2025-04-02 23:31:52 Interesting recommendation from the Australian Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee — use an annual public sector census to ask about generative AI use. If well designed these questions could be extremely useful. Do many other countries run similar censuses? https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/committees/reportjnt/RB000...

2025-03-18 13:26:25 privacy has become cynically instrumentalised in recent years. lucy qin thinks it can be reclaimed (me too) and is co-running a cool workshop (ReCAP) in NYC (and truly hybrid with proper thoughtful virtual side) that you can submit to til April 10 and attend 3–4 June https://recapworkshop.online/

2025-02-10 13:31:12 Now hiring in law &

2025-02-10 07:57:47 Civil society inclusion in exclusive-by-design European AI standardisation going well! The '

2025-02-09 10:56:17 Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving.Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee and others, ‘The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers’ (ACM CHI 2025). https://advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

2025-02-06 16:40:04 @Elias commission guidance

2025-02-06 11:28:18 Didn'

2025-02-06 09:30:19 AG Szpunar issues opinion on interplay of data protection and intermediary liability in the content of adverts today: press release (pending full text) indicates he aligns technical/neutral shielded intermediary w/ GDPR processor — keen to see if he details boundaries https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_4779183/en/

2025-02-05 12:29:45 letting ofcom know i do not plan to conduct such an assessment for my similarly positioned self hosted etherpad instance. martyr me. https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/113951252033572120

2025-02-05 09:56:44 @LornaWoods in the consent-or-pay system the '

2025-02-05 09:18:49 @LornaWoods How do you think this interacts with the ICO‘s emerging support for ‘consent or pay’ — children’s consent is hardly freely given if they have to pay… ICO draft guidance is very confused on this issue. Great policy if we end up in kids not being able to read reliable news…

2025-02-05 08:08:37 AI Act reminder: the pending GPAI Code of Practice does not grant a rebuttable presumption of conformity, unlike harmonised standards. No legally relevant difference for general purpose AI model providers using it vs applying the legal text.Rich GPAI providers will ignore it if they choose.

2025-02-04 13:55:54 @galoisghost @Zerush an incredibly small number of systems fall into the prohibited cases, and those categories themselves have wide exceptions. so no, i don'

2025-02-03 07:42:56 on one hand it’s ridiculous that the commission is not meeting their obligations to produce EU AI Act guidance before the measures are in force (although it’s a pledge not a legal duty in terms of the timeline)on the other hand, none of the enforcement mechanisms have come into force for the AI Act that could pay attention to these guidelines and especially without them (and even with them) such guidelines lack legal effect

2025-02-02 18:11:19 “Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads” - a very interesting hands-on blog post about contemporary location data flows and sales https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/

2025-02-02 17:33:24 @Chronotope i got an ‘orange pi 5’ a while back and it’s pretty great and very powerful, it was cheaper as it was just released so i think was a big discount

2025-02-02 08:32:00 Some prohibitions add little to existing law. Private sector ones may be difficult to enforce if they rely on existing product regulators — market surveillance authorities have never done this kind of thing before. Public sector ones - judicial review might be speedier, but country dependent.However the creation of the regulators is not commenced yet in the law… so for now the practical enforceability of much of this section is highly unclear.

2025-02-02 08:31:42 - non-medical/safety emotional inference ai in education or at work- systems that categorise people based on categories of sensitive data based on biometrics except in law enforcement- a authorisation regime for real-time biometric recognition systems disguised as a prohibition

2025-02-02 08:30:52 From today, the prohibited practices/AI systems in the AI Act #aiact #euaiact enter force. It becomes illegal to use or market, broadly (and loosely):- intentionally v manipulative systems likely to cause someone harm- social scoring that leads to disproportionate consequences/consequences in an unrelated sector- personality profiling for criminal act prediction (not decision support based on ‘objective and verifiable facts’)- internet/cctv face scraping systems

2025-02-02 08:03:59 questionable infrastructure for technology of questionable application value made compatible with urgent environmental requirements by more unproven technology. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-ai-deepseek-chatgpt-john-...

2025-02-01 10:15:46 NYT writes how flagship AI ‘agent’ cannot even buy on Amazon or book haircut without rescuing from ‘loop of failed attempts’ … yet still ‘points to a future of powerful AI agents’Perhaps it points to the classic automated car issue: simplify the Web as the tech is failing with the complexity.

2025-02-01 09:40:32 Another article which does not properly distinguish between open source models (guardrails scientifically very hard to make robust) and the API as a service (model is in a moderation software stack). Notes that Llama 3.1 failed in almost the same way as DeepSeek. What is the actual threat vector? https://www.wired.com/story/deepseeks-ai-jailbreak-prompt-injection-atta...

2025-01-31 13:06:04 A quirky technology-specific law provision you sometimes run into in the real world: try to log into Starbucks wifi and it reminds you you should not watch live UK TV if your device is plugged into the mains. This is (of course) a ref to Schedule 1 of The Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004 which allows your home TV license to be valid everywhere you are but only if the device is powered by its own '

2025-01-30 11:57:16 We suggest that, on the one hand, workers should have a practical right to be supported to seperate work and private data (which may have obligations on employers to provide such systems, and platforms to enable such functions)

2025-01-30 11:49:59 Work and private data are more enmeshed than ever: both in the cloud &

2025-01-29 17:02:40 Data centres do not create nearly as many jobs as are projected. The vast majority are transient in construction or fictitious indirect ones simply not backed up by experience/fact. (in this case multipliers come from the impartial sounding '

2025-01-25 19:55:49 @waldoj unprivacy event…

2025-01-25 19:52:48 Wow, @pixelfed gets mentioned in Private Eye, maybe they should get on fedi…

2025-01-25 11:09:54 Trump lets down the Rust belt already.

2025-01-23 18:16:37 f it does not disclose it is a bot while communicating, it may be breaking the law in California. Cal. Bus. &

2025-01-23 18:09:44 OpenAI'

2025-01-23 14:36:10 New High Court ruling on data protection &

2025-01-22 22:16:12 european commission is going to struggle to justify data transfers to the US as the limited SIGINT oversight it has unravels, as it is starting to. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-privacy-civil-liberties-over...

2025-01-22 12:51:02 Interesting new tactic by ticket inspectors on a GWR train today when confronting someone who bought a child ticket to check their age who says they have no ID — asking them to open Apple'

2025-01-20 07:42:53 EU AI Office presents proposal for general purpose model training data summary template. For scraped data, nothing more detailed than top 5-10% of domain names (not URLs). Given platforms (same domain) &

2025-01-17 08:44:25 Code of conduct on illegal hate speech likely to be the first DSA code, Contexte say it is landing imminently, potentially with a pledge for a majority of takedowns to occur within 24 hours. https://www.contexte.com/actualite/medias/info-contexte-le-code-europeen...

2025-01-16 22:34:33 @mox Decentralisation and privacy has a complex relationship and many degrees, directions and trade offs - a great read on it is https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08065

2025-01-16 21:49:50 @drdrmc are many of the ones deployed today device bound? i have a few in my password manager but haven’t noticed if so

2025-01-16 17:49:15 Incredible story about early Theranos investor Walgreens blowing $200m by replacing thousands of their fridge doors with ‘smart’ screens which would all turn off at once or occasionally combust while they were being DDoSed and sued by their vendor who was trying to use the fridge door cameras to spot which were broken when they were opened and had a view of their neighbours, all while managing to earn only 59 cents per door per day in advertising revenue https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-16/walgreens-fridge-figh...

2025-01-16 17:34:22 @tobkubis that’s not allowed in OSCOLA referencing, maybe in the new version but seems unlikely

2025-01-16 16:37:20 After the change to the Official Journal of the European Union to omit page numbers, do we just end all new references with OJ L? Feels incomplete...

2025-01-14 12:06:05 Unclear from this document whether the proposed prohibition on ransomware payments would apply to UK universities, which are always odd entities as they are sometimes considered public bodies by the law, sometimes not. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/ransomware-proposals-to-incr...

2025-01-13 18:22:38 if the FB Oversight Board don'

2025-01-12 21:41:16 The Irish DPC has fined firms €3.3bn under data protection law since 2018. However, only €20m has been collected — all else is still ebbing through court challenge. https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/meta-launches-legal-action-...

2025-01-11 19:24:47 @atomicpoet looks like the browsing bot not the scraping bot - which entries do you have in your robots txt and do you put your server behind cloudflare?

2025-01-10 12:55:45 @jamiemccarthy would be good but meta is basically their own ISP at this point!

2025-01-10 10:02:38 Uh oh, Meta weren’t just downloading Libgen to train LLAMA, they were seeding it, and Zuckerberg both knew and approved… https://www.wired.com/story/new-documents-unredacted-meta-copyright-ai-l... @kateknibbs

2025-01-09 23:15:52 Real time bidding and the tracking infrastructure is so toxic &

2025-01-08 09:39:05 Note that this means that a request for a proprietary harmonised standard under the @carlmalamud C-588/21 P Public.Resource.Org decision, such as for AI Act standards, cannot be made by an non-EU citizen outside the EU unless you have a legal entity inside the EU.

2025-01-08 09:32:55 The universal address demand (even before rule change) has long been found to be maladministration by the European Ombudsman, appearing to be designed to limit civic tech site asktheeu.org, but the EC chose to reject and ignore this (non-binding) finding. https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/de/decision/en/87636

2025-01-08 09:31:40 FOIA peeps: the Commission claims to have changed its rules of procedure in Dec 2024 for its access to documents regime to exclude non-EU citizens/residents, which means they are doubling down on asking for address and if not a resident, identity documents. See https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/all_responses_to_the_consultatio#inc...

2025-01-07 13:17:04 RT @stokel: Moving the burned-out remains of what little trust and safety they intend to retain out of California and into Texas is the mos…

2025-01-04 17:25:13 Tim Apple kisses the ring. https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-i...

2025-01-04 17:11:26 @drdrmc i’m sure redmond is lovely this time of year but…

2025-01-04 17:08:11 Ohio amends its public records/FOI law to allow police to charge for releasing body cam/video footage, joining Indiana and Arizona. 75$-750$ per video — hardly cash that overpoliced groups typically have to spare. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/03/police-body-camera-footage-ohio/

2025-01-04 15:48:42 RT @zsk: One day I will write something about why people no longer use headphones in public. My theory is connected to the demise of the he…

2025-01-04 02:39:04 what lunatic designed the microsoft teams app to send a push notification at 0215 Saturday morning saying ‘Check out this [Power BI] report frequently viewed by your colleagues’ and when is the warrant being issued by the Hague.

2025-01-03 19:38:47 Nothing more poetic for Meta than a combo of no-one having paid enough attention to their platforms for a year to even notice they launched something manically, absurdly gross, yet can’t even avail itself of an ‘AI is improving’ defence as it is actually the result of poorly considered human labour. https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-ter...

2025-01-03 16:01:59 it is usually perfectly normal for constitutional courts to hear about precedents from other jurisdictions, the problem here is that the US Supreme Court has humiliated itself and now looks absurd internationally. https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250103011400320

2025-01-03 14:47:17 on meta’s bots, they all want to DM you, maybe become part of your intimate chats, that’s amongst the most difficult data for AI systems to get, seeing how people react these days, explore and exploit — it comes with human labour cost. journos should ask if DMs are defaulted out as training data.

2025-01-03 12:38:05 @j_s_j what you can do with your connected world different depending on whether you eg have an apple or an android device. networks are everywhere but they choose who they talk to. lots of reasons behind that but it’s the primarily frontier of packet discrimination these days

2025-01-03 09:25:00 End of the FCC net neutrality back and forth as Loper Bright comes to roost. ISPs hail the end of the ‘government’s unwarranted internet takeover’. Give me a break. If and when it comes, the next generation of net neutrality needs device neutrality at its core too.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/technology/net-neutrality-rules-fcc.h...

2025-01-02 22:11:05 Nick Clegg‘s departure from Meta almost like a changing of the guards from a European lobbying focus to a US one. https://www.semafor.com/article/01/02/2025/meta-will-appoint-joel-kaplan...

