In this excellent radio show today, whose topic could hardly be more relevant to terrorism and counter-terrorism, I give my views on online dangers and lack of controls/ real world competition for online extremism. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Tomorrow (30 April, 4pm) we will continue our inquiry into UK-EU data adequacy with a session focusing on law enforcement.

We will hear from Dr Nora Ni Loideain (Dr Nora Ni Loideain) and Martin Kelly (former Home Office official).

📺Watch live: committees.parliament.uk/event/21067/fo…

How does the UK approach to data processing for law enforcement purposes in light of post-Brexit developments?
Organised by Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society with Franziska Boehm FIZ Karlsruhe, Eleni Kosta, Herke Kranenborg European Commission, Dr Nora Ni Loideain IALS, U. of London, Ruben Roex
#CPDPai2024

Confirmed: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram face sweeping fines after the European Commission opened probes on Tuesday into their handling of disinformation from Russia and other foreign countries.

politico.eu/article/facebo…

This good news. Today, the European Commission designated Apple with respect to iPadOS as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”). Apple now has six months to ensure full compliance of iPadOS with the DMA obligations. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

Central London YMCA has been fined £7,500 by @iconews for revealing the HIV status of 166 people by using cc rather than bcc in a group e-mail 😱 Which works out at £45.18 per person who might suffer lifelong stigma as a result. WTF? linkedin.com/posts/jon-bain…

Organised by Cybersecurity and Privacy at Georgia Tech
With Christopher Docksey EDPS, Theodore CHRISTAKIS Université Grenoble Alpes, Laura Drechsler VUB, Dr Nora Ni Loideain University of London, Peter Swire
#CPDPai2024 #CPDPconferences #CPDP2024

This is the beginning of a great line of works together with Arm as part of my Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council fellowship to make confidential computing with CCA more accessible to researchers. Let us know about the features you’d need in the next few years!

In case of interest InfoLawCentre@IALS, Future of Privacy Forum, Inforrm, noyb, NADPO_Official. Privacy International, Privacy Laws & Business, Graham Greenleaf, Dr Nora Ni Loideain, Prof Paul Bernal, Steve Peers Robert Bateman, Vincent Manancourt, Michael Veale @[email protected], Gavin Freeguard, Johnny Ryan twitter.com/DavidErdos/sta…

Honoured to have presented this paper in Melbourne Monash Data Futures Institute

Huge thanks again to @chrismarsden.bsky.social for being a great chair and the audience for an excellent Q&A.

Video below for those interested in the EU AI Act and Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments:
youtube.com/watch?v=eWpKu5…

Honoured to have presented this paper in Melbourne Monash Data Futures Institute

Huge thanks again to @chrismarsden.bsky.social for being a great chair and the audience for an excellent Q&A.

Video below for those interested in the EU AI Act and Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments:
youtube.com/watch?v=eWpKu5…

CJEU rules the proprietary harmonised standards on, e.g., the AI Act, must be made freely available without charge pursuant to a request to access to documents, as they form part of EU law and consequently always overriding public interest in disclosure. curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Common sense wins. 'free access must in particular enable any person whom legislation seeks to protect to verify, within the limits permitted by law, that the persons to whom the rules laid down by that law are addressed actually comply with those rules'

The Mistral-Microsoft partnership is having a political fallout: Green MEPs sent the Commission a letter raising questions on possible conflicts of interests and transparency issues about Mistral's lobbying on the #AIAct . A 🧵1/10

New week, new lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. This time it's The Intercept, Raw Story, and Alternet. Two separate complaints, same background (complaints courtesy of Edward Lee) drive.google.com/file/d/10cke06…

Are you trying to:

* change data collection
* stop or modify data uses
* get communities involved in data governance
* get community-generated data recognised

If so, join our UK peer community!

Applications due 11th March, £3k stipend + expert support.

connectedbydata.org/projects/2023-…

Extract from last night's interview - earlier part concerned the dark web

Under Elon Musk, X is denying API access to academics who study misinformation fastcompany.com/91040397/under…

A summary of my recent article in Gender, Work & Organization - how to create long-term change by breaking down gender biases in entrepreneurship and facilitating broader entrepreneurial practices. jbs.cam.ac.uk/2024/how-to-ch…