robertjbateman.bsky.social
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Please nnnno stop
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You are giving them far too much credit.
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Isn't that the point?
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I think that's just the handle of the person/company that owns the rights.
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One of several "read later" apps into which I piled hundreds of links that I never "read later".
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epic.org/wp-content/u...
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Globe-straddling yet cuddly. A truly awful look.
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Confirmed. My (MANUAL) dash-measurement process reveals that this is an en-dash.
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Practically? Just modify the terms and go right ahead. Ethically? I don't know.
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"Isn't that chapter about the Library of Congress a little on-the-nose?"
bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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I have never regretted judging a book by its cover. I found a lot of amazing novels that way. And disregarded a bunch of terrible ones (I assume).
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The EU AI Act has a bunch of stuff that is basically about writing and reading the manual. There could be some interesting cases arising out of those bits.
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California is particularly bad for particularising its laws into oblivion.
A business can spend more time and money trying to prostrate itself into one of a law's hundreds of exemptions than it would have spent actually complying with the thing.
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(In seriousness I'd probably suggest documented, mandatory training for anyone who goes near the thing)
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I think we need a definition of "know". And "how". And "to interpret". Another few pages/months won't hurt.
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bsky.app/profile/robe...
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There was an error in the original, here's a corrected version. I left a stray "facilitate" in (e)(1) which has been updated to "replace".
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Damn I think that's my mistake. I might have left some of the old language in there.
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I hope I'm not being naive but right now I genuinely feel like I'm in a flourishing industry.
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Oh you like clarity? Here's 120 pages of it!
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"Automated decisionmaking technology does not include... calculators... provided that they do not replace human decisionmaking."
There go a few hilarious calculator-based lawsuits. Just kidding—some firm will try. Back to abacuses just in case, I guess.
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These regs are comically late and appear to have been lobbied into the legal equivalent of a whale carcass—a big, unsightly problem that only well-equipped specialists should approach.
AI regulation has so far been inelegant and confusing—but I guess that might compensate for some jobs lost to AI
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Thank you. IAPP doesn't quote the bit I want so I guess I have to watch the video.
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Thank you. I don't *think* this what I'm looking for but it might be buried in that Solove webinar. I could watch the Solove video but I want to put off filling out his lead generation form for now.
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It appears @maxschrems.bsky.social is on Bluesky and follows me, but I was rude enough not to follow back.
Max did you say this or am I misrepresenting you? I only wish to mention this supposed remark in a talk I'm giving about how awful Donald Trump is.
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Wasn't there a proposal to raise the top tier of fines for larger controllers?
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The flexibility, of course, relates to the scope and risk of data processing activities rather than some arbitrary threshold involving the number of employees.
That's the right way to apply principles-based human rights protections.
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Unfortunately the battle against big tech sometimes seems to take priority against meaningful data protection.
Those of us working in the field know that the GDPR is (mostly) flexible and scalable by nature.
These proposals seem unlikely to help anybody, least of all data subjects.
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Agreed.
Also, in general, let's just rinse them ;)
Or alternatively take the UK's (possible) approach.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am tempted to suggest that *you* are trying to have it both ways... But I guess your position is predicated on the fact that consent-or-pay is happening...?
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107 pages! Maybe they should have kept it secret...
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Indeed. I prefer a more open system of justice.