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THE GUARDIAN: Delays in AI regulation raise alarms as UK government opts for a sweeping bill, risking oversight and the rights of creators in an increasingly volatile tech landscape. - by Eleni Courea and Kiran Stacey

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For data subjects considering complaints to the ICO, or for controllers faced with such complaints, you might want to know there is a current 16-week wait just to get allocated to a caseworker. A tub-thumping post by me on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/jon-ba...

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Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead. Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit... well, risky.

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Roll up! Roll up! Registration is now open for the Symposium on "Generative #AI: Exploring Regulatory Opportunities, Challenges and Dilemmas" hosted by ‪@tcddublin.bsky.social‬ Law School in ‪@tlrhub.bsky.social‬ on Wednesday 18 June next eventbrite.ie/e/generative... #RegulatingAI

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"It's not really about the girl, it's not really about abuse. It's not really about a sense of what the victims are going through, that is a pretext." Why anti-migrant riots in Northern Ireland are the result of online radicalisation and racism

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"It’s primary school where the child is diminished, and I think that's really dangerous." Jamie Oliver, recently diagnosed with dyslexia, is taking on the fight to reform one-size-fits-all schooling for the 25% of children with special educational needs

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When a picture really is worth a 1,000 words

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If this leak is correct, GPT 4.1 in its system prompt has to be explicitly told to ignore its physiognomic tendencies and not to analyse or conclude anything from people's facial structures... cc @abeba.bsky.social github.com/guy915/LLM-S...

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Today, the Data Protection Commission found that the Department of Employment and Social Protection (DEASP)'s collection of facial records for the Public Services Card was unlawful. This means that the DEASP unlawfully collected biometric data from 70% of Ireland's population over 15 years (1)

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BREAKING: California Sen. Alex Padilla was detained and handcuffed during an altercation at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference.

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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I guess no BBQ’ing tonight

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Also, the 5G icon on your phone is lying to you, with London being a particularly bad case of it due to our decaying network. www.londoncentric.media/p/real-5g-co...

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The DPC has found that the state's processing of 3+Million people's biometric data as part of the Public Service Card project was illegal under the GDPR. www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-medi...

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I am not an expert on Brazilian law but this seems to be a potentially massive legal precedent? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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a government that attacks its own cities, weaponizes public agencies, represses the press and protest and education and research and health, detains and deports residents without due process, ignores court orders - that’s a govt that has lost its democratic legitimacy.

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‘A DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) … notes that the data impacts both US and non-US persons, meaning it does include information on US citizens’

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Taking ten months shared parental leave was one of the best things I've ever done. Sadly it's only big corporates that will pay for leave, as a way of retaining professional workers. I've got so many sad DMs from dads in low paid jobs who couldn't make the money work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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"In my 12 years as a legal aid lawyer ... my clients wrongfully lost Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, or Social Security benefits due to AI. People got terminated when AI sent out incoherent paperwork" –@kevindeliban.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/austerity-in...

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A reminder that the UK SC decision on trans rights is also at odds with the EU's caselaw on data protection. The risks of the UK's recreational unplesantness to the Money in the City of London are real and utterly invisible to those pushing it.

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Our new report on the governance of biometric technologies in the UK covered by @financialtimes.com ⬇️ www.ft.com/content/09ce... (£)

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‘An eye on the future’: new report from @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social on the governance of #biometric technologies in the UK

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Local Planning Authorities who are responsible for securing developer contributions through Section 106 agreement are facing staff shortages and a gap in skills compared to large developers who often have specialist negotiators. Important new @nao.org.uk report www.nao.org.uk/reports/impr...

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Highly unlikely to happen but it will still be fascinating to see the findings in the European Commission’s adequacy assessments of the UK under the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive, particularly on encryption and counter-terrorism powers.

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Court denies Apple’s request to pause ruling on App Store payment fees

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or do! adds an extra really clear layer of filtering for me to not get back to you or consider admitting you!

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www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/le...

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“On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.” Well, that’s… useless. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

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The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration. My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

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When @bradtakei.bsky.social and I first got together, we never imagined we’d one day celebrate Pride openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨

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EU Commission proposes that EU conclude (ie ratify) Council of Europe treaty on artificial intelligence - ec.europa.eu/transparency...

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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Happy Pride Month! 🎉 This month, and every month, we stand with our LGBTQ+ colleagues, friends and acquaintances. There is still a lot of work to be done to ensure LGBTQ+ people are safe in their communities, but we hope that we can help them build safety on the open social web. #LGBTQ #PrideMonth

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Washington state just became the eighth U.S. state to pass a right to repair law, making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech! One of the few areas where U.S. consumer rights are headed in the right direction.

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CALL FOR PAPERS📢 We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the ILPC Annual Conference 2025 - Regulating AI in a Changing World: Oversight and Enforcement Deadline for Abstract: 30 June 2025 @nniloideain.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social Submission details👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/events/ilpc-...

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@guardian reports that plans for permanent Live Facial Recognition are promised for Croydon in London this summer. But the UK still lacks a clear legislative framework and independent oversight of these powerful tracking systems. This raises clear risks of legal uncertainty and misuse by police.

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"Emerging Patterns in EU Digital Regulation" Organised by CPDP with Nóra Ni Loideain (moderator), Karolina Mojzesowicz, Anu Talus, @spielkamp.bsky.social, Maximilian von Grafenstein, Charly Helleputte More information: cpdp.be/6339 #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP.ai

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Text of the EU/UK reset - common understanding Some first thoughts 1/ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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One of the hard lines on facial recognition technology in the U.S. has been using it to do live searches on real-time cameras. The Washington Post reports that's been happening in New Orleans, however, by a police-adjacent nonprofit called PROJECT NOLA. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Lots of good stuff coming out of the UK-EU summit. I’m just about to go onto GB News - so let’s see how that goes!

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First thoughts on the UK-EU Common Understanding tl;dr a big pile of work, reasonably balanced, but not without issues ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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It is little discussed that this is what the EU AI Act does too to Member States - its main reason for existence even -although it provides a framework for regulation, despite it being weak, majorly flawed and misguided.

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The top economics journal in the world nearly published an article that, to all appearances, is 100% bullshit. It claimed that AI accelerates scientific discovery. An MIT PhD student appears to have used generative AI to fabricate the whole thing, data and all.

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In its judgment, the BE Market Court confirms the infringements and sanctions imposed by the BE DPA. The Court also ruled that the TC String is personal data within the GDPR and that IAB Europe acts as a joint controller for the processing of user preferences within the TCF.

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In 49 states and at the federal level, police can (unconstitutionally) buy your geolocation data (often harvested from smartphone apps) from advertising data brokers and bypass getting a warrant from a judge for it. Montana has become the first state to close this loophole.

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