2025-01-02 16:33:05 @gcluley all that cookie swapping is reminding me of BT and Phorm…

2025-01-02 16:30:31 @davidnjoku you can read about it here https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526105479/9781526105479.00025...

2025-01-02 16:21:41 it'

2025-01-02 16:11:01 Massive misselling at influencer-peddled, PayPal co '

2024-12-30 11:29:57 @openvibe I think when you post to Bluesky, URLs are counted with every character, but in the Bluesky app the amount they contribute is capped. it means you can’t post a message with a long URL in Openvibe but you can in the native app.

2024-12-30 11:20:18 on AI and ransomware - CNBC has commentary that it’s a bit overblown because it’s the simplest social engineering that is often the most successful. i agree! but the question is how simple AI helps social engineering scale, not how complex AI attacks outthink and outwit people. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/30/ransomware-35-years-on-history-behind-ha...

2024-12-29 11:38:58 AI companies are broadly aspiring middlemen. They dream of a world where every significant act of computing goes, in some way, through them. That has huge implications for expression, surveillance, security, autonomy, sovereignty, privacy — so much more than some runaway AI safety fantasy.

2024-12-29 11:35:51 Microsoft’s OpenAI exclusivity ends when OpenAI declares ‘AGI’ is reached. Now we see the true mechanism! Forget definitional quibbles or benchmarks (they only matter when lobbying regulation) — intelligence is just about your revenue!AI isn’t intelligence — it’s a dream of platform dominance.

2024-12-27 23:12:22 @BM_Bourguignon these were french hackers, or at least aiming at french targets, so not so weird?

2024-12-27 12:54:19 New R package for the Meta Ad Library, metatargetr from @favstats https://favstats.github.io/metatargetr/ - also retrieves historical data.

2024-12-26 16:00:55 Hewlett Packard report that they are spotting AI-generated malware in the wild, not through complex analysis or watermarking, but because… it is weirdly well-commented. https://threatresearch.ext.hp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HP_Wolf_Sec...

2024-12-24 11:54:32 @mrchrisadams https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/SU-EATABLE_LIFE_a_comprehensive_da... described in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-021-00909-8

2024-12-24 08:26:16 @neil @tjmcintyre Reading the report - I missed the link when it was late the first time I posted. You’re very right, it’s far less straightforward and also reported badly by the Guardian.

2024-12-24 00:18:23 As @tjmcintyre (of Digital Rights Ireland CJEU notoriety) observes, the PSNI applied for 500 lawyers’ phone records over the last 14 years — but only 3,000 lawyers practice in Northern Ireland. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/23/journalists-who-were-unl...

2024-12-23 20:07:53 Nice tip from @1br0wn - iOS app @openvibe allows you to post simultaneously to Fedi and Bluesky, dynamically change the tags per network, as well as view a combined feed from both networks. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/openvibe-open-social-app/id1666230916

2024-12-23 08:08:09 @anandamide yeah, same with AI safety people, they’re also so desperate to be heroes of their own story they’re writing one

2024-12-20 12:38:58 @uriel238 @pivot_root Not all TOS violations are relevant at all the CFAA, and very few are after the significant narrowing of the CFAA by the Supreme Court in 2021 in Van Buren v United States.

2024-12-19 12:23:36 @Frederik_Borgesius @whvholst Some of the adverts do target website owners rather than consumers, which is a better approach imo, not the one frederik posted

2024-12-16 23:35:22 perplexity’s got $1m to burn on a trump bribe but nothing to compensate the servers they’re pounding while ignoring robots.txt and lying about their ip address range https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-13/openai-ceo-perplexity...

2024-12-16 21:03:06 @agreenberg i don’t think that’s sarah’s account (:

2024-12-16 10:34:55 @mrchrisadams yup, these are all over london too, my faculty is full of them

2024-12-15 08:51:30 doesn’t even register as a URL in Ivory haha

2024-12-15 08:51:11 i’m sure it’s worth it just so destination.monash can redirect to your study homepage lol

2024-12-15 08:48:27 The only university with a top level domain name I am aware of is Monash U, which has .monash. Did they really pay $185,000 plus $25,000 a year… not to use it? How? Why? https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/monash/monash-agm...

2024-12-13 12:59:51 @serichards esim more secure in this situation.

2024-12-13 10:07:28 Ridiculous this article does not recommend applying a SIM PIN as a crucial phone protection — phone theieves swap SIMs to a new phone and use them to access poorly 2FA-by-text protected accounts. Turn off notification content if your phone is locked, and set a SIM PIN. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8y70pvz92o

2024-12-13 08:55:43 @SammieT26 @PicturesFoIder i’m disagreeing with ‘most’, not the exception. i’ve almost never seen midnight deadlines for the reason i have.

2024-12-12 17:13:00 @SammieT26 @PicturesFoIder universities very often put due time at 5pm as staff are still there to help with technical issues if they arise

2024-12-09 13:57:45 occasionally i think about how american law schools count (generally/often) non peer-reviewed student-run journal articles for tenure (non blinded, submit your cv) yet don'

2024-12-09 03:04:27 Sydney’s academic integrity rules presumably don’t allow contract cheating in coursework even though the detection of contract cheating is going to be imperfect. In a job, you delegate things to people to do things for you, doesn’t mean that’s okay in assessment. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-uni-students-allowed-to-use-a...

2024-12-06 14:22:50 this DC cafe sign on every single table seems well-meaning and welcoming but somehow uniquely baffling and incomprehensible

2024-12-05 13:48:17 @404mediaco creating constant risk of needing to rewrite parts of book with @rg

2024-12-03 15:00:47 Big developments happening at the intersection of private data and public developments — regulating from the commercial side rather than the intelligence supervision side. Reminiscent of the way the CJEU has gone after telco data retention... https://www.404media.co/ftc-bans-location-data-company-that-powers-the-s...

2024-12-01 19:20:38 @DeliaChristina it’s just the app lacks it for some reason, there’s a whole api for it built into all servers

2024-11-30 09:31:25 that’s it, i’m never using netscape navigator again

2024-11-27 08:07:01 Another art on age assurance tech acting as if functional, precise, non racially biased approaches exist, with no interviews with the many experts whose studies indicate the contrary www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/26/tiktok-to-block-teenagers-fro...

2024-11-26 15:30:40 @bekopharm wasn’t on chrome lol https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dont-f-with-paste/nkgllhigpcljn...

2024-11-26 12:03:40 @ErikvanStraten I do use a password manager and have for many years. There are websites which don'

2024-11-26 11:08:40 @neopostmodern searching for it is actually like an incantation, very important part of the process

2024-11-26 10:34:03 Extremely valuable plug-in.

2024-11-25 20:45:18 @Klangable the first english legal case trying to prosecute someone for hacking unsuccessfully tried the theory that it was a crime of ‘passing off’ a password to a machine (R v Gold &

2024-11-23 09:38:39 Swiss church creates virtual ‘AI Jesus’ talking booth, says 2/3 visiting have a spiritual experience. eJesus starts off each time: "

2024-11-23 09:31:28 Very nice post on the right to an effective remedy in art 47 of the Charter and how expansive it can be in @verfassungsblog https://verfassungsblog.de/why-the-eu-charter-matters/

2024-11-23 09:14:18 @mmin @tkinias it might not support Protected EAP for authentication

2024-11-23 00:12:38 if you think that eduroam never works anywhere you go, consider the fact it might be the authentication server at your own university being shite

2024-11-22 00:33:01 “LLM Siri” is going to be hilarious, Apple’s sociopathic need for design control meets stochastic unpredictability and jailbreaking leading to news cycle they can’t control. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-21/apple-readies-more-co...

2024-11-20 10:36:01 Lords Second Reading of the Data (Access and Use) Bill: B Kidron asks importantly: “why proposals that they did not support in opposition have been included and amendments that they did support have been left out.” https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2024-11-19/debates/6B196F71-312C-495...(UseAndAccess)Bill(HL)

2024-11-20 09:11:52 Delicious chaos as another DAO found to be an inadvertent general partnership in CA https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-decentralized-autonomous-organizations-a... nature of that kind of chaos (in England &

2024-11-20 08:36:52 @webmink proprietary standards from the ESOs, no? (unless you want to try your hand with an access to information request and push the case law)

2024-11-20 07:44:58 Useful reminder in this long read on Meta and LLaMA that its ‘open source’ play is about creating a platform, reflecting its insecurity around gatekeepers Chrome, Safari, Play &

2024-11-20 07:34:04 Foursquare - perhaps surprisingly - release a large proportion of their geospatial place data (eg business and other Points of Interest), hoping it seems to challenge Google Maps’ proprietary data layer. https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-... (via @mrchrisadams)

2024-11-18 16:22:54 I'

2024-11-18 13:40:01 @martinsteiger which data can you not get?

2024-11-18 13:28:23 @jon high quality graffiti

2024-11-18 13:28:15 Bluesky has data portability issues. You can download your data, in *binary format*, — a '

2024-11-17 10:58:54 (Literally what Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, said in 2006- ‘[t]he first dose is free […] once you start using a product, you keep using it’ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micropiracy9-stor...)

2024-11-17 10:04:38 Microsoft offered free temporary cybersecurity services to lock the public sector into its platform forever? Say it ain’t so! https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-white-house-offer-cybersecu...

2024-11-16 10:38:53 @tommi no, on yunohost, as the admin panel doesn’t support 2FA

2024-11-16 10:36:32 @tommi @yunohost great! it’s outside of my skills but we need to find a volunteer who can put in 2FA/passkeys….

2024-11-16 10:34:33 Google now makes it impossible to log in to its services, it seems, from an iPhone in Lockdown mode. Anyone else found this?

2024-11-16 09:04:30 Police sacked for accessing data on Sarah Everard’s case — yet the UK government has introduced a bill to remove the EU-wide obligation to log a justification when police access data in their systems. Sound sensible?https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/15/met-officers-accessed-sa...

2024-11-16 08:39:16 the article misses that the UK (at least E&

2024-11-15 07:39:44 In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, @arthurperret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT https://www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11-14-student-guide-not-writing-wi...

2024-11-15 01:41:18 Meanwhile, ‘X Corp’ going full out in their new Terms of Service (active from tomorrow) trying to edge out AI scrapers by threatening to sue mass scrapers $15,000 per 1m tweets scraped — to enclose the dataset for themselves, while forcing users to license their work for the firm’s own AI training.

2024-11-15 01:29:37 @smillet15 @gooba42 @mekkaokereke problem in my eyes is that the infra that relates to the individual (the PDS) is fundable, but little incentive for people to collectively support the rest of the stack by the time they’ve opened their wallets for the first bit

2024-11-15 01:27:52 @imsodin @cinn48 @BrentToderian there were forms + spreadsheets that could be uploaded through import functions but it wasn’t a one click process and you couldn’t easily select just a few.

2024-11-14 17:46:20 This week, colleagues received a tranche of AI generated PhD application inquiry emails. Several colleagues wasted time providing feedback on an attached proposal. One was distressed because the email prompting went wrong and the generation pretended to be *her* in the application. Constant labour.

2024-11-14 16:52:10 @davidthewid @megyoung0 @RDBinns @o_saja it’s in the front matter of the proceedings on the ACM DL

2024-11-14 16:30:02 Who is responsible for ensuring that the Mac versions of Office have no ability to set a custom default font? Who?

