17:40 Ignore the silly title, this article hints at a point: SpaceX isn’t going to make much from launches-for-hire. The link to Starlink matters: Musk wants an infrastructural stronghold on global communication infrastructure. Turning gold (both his and others’) into durable power. https://t.co/If1TQ8TXrJ 2021-05-18 05:59:00 @ruskin147 indeed, they tried to make that brand name change a few months ago but it hasn’t stuck. 2021-05-18 05:36:06 @hollyherndon I was mentioning this project in a workshop just last week (was it with you @tforcworc?). Did the project die? I remember the website was not there a few years ago and now I can’t remember the name. internet archive helps with bitrot but less with headrot. 2021-05-18 05:33:54 @simonhania because it would pre-empt a future effort to create a legal basis for it in the private sector using Dutch law under ‘substantial public interest’ perhaps? 2021-05-17 18:10:20 @rcalo some are parked and locked with bike locks in neighbourhoods. others i think emerge from vans like thunderbird 4 2021-05-17 18:03:54 @emax @rcalo don’t you have these in oxford max? or do they just have satchels? 2021-05-17 18:02:46 @rcalo however UPS drivers do sometimes have weird steps on the left in the UK, also in electric vans https://t.co/0WsIdg5372 2021-05-17 17:58:10 @rcalo https://t.co/3s4dLxdIKg 2021-05-17 16:33:56 @vmanancourt @EstelMP there’s a PhD thesis about how it works where you can go ‘backstage’ with these synth bands (‘Backstage Europe’ by Gijs Jan Brandsma) https://t.co/o2UUPuWJBY 2021-05-17 16:27:58 RT @fborgesius: "Heads in the Clouds: Measuring the Implications of Universities Migrating to Public Clouds", @chelloway, @sedyst @krlos__h… 2021-05-17 16:25:18 @PJLeerssen @JIPITEC i hope not! :( 2021-05-17 15:08:01 @xotoxot i hope so 2021-05-17 15:07:35 vg https://t.co/sIKKXpZ52j 2021-05-17 15:03:28 will this be the first EC AV Service tweet to be deleted due to being NSFW? https://t.co/sXesrtpSSt 2021-05-17 15:01:13 @PaulbernalUK too busy being the new IC 2021-05-17 14:54:30 @Klonick ahem ahem @LeverhulmeTrust 2021-05-17 14:45:56 @geomblog @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @BrownUniversity @BrownCSDept @Brown_DSI @senykam @UtahSoC (and in relation to your last blog point, do not make them make you wear suits! academic privilege 4eva!) 2021-05-17 14:44:52 @geomblog @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @BrownUniversity @BrownCSDept @Brown_DSI @senykam @UtahSoC that's a lot of news in a single tweet! congrats suresh! 2021-05-17 14:41:32 @rich_wing @O_BennettEU @matthew_d_green @cyberleagle @WebDevLaw It's certainly less clear than eg the Digital Markets Act which links to the EECC's definitions. Ofcom have started using the term 'number-based interpersonal communications service' since last year (https://t.co/gWLoAcRLJn) so would be ripe to amend to make it more coherent. https://t.co/w0404Ocwud 2021-05-17 14:22:01 @aislingannokane (ah seems to have been a temporary server side issue) 2021-05-17 14:20:55 @aislingannokane looks interesting! link isn't working though 2021-05-17 14:13:54 Notice and choice… https://t.co/2dzp3FkRPU 2021-05-17 14:12:56 @hackylawyER @Apple Presumably search history refers to searches inside an app? One step up from telemetry data. I can’t imagine Apple have an API to access OS or other app search history. (though happy to be proven wrong…) 2021-05-17 14:02:42 @random_walker difficulty has gone hand in hand with the more tangled ways humans are explicitly involved in platforms: sensed 2021-05-17 13:51:10 RT @TC_IntLaw: France announces strict new #Cloud policy. As @clothildegouj reports, public data must be stored in AND use European pr… 2021-05-17 10:54:31 Chip in to help Foxglove stop politicians and civil servants avoiding freedom of information law and other forms of scrutiny using auto-deleting messages. Foxglove have been wildly successful in all other cases they’ve been taken so it’s quite a good investment in accountability. https://t.co/ZcAlsOagCU 2021-05-17 10:36:48 RT @Reuters: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Nepal is scrambling to contain a fresh wave of infections that has spilled across the border with I… 2021-05-17 10:20:02 @katecrawford @RDBinns @carlykind_ @ShannonVallor ah yes, mine says it is printed in the US 2021-05-17 10:18:57 @PPDelft @sedyst Does such a platform exist right now with those features? I understand it could (eg be built on Matrix or so on) but what would you suggest for concrete actions of transition in a current timeframe? 2021-05-17 09:58:26 @sedyst @PPDelft Questionable. Not necessarily a good idea for public institutions to move public discussions to end-to-end encrypted or decentralised platforms, when they should be subject to the WOB/FOIA. 2021-05-17 09:30:44 @katecrawford @carlykind_ @RDBinns @ShannonVallor oh, my local bookshop had a copy for me early last month! but maybe it’s the US version 2021-05-17 08:28:31 @InaBrass juice and coffee! full economic stimulus breakfast 2021-05-17 07:48:02 RT @RonanMcCrea: In the Irish Times today, I discuss how a hard Brexit has increased support for a second independence referendum in Scotla… 2021-05-15 12:35:41 @lilianedwards (6) is decades old as a phrasing e.g. here https://t.co/XMVKKxoKkm and is also in many university statutes (as a result?) such as UCL Statute 18 (which is the only number statute anyone here knows) https://t.co/WT4DGWA2Qj 2021-05-15 11:32:41 @FullFact :( 2021-05-15 09:30:28 RT @seatsixtyone: “The Times understands that ministers will resist a more radical reform of Britain’s fiendishly complicated rail fares sy… 2021-05-15 08:01:13 RT @InforegulatorSA: MEDIA STATEMENT: INFORMATION REGULATOR TO TAKE FURTHER ACTION REGARDING THE WHATSAPP PRIVACY POLICY Link to media sta… 2021-05-15 07:51:35 If possible place it in a well-ventilated area while we work out how to buy cryptocurrency. https://t.co/VYFV8q77H5 2021-05-15 07:25:04 @Klonick looks like a real edukashun provider but employers are really getting sold this trust destroying phish-your-own-employee solutions all over the place these days! either way even if true you should refuse on principle until your employer makes their CS training look less dodge. 2021-05-15 07:20:04 “If you are dreaming of signing up for Starlink as a way to tell your local cable monopoly to kick rocks, well, consider what might happen when Starlink is your space-based internet access monopoly.” 2021-05-15 07:18:49 A new American dream is of being a disruptive alternative widely disintermediating the old technology of incumbents. But fibre or cell towers aren’t old tech, they’re solid, sensible infrastructures, just controlled in the US in an abusive manner. 2021-05-15 07:18:48 On the disappointing reality of hyped satellite internet company Starlink. The physical limits of satellites (& 2021-05-15 06:45:52 @ghadfield @biancawylie That’ll be the metadata your comms people have put on the Toronto page (Twitter cards https://t.co/pRW6J79rtV) - you’ll need to go to them as they’ll have made the error! 2021-05-14 18:30:33 @daphnehk @RmoneyRyan2012 i only know that when submitting to bluebook journals i have to use the ‘indigo book’ and associated automation tools because for some mad reason a citation system has become a vociferously defended trademark, and open source developers get harvard cease and desist letters… 2021-05-14 18:27:14 @RobertHGeorge @marc_mcgeemoore @BBCNewsnight @lawvaughan do you have to win or lose? 2021-05-14 18:24:41 @RobertHGeorge @marc_mcgeemoore @BBCNewsnight @lawvaughan Strictly Come Deancing 2021-05-14 18:20:00 @RobertHGeorge @marc_mcgeemoore @BBCNewsnight Not strictly necessary… 2021-05-14 18:19:38 @RmoneyRyan2012 @daphnehk not always the case for bluebook. a mostly OSCOLA-using european here mystified by the lack of publisher in book cites? 2021-05-14 18:15:14 @marc_mcgeemoore @BBCNewsnight aiming for a strictly FTE reduction on the teaching allocations @RobertHGeorge 2021-05-14 13:38:10 just a tiny sample. what characterises power-through-internet infrastructure is that it's hard to categorise. if you do so, you'll only invite the sneaky use of power outside your given policy or regulatory lens, and miss it for your blinkers (or ooglappen, @Jausl00s @MegLeta) 2021-05-14 13:22:42 on the power from controlling Internet availability, @1lucabelli @JusTechne write on WhatsApp's ToS and Zero Rating https://t.co/97JePkDCWR 2021-05-14 13:22:39 on enclosure by platforms, @julie17usc's book https://t.co/Slt5lApKvM 2021-05-14 13:22:38 on power and Internet infrastructure below the application layer (eg websites, apps) @nielstenoever's thesis https://t.co/5VR5gXJOJ2 2021-05-14 13:22:36 thank you for all the nice comments about the @BBCNewsnight interview! I tried to communicate infrastructure's importance. if new to you, here is a of some (not all!) academic work by others which highlights the power of technical infrastructure (rather than eg data). 2021-05-14 12:37:06 The next stop through the looking glass: the existence of global facial recognition infrastructures should itself be a human right due to the convenience of searching for yourself. https://t.co/TOfuPywJVc 2021-05-14 12:30:56 @JeniT thank you jeni! enclosure by platforms and the limits of confidentiality as an analytical paradigm for the harms it causes is really an area where privacy and open data thinking can come together. 2021-05-14 12:20:26 @martha__dark always have time for foxglove, not that you always need explanations… 2021-05-14 11:09:09 Really useful blog by @jeff_a_king @lexatlasc19 on the current legal situation in the UK regarding mandatory vaccination, vaccine conditionality and employment, and the interplay of primary/secondary legislation, common law and the ECHR. https://t.co/JiG7tOLrNT 2021-05-14 10:38:25 @rasmus_kleis https://t.co/HxHBWLw1Yz 2021-05-14 09:52:45 RT @AntonioCasilli: Here @mikarv explains why this is not about “surveillance capitalism” but about proprietary lock-in and value capture f… 2021-05-14 09:22:14 @katebevan @FullFact navigating its strange multi coloured uplit paved moat 2021-05-14 09:20:23 @katebevan @FullFact thanks! was exciting to be in a studio again… although nighttime + pandemic make NBH only eerier 2021-05-14 09:18:30 @katebevan was very visually confusing recently when the excellent @FullFact posted this https://t.co/4hHfw4IldH 2021-05-14 09:03:35 RT @linnetelwin: immunity certs presents a strong risk of the hijacking of a necessary function by a whole cast of actors with no functiona… 2021-05-14 08:28:15 That in turn is part of the Lex-Atlas project, with hundreds of contributors creating detailed country reports on the legal situations of each country in COVID, the first parts of the first round are open access at @OUPLaw here: https://t.co/VqAFpngL9J https://t.co/lnyR39EfGg 2021-05-14 08:28:13 Part of the incredible LAC19 Blog Symposium, a look at a large range of countries approaches to mandatory vaccination and certification https://t.co/xK47Nv6hIq 2021-05-14 08:28:12 Blog post by @linnetelwin @annliffey @sedyst & 2021-05-14 08:04:51 @RDBinns @tforcworc @cabinetofficeuk @OfficeforAI i think soon we need to rattle the non fully automated peer review machine and see where it went… 2021-05-14 06:15:31 @cori_crider pre-action protocol pose https://t.co/6WAbDtgs45 2021-05-13 22:50:46 @degsy380 @BBCNewsnight @UCLLaws it’s outrageous! 2021-05-13 22:48:57 @degsy380 @BBCNewsnight @UCLLaws i also would like to know the answer to this question 2021-05-13 22:43:36 RT @BBCNewsnight: "These companies have never been interested in opening your mail, they've been interested in shaping your world." @mikar… 2021-05-13 17:53:36 @mdekstrand someone has done something similar here. https://t.co/DHWtlza8Ya there may be a clever way to do it with natbib and etoolbox though... but natbib mode of biblatex is what I would do 2021-05-13 17:52:24 @mdekstrand biblatex has a natbib compatibility mode that loads natbib commands. can't promise there'd be a super smooth transition though! you would use the biblatex maxcitenames command. usually you set this as a document level but you could set a new command that chooses the number 2021-05-13 17:45:47 @mdekstrand that'll be the style name I guess, and if I recall natbib is pretty restricted on those. is there a reason you can't use eg biber? 