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"Flooding the zone" - now that we have a word for it, this is how it felt the European Commission did with the legislative proposals of the Data Strategy package in the past 4-5 years. With one of the results being … 1/

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What an honor to hear Mireille Hildebrandt live, keynoting, during the Opening Night at #CPDP25 She recalls on how back in 2009 at the same conference together w A. Rouvroy they organized a philosophers’ seminar on IBM’s concept of “autonomic computing”.

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"Data is the new weapon". I am late to @camkerry.bsky.social's excellent summary of transatlantic privacy cooperation and data transfers in our new world order. (H/T @gzf.bsky.social) iapp.org/news/a/data-...

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A small miracle happened today in Romania, with extraordinary turnout as the backdrop (the biggest since mid-‘90s) 💙 Congratulations, Nicusor Dan! And thank you to all Romanians who showed up to vote in enormous numbers. www.politico.eu/article/roma...

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NEW: Amazing scenes in Bucharest, Romania tonight. Tens of thousands on the streets of the capital pledging their support to Europe and their opposition to Russia, ahead of elections next week. (🎥 Daractenus)

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Second class citizens, all the time. It gets tiring at one point. (RO was only part of this program for 2 months, & never effectively, after meeting all the technical criteria. But being treated like this is not a novelty. Schengen treated us as 2nd class for too long) www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05....

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Miriam Wimmer (Brazilian ANPD, the Data Protection Authority) is giving a masterclass at the Joel Reidenberg lecture (@Fordham Law) on data protection law and its global vocation as applied to emerging technologies, starting from 2 concrete cases re: training LLMs & buying iris scans w crypto.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

“The Legend of Ochi” is an anachronistic film in the way that Hollywood could use more of: one in which the monsters are handmade, not digital creations. David Sims writes:

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Next week I’ll be in DC for IAPP Summit #GPS25, moderating a panel about crossregulatory cooperation (otherwise known as making sense of all the digital laws, everywhere, all the time, coherently). With Brando Benifei, MEP of the AI Act fame, John Edwards (ICO) & Louisa Specht (Federal German DPA)

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NEWS: CPPA announces 8 state regulators form consortium to collaborate on privacy issues, "including facilitating discussions of privacy law developments and shared priorities, with a focus on consumer protection across jurisdictions." cppa.ca.gov/announcement...

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Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety: 🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins 🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage 📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active

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Is anyone aware of any other effort in Europe to have a social media platform, like Idka some years ago? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idka

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The Golden Frozen Age? 🤔

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The Golden Age? “The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the golden age”...” tv.apple.com/us/movie/tal...

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Watching North of North on Netflix, and it’s like chicken soup for the mind and heart during these insane days. #NorthOfNorth #Netflix #Chill 🎥 🇨🇦

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The Trump administration has signaled it plans to pressure global leaders to pull back regulations on the US tech sector, and that the issue could be a bargaining chip in ongoing tariff negotiations, Cristiano Lima-Strong reports.

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As Ukraine continues to interrogate two Chinese citizens that its forces captured earlier this week, Kyiv said it has identified even more Chinese men fighting for Russia.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The principle of purpose limitation in data protection law.

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The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has confirmed it will hear Liberty, Privacy International and two individuals’ challenge to the legality of the Home Secretary’s decision to use her powers to secretly force Apple to allegedly give the UK Government access to users’ secured data stored on iCloud.

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NEW: The EU is launching an attempt to make its artificial intelligence rulebook digestible for the industry. In a new plan, to be presented on Wednesday, it says it's open to "minimize" compliance burden. Also in the plan: compute power, data, skills, AI uptake. pro.politico.eu/news/196738

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The EU Commission’s decision to drop the Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive, despite its obvious importance for consumer protection, looks less like a technical decision, and more like a political concession.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Conseil d’État apparently thinks social media shut downs are good and proper if just time-limited 🙃

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I’ll testify at this hearing on AI and competition tomorrow at 10am in a House Judiciary Subcommittee. Commissioner Slaughter will accompany me to the hearing. I plan to discuss the need for a worker privacy law.

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"The Privacy Act Modernization Act would update 1974 legislation for the modern age, restricting government use of personal data and introducing new penalties, including prison time, for violators." www.wired.com/story/democr...

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EU Big Tech Law Annual report from the EU Commission on its implementation of the Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/transparency...

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The French Data Protection Authority is hosting an academic event on the economic impact of the GDPR. 20 May 2025, Paris. www.cnil.fr/en/attend-ac...

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@politico.com’s new “California Decoded” newsletter, which focuses on “how the Golden State is defining tech policy within its borders and beyond,” is in preview at the moment and looks really good: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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US District court halts the destruction of Radio Free Europe about.rferl.org/article/us-d...

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