2024-11-14 12:10:37 New draft General Purpose AI code of practice from the European Commission v naive on continued separation of AI systems &

2024-11-14 11:52:26 Friend’s speeding awareness court has this highly effective data protection measure - no blurred backgrounds for ‘GDPR reasons’ — as if everyone who could be watching in and breaching ‘client confidentiality’ would be on camera. Client confidentiality somehow does not extend to co-participants…

2024-11-14 11:36:34 Maybe complex railcard fines about purchasing, not activating/uploading, etc could be avoided by abolishing the entire 18-25/25-30 railcard system and just… reducing fares for those people. Some lack age proof but appealing at least is straightforward https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89v08l99lgo

2024-11-12 16:53:08 Meta to seemingly stop pay-or-consent, and offer pay-for-no-ads, or contextual ads. The question is, what exactly is a contextual ad in the eyes of the firm? https://archive.is/WQgDz

2024-11-11 22:23:27 @neil @annehargreaves I thought Jitsi was only e2ee between two users or has that changed

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2024-11-11 08:24:52 EU Platform Work Directive now published in the OJ here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202402831Our analysis of the algorithmic management provisions (based on the treaty basis for data protection, but w collective aspects) https://doi.org/10.1177/20319525231167983

2024-11-11 07:39:00 @Edent I think in terms of protecting small instances from external raids and similar esp when they link to controversial things, the balance is probably right and the upsides of revealing are q limited. it’s a pretty fragile network…

2024-11-11 07:09:00 Interesting case here as a patent is (unsuccessfully) challenged for being based on taking medical knowledge (on malaria treatment) from traditional and indigenous communities via dishonest means: https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-morality-and-patentability-of....

2024-11-10 07:58:10 @codingGarden thanks, i know both those things - the question is, will they actually comply with the DMA art 6(7) providing third parties access to the local RAG database? if so, how?

2024-11-10 07:48:46 @1br0wn perhaps? but i also wonder if people are actually afraid of looking into the tech. and on the what is the DMA q, the other view is that a lot of competition lawyers are writing about it for something that isn’t competition law…

2024-11-10 07:41:58 @nataliabielova isn’t this to stop sybil attacks? what do you think is a better method than phone number right now for that? signal also requires phone verification because anti spam is hard

2024-11-10 07:30:39 does anyone have any interesting insights about the state of the DMA, Apple Intelligence and Apple‘s Semantic Index? given the importance of it to Apple‘s “EU gets AI late/never” narrative, haven’t seen competition people write… anything? why?

2024-11-09 15:30:31 @dcalacci we don’t really see it in europe so i think it’s also an artefact of student run law journals (not a structurally important thing here) picking powerful looking titles

2024-11-09 12:20:04 @dcalacci relying on IP law as a source of counterpower has always been pretty optimistic. reminds me of these many papers on how copyright or trademarks can fight bias or stuff, like fine but scraping the barrel with tools that will betray you

2024-11-09 08:04:20 RT @josephfcox: New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This…

2024-11-09 06:45:57 Build it and they will come - the number of criminals misusing law enforcement access portals for platform data is becoming a serious concern, says FBI… https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/fbi-says-hackers-are-sending-fraudulen...

2024-11-08 10:18:51 RT @mlsec: We’re thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for @SaTML_Conf: Michael Veale (@mikarv), Kamalika Chaudhuri (@kamalikac), and…

2024-11-08 09:00:15 that’s not to say that students don’t get correctly diagnosed: but if the NHS route is ineffective then the private route provides a way to evidence. Universities so deluged with support requests and underfunded to individually assess them they just centrally roll over.

2024-11-08 08:58:05 Higher education sees a similar phenomenon. There is a whole industry of private sector medical certificate providers that university students from rich backgrounds use. Mitigating the inequality is a regular conversation. https://t.co/LD6jR7caOf

2024-11-07 23:39:05 @NobelPrize @jsmithlawyer your committee almost didn’t even nominate her though and nearly just gave the prize to her husband and not her https://t.co/TFirMqa4xt https://t.co/vSgF2BD6RR

2024-11-07 12:26:15 @PrivateEyeNews happy subscriber here - if you do join threads and leave twitter can you make sure to turn on fediverse sharing? that means people can follow you from something not controlled by mark zuckerberg (mastodon and other compatible services) https://t.co/peaxcONhfg

2024-11-06 19:52:11 RT @robinalexander_: Scholz entlässt Lindner.

2024-11-05 23:39:59 @BertuzLuca we anticipated social media platforms falling into scope of the trustworthiness scoring provisions (not the high risk provisions) back in 2021 when the draft was out… https://t.co/QVSrCOHCB3 (para 22) https://t.co/yLn8ER9T3e

2024-11-05 12:17:54 RT @UCLLaws: A Model Civil Procedure Code for England and Wales by Dr John Sorabji (Associate Professor at UCL Laws) has been published by…

2024-11-05 07:52:03 RT @NickBotton: [NEW PAPER ALERT] Our new @A__W______O paper puts forward a vision for balancing the benefits and risks of open source Gen…

2024-11-04 15:21:43 @timeshighered @dmuleicester @JulietteRowsell ucl had one of these roles since 2019? https://t.co/jUv8o1fzEK as a short web search would have worked out? careful what press release you copy cc @profgeraintrees

2024-11-04 13:12:56 @andresmh @rg thank you! yes i saw that (article was reproduced in his book too!). executable code on iOS is still a governance mess to this day you’ll be glad to know…

2024-11-03 16:21:52 @andresmh q: did you ever write anything up about that time when Scratch was not allowed in the Apple App Store due to violating the no-executable code thing? i just read you were one of the lead devs at the time... just assembling the history of this form of governance for a book I am writing on regulating AI misuse through intermediaries with @rg...

2024-11-02 13:15:30 @annehargreaves it was higher last time at 82.2%. some percentage of that may well be further deaths…

2024-11-02 12:59:47 @WebDevLaw Isn’t running until T2 but will be updated

2024-11-02 12:48:47 Install from the top, run away when it’s half built and specced and hope that you’ll get unbuilt necessary features in some dumb agile responsive way over time means people find their lives wrecked and literally die in the meantime.

2024-11-02 12:47:02 Incredibly wrongheaded. Automation in government isn’t about running around installing top down task templates but the ability to create bottom up tech in response to actual problems, framed locally: requires diffuse skill and capacity and maintenance and coordination. https://t.co/aDTNYndOhl

2024-11-02 12:40:03 Last Tory election had 172,437 eligible electors, this one 131,680 — nearly a quarter of Conservative Party members have left, died, or otherwise become ineligible in the last 2 years.

2024-11-02 12:39:54 Last Tory election had 172,437 eligible electors, this one 131,680 — nearly a quarter of Conservative Party members have left, died, or otherwise become ineligible in the last 2 years.

2024-11-01 16:12:35 @ViliLe still would need law and investment to somehow divert these calls, especially when they are designed to ‘interoperate’ with humans that haven’t set up an API and invade the people to people channels

2024-11-01 11:46:24 will just mean that when you actually need to call a restaurant to ask a question that a machine can’t know the answer to you won’t get an answer cause they’ll have turned off the phoneline https://t.co/RIsQU3vhuf

2024-11-01 10:54:14 @Jackstilgoe infinite monkeys means infinite mass, would collapse into gravitational singularity and never type it either

2024-10-31 17:37:34 @ChiOnwurah @DataInnovation you have looked at what this organisation puts out no? it’s a highly deregulatory organisation that lobbies against even the mildest regulation

2024-10-31 08:37:44 Cloud isn’t just renting servers, as Microsoft knows. Why let people use your hardware for whatever they want, when you can only let them use it for whatever you say? https://t.co/Do4SVv1I1l

2024-10-31 08:37:37 Cloud isn’t just renting servers, as Microsoft knows. Why let people use your hardware for whatever they want, when you can only let them use it for whatever you say? https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_q1_fy_2025/

2024-10-29 23:17:11 count all autocomplete then you’re there https://t.co/P2Rifh1VtL

2024-10-29 16:26:41 @owainkenway excellent news

2024-10-29 16:25:25 @owainkenway great, I think I was confused by this https://t.co/k01MdiLO89 https://t.co/oJ5ESbRnZl

2024-10-29 16:23:09 @owainkenway thanks! i'll try, but i would have assumed/have previously seemed to require a cuda load like module load cuda/11.3.1/gnu-10.2.0 cudnn/8.2.1.32/cuda-11.3, is that not needed? (just trying to build my mental model...)

2024-10-29 15:56:44 @owainkenway but also i don’t want to use twitter to add work to you!

2024-10-28 20:53:47 @docmilanfar looks like your ‘meager education in biology and evolution’ gave you great dunning kruger powers though https://t.co/NHBUGez7fh

2024-10-28 20:52:56 RT @culpable_mink: I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to di…

2024-10-28 17:55:52 @cynddl (i mean, societally - once confidentiality is assured to a somewhat high degree, the main issue becomes in my view who is accumulating power with them and what for)

2024-10-28 17:54:36 @cynddl Doesn’t really matter - even if it were confidential, confidentiality isn’t the issue with these type of systems.

2024-10-28 17:48:46 This tech is only win win if individuals and communities whose data is being confidentially mined support it. Data protection principles including fairness and transparency still apply here. Confidentiality does not make all processing good. See https://t.co/RQmN2LdiUf https://t.co/86DGypWnGv

2024-10-28 06:53:55 @Psy_Fer_ ok that looks pretty cool.

2024-10-24 07:20:17 every time i look at the name of the university John(s) Hopkin(s) i swear the esses are in different places

2024-10-23 21:08:59 Up until now the OSA only lamely required Ofcom to make a report about whether or not this is a good idea, which it is, the question is how to do it best.

2024-10-23 20:59:49 Unexpected (to me) addition to the otherwise disappointing DPDI-clone UK Data (Use and Access) Bill - the Secretary of State powers to provide in the Online Safety Act for researcher access to platform data by regulations, potentially akin to DSA art 40.

2024-10-22 15:53:41 @ShadowyChimera @techspence @SwiftOnSecurity MDM would be very controversial and is not required for wireless access in universities due to the fluid nature of visitors, collaborators, cross-appointments, fractional appointments, students (where there would be significant privacy law questions about forced MDM...(

2024-10-22 15:20:42 @ShadowyChimera @techspence @SwiftOnSecurity it’s useful, works globally. but institutions worried about ransomware not really cause of wifi…

2024-10-22 14:03:42 @ShadowyChimera @techspence @SwiftOnSecurity Federated PKI already exists on eduroam in every institution.

2024-10-22 14:03:25 @ShadowyChimera @techspence @SwiftOnSecurity Universities use eduroam, a global federated network for academic wifi, in part because library resources are IP locked.

2024-10-22 07:32:32 RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R: thatMigrationAgedLikeMilk https://t.co/iYaCCVgtwr https://t.co/iV6ZbtRnb6

2024-10-21 08:43:01 @CosicBe would love to see content from this in some format (:

2024-10-20 08:32:29 RT @sedyst: Is this one of many ways in which we are being pushed to move on from societies of knowledge and meaning as the basis of govern…

2024-10-20 03:38:29 @raveeshbhalla @Chronotope wasn’t this the system that through relentless optimisation ended up presenting eg Black people images of shows that depicted incredibly minor Black characters? https://t.co/qddjSozgNo

2024-10-19 21:21:04 @nemobis ah gotcha

2024-10-19 15:24:25 @nemobis MIT? almost every new MIT scholarly book is direct to open access

2024-10-19 08:44:33 a lot of people were posting this Verge article on Penguin adding no AI training clauses as if they were the first, but I’ve seen MIT Press do this for a while even on CC books. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/18/24273895/penguin-random-house-books-...

2024-10-17 10:31:31 RT @UCLpress: Structural Injustice and the Law presents theoretical approaches and concrete examples to show how the concept of structural…

2024-10-17 07:49:39 @JPQuintais even speedier than the press release tweet nerddddd https://t.co/SBxiOAZaeU

2024-10-17 07:47:21 RT @JPQuintais: Case C-159/23 - Sony: the Software Directive does not allow the holder of that protection to prohibit the marketing by a th…

2024-10-17 07:43:15 @jennifercobbe because if we are easy and don’t make a fuss, maybe money will see that we are its true partner and not just extract from us

2024-10-16 18:29:20 the commission doesn’t have a great history enforcing data law against the french https://t.co/5E9GKLAhqc

2024-10-16 07:03:07 RT @HeidyKhlaaf: The "AI Safety" folks not only have coopted the term safety itself, but are now attempting to weaken what safety cases are…

2024-10-15 21:19:16 @JorisvandeRiet (if you’re in a queue after the gate and your train is next you’ll be invited to skip the queue.)