2021-05-13 17:41:48 @mdekstrand example? 2021-05-13 17:37:53 @AndrewOrlowski Have you actually read the paper? It envisages users as explictly deciding how and how they do not want to use apps, and choosing to adapt them themselves in the ways they want, to achieve goals that may go counter to firms'. 'Customisable' is almost the opposite of 'nannying'. 2021-05-13 15:21:23 @daphnehk @AnnemarieBridy (of course it's not clear whether eBay is *only* providing its takedown tools to the authorities who have explicit powers to request takedown stemming from this regime) 2021-05-13 15:20:19 @daphnehk @AnnemarieBridy Economic operators do have a range, based on Art 18 of the MS Reg https://t.co/gLTdJETVdS 2021-05-13 15:18:08 @AnnemarieBridy @daphnehk agree, my initial tweet was a bit ill-phrased! i think it's their way of cheaply complying... https://t.co/2ZBklqIWW9 2021-05-13 15:16:31 @StevePeers watch out, barnard and peers fourth edition... 2021-05-13 15:14:45 @daphnehk and here they all are by country/sector in a giant PDF https://t.co/7iIK7w4OSu 2021-05-13 15:09:27 @StevePeers What about OUP, a dept of the uni? 2021-05-13 14:58:14 @daphnehk @t_streinz this appears to be a mix of cost saving measure for them (with the controversies you note) and a response to the Market Surveillance Regulation of 2019 and its ‘obligation of cooperation’, though the law doesn’t specifically require the direct access you criticise. https://t.co/1y8RCM8MTW 2021-05-13 13:54:43 @renatesamson @e3i5 @javierruiz @cyberleagle @jimkillock nope. would be good to see what @ChrisTMarsden thinks when he has time… 2021-05-13 12:04:55 @emax @KKollnig @0Enlightenment @KKolnig Do not let them cut you in half even if they promise they are patching yoi 2021-05-13 12:01:08 This is fantastic — a new system, GreaseDroid, allows users *themselves* to remove dark patterns from Android apps by strategically patching them. Superb example of adversarial interoperability from the magic lab of @emax & 2021-05-13 11:04:54 RT @TLIKings: Interesting job opportunity for a political/social sciences post-doc with strenghts in empirical methods to join the @lexatla… 2021-05-13 10:20:29 RT @DaveKeating: Talks on EU '#VaccinePassport' between Parliament (representing citizens) & 2021-05-13 08:24:48 RT @MidasNouwens: Google just announced a seemingly innocuous technical change to how they render content in Docs, but in reality this is a… 2021-05-13 08:00:38 @ViliLe they weren’t as honest as IBM who more or less admitted it was always just a way to flog and get corporate users addicted to cloud https://t.co/ZJjihK0Vky 2021-05-13 07:12:50 RT @ChristoPhraser: Now peer-reviewed in Nature, “The Epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 App”. Here’s a quick rundown of results & 2021-05-12 17:47:11 @cyberleagle @rich_wing *affecting an 2021-05-12 17:46:59 @cyberleagle @rich_wing It appeared from my first reading that a ‘harm’ threshold was replaced with 1) CSAM/Terrorism 2021-05-12 17:42:55 RT @cyberleagle: @rich_wing @mikarv Relevantly to this, the Full Response stated (see below) that illegality in scope would be limited by t… 2021-05-12 17:41:52 RT @marcelsalathe: Out in Nature today: The effect of the NHS Covid-19 app. Secondary attack rate 6%, 300K-600K estimated cases averted in… 2021-05-12 17:35:29 @mario_gug @valeriodeste I’m not convinced that the AI Act harmonises this away though. Why do you think that? 2021-05-12 17:20:57 @PaulbernalUK @lilianedwards optimistically there is a fee system to pay for the regulator in the bill, though it’s not like everyone is a regulated service so either they charge whopping fees to category 1 and 2a services or someone has to cough up 2021-05-12 16:01:38 @lilianedwards try ‘duties of care’ 2021-05-12 15:55:54 And cl 41(7) would then give the UK’s extremely broad communications offences extraterritorial impact? Am I missing something here that would exempt this? Haven’t been following commentary on Twitter today on the Bill. 2021-05-12 15:52:37 Online Safety Bill Q: given that content amounting to offence where an (intended) victim is an individual (cl 41(4)(d)) is ‘illegal content’, surely that includes comms offences (ie MCA s1 / Comms Act s127). As these trigger safety duties… this seems outrageously broad?! 2021-05-12 14:53:17 RT @lexatlasc19: June Wang's amazingly succinct account of the genesis of the Wuhan lockdown, QR system in China, and how it (didn't) relat… 2021-05-12 14:49:55 @neil_neilzone i would expect nothing less than https://t.co/wkCLFsrMVT 2021-05-12 14:04:14 @peterwalker99 @PrivateEyeNews then credit them in the story 2021-05-12 13:45:33 RT @UpFromTheCracks: So it’s fascinating that @google hired Marian Croaks to replace @timnitGebru on the AI Ethics team stating she’s a Bla… 2021-05-12 10:30:20 RT @jorisvanhoboken: Next installment of the IViR lecture series, Jeanette Hofmann @achdujeh and Bernhard Rieder @RiederB will give a lect… 2021-05-12 10:12:15 @netlawswe We await the draft. I am sure @DavidErdos will have Thoughts. 2021-05-12 10:04:53 RT @UCLLaws: Flora Page (PhD student at UCL Laws & 2021-05-12 10:04:44 Product safety framing intrinsic to the EC’a proposal wins out over fundamental rights for the parliamentary scrutiny of AI too. https://t.co/voWJjJcJEv 2021-05-12 10:00:15 Notable that Google previously argued that their search engine was engaged in journalism in the case establishing a right to be forgotten in data protection law (while also arguing elsewhere they are basically a technical intermediary who cannot be aware of or liable for content) https://t.co/7kysiBpy7b 2021-05-12 09:57:06 @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @gikii Typically you don't want to be liable for Google's costs. 2021-05-12 09:56:37 @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @gikii It is possible! She had another case against Google struck out that she is appealing to the Court of Appeal. Sounds quite pathological-litigant-y though the back story is not clear. Probably quite a troubled person regardless of whether it is logical to be troubled by the context https://t.co/YNVhiFU8lo 2021-05-12 09:51:26 @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @gikii The case implies she had a fight with the first publisher who she paid to publish the book, and then self published two years later. It’s possible she wants to do a Taylor Swift and destroy all their hopes of monetising her back catalogue. 2021-05-12 09:47:27 @lilianedwards @gikii not a girl not a robot not a book. the offending Google metadata page remains though. https://t.co/aHQGDsii3i 2021-05-12 09:45:37 @lilianedwards @gikii it's very difficult! the author looks to have really tried to take a hatchet to any and all online metadata. on GoodReads the author is 'NOT A BOOK' https://t.co/ExF7uo6HGI 2021-05-12 09:20:39 @tforcworc @PeterVeep (but now we're drifting from universities to industry labs, which are a very different thing with very different publication incentives and norms even if they are capable of stellar research.) 2021-05-12 09:17:05 @mryderqc btw, Parliament's own website has the pattern you describe https://t.co/0TYrJUhJSV 2021-05-12 09:09:00 @PJLeerssen @daphnehk .@emax is a social machines guru, maybe he can recommend something. Social machines tend to focus on harnessing collectives and machines for common public goals (eg wikipedia + it’s bots). Less characterised as harnessed for the goals of corporate profit, but logic still fits 2021-05-12 07:53:25 @PJLeerssen @daphnehk Literature on ‘social machines’ also v useful here. Also, new AI act prop in recitals tries to exclude from harmful manip prohibition where “distortion of human behaviour results from factors external to the AI system which are outside of the control of the provider or the user” 2021-05-12 07:49:18 @tforcworc I’m not the one proposing it, and do not have an answer to your question, better ask the government this… 2021-05-12 07:42:36 In cats-on-the-Internet law news claimant in Young v British Library & 2021-05-12 07:22:29 Meanwhile in Mauritius (as if today didn’t have enough news) an unappealable ‘digital ethics council’ that can order content blocked is being created, and the gov there wants to set up a proxy relay server so that all HTTPS traffic can be decrypted. https://t.co/ODGA7VWUPo 2021-05-12 07:15:18 cc @ChrisTMarsden 2021-05-12 07:12:12 @cyberleagle @ruskin147 I agree, I suspect the word is being misused. Would have capacity issues that would relate to more than a throwaway comment (AS was on G’s RTBF team) https://t.co/MuNn6PXNIR 2021-05-12 07:09:39 UK next to propose democratic carriage obligations for platforms. - Poland: a draft law with a controversial council (see @panoptykon https://t.co/I8z490TxAb) - US: Justice Thomas recently suggested carriage obligations (as part of a longer s230/First Amendment game). Others? https://t.co/jIbKPncMTH 2021-05-12 07:00:10 @Cybermatron unless I just invite ‘Cybermatron’ and say you will just be a silhouette behind a screen… 2021-05-12 06:57:57 @Cybermatron hah, i’ll extend you an invite. however if you plan to start posting extremely incendiary things you might struggle while also maintaining an effective pseudonym. maybe you will need to start up on tiktok. 2021-05-12 06:54:52 @MA_Inskip @JRosenworcel I imagine if (& 2021-05-12 06:52:15 @cyberleagle @ruskin147 the words appeal and complaint get twisted by UK bodies. more like a ‘substantiated concern’ of the sort that can be raised to the Office for Product Safety and Standards in a limited set of sectors. 2021-05-12 06:47:27 RT @fborgesius: “Anyone who wants to have their details removed from the site cannot do so easily because Locatefamily com does not have a… 2021-05-12 06:32:27 RT @danbarker: A few weeks ago, there were a couple of popular tweets declaring that the "mad umbrella shop" and "mad sailor shop" in Londo… 2021-05-12 06:30:23 @PaulbernalUK https://t.co/ucgqJBLnbe 2021-05-12 06:29:09 @ruskin147 Looks like it could be a form of appeal that imposes no duty on Ofcom to specifically examine or act on the complaint, but to add it to a file for general consideration, one day. Common amongst UK regulators. 2021-05-12 06:26:47 RT @cyberleagle: Draft #OnlineSafetyBill being published tomorrow. #OnlineHarms https://t.co/wUAao5ec7e 2021-05-12 06:26:10 If not extremely carefully drafted, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill risks a race for who can be the first successful controversialist ambulance chaser: secure an invite, start saying increasingly batshit-crazy things to bait some form of disruption, sue for damages. 2021-05-11 20:26:59 @JRosenworcel is 25mbps download / 3 mbps upload really ‘high speed’ for the 21st century in the United States, though? Important to connect people, also important to keep them connected as needs change fast. 2021-05-11 20:08:16 @mryderqc @privacyint @cyberleagle @Foxglovelegal thanks! for a longer paper focussing on the legal analysis around compliance of those banners and the systems behind them then @fborgesius have also got one forthcoming in @Ger_Law_Journal, preprint here https://t.co/7fhpWsND8f 2021-05-11 18:13:07 @MargotKaminski @FusterGloria @fborgesius @Jausl00s one day we will muster up the courage to ask you what protected speech is 2021-05-11 16:23:10 @mryderqc @privacyint @cyberleagle @Foxglovelegal @jimkillock @RaviNa1k On inaction on real-time bidding in general, to which these pop-ups relate, following our complaints made over two years ago. 2021-05-11 16:06:54 @mryderqc @privacyint @cyberleagle @Foxglovelegal ICO are so uneager to enforce the law on adtech that @jimkillock @RaviNa1k and myself have a date with them in the First Tier Tribunal in a month or two. 2021-05-11 15:56:59 @mryderqc @privacyint @cyberleagle @Foxglovelegal Yes. We studied this by compliance tech provider ('consent management platform') by scraping the top 10K UK websites and found only 11.8% of sites using the top compliance tools were configured in line with minimal legal user interface requirements. https://t.co/tsvMVoN7uk 2021-05-11 15:14:28 RT @clothildegouj: The Renew group will take the lead on the Digital Markets Act for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON).… 2021-05-11 15:11:32 (Spotted as a source in @verge’s ‘Infrastructure Week’.) https://t.co/TQnnVWaPBk 2021-05-11 15:11:31 Microsoft study of US broadband speeds shows shocking but also unsurprising dodgy FCC figures. On the left, proportions FCC believe could have ‘high speed’ (a measly 25 down/3 up). The right: what people actually get. https://t.co/XFP4UQsOpV https://t.co/7WIyIyrbQ6 2021-05-11 14:48:49 @j2bryson @Apple @Caffar3Cristina I don’t think they did. Apple would be adamant it wouldn’t even be a data controller for tracking that apps chose to undertake. While that’s legally arguable it would in many ways be a big leap and change of direction for the CJEU. 2021-05-11 13:44:36 RT @SusanEMcG: Have you ever tried removing your information from the internet - or paid a service to do it for you? Help NYU researchers u… 2021-05-11 13:39:07 RT @JusTechne: Thanks to the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection & 2021-05-11 13:38:01 @tforcworc @dougclow And in the longer view, reports from this project see their final home in this 'Working Paper series', rather than a pre-released before comment and later scrutinised publication. Relies on expending the name recognition and hard academic labour of other Oxford academics. 2021-05-11 13:37:01 @tforcworc @dougclow And all that I support! Institutional working paper series good. What I see in the linked project is a trend of doing research that is widely methodolgically criticised, dodging peer review (there are so many places to publish twitter studies) to go straight for the press. 2021-05-11 13:05:57 @dougclow @tforcworc Would you say there were defining features of the qualities or types of academic output or research that would go in such reports, and types that would not? 2021-05-11 13:03:25 (yes, she does say 'the cyberspace') 2021-05-11 13:03:00 Here's the text from the relevant part of Priti Patel's speech. https://t.co/qjRRw2cC7f 2021-05-11 12:48:59 UK Government announces formal review of the Computer Misuse Act, w/ call for info later in 2021. Patel says Gov must have "all the right levers available to it" for investigation & 2021-05-11 12:34:15 @lilianedwards fwiw economists have one of the most vicious peer review systems of all, with a small handful of hypercompetitive journals, not sure it's true that academic economists' key work is often non-peer reviewed 2021-05-11 12:33:08 @lilianedwards agree that not all valid research is peer reviewed, but this isn't a commissioned report, and it is developing and applying incredibly contentious methodologies (and this group's previous approaches to classify bots have been routinely shown to be nonsense) 2021-05-11 08:45:48 @halhod it’s like the economist but for nerds 2021-05-11 08:37:28 @halhod invented to avoid litigation by private eye 2021-05-11 08:34:10 @halhod oh i was just going to say bet they haven’t got ‘tired and emotional’ but am impressed 2021-05-11 08:27:00 @jorisvanhoboken Great 2016 report on that https://t.co/D09pM4W69i 2021-05-11 08:17:23 RT @LSTSblog: Register now for the next Gender, Technology & 2021-05-11 08:03:29 RT @en_dash: Geographers must not let up until we achieve Environment & 2021-05-11 07:52:14 @CUP_Law @t_streinz @EuropeanLawOpen nice! just published with @Ger_Law_Journal and CUP’s OA approach is good. How many universities do you have a transformative agreement with to cover OA? 2021-05-11 07:51:23 RT @CUP_Law: It’s official: European Law Open will launch in 2022! This new, fully Open Access journal delivers a dynamic, critical and con… 2021-05-11 07:29:24 (not an imagined concern too — especially important in this field given the large and persistent methodological allegations that ‘bot’ studies can come up with junk results.) 2021-05-11 07:27:48 when did universities start flashily branding non-peer reviewed working papers? (that often never get peer reviewed, despite being heavily empirical.) is there a date for that? would love to see bibliometric and STS scholars’ take on this concerning trend. https://t.co/UI9YScw461 2021-05-11 06:29:32 Can’t afford to secure your corporate network from targeted ransomware attacks? Get your employees to learn Russian instead. https://t.co/Tbl4VoFBXx https://t.co/aK3ad5OUfy 2021-05-11 06:25:38 @1Br0wn sounds like they’re just obeying with the obligation of cooperation in the Market Surveillance Regulation. EU market surveillance bodies have power to get eBay to remove things or even to block them in last resort. https://t.co/YtL4BfdpAl 2021-05-11 06:15:25 @neil_neilzone but what of the rolls?! 2021-05-10 20:14:07 Exhausted? Here’s the job for you. https://t.co/dkMupAzftH 2021-05-10 19:43:05 @ishkolhatkar Don’t you go full circle and go back to magistrates again. Everything is connected. 2021-05-10 17:42:36 RT @gabrielazanfir: Curious how Legitimate Interests under the #LGPD will be interpreted & 2021-05-10 14:31:32 RT @PublicTech: Defra buys £1m ‘safe workplace’ software to support return to office. Technology offers functions including managing PPE in… 2021-05-10 13:58:03 @ruskin147 the best part was the section where the ransomware ‘customer’ service operative was confused because the user claimed to be a personal user from finland and not a big corp and they said hm we don’t have any contracted hits in finland so that’s super weird https://t.co/8EerZEdQj9 2021-05-10 13:51:14 @ruskin147 Remember the F-Secure study doing mystery shopping ‘customer service’ analysis of different ransomware families in 2017? https://t.co/D09pM4W69i https://t.co/0C5xLuolzD 2021-05-10 11:38:47 RT @TomValletti: Read @matthewstoller please: - Monopolists restrict vaccines to keep the “durability of their franchise”: if the world get… 2021-05-10 11:24:07 I’m not asserting that UK elections do have substantial empirical fraud problems through any mode, but the locus of conversation for those who may be concerned about undetected fraud is so clearly and absolutely in the wrong place. 2021-05-10 11:22:05 (There’s a little mention of small postal vote reform as to limits to how many can be handed in on behalf of others but… they can still be posted.) 2021-05-10 11:21:15 The focus on imagined in-person voter fraud suddenly needing fixing through ID in is particularly ridiculous distraction because actual problems with postal votes such as spousal coercion or collective submission, where there is real fraud risk, seem barely acknowledged. 2021-05-10 09:22:27 @tforcworc @1Br0wn is there a name for a psychological phenomenon where people mistake inverting a metaphor for rejecting its analogy? 2021-05-10 08:22:31 RT @jennifercobbe: You've needed ID to vote in part of the UK for 20 years, introduced by a Labour government that nobody there voted for,… 2021-05-10 08:10:02 @cyberleagle @1Br0wn your lucrative days of selling an expensive book with thousands of blank pages are over! 2021-05-10 07:41:11 Huawei got into so many European telcos by being a fraction of the price of competitors. Unless local authorities are more adequately funded or given hard rules (either to stop them making ridiculous privatised ‘connected places’, or a supplier blacklist), NCSC will struggle. https://t.co/x8EMUuR7y7 2021-05-10 07:24:16 @mireillemoret @xotoxot @floorter @vardi yep 2021-05-10 07:08:45 RT @fborgesius: “11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the t… 2021-05-10 06:45:13 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @floorter see relatedly https://t.co/KEHYej7Vcd 2021-05-10 00:24:27 RT @ringo_ring: received a few minutes ago to my GMail. at first I thought it was a spam and was about to delete the email, but it turned o… 2021-05-09 15:51:57 An unusual trade that might interest some student followers — a swap of public law barrister mentorship/mini pupilage for technical help establishing an open justice database project. I prefer remuneration as people can’t live off mentorship alone but maybe there is a good fit. https://t.co/s067DMmiMt 2021-05-09 14:39:51 Important note re Microsoft Academic — even if ppl used GScholar much more, it was more accessible than GS to get data from, thus built in as a foundational pillar into research, other tools. Important not to judge scholarly infrastructure's importance by its day-to-day-use alone https://t.co/D4RKgxgFod 2021-05-09 13:57:57 the weird rapid journey of Microsoft Teams from corporate internal comms tool to primary educational platform and virtual ML-based tutor for children… https://t.co/RFKT8eDinU 2021-05-09 12:26:42 @neil_neilzone @MissIG_Geek @Gayle_McF @EerkeBoiten with the caveat that if you don’t secure your DNS records, all your passwords can be reset… 2021-05-09 08:34:27 @FusterGloria @RosasDance legal facepalm https://t.co/tGKP4QxaXc 2021-05-08 22:49:28 @k_irion hehe :) It’s clear though who hasn’t read it because everyone is assuming that I mentioned Fashion ID as a case they weren’t complying with rather than as something EDPS interpreted in an interesting manner re third websites! 2021-05-08 08:59:26 @PJDunleavy missed this at the time. the list is shocking: https://t.co/yfsJvU8p9R 2021-05-08 08:38:17 @edsaperia some infrastructures can be violent. 2021-05-07 17:32:48 @hackylawyER @Twitter a pair of TwitCoins 2021-05-07 17:04:24 @stephanneuhaus1 @Natanael_L Libraries, who typically run them, are historically pretty good at retaining, archiving or finding alternatives for them, as it’s their job. 2021-05-07 14:12:12 RT @carmelatroncoso: These news from Austria are extremely worrisome. Online verification means that not only the certificate owners being… 2021-05-07 14:11:43 @Ox_CyberSec https://t.co/gQUbkiCT3v 2021-05-07 12:57:22 The Big Blue Button instance at TU Delft is administrated and run entirely by an academic in the Mathematics department because universities have abdicated their role as stewards of and innovators in teaching technology. 2021-05-07 12:53:10 Meanwhile the @ObfuscationWS, happening now, runs entirely on the open source @bigbluebutton This is not your usual web conference. https://t.co/ipRIhXmfsH https://t.co/cqDiU51I7s https://t.co/X8P5Ez11Uk 2021-05-07 11:49:08 RT @ObfuscationWS: The Workshop on Obfuscation is today!!! We held the sessions short and added many breaks so that you can weave in an… 2021-05-07 11:37:01 This is an extremely interesting paper, and presents a much more useful and forward looking view for fiduciary obligations in the digital world than I have seen so far, focussing on user agents. https://t.co/cRwwuoOb5a https://t.co/DANiDUEU2u 2021-05-07 11:11:59 Austria planning for online ‘immunity’ checks rather than offline ones. Unless engineered in complicated ways of which the leak makes no indication, facilitates a central database of who went where and when due to how a query discloses who it is a scanner is querying about. https://t.co/GmVeEg23ZI 2021-05-07 10:27:36 @realhamed @acm_ccs w[!ht] the—! 2021-05-07 09:32:17 @katebevan While probably less important for consumer scams, I found this article on how iOS presents high walls for malware but also great places for them to hide if they get in interesting https://t.co/As6Cy7Eo8C 2021-05-07 09:29:04 @kevinriggle @GeorgeWHerbert the fake comments were, but I don’t think the funding and organisation sources were discovered and reported on. 2021-05-07 08:00:31 Privatised scholarly infrastructure can vanish before your eyes. https://t.co/wxAIpyW1uz 2021-05-07 07:51:54 The Wiesbaden court shows it’s own inadequacy. In a case about further processing of data from Interpol by EU MS, it asks about Interpol adequacy. But the data is *inbound*. The Wiesbaden court then says adequacy must apply both ways! AG Bobek left perplexed at this waste of time https://t.co/NaWVggVKBK 2021-05-07 07:51:52 Contains a German referral on further processing of data under the Law Enforcement Directive and adequacy related to an Interpol red notice and double jeopardy but the questions, especially on adequacy, so ill founded that the latter will be so unlikely to be admitted. https://t.co/7IWrm2ETtI 2021-05-06 18:59:30 RT @_jack_poulson: Starting in three minutes here: https://t.co/VTYHAeKBkK https://t.co/vJsV1Mj7Wy 2021-05-06 18:56:24 @je5perl @moltke Microsoft definitely going further than most, but only so far they can go. If they get a FISA702 order to roll out a firmware update to European cloud servers, I expect not much they can do except fight it in courts... 2021-05-06 17:11:58 How can you challenge the upstream design of algorithmic systems using judicial review, rather than just fight the fires downstreams? Extremely useful, just-published article on 'systemic review' from @abe_218, who finished his @UCLLaws undergrad last year! Expect big things. https://t.co/GuCyGo11BG 2021-05-06 16:33:00 this is the image I meant to use! was drawing from the slides from my undergrad course this year who already learned about this debacle https://t.co/Ve4bHO00tV 2021-05-06 16:31:16 (image is confusingly of a pro NN comment submitted usually by real people through an EFF portal. Many more were against. See https://t.co/JZiYM8VhFi) 2021-05-06 16:24:49 Pretty wild facts coming out about the broadband and marketing industries’ role in creating and submitting fake FCC net neutrality comments (the consultation where 99.7% of comments came out against NN). https://t.co/5FRBGXQ3Dj https://t.co/Y88l2cMeMP 2021-05-06 11:51:14 RT @lexatlasc19: June Wang on China's use of the QR Code System, between privacy and the public interest: part of LAC19 Blog Symposium on c… 2021-05-06 08:33:13 some of the practical issues with NetzDG studies by @benwagne_r et al here https://t.co/NsnvKW4yZ3 2021-05-06 08:32:13 Bundestag votes today on amending the NetzDG law to avoid platforms claiming individuals didn’t make a NetzDG complaint, just a terms of service one 2021-05-05 14:00:48 @grimmelm please think twice before giving whole institution legitimacy by putting it in your casebook. it may seem lighthearted now but that kind of thing actually really matters. 2021-05-05 13:56:59 @amatwyshyn Stop Pandaing to Servitised Business Models 2021-05-05 13:53:05 RT @agstrait: Forget the Oversight Board decision, this is the guy we should all be worried about https://t.co/QvP2PYT5vo 2021-05-05 13:36:43 @katebevan never, other than to compliment the pi mouse. but did you win on premium bonds?! 2021-05-05 13:35:14 @andrewjb_ still useless if they cant set policy that FB's own moderation machine has to follow as they have no capacity or technical capability to review in real time. bear in mind how many languages FB operates in too. 2021-05-05 13:31:29 didn't even answer a load of the organisation's questions https://t.co/jtakXEJwwt 2021-05-05 13:30:34 @ConfirmedBSc decisions are binding, but set no precedent or policy. 2021-05-05 13:20:07 Perhaps you should make an organisation that can set contractually binding policy or precedent then? Or even one that can consider the content that was not taken down, rather than only content that was removed with a view to restoring it? https://t.co/P44S6T1liA 2021-05-05 13:08:29 I tweet this only reluctantly because the whole thing is bog standard structurally captured private governance (even if some individuals on it are good), which FB desires, through sheer PR, to be understood as something more. 2021-05-05 13:06:10 but most journalists will report this as 'OB upholds Trump Ban'. Should instead focus on how this body cannot build and set binding policies and precedent that Facebook has to follow, and that this decision emphasises its lack of power and status. 2021-05-05 13:04:09 oversight board pings Trump decision back to facebook (as several I talked to expected!) saying that Facebook never defined what justifies indefinite suspension and the board refuses to do their job for them. 2021-05-05 12:05:10 @katebevan @rachelclarke be careful unplugging! unbeknownst to you some of that could have become critical national infrastructure over the last 15 years 2021-05-04 21:50:32 @jakusg on displaying my anticipation for staying up https://t.co/rf4OuPPU8z 2021-05-04 21:46:07 @jakusg Warning to people in Europe. Do not make the mistake I did when trying to come to one last month. If you wait until the date on the event, the event will have occurred. 2021-05-04 21:21:31 @DearbhailDibs @PaulCroft56 @joesmithd9 @RevolutApp They need to answer what supplementary measures beyond standard contractual clauses they are using if they are transfer data to the United States. Contractual clauses or BCRs do not, w/o supplementary measures effective against NSA, suffice to protect data in a US cloud service. 2021-05-04 21:17:09 @RevolutApp @BrianHonan @DearbhailDibs Requests for information about whether data is transferred outside the Union and on the basis of which safeguards under Article 15(2) GDPR are valid even if made over social media. It is illegal to force someone to email you. See @DPCIreland’s guidance. https://t.co/Gw9tRZ2Nxs https://t.co/BTf0Jne3Lx 2021-05-04 21:00:47 RT @evacide: Signal crafted Instagram ads that showed users what Facebook knew about them. Facebook banned these ads because apparently the… 2021-05-04 15:33:44 @mathver @SylvieDelacroix @PaulNemitz @Jausl00s i do not know the answer. i would guess the EC did not want to open up the GDPR, and that if they could be delegated, it would effectively be an amendment. 2021-05-04 15:19:14 @WolfieChristl (also, the Find My protocol before AirTags? https://t.co/HPAqM2Nlq6) 2021-05-04 15:14:03 CJEU missing a trick by not highlighting their fairly recent Star Wars–themed AG Opinion (ECLI:EU:C:2018:1039) #Bobek (as @Jausl00s reminded me) https://t.co/hWJQUwk1BQ https://t.co/emVpN9lrvm 2021-05-04 15:08:12 RT @ObfuscationWS: Our vernissage is starting in an hour! We will be sharing with you here some of the artworks that are shown on our *pla… 2021-05-04 15:07:29 @WolfieChristl passively, triangulation of consumer wifi signals. 2021-05-04 14:07:12 RT @TC_IntLaw: All you need to know abt #FacialRecognition in draft @EU_Commission #AI Regulation: basic features, novelties, logic behind… 2021-05-04 13:27:08 @fchollet most companies are not tech companies, they just call themselves that to attract venture capital while working out new ways to configure, intermediate and extract value from actual goods and services that exist in the world. 2021-05-04 13:17:56 Really great guide and site to help women affected by the scandal of Irish mother and baby homes get data about their time there and their children through subject access requests. Reminder that data rights and data justice matters both digitally and in relation to archives. https://t.co/TnQsgdbyF1 2021-05-04 13:01:00 Impressed by the meta-level vote splitting looniness of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party running 13 candidates against each other in Kingston-upon-Thames. https://t.co/1qqn35Whjk 2021-05-04 12:34:32 @DouweKorff @lilianedwards @FinancialTimes and he has a PhD in surveillance and law… basic errors https://t.co/HwuL95U7fh 2021-05-04 12:25:16 (specifically English and Welsh law, to be exact) 2021-05-04 12:24:15 German Länder changing state law to allow the decentralised, notification based QR check in system to be used instead of collection of details, if users have it. Mimics UK law since last year (see https://t.co/CBJ8ybrgfV) https://t.co/J9wyRyAGXb 2021-05-04 12:18:29 @EUCourtPress can i ask a question pursuant to art 267 TFEU on twitter if I use that hashtag? 2021-05-04 11:44:51 'Adtech and Real-Time Bidding under European Data Protection Law' by @fborgesius and me is now forthcoming in @Ger_Law_Journal! Have updated the pre-print to the final version online. https://t.co/PZwHKzmLNI https://t.co/kW4yWTkYEZ 2021-05-04 09:56:06 @TiltR Is that TLS 1.3 or an earlier version? 2021-05-04 09:53:38 @MostFoolhardy You’re right, plenty of things stopping people. But it’s the argument of cloud providers to competition authorities, and this makes it harder by making the tangling even worse. 2021-05-04 09:47:10 On top of this, CDNs and the reshaping of the physical internet infrastructure is political. See @C___CS on the politics of CDNs in relation to hate speech. What will the politics of moving compute to the edge(ish), but not on a device, bring? https://t.co/iMErqlGOoJ 2021-05-04 09:47:09 Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have long delivered eg sites, videos. It’s why Netflix is faster than other sites — they use code (and physical geography), not law, to ‘breach’ net neutrality. But this isn’t static content Amazon is proposing. It’s complex and interactive. https://t.co/1kikwm9MZl 2021-05-04 09:47:07 Cloud web servers are meant to be swappable, competitive, right? Not for long. Amazon moving compute to the ‘edge’ (of their network, not your device). Rewrite your code to deliver eg login physically closer to users—try leaving Amazon once it’s embedded! https://t.co/1hbF0xoeZv 2021-05-04 08:13:56 RT @lilianedwards: Police should be able to use all means possible including facial recognition technology, says UK watchdog https://t.co… 2021-05-04 08:12:04 how do i search to find all the posts from people who tried to make a version of this or other memes but were very unfunny and didn’t get traction. is there a graveyard of failed memes? https://t.co/65gyqbQ1sQ 2021-05-04 08:05:01 @WebDevLaw releasing a judgment 2021-05-04 08:04:40 @WebDevLaw bless, they’re announcing dates as if they’re a court with actual power releasing, as if they’re not going to shove the final decision back to facebook. 2021-05-04 07:44:19 @ysrinivas that’s not correct, no such specific power to make law relating to ‘tech’ is needed. paper is also a technology. 2021-05-04 07:27:14 (I’ve written on the English QR code legal regime here https://t.co/CBJ8ybrgfV) 2021-05-04 07:26:10 There’s a legal angle too. Unlike in England, where the law states that those using the official QR code that permits notification do not need to manually provide details, in Germany, regional laws (eg Bavaria GVB 562 (23 June 2020) s 3 https://t.co/OaAlYjTM2K) do not permit this 2021-05-04 07:07:59 More on some of the political and technical absurdity around Luca https://t.co/jolXIPcEuf 2021-05-04 07:07:58 @thsStadler led an analysis of how misleading the app’s security claims were, even when you gave its under specified schematic (belatedly published) every benefit of the doubt https://t.co/UxhHDRlSA4. A letter from hundreds of IT experts was published here https://t.co/xOowFsa1gJ https://t.co/HEv7mgmnyR 2021-05-04 07:07:57 Luca was also careful to never mention the pandemic, coronavirus or COVID in its app description on app stores, as not to trigger extra checks (and in line with its platform dreams). Not that app stores should govern the world, but it betrays the firm’s mentality. 2021-05-04 07:07:56 Despite it being an infrastructure they had no control or say over, local governments were already shelling out money which, in practice, was just subsidising Luca’s attempt to make a platform. It had even partnered with ticket companies! https://t.co/oUdaRw1aC5 https://t.co/IX1zC8Pnj1 2021-05-03 20:21:02 Yet more actively exploited Apple zero days. Last wk was an emergency patch for MacOS that had been exploited all year, now more patches for almost all devices. Given the behemoth rarely says much re bugs, let alone their actual use, they are presumably scared. Update today. https://t.co/7TEeiKlP8y 2021-05-03 20:08:29 Facebook wants to be the zero-rated Internet but still needs to come to terms with the complications of being a series of tubes. https://t.co/fGFNmJrSoq 2021-05-03 19:53:27 @TimandraHarknes @BigDataSizeBook did they bid with confidence intervals? 2021-05-03 19:52:53 @TimandraHarknes @BigDataSizeBook was there a zoom gavel at this exciting sounding three way auction? 2021-05-03 18:51:35 @Abebab the map one also could include ‘we can predict anything with mobile phone signals. thanks for the data, giant telco!’ 2021-05-03 16:44:13 @martha__dark you definitely deserve it! 2021-05-03 12:13:56 @RichardMoorhead @lawvaughan we thank reviewer 2 for throwing helpful shade that improved the final manuscript 2021-05-03 12:02:25 @RichardMoorhead @lawvaughan that’s a good tactic! 2021-05-03 12:01:15 @hugoroyd this used to happen with Wikipedia: wrong wiki claim, crap newspaper used it as source, newspaper got cited, it became true! private eye magazine pointed it out and eventually wikipedia adopted a policy of not just a news article to cite a fact, i think, which no one follows. 