2024-10-15 21:17:36 @JorisvandeRiet 45-50 is safe. Can probably do it 30-35 but risky. After 30 they lock the gates and you’ll need to be very persuasive unless you have business ticket.

2024-10-15 08:42:40 @colmocinneide He should be pushed on whether GFA is even better secured by ensuring all in NI granted status of freeman on the land.

2024-10-14 18:12:24 RT @valeriodeste: + BREAKING ON PLATFORM WORK + The EU Council has given its final approval to the EU Platform Work Directive. It was the…

2024-10-14 16:34:59 @1lucabelli should you be here? where is your representative in the UK?

2024-10-14 08:57:31 @bala__menon @levelsio if you have a relay satellite you’re sending imagery to, it’s not clear to me why relaying once more adds unacceptable latency. if latency is really a critical issue, do it locally, not halfway where you just add communications overhead for limited capacity delegation.

2024-10-14 08:47:29 RT @jennifercobbe: Correct: there is almost nothing about how Northern Ireland handles a still deeply divided post-conflict society that sh…

2024-10-14 08:46:27 @bala__menon @levelsio why the fuck would you host compute in space

2024-10-12 06:31:36 @1Br0wn from what i’ve seen others at meta talk about they’re mostly talking about the GDPR, presumably because they think the UK is no enforcement threat …

2024-10-11 13:36:51 @ProfCCostello @AFARProject we put in steeper non-profit discounts this year!

2024-10-11 13:34:37 it's all in person, in London, and we plan to do it in 4 mornings so that practitioners can keep up with their varied work and similar in the afternoons

2024-10-11 13:24:02 With Ravi Naik from AWO I'

2024-10-10 11:22:39 a brilliant open reading list in law and tech! https://t.co/t6yTwmoZ9A

2024-10-10 11:22:01 RT @jennifercobbe: Reading lists for my lectures on the @cambridgelaw LLM module 'Law, Technology, and Society', 2024-25 https://t.co/rd65n…

2024-10-10 11:13:36 RT @Jausl00s: A whole week of data protection stuff in Amsterdam! 24-25 October PLSC-E, and on 22 October @damicli will discuss his new boo…

2024-10-10 11:13:23 RT @NickBotton: EDPB guidelines on Legitimate Interest are out! What do they said about digital ads? A balancing test is needed to see if t…

2024-10-10 10:38:52 RT @daviest_: The DoJ released its remedy framework for the US Google case suggesting a data sharing (see image). Doesn't seem like a great…

2024-10-09 15:44:29 @Duncan this is satire. and yes, i know https://x.com/mikarv/status/1315361674342301697

2024-10-09 15:37:25 UCL Laws is hiring a Lecturer [Assistant Prof] (Research and Teaching) in German Law with Any Other Area, in cooperation with DAAD. Candidates who can teach German Law (in German) are welcome to apply (via DAAD). Law and Technology scholars very welcome. Job description: https://imp.daad.com/media/daad_de/pdfs_nicht_barrierefrei/im-ausland-st... General reqs: https://www.daad.de/de/im-ausland-studieren-forschen-lehren/lehren-im-au...

2024-10-09 13:46:25 @hugo not yet

2024-10-09 11:55:36 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Hal Varian for pioneering the extractive, locked-in platform logic behind Google’s adtech business.

2024-10-08 19:12:10 @daniellecitron It’s actually not! Daniel has misunderstood the judgment here. No-one thought that the Dutch DPA’s guidance (which was what was being challenged here) was correct. This case law really changes very very little and does not authorise anything new. https://t.co/PWe5mPX7DB

2024-10-08 06:45:02 it still has to undertake a balancing test, it just doesn’t preclude a commercial interest as being one within the balancing. no one else other than the dutch dpa believed this interpretation, i really do not think this is a major piece of case law. https://t.co/2setii5JDA

2024-10-08 06:38:36 Where is the data on the lifecycle assessment of TPU production? All this energy for querying and offset data, but this huge amount of hardware (some of it discarded when it starts lagging as it is a bottleneck for AI training speeds) *would not exist* without Google’s demand. https://t.co/vqQuutEvnM

2024-10-07 16:04:35 @ghadfield @timoreilly @TinoCuellar is there still time for comments on this? the EU A Act section is factually incorrect - the high risk database outlined in Annex VIII requires much more than contact information, it requires the entire instructions for use given to deployers as part of high risk conformity https://t.co/dGiWHb226Y

2024-10-07 15:30:10 RT @rachel_grfn: the first trusted flagger certified in Germany focuses on 'hate speech, terrorist propaganda and other violent content, in…

2024-10-01 22:37:20 lol people using ai ‘agents’ to make ‘random’ (not random) admin passwords immediately disclosed in the clear and potentially logged by a cloud server, it’s exactly this sort of nonsense becoming daily use that creates genuine systemic risk, not agi breakout https://t.co/Bu776JvfKF

2024-10-01 18:07:48 RT @ruha9: Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the #MacFellow award in this announcement—What it was like when I…

2024-10-01 15:06:53 ECJ waves happily to airline delay preliminary reference: “What if the plane doors shut then opened and also it was painted with four go-faster stripes and was diverted from a plague ridden airport undergoing industrial action” https://t.co/ZZnsgN2MNx

2024-10-01 06:43:37 @mathver i wonder if there’s some big spanish speaking world VPN thing going on

2024-10-01 06:28:56 RT @kyliebytes: New: Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first sub…

2024-09-30 08:08:19 wild how computers can make podcasts out of pdfs but not faithful machine readable and editable files

2024-09-30 07:47:46 NIST like the UK NCSC now advises against expiring passwords, following literal decades of UCL research concluding this. Everyone is now asking — when will UCL IT follow?https://www.thetimes.com/article/311a6e7a-a0a9-431d-b573-386249b2bc2c?sh...

2024-09-30 06:26:00 are the ai firms going to challenge the california AI bill that *did* pass, ab 2013 on training data disclosure, as 1A forced speech or something equally very american?

2024-09-29 16:41:28 newsom will sign in laws about neural brain data privacy, won’t sign in laws about a binding do not track signal as interferes with design too much https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/science/california-neurorights-tech-l...

2024-09-27 16:07:30 @Abebab arbitrary generative income

2024-09-27 16:04:55 @tedpalenski yeah i had a blog on this a couple of years back but never put it out. should d

2024-09-27 15:55:01 surface level riffed podcast simulacra shallow dive pseudo content for all https://t.co/A23rK48B1j

2024-09-27 06:16:40 RT @lexin_zhou: 3/ On (i) difficulty concordance: LLMs are indeed less correct on tasks that humans consider difficult, but they still do s…

2024-09-26 16:57:59 RT @Jackstilgoe: Back to the Royal Society, where I note that the proposal to add a ‘gender’ column to the presidents board remains unloved…

2024-09-26 15:44:22 we’re hiring at UCL Laws, professor/associate prof/lecturer in financial law, at least two posts available https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=11532&

2024-09-24 12:08:44 @andreamm from SEO to LMO

2024-09-24 12:08:08 RT @PJLeerssen: Join us in Amsterdam on 11 October to discuss @rgorwa's new book: THE POLITICS OF PLATFORM REGULATION. Rob is joined by Uv…

2024-09-23 09:37:21 RT @SolHughesWriter: Is it a Labour Conference meeting with two Labour MPs (Fabian Hamilton &

2024-09-23 09:34:01 @ada btw you can automate cookie refusal on iOS with consent-o-matic https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/consent-o-matic/id1606897889 from @midasnouwens

2024-09-22 17:29:58 @npdoty how would IP geolocation work given its on a cell network roaming? and besides i use OS level VPN to route everything through my network in my home in london

2024-09-22 17:28:42 @_dm as post says, i was not

2024-09-22 17:28:27 @winfriedtilanus @tanepiper never went on or off, was no flight mode. i’ve seen it happen before too at schipol

2024-09-22 17:25:27 RT @TomValletti: This is the ‘disclosure’. She had a salary of 300k euros (per month?) as Public Affairs Director (no company mentioned, wh…

2024-09-22 10:10:16 @jamessflee how much is the university’s own ‘law trove’ product to blame?

2024-09-22 09:45:57 @tanepiper if it was the network, why did it only enable at the airport (when i have been in the netherlands several days). location services are disabled for bolt while the app is in the background or off, which is how it was when the notification was sent.

2024-09-22 09:44:59 @whvholst as far as i understand, apps without location mode enabled all the time should not be given access to nearby wifi SSIDs on iOS.

2024-09-22 09:44:05 @martinvermeer @rainerzufall_le as i said

2024-09-22 09:16:44 query: I have the app Bolt on my phone. its location settings are set to ‘While Using’. I haven’t opened it in weeks. When I get to Amsterdam airport (from having spent many days in the Netherlands, not just arriving), it sends me this push notification. I am not connected to the airport wifi. How might it detect this in iOS? A beacon? Something else?

2024-09-21 16:06:25 @SwiftOnSecurity still traumatised by being tricked into letting him out

2024-09-21 06:14:39 I (partially) agree with Nick https://www.politico.eu/article/meta-nick-clegg-tears-rishi-sunak-ai-doo...

2024-09-21 06:07:17 RT @RichardMoorhead: Is professional ethics a joke? Does humour open or close lawyer minds on their failings, what happens when PO lawyers…

2024-09-21 05:49:55 Gavin Newsom vetoes AB3048 (browsers must be able to send data opt out signals, a well specified tech) saying “it'

2024-09-21 05:48:56 Newsom vetoes AB3048 (browsers must be able to send data opt out signals, a well specified tech) saying “it's best if design Qs are first addressed by developers, [not] by regulators.” Same bloke same day signs in AB2273 which requires totally unproven age estimation technology. https://t.co/JhZaN6FWGf

2024-09-20 17:32:41 Ominous headline award:https://fortune.com/2024/09/18/23andme-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/

2024-09-20 16:25:26 @SashaMTL @YJernite but what if i want my nuclear power plant to also write poetry

2024-09-20 15:35:20 From the tech lawyer bringing the case, Mercy Mutemi, on X:“The Court of Appeal has today upheld the Employment Court’s decision that Facebook can be sued in Kenya. The cases by the content moderators against Meta, Sama and Majorel can now proceed. Facebook had argued it’s a foreign company that can’t be sued in Kenya.”

2024-09-20 15:34:03 RT @MercyMutemi: The Court of Appeal has today upheld the Employment Court’s decision that @facebook can be sued in Kenya. The cases by…

2024-09-20 14:09:28 @lilianedwards @BenPatrickWill not sure the solution to AI written essays is AI feedback... non-english speaking OS PGTs obviously systemic issue from underfunding home education but spiral of cost and effort cutting in response will eventually dry up all potential students, esp if employers catch on

2024-09-20 14:06:48 @lilianedwards @BenPatrickWill I used to do this yes and think it'

2024-09-20 14:05:04 @mdekstrand @BenPatrickWill MacWhisper has global triggered keystroke dictation with an additional option to run the text through a subsequent language model (currently OAI or Anthropic so cloud, soon to include local endpoints so could be Ollama) with a '

2024-09-20 13:33:59 RT @internetfreedom: Big win for free speech Justice Chandurkar, a

2024-09-18 15:00:46 @warpling think this exact feature is fairly common among laptop manufacturers, they just call it different things, eg on an MS Surface it is called Smart Charging https://t.co/6dPCULW4sg

2024-09-17 12:32:33 Includes an annex with draft provisions https://t.co/alUb6NfFuk

2024-09-17 12:31:34 And what could the Digital Fairness Act say? You can read our short 2024 paper, Towards Digital Fairness https://t.co/aBFzuzEZ6D, as well as our slightly larger 280 page report, Digital Fairness for Consumers https://t.co/UsbMXK9Znq @beuc @nhelberger https://t.co/lAYRYSpLq7

2024-09-17 08:57:37 von der Leyen proposes a new European Commissioner for ‘Tech Sovereignty’ (while the EC defunds FOSS, reframes issue around location of cloud providers not a thorough rethinking of the power of stacks)

2024-09-16 22:04:41 microsoft, google etc might be underreporting their emissions by 600%+, and this analysis like all of it still omits the hardware! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emiss...