2021-05-03 11:56:09 Clear reminder that a lot of people, particularly politicians, who think there needs to be ‘more law!’ on eg voyeuristic photos or stalkerware, or indeed the Internet more generally, don’t often think about the details of that law. Frankly, it’s why I left ‘policy’ academia. https://t.co/bFyR0TNqkm 2021-05-03 11:53:02 RT @Kirst3nF: We're proud to present: Re-imagining content moderation and safeguarding fundamental rights - a study on community-led platfo… 2021-05-03 11:51:33 Several times I have cited several papers by the same person who is not me in a review and have tried (and probably failed) to put language to indicate that I am actually not that person. But now they probably think that that author is a self-citing reviewer. https://t.co/mRv2SmBrSr 2021-05-03 11:39:10 Cool postdoc and senior postdoc jobs on interrogating tech business models and the environmental impact of tech, at Cambridge (although wrt to the latter also worth noting that the money comes from mining). https://t.co/3tfJtUswcl 2021-05-03 11:34:35 @tomwarren @EerkeBoiten it effectively is because there was a period where they did have to collect data, before QR code regime changed, so they got sold apps and websites at that time that they have no incentive to reform. 2021-05-03 11:30:38 @tomwarren @EerkeBoiten which is stupid because they have a legal obligation to show an NHS TT QR code and have *no* legal obligation to collect your details if you scan the QR code. 2021-05-02 12:33:59 @lilianedwards yes, i did. core modules it was confusing in first year because they were v big modules so they tried to make office hours for the tutors too. but i went to seminar office hours several times in second and third year! 2021-05-02 09:28:51 RT @carmelatroncoso: Excellent thread on how the voluntary becomes mandatory, how the temporal digital infrastructure becomes permanent, ho… 2021-05-02 08:12:58 RT @kixes: on #Covid19 tech + surveillance in 1/ Unlike this time last year, when Singapore's epidemic curve shot up and we were seein… 2021-04-30 14:31:38 RT @amatwyshyn: Fixed it https://t.co/jCj45ALTeG 2021-04-30 14:27:24 @MissIG_Geek yup. and if we keep them just to make prosecutions of people easier when the real motive to charge is on other grounds… that seems deeply wrong. 2021-04-30 13:48:11 @avilarenata why not campaign also for zero rating of all over the top messenger services, not just whatsapp? retrenching facebook’s power to break net neutrality seems to be an issue here 2021-04-30 12:46:56 @sebkrier even broader though, no? the first point: a regression model learns from new datasets... 2021-04-30 12:43:55 @RobertHGeorge @RoryJamesKelly i am sure abusers and would-be abusers have been hurriedly cross referencing the earlier synthesis against the marshalled amendment list for the last 14 hours to work out what applies to them 2021-04-30 11:56:01 (there is also a count of £66k fraud, which doesn’t seem as much of a proxy charge). the article here does not mention the ‘anime style’ CSAM https://t.co/6gUoX03Ef6 2021-04-30 11:53:38 @technollama sussex uni is always in a time bubble it seems 2021-04-30 11:50:15 prohibited images were ‘anime style’ drawings of children in sexually explicit & 2021-04-30 10:58:13 RT @OpenRightsGroup: A cross-party group of MPs have written to @OliverDowden Secretary of State for @DCMS warning the Government ab… 2021-04-30 08:37:13 RT @jeff_a_king: Sceptics and enthusiasts of compulsory vaccination alike should read this in-principle defense of mandatory vaccination -… 2021-04-30 08:21:47 As I nabbed the unanswered questions to YT/Cyando to pose to students as the topic of one of their Internet Law tutorials this year I’ll have to go raiding CURIA’s dreadful interface for more once it has been answered 2021-04-30 08:03:05 The date where we may get more clarification on whether and to what extent running detailed recommender systems takes you out of e-Commerce Directive safe harbours (EU equiv of CDA 230). https://t.co/mLlUFKz8sE 2021-04-30 08:01:42 RT @eLAWnora: BREAKING - We have a date! The CJEU ruling in YouTube, C-682/18 and C-683/18 *should* be issued on 22 June (AG Opinion: https… 2021-04-29 22:31:22 Two permanent academic tech law jobs (among several) at Nottingham Law School, Asst. Prof in Law and Tech and Asst. Prof in Law and Autonomous Systems https://t.co/cOr2wGClXI https://t.co/JZKpPGhjhU 2021-04-29 17:49:10 RT @lexatlasc19: Octavio Ferraz, Co-PI on the LAC19 project, on mandatory vaccination in and out of the Covid-19 context before Brazil's hi… 2021-04-29 17:49:03 RT @lexatlasc19: Pablo Grez and Guillermo Jiminez on the Chilean framework for mandatory vaccination polices - in context: Part of the LAC1… 2021-04-29 17:21:35 @BigBrotherWatch @hare_brain @Paulscriven i believe Zühlke is the firm that built the utilised non ditched app based on GAEN. Pivotal is the company that built the ditched one. 2021-04-29 17:16:57 @marcelsalathe https://t.co/3yCc2mcRwq 2021-04-29 12:58:02 @alexhern relatedly, who on this planet has currently had the most doses and how many 2021-04-29 10:52:11 @Jackstilgoe freshly purified immunity 2021-04-29 07:46:44 RT @lexatlasc19: This looks to be an outstanding resource for the undrstanding of comparative covid law. 2021-04-28 15:51:36 @F_Kaltheuner @hatr (by that i mean the non exposure notification parts of the logs are likely much more ripe for practical exploitation by preinstalled apps) 2021-04-28 15:48:26 @F_Kaltheuner @hatr but tbh if you find the native preinstalled apps doing that, which the researchers didn’t, they’d be learning a shitload more from the logs than they could get with exposure notification. i find it q unlikely that this path was ever consciously exploited in practice 2021-04-28 15:47:10 @F_Kaltheuner @hatr i imagine some people will try to sue to cynically get some money. any app, made by anyone, is only as trustworthy as the operating system it runs on. if someone can find non-google preinstalled apps that were slurping and using log data, then it would become more interesting. 2021-04-28 15:45:03 @F_Kaltheuner @hatr it’s a big deal that regulators have never got to grips with smartphone operating systems, preinstalled apps and ecosystems, and it might blow up in the US because about the only thing the FTC can do is nab firms that say one strong statement that can be later questioned. 2021-04-28 13:01:31 @TomOrrell86 @JeniT @Foxglovelegal @cori_crider Remember when G4S had a theme song and then it was so bad they tried to scrub it from the Internet https://t.co/195w9KAQRP 2021-04-28 12:55:29 @TomOrrell86 @JeniT @Foxglovelegal @cori_crider All they need now is a theme tune 2021-04-28 12:35:10 RT @lexatlasc19: The second of the two-part editorial on compulsory vaccination is here, exploring vaccination passports and certification… 2021-04-28 11:19:38 RT @7NewsAdelaide: Anti-vaxxers are to blame for a QR code scam in Blackwood. Fake QR codes were placed over genuine COVID safe check-ins a… 2021-04-28 10:33:11 RT @allthecitizens: BREAKING: We’ve issued a pre-action letter against the government with ⁦@Foxglovelegal⁩. We believe it’s unlawful tha… 2021-04-28 10:15:02 Justices do not seem v convinced by Google’s attempt to pull the clsss action down to harm suffered by a person who bought an iPhone the day before the relevant period of claim ended and was never delivered an ad (and therefore tug the whole thing below a seriousness threshold) 2021-04-28 09:54:27 Lloyd v Google hearing in the Supreme Court live for watching on https://t.co/EMQXqEA22b A lot of interest in UK class actions around data protection breaches hinges on this case. For those who haven’t followed the saga, the facts concern the Google Safari cookie workaround. https://t.co/vTAseou0Wp 2021-04-28 08:29:10 RT @StevePeers: 2/ In the case that a data protection adequacy decision is ended, it's *possible* that the EU will end criminal law coopera… 2021-04-28 08:29:06 RT @StevePeers: 1/ From leaked documents - the EU is planning two further statements when it concludes the Brexit deal this week. Most rema… 2021-04-27 16:35:04 @0xCEDE @timnitGebru https://t.co/ffofpelY5y 2021-04-27 12:08:49 RT @lexatlasc19: Introducing Lex-Atlas: Covid-19 (LAC19)! A global collaboration between over 140 jurists mapping legal responses to Covid-… 2021-04-27 12:04:20 First official versions of reports now available on the OUP site, fully open access. More countries + updates will follow. See thread for more! Driving forces have been tireless @jeff_a_king @octavio_ferraz. https://t.co/gZyjlBOaqT https://t.co/hnpa2ovCji 2021-04-27 12:04:18 Thrilled to be part of this huge, amazing project mapping legal responses to COVID. A team of 140+ researchers writing fully open access OUP chapters systematically covering 80 countries' COVID laws. Much more on top. Massive blog project too: https://t.co/Rv2xG5kicF https://t.co/lPiPpWjuaB https://t.co/PfoEjiSlyc 2021-04-27 11:44:30 @mer__edith last thing - one of the authors is actually a google product manager lol https://t.co/Y5kQm3BnvW 2021-04-27 11:41:49 @mer__edith @jatenas @profhoff i was also grateful to @SandraWachter5 who if i recall first called it to my attention when she saw and looked through it, and others subsequently raised the same point. but things were busy then and despite sending an email some fights you do not have the energy to fight 2021-04-27 11:31:19 @mer__edith @jatenas @profhoff it’s ok. our piece was already published, just a bit weird to see both text chunks and the argument... published again? and journal (berkeley law and tech j) didn’t respond at all to email pointing it out (sent while it was an accepted preprint too if i recall so they had time). 2021-04-27 11:13:59 @jatenas @profhoff @mer__edith yes, definitely possible but more based on publisher policies than legal protections of ideas! i had no luck when work of mine was copy pasted by stanford professors and published in a top tech law journal 2021-04-26 19:43:49 @profhoff @mer__edith so basically you can try but the law is quite unlikely to help you unless they stole text or copy pasted a diagram 2021-04-26 19:42:56 @profhoff @mer__edith very unlikely they’ll do it because of IP because you can’t copyright an idea. falls back on whether plagiarism of ideas is academic misconduct, which require an academy to do something about misconduct, which requires editor in journal to become crumple zone... 2021-04-26 19:02:55 @Angronn1 get rid of the industrial strategy and replace it with the criminal strategy 2021-04-26 18:55:48 Not sure the National Crime Agency thinks about the effect on local jobs before taking down highly organised international criminal networks. 2021-04-26 18:44:45 That might be a bit mean but I really don’t think the expertise the ICO needs right now is economic. 2021-04-26 18:44:12 Hiring a Chief Economist to give it further reasons not to enforce the law due to speculative economic effects. https://t.co/fsJrd0yiIT 2021-04-26 18:38:53 Need to make platforms at a scale where communities can self govern, and to interoperate them. Scale too big for them to govern internally even w their finances. Yet UK Online Harms/Safety proposals seek to entrench the biggest platforms as their regulatory mode. Too big to fail. 2021-04-26 18:38:52 Here. Facebook realises that it is too big to meaningfully investigate even issues around the *biggest election in its own home country*. Scrabbles as usual for magic behaviourism, predictive modelling. No platform can or should be this big. https://t.co/RolUlZ328s https://t.co/orshUMnKxz 2021-04-26 14:33:54 @mer__edith unionisation can help with a lot, but being in a country with significant unionisation from the highest profs down to grad students (we don't have tenure concept in the UK), it does not always help with those issues you clearly characterise. 2021-04-26 14:28:58 @timnitGebru Unionisation is important. I feel lucky to be faculty in a country with a huge vertical academic union. when we strike, the picket line has the most prestigious professors & 2021-04-26 14:03:10 RT @HongMathias: Conseil d'Etat turns French national security against European liberty. Vallée/Coauthor: In a "Securitarian Solange" i… 2021-04-26 12:16:59 @mireillemoret @fborgesius Should all be searchable https://t.co/olK24LcjMm here. SocArXiv is a scheme to submit papers, after moderation, to the OSF Preprints server, as LawArXiv was. So they all end up in the same pot (tagged with the scheme they were submitted under). 2021-04-26 10:50:00 RT @grahamgreenleaf: So many new and revised data privacy laws in Asia - at least 15 countries worth discussing. I will be emphasizing new… 2021-04-26 10:30:53 @neil_neilzone @ninkosan much clearer! 2021-04-26 10:19:48 @neil_neilzone really going the extra mile - is this a popular choice? https://t.co/uo5NwwpGH5 2021-04-26 08:41:21 @marc_mcgeemoore @FT ‘abra de nada’ 2021-04-26 08:32:31 @fborgesius @mireillemoret While it’s a shame a stand-alone law server did not take off, it also demonstrates the redundancy of the whole infrastructure and that it performs as intended even if the board fall apart etc etc due to the underlying OSF tools. 2021-04-26 08:30:47 @fborgesius @mireillemoret Unfortunately, I think the organisation ran out of steam. But, the great thing about the model is that all papers were on the federated OSF, so all survive. SocArXiv now has all the law categories (and all papers in LawArXiv are there too). Same system. https://t.co/MKFHPs01Gc 2021-04-25 16:33:48 @renatesamson what a waste of a tweet, energy, thumb muscles, etc :) 2021-04-25 15:27:59 Interesting surveillance tidbit from the Cummings–Johnson saga from Glen Owen @MoS_Politics reporting that intelligence agencies have used WhatsApp ‘penetration’ to seek the Dyson texts leaker. Has Cummings forgotten to turn off his iCloud WhatsApp backup? https://t.co/8WkHj8Yyxi https://t.co/oGxBvKMFN7 2021-04-25 15:11:07 The authors also used Google’s US voluntary right-to-be-forgotten tool but found new URLs kept appearing. Consequential trend likely to spur national/CJEU search engine cases following Glawischnig-Piesczek if these practices continue. https://t.co/snEH2Yc7wa 2021-04-25 15:08:22 RT @kashhill: A "reputation" company quoted @Aaron_Krolik $1,500 to take down ONE of the now dozens of posts about him. What we ultimately… 2021-04-25 08:51:38 @azeem @ZeynepEngin it would be mad if the EU were regulating all uses of bayesian methods! they aren’t. it’s a complex regulation. and this is how stupid myths start. 2021-04-25 08:50:18 @azeem @ZeynepEngin only insofar as it’s one condition of scope? the regulation applies to a narrow list of application areas where products placed on the market *also* use those techniques. saying it’s regulating maths is alarmist, like saying vaccine regulations regulate the measurement of liquid. 2021-04-25 08:24:57 @lawrennd this is really a regime for high risk software in specific application domains. the real definition of AI is not the technology specs but found in the domains (focusing on decisions, profiling, etc), which distinguishes from software more broadly (eg Post Office Horizon!) 2021-04-25 08:23:26 @lawrennd in a way this is the patching of existing legislation. EU has large set of rules around conformity of products on the market with health or safety concerns. these (among some other things) extend and specify those rules (eg Machinery Directive) to also include AI applications. 2021-04-25 07:51:10 @mariafarrell @charlottejee @AlecStapp @ASankin does that work in reverse in europe? can i make money to fund my research work by lying about the probability anything at all will come of some obscure US state representative’s bonkers member bill? 2021-04-25 07:22:32 @haltingproblem you never could press it physically. it was haptic feedback. 2021-04-25 07:18:59 @charlottejee @AlecStapp @ASankin also that’s a policy report from a secretariat attached to a committee of the EP, which doesn’t even have the power to initiate policy. “are we gonna talk about how some random policy unit said something people will ignore”. lobbyists were meant to understand the policy process? 2021-04-25 07:15:32 @lawrennd very good—though the scope of the proposal is much more nuanced than this and very few applications trigger obligations (its really about selling or building algorithmic systems for particular uses in crime, justice, education, employment, which few firms and AI practitioners do) 2021-04-25 07:13:59 @AlecStapp you should probably read the scope of the instrument properly. your tweet is like saying ‘US plans to regulate eggs’ because the US regulates vaccines which sometimes use eggs in manufacturing. 2021-04-25 07:09:52 @je5perl @fborgesius @linnetelwin (it’s a nice route in the rare cases it’s likely to work) 2021-04-25 07:08:27 @je5perl @fborgesius @linnetelwin Standing however can be very hard to demonstrate in such cases, and lots are dismissed. I’m not familiar with the argument of that case (the AG in Schrems II seemed to imply that standing had a chance with it) but it’s not a very reliable way to go about strategic litigation. 2021-04-24 21:47:44 @katebevan even pawns can be made queen 2021-04-24 21:46:47 @katebevan head of ofcom? information commissioner?! 2021-04-24 21:46:04 @katebevan what happens now? does cummings get made a lord? queen? 2021-04-24 21:43:34 @_jack_poulson he should! i am sure it will be a slamdunk 2021-04-24 21:19:15 RT @mmitchell_ai: -I'm characterized w @timnitGebru as "agitators who weren’t afraid to make waves when challenged." But that's not true. I… 2021-04-24 20:22:54 @halhod if only there was some kind of patio area where such a story could be told 2021-04-24 20:18:47 @halhod they will come... we are on it 2021-04-24 20:16:07 @halhod because they do not know how to take requirements from the world, they instead want to make the world’s requirements 2021-04-24 15:58:02 “In an interview, Berlin’s governing mayor said he had ordered the [private-sector owned Luca QR code check in app] ‘without knowing any technical details’” https://t.co/i6GnPFt9VV https://t.co/WTN8tYpMJM 2021-04-23 22:19:43 @JeniT thank you 2021-04-23 21:25:26 @EwanToo if it was routine that many actors had access to many others’ text messages, this would likely violate the law, both UK law and ECtHR employee surveillance rules. people have rights to privacy (not absolute) even on work devices or in work email, in Europe. 2021-04-23 21:22:35 @cathcam @EwanToo assume, but where’s the evidence? it’s not straightforward to extract structured data from within arbitrary software. 2021-04-23 20:37:09 @AndyPKopp @UCLSTEaPP @IIPP_UCL @UCLEngineering @ucl @InaBrass @rainerkattel @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter @WriteThatPhD 2021-04-23 20:11:35 @EwanToo and as reported, these were Whatsapp messages not SMS. do mobile devices management solutions for eg iOS take WA messages? i would have assumed not. 2021-04-23 20:10:00 @EwanToo It seems somewhat surprising that policy actors might have access to these records. 2021-04-23 19:27:17 @alixtrot new turns into nrw (north rhine westphalia) for me every time 2021-04-23 19:10:49 Can anyone explain through which technical means the PM’s texts leave his actual device and/or are managed? There’s a lot about the logistics of this saga I do not practically understand. https://t.co/kMqSucUNcv 2021-04-23 17:16:12 @nmsonline obligatory https://t.co/GPnFeNRCzi 2021-04-23 17:13:22 @10DowningStreet https://t.co/GPnFeNRCzi 2021-04-23 16:15:36 @TimandraHarknes fewer ruffs though 2021-04-23 16:14:15 @bricksilk @TC_IntLaw @Conseil_Etat @aboutintel Lots of actors, economic and political, keen to see more countries enter a constant state of emergency — particularly where it triggers product/service demand and allows other, non surveillance powers too... 2021-04-23 16:06:51 @anotherday____ @EerkeBoiten What about it? 2021-04-23 11:30:04 RT @apps_ltd: Who should be the next Information Commissioner? Who has the business knowledge and ear of Government to Get Things Done? @… 2021-04-16 08:29:11 can’t wait for apple’s ‘spring’ themed event announcing the haptic fluidic ‘bladder’ mattress that fondles you in your sleep they applied to patent last year! https://t.co/6XE4pgiKZJ https://t.co/ENWHjKMfdl https://t.co/h3AqUMeHkO 2021-04-16 08:11:56 another case showing how regulators can deal with deception or misleading but can’t actually tackle the substance of surveillance and its enabling technologies by and through platforms. https://t.co/TQhKW05ioB 2021-04-16 07:58:23 @jockumhilden @F_Kaltheuner @djleufer the commission has been working with encrypted emails and files on all the DSA DMA and possibly this document too. so there have been precautions... i think trilogue is also not an ideal policy process but what we gonna do... 2021-04-16 07:50:23 @jockumhilden @F_Kaltheuner @djleufer because often the leakers are upset with a subsequent political change and wish to influence the final commission version. eg see the leaked version of the earlier paper saying there would be a facial recognition ban compared to the final white paper which said there would not 2021-04-16 07:46:26 @F_Kaltheuner @djleufer would be nicer if we had a slower media cycle which gave everyone time to take stock. i am looking forward to broader longer reads analysing this from many perspectives :) 2021-04-16 07:45:45 @F_Kaltheuner @djleufer there is unfortunately a problem with going for widely diverse views from the first hour of a publication — because of structural capacity issues in reading a giant doc in time they can end up leading to media framing in a way not faithful to what has actually come out... 2021-04-16 07:43:40 @F_Kaltheuner @djleufer i also was motivated by politicians and civil society telling me before (eg re a similar DMA thread) that first thoughts help them to get a grip on complex docs to focus their own views. hopefully by the time the cycle comes around again (initial release) or in the policy process 2021-04-16 07:41:58 @F_Kaltheuner @djleufer it’s a constant problem w leaks or fast releases. media cycle expects people to have read and analysed things the moment they come out. those who can’t make time to analyse instantly or being the kind of background knowledge that enables quick reading are excluded from the cycle 2021-04-15 22:06:45 @tsimonite @UCLLaws @andrewthesmart also why is everyone seeing this? does everyone have their twitter set to non chronological mode?? 2021-04-15 22:06:14 @tsimonite @UCLLaws @andrewthesmart each little energy spark is an angry tweet 2021-04-15 16:57:43 @DaveMichels_ @ModernLRev @EdinaRl @lilianedwards this is excellent. but surely you missed a spirit medium opportunity! is that the sequel? 2021-04-15 16:55:18 @kamara_irene @LTMS_TilburgU @LSTSblog fantastic! your chapter from a few years back discussing the provenance of DP seals and certification was very useful for a paper I have with @Kira_UCL that should hopefully be out soon 2021-04-15 16:35:19 @rasmus_kleis you mean you’re not getting paid like the rest of us? 2021-04-15 16:24:57 @RalfSauer3 The Commission needs to stop papering over the cracks. It is not making the law, it is a creature of the Treaties. If the law is, allegedly, unworkable or hypocritical, then as painful and political as it is, it is the legal duty of the EC to follow it, not to pretend it is fine. 2021-04-15 16:18:28 @RalfSauer3 Legal framework assessment focussed entirely on security/retention, not remedies, privacy, data rights that CJEU has discussed at length. Even if you dislike the uncomfortable fact that MS-> 2021-04-15 15:56:49 @binocularity @Sparkes @lilianedwards @djleufer @xrysoflhs that’s fair, but I also think you don’t really get where it sits in the broader picture of law & 2021-04-15 15:49:14 @RalfSauer3 they don’t even mention data transfers from GCHQ to the US though? 2021-04-15 15:42:33 @binocularity @Sparkes @lilianedwards @djleufer @xrysoflhs Its buyers have understood requirements for legitimacy and trust even less. Hence a significant market failure in relation to these high risk applications: which are very very few of total AI applications. Scope of this regulation is quite narrow for the most part. 2021-04-15 15:41:25 @binocularity @Sparkes @lilianedwards @djleufer @xrysoflhs Improvement is hugely subjective. Many papers at top confs are motivated by social or regulatory requirements that were never salient before. In many ways it’s been refreshing - ML (like expert systems) is a field that has never been too good at understanding use requirements 2021-04-15 14:54:08 @binocularity @Sparkes @lilianedwards @djleufer @xrysoflhs That’s because it defines procedures to analyse these in context, not absolute monoculture outcomes. There are no definitions of any of these things that are universally applicable without creating either loopholes or injustices. Regulation is not an optimisation constraint. 