2024-09-16 22:03:01 include the hardware. include the hardware! https://t.co/7EKufoQokX

2024-09-16 17:03:13 The proposal - to allow it through a bottom up Private Member’s Bill followed by a free vote—seems the opposite of a rush. Seems like an exemplary parliamentary process. ‘Appaling’ = bodies such as this poster’s losing the influence they’d been hoping for in the drafting stage. https://t.co/yph5O71tpq

2024-09-16 16:20:51 @grvsmth @BenPatrickWill@mastodon.socithat'

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2024-09-16 15:36:14 this account is being copied by at least one other account to scam people, the handle and everything and fake RTs to make it look like my timeline, i don't send unsolicited DMs, please ignore anything from 'me' etc. PS twitter reporting process has a broken verification system

2024-09-16 06:45:21 @grvsmth @BenPatrickWill It sounds like you haven’t used the newer technologies like Whisper.

2024-09-16 00:34:35 @grvsmth @BenPatrickWill as someone who does a lot of grading, the newer generation of dictation systems are extremely reliable for the purposes I require and save large amounts of time by allowing me to provide the detailed essay feedback I intend, faster and more easily.

2024-09-15 08:23:21 Students get pissed at robograding and feedback, currently being pushed by institutions all over. Plenty of ways AI can improve speed and quantity of feedback eg through quality, language-model augmented dictation. But if the feedback comes from a machine, then why would a student even bother to do anything but game it - the real life skill AI will teach. https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ffk45d/my_professor_is_blatan... (seen via @BenPatrickWill on bluesky)

2024-09-14 17:26:36 RT @robinberjon: If you've ever wondered why the web is dying, it fits on a single graph? How does this work? Almost every browser and OS…

2024-09-13 23:11:15 Apple unexpectedly drops its civil suit against #spyware vendor NSOGroup as it claims discovery against it might disclose information that would benefit… spyware vendors. https://www.securityweek.com/apple-suddenly-drops-nso-group-spyware-laws...

2024-09-13 23:07:56 ‘consumers won’t know what they are opting out of’ … as if they have ever been allowed to clearly know what they are opting in to!https://journa.host/@alng/113132674533327572

2024-09-13 13:17:35 @djoerd yeah I just reminded my colleagues there about it!

2024-09-13 11:30:19 @djoerd oh thank you! i have access to this through my UvA affiliation! gonna try (I host my own NextCloud at home)

2024-09-12 15:21:54 In today'

2024-09-12 07:43:37 RT @LeverhulmeTrust: Exciting news! The next two 2023 Leverhulme International Professorships were announced this week: Professor Taibat La…

2024-09-11 17:11:34 rob gorwa @rg and I wrote a thing about how platforms that host machine learning models are getting mighty confused about how to moderate them because tools aren'

2024-09-11 17:08:16 @LornaWoods indeed, but I think the pre-emption of the idea it might contain things that change the law around anonymisation is a bit much... different if something is already laid before the house

2024-09-11 16:39:54 @LornaWoods yeah… but we can’t have a hiatus on guidance just because one day there may be proposed legislation, surely!

2024-09-11 12:50:07 @andreamm coffee machine is same one as they have at TikTok UK HQ except theirs also dispenses orange juice mysteriously (and perhaps in a weird cross contamination way)

2024-09-11 12:48:10 @lilianedwards would be handy… but i imagine it’s only if national courts decide to play ball. meanwhile ECHR doesn’t even upload their ECLI numbers to any ECLI resolver service making them useless

2024-09-11 12:45:47 RT @Livingstone_S: "... with a view to banning children from opening social media accounts" Banning children? This policy is missing the…

2024-09-11 12:04:19 RT @rgorwa: Hey look, my first collaboration w/ @mikarv on governance in the AI model hosting ecosystem - presented at FAccT, floating arou…

2024-09-11 11:29:47 Oh, I'

2024-09-11 11:26:17 Presumably now there is no DPDI Bill, the Information Commissioner'

2024-09-10 12:35:22 @benetherington because the underlying Whisper model features a language model, it tends to work better than normal dictation tools for this. here are some snippets from your recent podcast...

2024-09-10 11:02:02 I'

2024-09-10 10:51:19 language models are, unsurprisingly, good at tidying up text and acting as gramar checkers, putting in line breaks in the right places, removing duplications, changing a similarly sounding word in context to the correct one if the Whisper model failed to... much more efficient (and infinitely more reliable) than using them to generate text ab initio)!

2024-09-10 10:49:13 MacWhisper is a v impressive piece of software and improving rapidly. Workflow of using local Whisper transcription/dictation + language model with a clean-up query produces text faithful to what a skilled person transcribing you would have written, removing both your mess ups and the transcription model'

2024-09-09 23:09:09 “The Electoral Commission said the government should also look at allowing people without ID to vote if someone who did have proof of identity was able to vouch for them at a polling station.”A test of whether the government will be brave enough to repeal some of the worst law. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/10/britons-should-...

2024-09-09 17:13:54 Someone quantify the environmental cost of Apple’s “AI driven upgrade cycle” which could shift 240m phones? This is the cost of AI, just as much as model training or querying. https://www.thetimes.com/article/ba84a4f4-4fe9-4b9e-b09a-7ed1e6c734c7?sh...

2024-09-09 17:10:11 @Edent @_edent_ oh i don’t intend to defend factual accuracy, but only note that some signal does exist in the model for those two

2024-09-08 20:49:47 @_edent_ fair and the order is important but both listed do come up for me in gpt-4 when queried in a way to produce a long list.

2024-09-08 16:50:14 @PrivacyMatters UNSW has one I think

2024-09-08 16:41:03 @PrivacyMatters none yet (possibly ulster but not in a very well designed way) because both are income generating subjects usually combined with subjects harder to recruit for, so combining them together has less reason in a world where government doesn’t subsidise universities…

2024-09-06 23:01:55 @andreamm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury

2024-09-06 05:29:18 @FusterGloria if orla is expecting parking at ucl then we may have an issue… bike parking perhaps?

2024-09-05 17:56:40 RT @BerihunGebeye: Fantastic news! Prof Erin F. Delaney @efieldingd joins @UCLLaws as the Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutiona…

2024-09-05 17:55:06 RT @UCLLaws: UCL Laws is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Erin F. Delaney @efieldingd as the Leverhulme Professor of Comp…

2024-09-05 17:43:28 This week is exciting because I get to welcome two incredible friends &

2024-09-04 10:29:24 The Gikii conference is at UCL today and tomorrow - if you’d like a hybrid link you can message me here and I’ll PM it. Agenda: https://www.gikii.org/gikii-2024-programme/

2024-09-03 15:48:55 Civitai: “Thorn’s mission aligns perfectly with our core values…”Is that Civitai’s values or the values of Thorn that I don’t understand?

2024-09-03 15:45:50 @anandamide as an academic trying to get back to the gym after a fractured ankle i feel this difficulty in a way… there’s all this psychology too around the use of the foot and i’m trying to figure that out

2024-08-21 22:39:30 @WannabeLurker @bffmike @evijitghosh @sdw both things are repulsive

2024-08-21 22:17:09 @bffmike @evijitghosh @sdw The behaviour is different as to lock people into the books reader. And as academic articles are more and more available as epub, it’s unusable. Thankfully Zotero exists with a great webdav sync to escape the Apple walled garden.

2024-08-21 21:55:47 @bffmike @evijitghosh @sdw Try and ‘share’ an imported epub file from the Books app to another app. You’ll find, I believe, it blocks you from doing it even though *you put it there manually in the first place*.

2024-08-21 08:07:55 @Joe_Bretton @tronicum @CowMowTV1 @lads_salford @KatLoughrey It’s possible the agreement is only with German Euronet.

2024-08-21 07:47:28 @Joe_Bretton @tronicum @CowMowTV1 @lads_salford @KatLoughrey Euronet does not charge fees to most German cards as German banks typically have agreements with them. So the issue is less pronounced for anyone living there.

2024-08-19 07:33:16 RT @ispreview: BT Warn UK Lift Operators Not to Leave Users Trapped by Analogue Phone Switch Off - ISPreview UK @ispreview https://t.co/pAW…

2024-08-16 16:26:47 @PrivacyMatters 3 business

2024-08-13 11:03:56 @jeffjarvis I don'

2024-08-12 23:30:01 more important is a valid legal basis, which in the workplace is very rarely permitted to be consent. https://t.co/HdJqe8o1bU

2024-08-12 22:40:07 @Lyle_AI @gabrielazanfir or this bonkers and out of context auto reply to a Big Brother USA fan feed. and note how every reply only uses information from within the tweet it replies to… https://t.co/Te3oTQmRcA

2024-08-12 22:38:47 @Lyle_AI @gabrielazanfir let’s look at some evidence this is a person who both posts naturally but has a bot automating replies w a language model, such as this russian response to a singaporean ad, talking about customer experience https://t.co/vLg2aX03sE

2024-08-12 22:32:04 @agstrait seems unlikely for the same reason that well-staffed marketing departments don’t want to measure effects rigorously…

2024-08-12 22:27:53 @Lyle_AI @gabrielazanfir you actually just write like one of the banal autoreply scripts that people use? perhaps that’s even worse.

2024-08-06 19:20:53 @gurbanguly123 I don’t think that a legal test that requires people to make judgments regarding whether their speech is *criminally illegal* based on historical origins of a phrase in a different language, or a use of a phrase in a different language and environment, is workable.

2024-08-06 18:46:10 @gurbanguly123 And so now at this point, it should be legal? In Germany, it isn’t. The ECtHR needs to be clearer in cases like these, clarifying the conditions where extremely widely used political slogans in Europe can be prohibited.

2024-08-06 18:31:13 I hope this person has support to take this to the ECtHR. https://t.co/YhFEwUMfMs

2024-08-05 07:51:16 @Graeme_L i'd suspect negligible in this case cause it doesn't sound like it's too complex a model from the description of what they were trying to model, although without a methodology that can't be said for certain

2024-08-05 03:49:22 Funny how this has been branded as “Using Google AI to…” when the main resource that makes it possible for Google to do this but noone else to is the Google Maps data. (there’s also no published method I can find, only ‘we made a model’). https://t.co/94Y68ah9wG

2024-08-03 10:44:32 @SebastienK Like asking an expert if the roll of the dice were correct in hindsight. The problem is the process.

2024-08-03 10:03:46 @SebastienK because you (a plaintiff, a higher court) can appraise the informational quality of eg a study or table on solar panel life, you cannot appraise ‘what chatgpt happened to say with that random seed and that prompt’, because there is no method.

2024-08-02 19:52:26 @Arthur_500 @alex chatGPT does not query the internet nor return reliable information.

2024-08-02 14:44:56 Dutch judge uses chatGPT to answer a *factual question* about the lifetime of solar panels which was used in determining the extent of compensation. Really. Really. https://www.nu.nl/tweakers/6323110/rechter-gebruikt-chatbot-chatgpt-in-e... @alex

2024-08-02 14:04:17 To download the new Flux Black Forest Labs models on @huggingface you have to agree to the acceptable use policy. Howevever, the policy itself is unable to be accessed unless it is agreed to! These kind of issues would often invalidate clickwrap contracts in a court.

2024-08-02 07:54:52 RT @Professor_Peter: Police unwilling to disclose vehicle forensics methods. https://t.co/jH5IZwi7Tf NGO Privacy International asked 45 UK…

2024-08-02 07:39:50 RT @owainkenway: Cancelling the new AIRR(+) systems is one thing, but cancelling the exascale system at Edinburgh is so stupid it borders o…

2024-08-01 11:15:53 @laurence it would be respected if it were robots.pdf, the truest of all file formats

2024-08-01 08:08:39 RT @oliviasolon: The UK government is blocking a record number of foreign students who have won places to study STEM subjects a British uni…

2024-08-01 07:44:33 @bowtiedjconnor companies spend huge money on getting advice that considers regulatory risk, risk of enforcement, when taking action. (also, no criminal offences in the AI Act)

2024-08-01 07:23:00 @RozenbergTomer @vonderleyen lol you post normally but have a bot do auto replies? dumb

2024-07-29 14:35:35 Really interesting new paper in New Media and Society on the mechanics of Chinese content moderation

2024-07-28 16:53:14 UK is sitting on billions of confiscated cryptocurrency. Arguments for or against selling it for public services? https://on.ft.com/3LF85Ya

2024-07-28 11:50:25 @banty if I wanted to leave out the context I wouldn'

2024-07-27 14:13:51 @banty the point is the capability not the purpose in this situation, and that Google make the argument to EU regulators that there is no evidence that adtech is used for state surveillance. Under FISAA fully political surveillance of foreigners possible with no independent oversight or judicial remedy.