2021-04-15 14:41:19 @sethvneel @RDBinns @lilianedwards No, it doesn’t affect the right to erasure. but as we state, the right to erasure is unlikely to work there. There are always many reasons to deny it, it’s not very powerful! (see @Jausl00s book). Right to object or need to get legal basis more interesting in that context. 2021-04-15 14:38:40 @sethvneel @RDBinns yes, although transparency and notice over that data still have to be provided, and users can still object and use other rights. 2021-04-15 14:23:48 @arankhanna @overleaf well, it’s not just about ML but also other methods as well, see annex 1. and what definitions would have been useful here and actually added to interpretation? hard to see how specifying optimisation formulae would contribute to the regime. 2021-04-15 14:22:12 @LeandaBL @5RightsFound @Childmanifesto children’s rights vis a vis are key in many areas, but it would be great to hear which particular directions you think this legislation could have gone in given its scope. the definition of banned ai and ‘detriment’ is already pretty broad. 2021-04-15 14:20:24 @LeandaBL @5RightsFound @Childmanifesto what would you have liked to have seen, bearing in mind that recommender systems are omitted in their entirety due to being targeted in the digital services act, and educational systems are specifically included in this proposal? 2021-04-15 14:17:41 @arankhanna @overleaf also afaik overleaf doesn’t allow institutional hosting, and is closed source. you’ll appreciate that when regulating platforms the commission have done all through encrypted documents and encrypted emails. i know your comment was lighthearted but these docs are hard to make 2021-04-15 14:06:57 @arankhanna @overleaf given that the commission publish legislation in both html and xml for machine readability and rapid cross referenced translation, i think that latex would need many additional features. quite an advanced ecosystem around EU legislation writing with software called LegisWrite 2021-04-15 12:20:19 @olyduff @theipaper @DavidParsleyPW exclusive? really? https://t.co/DhDUgXGbXg 2021-04-15 11:32:51 @mireillemoret @ChrisTMarsden and that the oversight bodies in the GDPR have actual powers of investigation, which the AI regulation seems to lack (despite regulating users, such as public bodies), added to the lack of private right of action we can see where this will end if not rectified... 2021-04-15 09:31:47 Bobek suggest a reform of the acte clair doctrine: “the duty to refer a question for a preliminary ruling should not be focused primarily on the correct answers, but rather on identifying the right questions.” https://t.co/NsUSArn7y5 2021-04-15 09:09:09 RT @hutko: 97% AZ R& 2021-04-15 08:51:40 @owainkenway perhaps an aspect we could think about vignettes/how to communicate to legislators and in the DMA before it’s too late @ShmaeganM 2021-04-15 08:49:53 RT @owainkenway: @mikarv It's presumably especially problematic for software like Firefox. I know they only support some of the codecs tho… 2021-04-15 08:42:21 also interesting incentive dynamic: netflix has fewer incentives to distribute an encoder, but max incentive to distribute a decoder! videoconf products need both. web-based ones need more openness of encoders (unless you own a browser...) but proprietary apps like Zoom don’t... 2021-04-15 08:39:30 @wrklsshrd haven’t seen... 2021-04-15 08:37:05 (there are one or two that are not integrated in ffmpeg yet that i haven’t tried. but hardware acceleration is also important it seems so vertical integration matters. also see apple’s videotoolbox in this regard...) 2021-04-15 08:37:04 Also if anyone has any readings on this I’d be interested! Flip side of the net neutrality debate: who can deliver content more efficiently but potentially enclose the possibility of doing so to their own infrastructures. 2021-04-15 08:37:03 New edition of Chrome also includes AV1 encoder (next gen compression for videoconferencing h265). Not sure I’ve seen scholars of internet & 2021-04-15 08:22:47 @FusterGloria @rosamunde_vb @F_Kaltheuner @sedyst @sarahchander @LinaDencik @linnetelwin @DocStefflbauer @NathalieSmuha i dare say it is better than factory-like consultancies staffed with people who are approaching issues for the first time though. the bar is low! 2021-04-15 08:14:48 @ChathamHouse I would rather not move towards AI driven buildings when you haven’t even successfully secured this webpage with HTTPS yet 2021-04-15 08:12:22 @1Br0wn @londonheathrow did they undigitise at some point? all the ones i’ve filled out for the UK *were* digital... 2021-04-15 06:58:54 @mireillemoret Indeed although I’m not sure that article is a very principled way to approach residual issues. Does that really have the foreseeability needed for law or a mandate for a regulator? (although it has checks for abuse) 2021-04-14 21:41:00 @AlexandraGeese Provisions on datasets miss ethics of experimentation on individuals upstream. People often part of experiments to generate data for ML. Experiments need research ethics. 2021-04-14 17:31:06 @Olliez0r also another thing is that for many we may end up in a situation where 5G routers will be faster than their current line for some time (albeit quite hot), displacing FTTP. so ISPs probably exploring. 2021-04-14 17:27:57 @Olliez0r not sure major ISPs have big normative qualms about making dosh from unsuspecting end users 2021-04-14 17:26:24 @Olliez0r i suspect also many consumers don’t know the difference between actual internet downtime or computer or router failures! they just want More Internet 2021-04-14 17:25:10 @Olliez0r vErTicAL inTEgrAtIoN 2021-04-14 17:23:09 @Olliez0r oh you say ‘why’, sorry i misread. i think it’s for small offices or servers no? 2021-04-14 17:22:35 @Olliez0r i have @aaisp and they sell this service. i don’t use a backup connection like that though. but if there’s anything about your connection you wish to control or monitor at all that is technically doable, you can do it seamlessly with AA. 2021-04-14 17:09:48 @LydNicholas @F_Kaltheuner @nielstenoever @C___CS @mariafarrell @VidushiMarda @LauraC_rter https://t.co/A4Su33OcG1 2021-04-14 16:48:33 @neil_neilzone you mean like in a stand off as in the BVerfG ECB case? no, you’d have to ask an EU constitutional lawyer I’m afraid. 2021-04-14 16:46:50 @MargotKaminski @RebeccaCrootof @WNicholsonPrice there may be some coming at some point... after a (probably unwise) commitment to more work today 2021-04-14 16:45:26 @MargotKaminski @RebeccaCrootof @WNicholsonPrice Just wait a couple of weeks because leakers don’t often leak much unless they want to change something, so indicates that sometime between January and now something has changed significantly in the comm draft... 2021-04-14 16:42:46 (we call it La Quadrature du Net Case because of the CJEU but really it was the legwork of the French Data Network, so credit where credit is due for this long saga!) 2021-04-14 16:37:51 The conclusion of the La Quadrature du Net case is near. The public rapporteur comes out against the gov, in favour of the digital rights groups opposing data retention. While not determinative, that’s Bad News for the French, who seemed raring for a fight with the CJEU. https://t.co/QJu9LOWsnR 2021-04-14 16:33:44 RT @dataRights_: Last step: the Council of State will hold its hearing on Friday to judge on the invalidity of French #dataRetention an… 2021-04-14 16:33:28 RT @dataRights_fr: Dernière étape : Le Conseil d'État tient son audience en Assemblée vendredi pour juger sur l'invalidité de la #loiRens… 2021-04-14 16:30:31 @F_Kaltheuner others who may or may not have been mentioned @LydNicholas @nielstenoever @C___CS @mariafarrell @VidushiMarda 2021-04-14 16:27:35 @F_Kaltheuner nice thread idea! i do such consultancy, on law and policy around data and digital rights! eg https://t.co/3EJ4zsYz7K https://t.co/uAkbkU0sY6 https://t.co/iyW359XnCv contact: https://t.co/wwCMtiMMdq 2021-04-14 15:46:39 RT @TC_IntLaw: Wow! Great scoop by @vmanancourt : @EU_EDPB faced grilling by @EU_Commission for previous draft on adequacy which “set… 2021-04-14 15:45:18 RT @cross_dpn: Our First event is in 2 weeks! Sign up before it's too late. We will post the event details on this week here on this accoun… 2021-04-14 15:45:03 @cross_dpn @EdinaRl @macsithigh @karenmccullagh had a heart attack that the panel was tomorrow when i saw this 2021-04-14 15:24:56 RT @FPallopides: "to their detriment" is doing a lot of work here. EU keeping the door open for AI paternalism - the most likely public-fac… 2021-04-14 14:22:50 @zacharynado They are explicitly governed by the digital services act 2021-04-14 14:15:43 @Sparkes @lilianedwards @newscientist if you dm some questions i can write responses there 2021-04-14 13:56:15 @wooglooskr it’s EU law. the court of justice, the interpreter of EU law, follows its own precedent, as do national courts. 2021-04-14 13:53:29 @wooglooskr Just because the definition of AI is broad doesn’t mean the regulation applies as broadly throughout. Needs to be carefully read. 2021-04-14 13:46:29 @wooglooskr It has to be passed by member states in the council. And will be significant be amended by them. Parliament is only one actor. This will be a long process where member states are the primary actors from this point on. 2021-04-14 13:44:05 @DigitalSocietyL Yes member states can designate that’s in the text. Not necessarily DPAs. 2021-04-14 13:19:35 RT @rachelcoldicutt: ICYMI we have not one but two (!) fixed-term contract jobs at Careful Industries. Design Lab Lead to run a 1yr program… 2021-04-14 12:22:45 RT @jennifercobbe: We have also written about making the whole algorithmic process reviewable through logging and record-keeping - from com… 2021-04-14 10:32:49 While also raking in the dosh from governments, this private firm is also strengthening its position as an opportunistic pandemic platform intermediary by partnering with event ticket companies! https://t.co/dbTF2qDU6D 2021-04-14 10:32:48 Kerching for the Luca QR code check in app, raking in the dosh as the German Länder have political tantrum vis a vis the Federal government. (PS: This app doesn’t even mention the word COVID in its descriptions to stop it being scrutinised by the app stores.) https://t.co/MN5GBXPmxJ https://t.co/Snv0eLC1ag 2021-04-14 10:00:51 @fborgesius From what I remember Microsoft have been lobbying hard for it 2021-04-14 09:28:22 @ErikJonker @lilianedwards was released yesterday afternoon, just didn’t have time to comment on it then... 2021-04-14 09:27:52 And of course the list of high risk AI in full (can be added to by powers in the reg). Hiring, credit, welfare, policing and tech for the judiciary are all notable. Very little that is delivered by the tech giants as part of their core businesses, that’s clearly in DSA/DMA world https://t.co/QKtV9lNylF 2021-04-14 09:27:50 Article 59 presents a weird regime saying that if a member state still thinks a system presents a risk despite being in compliance, they can take action. This could be a used (eg freedom of expression) but there are checks built into it with the Commission. https://t.co/z6BLGZSxqk 2021-04-14 09:27:49 The post market monitoring system could be interesting. But heavily up to providers to determine how much they will do (ie next to none). Could also be used to say ‘we have to deliver this as an API, we can’t give it to you’. More pointless servitisation. https://t.co/hvZPGuVijf 2021-04-14 09:27:47 Not another board! And this time with special provision to presumably grandfather in the EU HLEG on AI as advisors under Article 49. Nice deal if you can get it. My criticism of that group here: https://t.co/TdjtfBVKDB https://t.co/9sOuzeIBSY 2021-04-14 09:27:46 Interesting glimpse of something in another piece of unannounced regulation “Digital Hubs and Testing Experimentation Facilities”. Could be interesting. Keep eyes out. https://t.co/DtPXZUUuBl 2021-04-14 09:18:00 Article 45 claims to reduce burdens on SMEs by giving them some access to euro initiatives like a regulatory sandbox (Art 44). There’ll be a big push to make this a scale based regime of applicability as these aren’t many concessions. https://t.co/JUvB6FTdSK 2021-04-14 09:17:59 EC moved from facial recognition ban to authorisation system. This is all very much in draft and could still disappear I bet. ‘Serious crime’ not ‘crime’ requirement will be a sticking point with member states. Not much point analysing this until it’s in the proposed version. https://t.co/xogBTGjXwE 2021-04-14 09:17:57 Disclosure obligations for deep fake users (cc @lilianedwards @daniellecitron) — but with what penalty? Might stop businesses but regime likely flounders against individuals. https://t.co/QXNp3XrIJc 2021-04-14 09:17:56 Article 41(2) creates a notification requirement for emotion recognition systems (@damicli @luke_stark @digi_ad). This is important as some might (arguably) not trigger GDPR if designed using transient data (https://t.co/QQEY2YLbiu) https://t.co/zr2GX0b7Ge 2021-04-14 09:17:55 Article 41 applies to all AI systems - notification requirements for if you’re taking to a human-sounding machine (@MargotKaminski this was in CCPA too? I think?). Important given Google’s proposed voice assistant as robotic process automation thing, calling up restaurants etc https://t.co/Zv398m5NBg 2021-04-14 09:17:54 Also, there are several parts where conformity is assumed under certain conditions. See eg 35(2) which seems to assume all of Europe is the same place for phenomena captured in data. Wishful thinking! Ever closer data distribution. https://t.co/KoCDZ97e12 2021-04-14 09:17:52 I won’t go in detail into the conformity assessment apparatus which is seen in other EU law areas. Suffice to highlight a few things. Firstly, the Article 40 registration database is useful for journalists and civil society tracking vendors and high risk systems across Europe https://t.co/BoPxvMJMXr 2021-04-14 09:17:51 Monitoring obligations for users are good but quite vague and don’t seem to impose very rigourous obligations https://t.co/FhcufIbhxR 2021-04-14 09:17:50 Importer obligations in article 15 seem particularly difficult to enforce given the upstream nature of these challenges. 