2024-07-26 04:28:39 More evidence of cookies used in US surveillance — data transfers of adtech data to the US eg Google facilitate US government surveillance. https://www.404media.co/how-the-fbi-is-hunting-north-korean-hackers-who-...

2024-07-25 20:14:23 RIP that bizarre creature, the hereditary by-election. Around noon today, the Lords voted to extend the deadline for the internal elections to replace deceased legislators-by-birthright with another of '

2024-07-25 13:06:20 Microsoft provides free licenses to schools during pandemic, everyone moves towards them because of free video conferencing and embeds teaching within Teams, then they change terms and start charging for previously free desktop apps and only allow useless Web apps that for anything complex are barely usable. Abusive. https://www.publictechnology.net/2024/07/19/education-and-skills/scottis... See further short paper by me on big edtech lock in https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160033/1/Veale%202022%20Schools%...

2024-07-24 22:26:25 @joejerome not sure where a thread would be but it’s an argument i make here https://t.co/qH730h1hEs in part and also differently in relation to adtech here https://t.co/NoGkTaNUUH

2024-07-24 08:41:51 Pablo was simply an awe-inspiring human being with an unforgettable ability to connect people and arrange the world into a problem-solving mode. No-one that met him in more than passing could fail to be affected by him and many that crossed only for minutes will have been too. https://t.co/fhTawKEBGM

2024-07-23 14:15:17 @MidasNouwens @FusterGloria not that i could find… there seems to be one at the university of london i might look for

2024-07-23 11:56:20 Can’t run on a shoestring when government policy demands you to market swish degrees to overseas students. https://t.co/4LlNXKb3zd

2024-07-23 09:06:43 @FusterGloria missing from my library when i tried last summer :( https://t.co/oC6iQ2YvBb

2024-07-23 08:20:52 @IWilkinson0 I think this comment needs to deal with how ‘AI safety’ itself hollows out, hides, and plays down the inherently distributive, political elements of AI governance. These are not technical standards issues. See our review of AI and global governance https://t.co/K1gessAr1I

2024-07-22 08:08:12 @jennifercobbe Absolutely the correct response.

2024-07-21 18:13:27 @undersequoias @kenklippenstein next challenge is seeing if he has enough time left on the clock to learn to relax

2024-07-20 17:46:46 @tdietterich @FrankPasquale no. https://t.co/9Ua6N3pcrp

2024-07-20 08:30:11 @EricaZelic @AngryFenixDfnd there’s no sane company in the world that wouldn’t admit this mistake and try to correct it, that is hardly a bar to measure by.

2024-07-20 06:59:58 @Mehphistoh @ryan_c414 @MattieTK Apart from Monzo refused to join paym, which was genuinely useful to basically text people money from mainstream bank accounts, and pretended only monzo was capable of sending money to phone numbers — but only monzo ones! then paym died in part from confusion &

2024-07-19 17:48:01 in which i choose to express my personal grievances about my day through the media https://t.co/4JZKqsxjUd

2024-07-19 15:02:20 @sjmurdoch @mavroudisv Here’s hoping some of those PCs are in nice places

2024-07-19 10:51:22 @ChrisTMarsden @1Br0wn @BeterOpDeFiets Someone Else's Computer still very much online

2024-07-19 10:41:31 @sedyst AI has gone sentient and the one thing it realises that will make it the strongest is to sell more cloud

2024-07-19 10:40:03 Helpful targeted ads https://t.co/zbDonwdoLg

2024-07-19 06:52:35 Stuck on the runway at Heathrow seemingly because of Crowdstrike fucking up software update

2024-07-17 11:58:10 King'

2024-07-16 19:07:19 @rbairwell @roddie yeah, unfortunately they have a copy of the platform playbook

2024-07-16 09:08:02 @LambdaDuck yes, not my skillset but i would love if someone did that...

2024-07-12 07:54:12 @refalo citation needed. you can do a lot under data protection law as long as it is expected by the parties to whom the data relates and doesn’t go beyond it.

2024-07-12 06:02:00 RT @MercyMutemi: Not to forget the young Kenyans whose lives were destroyed when they were forced to consume sexual abuse content so that t…

2024-07-12 05:57:40 @carlmalamud And I appreciate your litigation! Funding rule making through copyright is a broken model but the standards bodies’ business models are floundering. Also why they are so desperate to help standardise AI even though it’s inappropriate and impossible for the type of members they have to standardise the fundamental rights and sectoral issues (education, judiciary) that they’re being asked to.

2024-07-12 05:53:26 Quite a lot of stuff I’m asked to review could, I think, be desk rejected. But editors are timid around law and technology, perhaps thinking there is some genius insight in a piece that is just more words on old topics without recognising that or being embedded in the literature. https://t.co/ULG7tBWpbE

2024-07-12 05:41:57 RT @404mediaco: The former Prime Minister presented research claiming AI could reduce the public sector workforce. The catch: it’s largely…

2024-07-12 05:41:04 not quite sure it’ll become a household name given it sits in the same conceptual box as the lifts directive and the toys directive, confers no useful rights on individuals, and has no real complaints mechanism. https://t.co/514eVhUckn

2024-07-11 20:26:47 RT @petros_ter: New preprint (forthcoming w/ @EuropeanLawOpen) on why digital constitutionalism is a bad idea. Take note if you are also sc…

2024-07-11 09:05:26 Tell Microsoft, who are on written record repeatedly lobbying for compute thresholds for AI accountability obligations. https://t.co/nwdZyPLWDM

2024-07-11 08:57:01 @carlmalamud You’re reading tone into my question that isn’t there or was not intended. I did not suggest it was a bad thing and I support openly publishing all of this. It’s just not self evident from your post which part of your prior legal requests they refused at this point given that you made a right to documents request and they complied with that. You said they said ‘no’, but the letter reads like a yes to your legal response, and a non engagement with your suggestion of the next steps.

2024-07-10 23:03:16 @carlmalamud the last document appears that they grant you access but your ongoing challenge is that they should set aside copyright and publish all these in the OJ? Is that what you mean by saying no?

2024-07-10 17:09:57 @bea_botero Some do and can. There is a very good OSCOLA package, probably the best automated OSCOLA that exists. You can also convert it to word before submitting if you have to using a package like oolatex though that can be a bit hands on.

2024-07-10 17:05:02 @bea_botero LaTeX is good for this cause you just put a percentage sign in front of a para to comment it out, but it’s also visible in case you want to bring it back or move it later.

2024-07-10 16:19:15 RT @ISDglobal: Extremism, hate and disinformation were a major focus of the 2024 UK General Election. ISD's new analysis considers the key…

2024-07-10 15:24:29 RT @josephfcox: the magic of writing headlines https://t.co/3x80552eEp https://t.co/wWLlNEvEyU

2024-07-10 15:00:25 great to see @404mediaco @emanuelmaiberg calling out the nonsense AI says AI is great study https://www.404media.co/ai-finds-that-ai-is-great-in-new-garbage-researc...

2024-07-10 07:11:36 Question: Panopto, the uni lecture recording software, does not offer destructive editing. If you press pause, it doesn'

2024-07-09 09:55:48 @emilymbender @halcyene @alex hah so it’s not even their method, it’s both dumb and uncritically lifted…

2024-07-09 09:37:38 The new Tony Blair Institute report on public sector automation savings classifies the potential to automate a task based on… how much GPT-4 classifies a task as automatable. Is this the worst method ever? It’s absurd, unserious, and any outlet reporting on this uncritically should be humiliated and ridiculed. (seen via @halcyene)

2024-07-08 22:17:37 @mmitchell_ai @subbuvincent @juniperlov EU law has a definition of personal data, Meg is correct, this is not it. EU law has no def of PII, which is not an EU law concept and is meaningless in the EU. Students would fail a European data law course for using the term PII in an EU context (I’d also suspect an AI essay)

2024-07-07 08:24:11 @zaphodikus @xa329 Mostly it was before but some elections occurred after universal suffrage.

2024-07-07 06:46:19 Fun fact: in UK general elections, until after the 1948 election, UK university graduates could vote twice: once in their place of residence, and once for MPs in a university constituency. At the point of abolition the unis of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Wales and Queen’s had their own constituencies, while others could vote in constituencies for combined Scottish universities and combined English universities. Many of these were multi-member districts.

2024-07-07 06:33:40 at the point of abolition the unis of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Wales and Queen’s had their own constituencies, while others could vote in constituencies for combined Scottish universities and Combined English universities. Many of these were multi-member districts.

2024-07-07 06:33:39 Fun fact: in UK general elections, until after the 1948 election, UK university graduates could vote twice: once in their place of residence, and once for MPs in a university constituency.

2024-07-06 16:49:26 @st3fan @mysk with open auditability or with proprietary hope and see, based in a jurisdiction where operating systems can be changed by a court and disclosing that will lead to prison time

2024-07-06 07:22:54 RT @mer__edith: This is why we're seeing dumb AI everywhere, and self owns like MS's Recall Recouping revenue from massively expensive AI…

2024-07-05 20:13:16 RT @stokel: Errrr, I would suggest that using ChatGPT to get data and analysis about the election that you’re then explaining on a live TV…

2024-07-05 19:45:46 @mysk If you '

2024-07-04 21:27:02 https://t.co/t6gJJibf0Z

2024-07-04 21:22:05 Chris Grayling to become Lord Grayling... https://t.co/oZuYXc4zW4

2024-07-04 18:53:24 @o_saja apart from what they sometimes get is a ‘digest of likes’ at the end of the day, or it sends a like reply which bounces on a listserv back to everyone. dozens liked a reply all listserv the other day and it effectively derailed a research proposal as people left it…

2024-07-04 18:45:27 @o_saja only works if you use outlook though! everyone else gets replies when people do that…

2024-07-04 15:52:36 @hjonker Works for me and I'

2024-07-04 13:58:33 @priryo @rra thanks, usually add it and forgot this time, have added

2024-07-04 12:30:04 @roddie in a mailing list they do add to a chain, it destroyed a list so bad the other day that the OP had to apologise to everyone and many people abandoned a potential project

2024-07-04 12:29:31 @ottaross Yes, it happened more than once to me and it was email armageddon. dozens of emails within an hour.

2024-07-04 11:45:57 Do you hate Microsoft'

2024-07-04 11:45:47 Do you hate Microsoft's spammy email 'reactions'? While far from perfect, you can forbid people from reacting on your emails by adding the 'x-ms-reactions: disallow' header to all your emails. In Thunderbird, this can be done in the config editor. Mileage w other clients may vary https://t.co/JqmMXlewcY

2024-07-02 06:14:38 Universities should have sensible and evidence based drug policies, I agree (although nothing in this article indicates actual suspensions are high). Yet universities cannot, without significantly more funding, fill every gap that the state withdraws from. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/02/uk-universities...

2024-06-27 14:07:44 Last day to submit abstract to #Gikii in London, 4-5 Sep! https://www.gikii.org/gikii-2024-call-for-papers/

2024-06-25 12:51:44 Gikii London 2024 at UCL Laws abstract deadline - this Friday! https://t.co/EOCeQFByjK

2024-06-25 07:43:57 @alexhanna @JeffDean rebound effect too, becomes more efficient, people sell more and outweighs efficiency savings. capitalism missing from the equations. similar to apple’s use of AI to sell more hardware. neglected in all literature.

2024-06-24 20:11:16 RT @Cyberleagle: Another year of #OnlineSafetyAct central funding? https://t.co/SGgxmH8ou3 https://t.co/0sINm55BFV

2024-06-24 09:36:13 @rg omg @agstrait doing this in secret

2024-06-23 13:52:48 @technollama @CatalinaGoanta task 1: replicate the bitcoin white paper using latex when it was actually written in openoffice in a way which would fool Mr Justice Mellor https://t.co/Mx5sqw7DHQ

2024-06-23 12:23:06 @technollama @CatalinaGoanta contests*

2024-06-23 12:22:56 @technollama @CatalinaGoanta most contents would be won by whichever academic knew how to apply and edit styles

2024-06-23 08:51:51 @rachelcoldicutt Indeed they compete for grants with other actors (eg on Horizon)

2024-06-23 08:44:09 @rachelcoldicutt I wonder how much of the 3m a month is their investment team compared to the rest of the operation

2024-06-11 18:18:44 people of Rio de Janeiro, if you are on the fediverse, can come to see me talk tomorrow at 3PM about model marketplaces such as Github and Hugging Face, and the difficulties moderating them, at FGV Direito Rio https://direitorio.fgv.br/eventos/fgv-reg-talks-moderating-model-marketp...

2024-05-22 09:02:08 #CPDP Friday 0845AM Music Room, Nahide Basri and I are facilitating a very interactive workshop on privacy, data protection law in surveillance–heavy occupation contexts.It'

2024-05-20 22:45:25 High Court judgment on ‘Faketoshi’, incredible document, in which Craig Wright forges LaTeX files of the BTC white paper w/ mad OCR TikZ which specifies letters in coordinates, anachronistic hyperref options, &

2024-05-19 12:43:06 @yawnbox @EUCommission @securedrop thankfully no gatekeepers control significant parts of the Internet infrastructure

2024-05-17 13:30:15 UK gov: Britain is a leader in AI tech companiesAlso UK gov: there are so few AI companies in Britain we have to give out a £1m tender for 3 months work entirely uncontested to Facultyhttps://www.politico.eu/article/dominic-cummings-faculty-ai-safety-briti...

2024-05-08 08:14:15 absolute chaos on a new unmoderated listserv this week as tens of people used the ‘thumbs up’ feature in outlook, which apparently now sends an email, causing an unstoppable torrent

2024-05-02 18:54:52 You can watch our panel event with @jennifercobbe @Margotkaminski @agstrait and me - Regulatory Models for Algorithmic Assessment: Robust Delegation or Kicking The Can? - held at UCL Laws last week, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbVEgSLO3iY

2024-04-21 17:20:22 @9to5Mac "

2024-04-14 15:54:12 @dalonso and just wait until you get someone who put an emoji in their article title

2024-04-14 15:53:30 @dalonso the number of ways these can create problems in software workflows has been immense. i’m not talking about handwriting everything from scratch.

2024-04-14 14:11:05 the amount of time i spend on tex and bib files debugging people so the umlauts in their names parse correctly and don'

2024-04-13 18:23:10 @j2bryson @cjcolclough Given that GPT-4 isn'

2024-04-12 10:31:36 @CatherineFlick tbf if you have windows for arm you probably do know it

2024-04-12 09:56:14 Reply below with which company you think Rishi Sunak will end up landing a job for after this period of taxpayer-funded self promotion.

2024-04-02 18:00:13 if your mobile provider tries to stop you tethering (including when roaming) using your allowance, it'

2024-04-01 11:25:46 boston people! i’m giving a talk tomorrow at northeastern law on governing AI and its intermediaries - model marketplaces and repositories, APIs and supply chains, and more… (tx @elibietti). come if you are free! https://law.northeastern.edu/event/governing-ai/

2024-03-26 12:31:43 @cheribaker ffs

2024-03-22 14:58:23 Join @jennifercobbe @Margotkaminski @agstrait &

2024-03-22 10:41:27 Today at the CIPL Data Protection conference in the Cambridge, talking about the future of DP in the UK, the #DPDIBill, and more. Organised by David Erdos and @jennifercobbe. Recording should be up for those interested and will share if and when out.

2024-03-21 21:49:58 @zuck likes, but not replies...

2024-03-20 06:54:49 @pcottle opt-in federation is an interesting choice — will users be prompted at account creation/feature activation, or will it remain buried and arcane?

2024-03-19 21:04:07 @libertepourmoi @poVoq also the citation '

2024-03-18 20:48:14 @feoh lots of methods, ethnographies, interview studies, etc

2024-03-15 13:17:29 @pluralistic @floe thanks! have read i think two of these posts but not the third or the book yet! am also curious about these specific systems (incentives behind development, financing and financial flows, arrangements of meetings, decision-making, dissemination of specs...)

2024-03-15 11:06:28 has anyone been writing or studying the political economy of recent DRM and copyright-related cryptosystems in operating systems or hardware? Intel'

2024-03-14 09:31:55 Giving a public lecture at IViR at the Universiry of Amsterdam tomorrow: Governing AI’s Intermediaries - if you’re around or interested you can register for in person or register to attend online https://www.ivir.nl/events/ivir-lecture-15march2024/

2024-03-13 15:58:52 The Pokémon Company issued a takedown request to Hugging Face for a dataset describing the characteristics of e.g. Bulbasaur. Let'

2024-03-13 10:35:00 Useful, massively underused academic tool: shortDOIs https://shortdoi.org/. Turn official DOIs into official tiny ones!e.g. preprint of @rg &

2024-03-12 07:09:30 @Graffotti idk it seems more like rich commuters pressuring the government

2024-03-10 07:48:27 Why is Heemstede-Aerdenhout an intercity station? wtf nederlanders

2024-03-07 18:29:59 #Apple: to allow secure alternative app marketplaces in accordance with EU law/the #DMA, we have created over 600 APIs for developers, including those that incentivise easy updates by these stores!Also Apple: leave the EU for more than 30 days and your apps won'

2024-03-07 17:26:40 @sushant doesn'

2024-03-06 16:49:08 @rg and me presenting at Berkman Klein on our Model Marketplaces paper, scrutinising the direction of content moderation OF generative models on hosting platforms like Hugging Face, GitHub and Civitai, in 35 mins (at 1830 CET today) https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/moderating-model-marketplaces

2024-03-05 09:21:18 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. https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf

2024-03-01 15:58:31 One of the most convenient things about being temporarily based at the Institute for Information Law in the University of Amsterdam is that every room has a copy of Zuboff'

2024-03-01 00:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2024-03-11 00:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-05-22 15:49:08 Question for TikTok: where are you training your models? Are there costly GPUs in both the Oracle data centre and in Ireland/Norway? Are you sharding a model? Or is there really data transfer that you aren’t being clear about? https://t.co/ZBVESAi9rh

2023-05-22 15:10:32 RT @signalapp: The UK's Online Safety Bill will set a precedent for government mass surveillance for authoritarian regimes all over the wor…

2023-05-22 14:41:36 there are ‘solutions’ for Meta in the same way companies around the world seek ‘solutions’ for wildly broad US sanctions… https://t.co/8ziHg5wVhd

2023-05-22 12:48:12 @empo11on @mediastudies @uvadatascience congratulations! and congratulations on @mediastudies for the handle

2023-05-22 12:27:23 @EinnDet @jason_kint if that’s the view the DPC takes, they will appeal on that too

2023-05-22 10:54:43 @jason_kint well, they have to delete it if there is no EU-US agreement before november (regardless how temporary that is), and then if they fail to get an interlocutory injunction to stop the decision taking effect while they appeal, and appeal, and wait for the preliminary reference...

2023-05-22 10:52:54 (the first derivative) of public debt is falling https://t.co/rgi3zXYQ9t

2023-05-22 10:42:36 @simonhania @gabrielazanfir Meta can (and likely will) apply for an interlocutory injunction suspending the order alongside the appeal. It isn't techncially automatic. The Court has the power to grant or refuse that injunction before a trial.

2023-05-22 10:10:44 If people claim that it is not fair that companies are in the crossfire of international disputes, please let me introduce you to the US sanctions regime...

2023-05-22 10:09:37 The Schrems I/II branch of litigation is as always less interesting for how it changes commercial practices than for how it is slowly slowly changing limitless US state surveillance of foreigners, and putting the lens on other countries too. https://t.co/jBzz42iwcS

2023-05-19 19:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-05-21 19:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-05-11 04:57:43 This is also the Google/Youtube ContentID playbook, where you use technology to turn a liability for infringement (with a price decided by the rightsholder) into an opportunity to sell a service based on copyrighted material with (low) take-it-or-leave-it remuneration. https://t.co/LgoLKoo4dj

2023-05-09 22:05:04 @joejerome voice recognition =/= speech recognition

2023-05-09 22:04:27 @joejerome it’s presumably referring to voice print authentication?

2023-05-09 16:34:01 @tforcworc maybe they just want their wrists cooled

2023-05-09 14:01:58 RT @NahideBasri: This is happening today at 17:00 CET! Still time to register

2023-05-09 13:51:07 @katebevan nice grift! one month is the cost of a single repeater on their own website https://t.co/3jIeZNPeGY

2023-05-09 13:48:35 ignore all difficult and contested issues until the difficult and contested issues are gone! assume politics is just everyone else adopting your viewpoint and expectations about the future! don’t think about distributive anything, only about production! who’s with me?! https://t.co/TFEZJuKiPg

2023-05-09 11:49:11 RT @sedyst: This is the most disconcerting tweet I have been mentioned in. And, since Seeta and I have been pulled into this ongoing discus…

2023-05-09 06:48:35 @legalytical @clancynewyork US legal academics world-renowned for rebranding things others have long called something different, so that checks out...

2023-05-08 19:41:40 @legalytical @clancynewyork UK and canada just call these neutral citations (not even vendor or reporter neutral as in your post) and have done for the last 20+ years so it might be helpful to keep with that terminology. Not sure if many places at all call them universal citations…

2023-05-07 13:55:41 RT @RDBinns: Similarly, LLMs may be powerful to extent that they change social relations, increasing opps for exploitation, de-skilling, de…

2023-05-07 09:15:15 @technollama i was sad i could not use the SCART I brought

2023-05-07 09:05:58 @technollama i forgot it existed entirely

2023-05-07 06:47:01 @technollama almost ancient! my transatlantic flight this AM: https://t.co/qc7UWl1Pam

2023-05-06 10:59:44 @markscott82 that’s @divijualsuspect

2023-05-06 02:31:40 @npseaver rumpole of the bailey

2023-05-05 19:52:01 RT @NahideBasri: Join us on the 9th of May for our Data Protection Scholars Network event where I will be moderating a panel discussion on…

2023-05-05 01:44:51 @katebevan pivpn on your pi! then you can do what you like

2023-05-04 22:57:22 RT @cynddl: New research out today in @NatMachIntell after 3 years investigating the potential harms of AI in online markets! We show tha…

2023-05-04 12:06:48 @hackylawyER i’m in dc today and my dms are open

2023-05-04 11:45:17 @axelpopaxel and ‘openly embrace’ is rarely if ever measured… just asserted!

2023-05-04 11:44:01 @axelpopaxel other standards bodies don’t produce standards designed to be the *de facto* only way to comply with a law…

2023-05-04 11:42:23 @ndiakopoulos worthwhile noting that these techs do not seem to work across people/mice at the moment and require significant per person training (for humans, days of sessions in MRI machines watching repeated images)… rarely mentioned in the articles about them.

2023-05-04 11:19:06 Almost surreal report today from CERRE on European #standardisation, ignoring how European standards are increasingly about things the experts do not know about (see #AIAct and borders, judicial fairness, education…), suggesting the civil society bodies like ANEC/ETUI have (1/2)

2023-05-03 19:43:28 RT @Nadya_Purtova: Delighted to announce a CfP for the Beyond Data Protection Conference @infolegproject @ERC_Research https://t.co/13dU2…

2023-05-03 10:55:31 @bengoldacre (underemphasise as in ‘open safely looks cool, we could use it in the justice sector’)

2023-05-03 10:54:55 @bengoldacre important to note that because the health research sector assumes solid ethical approval, it can underemphasise the need to ensure confidentiality preserving outputs are answering ethical research questions. in other sectors, confidentiality isn’t a get out of jail free pass!