2021-04-14 09:17:49 The logging provision has a downside. Art 13 obliges providers to keep logs. This assumes they are run as a service, with all the surveillance downsides @sedyst and @jorisvanhoboken have lairs out in Privacy After the Agile Turn https://t.co/nKBN98nXVf https://t.co/N34Scuq8LA 2021-04-14 09:17:48 (I elaborated on this with @InaBrass in an OUP chapter on Administration by Algorithm, pointing out the accountability challenges of such organisational requirements for authority and competence) https://t.co/EIbAHWkbQR https://t.co/14bOBbmgE8 2021-04-14 09:17:46 In that paper (https://t.co/TjCHqOvcBA) we pointed out that ensuring ‘authority and competence’ was an organisational challenge. https://t.co/ICugcCtUbs 2021-04-14 09:17:45 Art 11(c) is interesting, placing organisational requirements to ensure human oversight is meaningful. It responds clearly to @lilianedwards and I in 2018 commenting on the A29WP ADM guidelines. [...] https://t.co/2QDsuo6cwM 2021-04-14 09:17:44 User transparency for high risk AI systems resembling labels in other sectors in Art 10. Some reqs on general logics and assumptions but nothing too onerous. You’d expect most of this to be provided by vendors in most sectors already to enable clients to write DPIAs https://t.co/NHP3SzZnhk 2021-04-14 09:17:42 Logging requirements are interesting in Article 9, and important. The Police DP Directive has similar, and they matter. @jennifercobbe @jatinternet @cnorval have usefully written on decision provenance in automated systems here https://t.co/40uKlVAvBX https://t.co/bUbVo0zVqf 2021-04-14 09:17:41 Article 8(9) also extends dataset style provisions mutadis mutandis to eg expert systems and federated learning/multiparty computation, which is sensible. https://t.co/EOTkuwmS3n 2021-04-14 09:17:40 Article 8 considers training data. It only applies when the actual resultant system is high risk. It does not include risks from experimentation on populations or similar through infrastructures to train them. AI systems that don’t pose use harms can still pose upstream harm. https://t.co/uZkfeuocBF 2021-04-14 09:17:38 This is clearly designed in part not to eg further upset France in the La Quadrature du Net case, where black boxes algorithmic systems inside telcos were limited. Same language as CJEU used in Art 4(c). Clear exemptions for orgs ‘on behalf’ of state to avoid CJEU scope creep. 2021-04-14 09:17:37 Blacklisted art 4 AI (except general scoring) exempts include state use for public security, including by contractors. Tech designed to ‘manipulate’ ppl ‘to their detriment’, to ‘target their vulnerabilities’ or profile comms metadata in indiscriminate way v possible for states. https://t.co/dwzO5jGf6v 2021-04-14 09:17:36 Lots of selected thoughts on the draft leaked EU AI regulation follow. Not a summary but hopefully useful. 2021-04-13 17:58:27 RT @AdrianStorrier: In tragic news, after an admin error by the Uni, our undergrad IP exam was inadvertently leaked to students & 2021-04-13 17:57:28 RT @oliviasolon: "Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of integrity, referred to the return of the Honduras campaign as a “bummer” [...] but emphasized… 2021-04-13 17:00:42 @MaryjaneFurniss also did this morning! 2021-04-13 12:42:51 Famously an area where Member States have keenly taken voluntary action to solve non-compliance. https://t.co/0WTnJ6b0gu 2021-04-13 12:40:53 @LauKaya action like running a conference on the future of europe to support treaty change 2021-04-13 12:27:36 RT @LauKaya: MEP Birgit Sippel: I would like to know what the Commission will do if the French Council of State doesn't follow the CJEU rul… 2021-04-13 07:11:09 @NoraNiLoideain yes, to not be bound by the developer addendum concerning exposure notification. 2021-04-13 06:58:23 @NoraNiLoideain scotland’s service however just collects everyone’s name and location and time in a central database, with little to no privacy by design. 2021-04-13 06:57:43 @garjoh_canuck @GiladEdelman by ‘support services’, you often mean trackers. what if the ones that vanish were just incompatible with the law? that can be the case regardless of getting ‘better consent’. many are, as we document https://t.co/PZwHKzmLNI 2021-04-12 22:33:21 @riptari which from scrolling through doesn't actually get... a single mention in 45 mins?? 2021-04-12 22:32:52 @riptari not like anything else has happened today notable, like the lifting of some of the most significant and longest lasting restrictions on leisure in peacetime 2021-04-12 19:33:06 @F_Kaltheuner @AmooreLouise @a_b_powell both are on the way to @OwlBookshop, it’s a race. i was told Louise’s is sold out at the distributors so may take longer, it’s that good 2021-04-12 19:24:07 @RobertJBateman Yes. The Scottish system is really very problematic from a privacy point of view, and certainly could not be bundled with the Protect Scotland app. 2021-04-12 19:09:07 The real test will be whether NHSX and Gapple find a middle way — perhaps a form of venue upload underpinned by a protocol designed to prevent possible use of this side-channel data to link to emitted keys by Exposure Notification. 2021-04-12 19:07:33 This approach by Gapple would indicate that centralised QR code systems, like Luca in Germany, cannot under the current contractual terms be added to an app using Exposure Notification (like Germany's CoronaWarnApp). The system we proposed, CrowdNotifier, could be however. 2021-04-12 19:05:28 Not sure it was a conflation. If Google/Apple forbid *voluntary* uploads by COVID+ people, uploading details to server for each checkin (like ) defo out. Likely why / chose ~decentralised QR approach to start. Thought adding voluntary to *that* okay by Gapple—seemingly not. https://t.co/DI9fTCsDnz 2021-04-12 16:48:55 @PaulDiegel @FantaAlexx Just click through via Qwant. 2021-04-12 14:35:32 @frogyuk that's the budget for test and trace as a whole, which is in the billions, and largely comprised of the cost of testing, compared to the app, which was in the millions. 2021-04-12 14:29:33 @frogyuk no, it is in the millions. page 37 of the national audit office report. there's plenty to criticise without misinforming. https://t.co/BbSC2oMH1n https://t.co/Yi4YJPhw22 2021-04-12 14:27:31 @frogyuk 37 million, not billion. 2021-04-12 14:06:45 (which is when you see a substantial part of the real lost sovereignty is through being a small economic power needing to beg the US for trade deals, rather than being lost directly to platforms) 2021-04-12 14:04:30 Perhaps UK gov should try passing laws if they want to regulate platforms, rather than pleading lost sovereignty without using the tools of government. I suspect the Dept for Intl Trade would veto due to being petrified of damaging a US trade deal which they'll do anything for... https://t.co/HYKpdEbRom 2021-04-12 14:01:00 @frogyuk Scottish check-in app is much less privacy protective than the English/Welsh one. It's just they didn't bundle Checkin Scotland with Protect Scotland so didn't have to meet the same rules as the England/Wales one. 2021-04-12 13:52:37 @lilianedwards @WebDevLaw @ORGScotland The NHS Scotland app is literally just a database full of everywhere that everyone has been. Not sure that’s a great idea… Agree with Lilian tho – maybe this is why England and Wales chose a decentralised system for QR codes from the start? 2021-04-12 13:37:40 @katjabego we could have a lunch break together sometime!! madness 2021-04-12 13:34:35 @AmooreLouise This reminded me that I need to purchase your newest book, just put in an order at the nearby bookshop. Looking forward! Plagiarism is shit, I’m sorry. Had a lot literally copypasted by Stanford scholars during my PhD with one irrelevant cite to me, journal didnt even respond... 2021-04-12 13:13:01 @AlexAmtmann @antoin Hard to imagine that a treaty would just be going that way when some health powers will probably go the other way 2021-04-12 13:12:29 @murakamiwood Was already formalised in French law, this is just for it to fight for general and indiscriminate continuation in light of CJEU caselaw that they keep ignoring... 2021-04-12 13:09:04 i’d expect this desire for change to be bundled in w a post-pandemic treaty ostensibly made under those motivations. and hungary/poland demands. in Ireland could potentially be sold to the public based on future EU legal outcomes relating to the murder of Elaine O’Hara? (Dwyer) https://t.co/ME693cpKZ3 2021-04-12 13:06:22 @antoin finally, ireland gets to be centre stage on data retention issues! about time 2021-04-12 13:05:55 RT @antoin: French government wants Ireland to have a referendum to provide a legal basis for mass surveillance in France. Good luck with t… 2021-04-12 13:04:28 also https://t.co/37Zu7u9qot 2021-04-12 13:03:31 https://t.co/gm3xImEh0E 2021-04-12 13:00:24 @EstelMP I wonder how the lack of the UK as an ally here will play out 2021-04-12 12:59:51 RT @EstelMP: Irresponsible behaviour of France in a context where we are fighting to protect the rule of law in Europe and trying to ensur… 2021-04-12 12:56:16 As expected. France not a fan of fundamental rights. https://t.co/C5iTa3xJLl 2021-04-12 12:06:43 @smithsam Yup. There’s an inequality. I discuss it here https://t.co/CBJ8ybrgfV. But they’re not forbidden from entering. 2021-04-12 12:03:27 @smithsam @NHSX that’s not really true, because a manual sign in option has to be provided by law. 2021-04-12 11:49:12 @podehaye I don't think fundamental rights are well-governed through contract-based App Store choke points. But I would also like the E/W government to publish the protocol for their venue upload proposal for scrutiny, which they have not. 2021-04-12 10:34:31 See e.g. para 3.3. in Apple's Exposure Notification addendum. https://t.co/M7zkFMNUZn https://t.co/sfYChlAqXH 2021-04-12 10:33:36 Apple and Google block update to England/Wales COVID app because its integrated QR code checkin system is being updated to include venue upload — they consider this location data, which they forbid in concert w separate GAEN Bluetooth API in the same app. https://t.co/9w8m0YHECm 2021-04-12 08:29:26 In our study scraping UK sites, only 3/165 sites we found using OneTrust cookie banners from their consent management platform were configured in *minimal* compliance with UK and EU law based on their interface alone. https://t.co/tsvMVoN7uk https://t.co/m3HOwWIbBb https://t.co/q07JQZJmOt 2021-04-12 08:17:58 @alexhern oh wait, no. interestingly it does work on firefox for iphone which is just a skinned webkit that apple forces it to use. 2001-01-01 01:01:01