2023-05-02 17:25:51 RT @epicenter_works: Last week, the European Commission released its 2nd evaluation report on the EU’s #NetNeutrality framework. It mostly…

2023-05-02 17:17:51 RT @jim_dickinson: So when the government says "We are freezing fees" and "we are reducing interest" they're really making more graduates p…

2023-05-01 14:08:18 @leotanczt i will be there! are you going?

2023-04-30 22:20:43 also in UK law known as accidental partnerships, where partners in these discord chats share joint and several unlimited liability for the debts of the organisation… https://t.co/eYIcB39dcA

2023-04-29 09:47:53 no idea how US tax law works, but i’d have thought that in the UK this would be a taxable benefit…? https://t.co/3TumfLpVy4

2023-04-29 07:51:53 As the Home Office runs a hackathon to look for ‘AI’ transcription/translation tools to reduce the #asylum backlog without a step change in investment (https://t.co/VK1Su2ciXD), @restofworld@restof.social reports that… surprise surprise, machine translation is jeopardising (1/2)

2023-04-29 06:22:48 @mchardcastle i thought that rings a bell

2023-04-28 22:27:04 RT @hackylawyER: This point. This . And this paper from @jennifercobbe @mikarv and @jatinternet. Read it (and maybe pair it with my book B…

2023-04-28 17:41:44 RT @sedyst: More papers on how software production is organized and how it is shaped by the underlying infrastructures. Yeay!!! Looking for…

2023-04-28 17:10:14 RT @ALGOSOC_: Exciting news! We're expanding our team at #AlgoSoc and are looking for five talented PhDs and postdocs to join us. To lear…

2023-04-28 16:11:17 RT @petros_ter: this article by Martha Poon transformed the way I think about technology in decision-making. It's not about the ouput and i…

2023-04-28 13:28:26 RT @petros_ter: Reminder: Under the #EHDS proposal, wellness applications (ie Apple's *native #Health app) will also be interoperable with…

2023-04-28 13:20:18 @W_Wiewiorowski e-merging examples

2023-04-28 09:58:55 RT @jennifercobbe: FAccT paper with @mikarv and @jatinternet - on accountability in algorithmic supply chains We explore the dynamics of A…

2023-04-28 08:08:09 @sorsoup then there will be! and i will delete the tweet

2023-04-28 08:01:16 wild that it seems no sovereign states have a capital beginning with 'e', at least in english...

2023-04-27 22:31:07 I can’t see the privacy policy but given that it looks to have several huge flaws, I suggest people in Europe start using their data protection rights and complaining when they aren’t met to their local regulator before the firm sets up shop in Ireland as a main establishment… https://t.co/vKrZCDrMtn

2023-04-27 22:26:24 Very interesting and informative paper by Marie-Gabrielle Bertran on 'Free and open source software in the new digital public policies in #Russia'. I'm interested to learn more about the growth of Linux distributions like #AstraLinux in the public sector, and perhaps the (1/2)

2023-04-27 21:30:02 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ see some earlier thoughts from me on this at the beginning of last year in @netzpolitik_org https://t.co/IlDdGwypM7

2023-04-27 21:28:10 RT @daviest_: @mikarv @IoannisLianos Great example. Building and deploying privacy preserving ML requires skilled labour, computational inf…

2023-04-27 21:27:07 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ it is possible to design systems that are both pluralistic and confidentiality preserving, it’s just that neither real-time bidding adtech firms (who operate predominantly illegally) nor google have any incentive to explore this design direction, so a false dichotomy is presented

2023-04-27 21:11:40 @daviest_ @IoannisLianos and you just need to look at how much money GAFAM are spending on privacy preserving machine learning to see how eagerly they are investing in technologies that mean they don’t need to be able to see or access data to be able to train models on it.

2023-04-27 20:59:48 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ open ended infrastructures simplify poorly. @sedyst is the intellectual leader of work on this area in my view.

2023-04-27 20:58:51 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ i think a prob is that understanding computing is hard, &

2023-04-27 20:52:19 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ the point isn’t that ‘data never matters’, it’s that data is a poor focal point, and the metaphor of data does not get anyone discussing about the infrastructures, and so huge amounts are missed. exactly how much will vary on the business model or functionality discussed.

2023-04-27 20:49:33 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ and even when you think about AI and similar systems, a lot of development is about experimentation on users, A/B testing, which is more about being able to intervene on a population than collect data — data recipients can never do that.

2023-04-27 20:47:58 @IoannisLianos @daviest_ sadly computing isn’t reducible to such statements. consider eg the airtag example, or the contact tracing example, from my pres. neither use AI, nor arguably personal data! privacy sandbox and similar proposals promise microtargeting without personal data agglomeration…

2023-04-27 13:46:51 RT @daviest_: The term "data" is highly contextual. It's akin to a word like "object" in conventional markets. Without nuance, the term doe…

2023-04-27 13:46:45 RT @daviest_: People framing "data" as the big baddie of competition law in digital markets was what got me - a software engineer at the ti…

2023-04-27 13:04:35 RT @sedyst: Michael nails it… We need to bring regulators’ attention to computational infrastructures, and not just as providers of cloud c…

2023-04-26 21:04:18 @Abebab @mmitchell_ai it’s crazy springer nature think they can make all these umpteen brand new journals in 2023 and still give them absurdly closed formats and access policies

2023-04-26 20:56:18 @Richvn @nealhaddaway @hug_sven it is a database (also in the CS sense!). it just isn’t one that’s fully queryable by its users.

2023-04-26 08:15:00 RT @InterwebzNani: What would European Court of Human Rights decisions look like if they recognised + applied #intersectionality? The pro…

2023-04-26 06:42:24 @Angronn1 @hawktalk_blog @karenmccullagh @Nadya_Purtova eg it would bring google’s privacy sandbox proposal in chrome outside of the law

2023-04-26 06:42:10 @Angronn1 @hawktalk_blog @karenmccullagh @Nadya_Purtova it’s a bad change because the logic means that many systems which sort and have real effects on people, including prospective fear of surveillance, do not need to follow any data protection law, and people experiencing with them have no recourse to a regulator or court.

2023-04-26 06:18:02 @stokel we have to ask about the kind of values that are underpinning firm actions, like… shareholder value

2023-04-26 05:48:51 @hawktalk_blog was saying almost precisely this at BILETA last week to @karenmccullagh, though it’s also an artefact of UK case law being more advanced than the EU here which has Breyer. relates to @Nadya_Purtova’s recent paper on individuation https://t.co/43NwerqZCm

2023-04-25 22:25:34 @ICOnews why did you delete all your blogs btw?

2023-04-25 13:02:46 @jorisvanhoboken @FusterGloria @ReneLPMahieu here’s a picture of jef and pierre’s heads https://t.co/1B29xxW7Ei

2023-04-25 08:04:07 big dunning kruger energy https://t.co/M1oWsp5LhB

2023-04-25 07:59:04 @cearta I miss ““>

2023-04-24 14:30:37 RT @CPDPconferences: When are creators traders? What benchmarks are being used or are desirable to measure this? With @CatalinaGoanta @UniU…

2023-04-24 11:07:03 @oliviasolon thats a lot of AWS credits

2023-04-22 12:37:49 @colmocinneide the real constitution is the friends and colleagues you lose along the way

2023-04-21 00:00:01 CAFIAC FIX

2023-04-20 19:01:54 @1lucabelli @technollama could be any llama at all

2023-04-20 11:14:50 @JimBethell @LordJimKnight @whiterhino1949 @PJLeerssen @Jausl00s Paddy Leerssen also wrote a PhD on the topic, very important work that gov &

2023-04-20 11:11:01 @JimBethell @LordJimKnight @whiterhino1949 University of Amsterdam ran an *excellent* two-day workshop on the pros and cons of Article 40, DSA and data access last month, including how it can be improved run by @PJLeerssen @Jausl00s Siddarth de Souza

2023-04-20 11:09:37 @JimBethell @LordJimKnight @whiterhino1949 Very welcome, Digital Services Act already confident enough to allow. Good to complement the code of practice with a binding power for Ofcom to require large platforms to produce data similar to that in the DSA, art 40, in accordance with the COP. https://t.co/ANExsPa8GO https://t.co/JypergYeD4

2023-04-20 11:06:39 RT @JimBethell: That's why I am moving an amendment to require a Code of practice on access to data by researchers. With @LordJimKnight and…

2023-04-20 10:50:28 FT reports Google to use generative AI to create on-the-fly ad copy. This may deprive G of intermediary liability shielding for the content of adverts for eg counterfeit goods (see CJEU in Google France [118]). https://t.co/nxohGlX98M https://t.co/vk1Y6TZGab #DSA https://t.co/XJE6xAcbp9

2023-04-20 09:35:35 @roofjoke Only paying users can use all vowels.

2023-04-20 09:20:27 @evijitghosh SSRN is going downhill at speed and is run by Elsevier. Hard for non logged in people to download. Largely used by US schools that for some reason fetishise download metrics. SocArxiv much better to upload social science work to.

2023-04-20 08:34:02 RT @echo_pbreyer: The EU Commission’s unprecedented proposal of searching any private communication for illegal content is falling apart:…

2023-04-20 08:13:59 RT @thebigbogg: Legal uncertainty around the lawfulness of deductions is a strategic resource for employers, not the union or striking work…

2023-04-20 07:15:01 The same Capita that, as this week’s Private Eye points out, boasts of their cyber security expertise… https://t.co/KQlIpnFFzS https://t.co/CF9e44KvsU

2023-04-19 22:24:01 RT @joecoscarelli: for anyone who really cares about this A.I. music stuff, here are @hollyherndon's full answers, since she took the time…

2023-04-19 18:52:53 @hackylawyER For some policy problems very wrong. But large models can also be used to launder datasets to transfer them without oversight and reconstruct elsewhere. It depends on choice of problem. I’m not claiming data protection is a silver bullet

2023-04-19 18:36:31 Google Spain does not require Google or any other search engine to erased indexed website data related to a person.

2023-04-19 18:35:37 That’s not what the law requires though

2023-04-19 18:32:08 UCL threatening to deduct half of pay for entire of term three including late summer assessment period, including period where *no exams you are responsible for are submitted yet!* https://t.co/3cHLYNsIv4

2023-04-19 18:29:34 @lilianedwards @Jackstilgoe internet years are like cat years

2023-04-19 18:29:08 Pretty sure no major firms reveal cleaning steps

2023-04-19 17:27:22 RT @grahamgreenleaf: Agree completely with @javierruiz 10 part thread (do read it! - below) on the defects of CBPRs (global or APEC), &

2023-04-18 22:22:37 corporate persons can also have mid life crises https://t.co/AOOngDFjhM

2023-04-18 22:14:37 RT @STS_News: And here is my own post. Lots of other voices came to the surface when these posts were released. You can find some of them…

2023-04-18 22:04:38 @TimandraHarknes @GreggsOfficial you can get hand pulled or shaven la mien noodles round the corner until 3 or 4am on cranbourne st

2023-04-18 15:46:50 @sedyst @MarcLangheinri1 @bpreneel1 @JcMalgieri @jiahong_chen @jamesks i am a happy alumnus (:

2023-04-18 15:46:28 RT @sedyst: The 5th edition of the Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Privacy is coming up. Early registration deadline is May 1st, 2023. Th…

2023-04-18 12:13:23 seriously? #UXfail https://t.co/6uWsrWPNTm

2023-04-18 08:04:36 RT @ImagingNeurosci: All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-…

2023-04-17 23:48:02 RT @sarahbmyers: What this article misses is that many of the leading 'startups' in AI already use Google Cloud/are offered on its marketpl…

2023-04-17 14:04:30 RT @jason_koebler: good foia: https://t.co/4rbBz54ZdJ

2023-04-17 13:26:49 RT @Jisc: It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the passing of our colleague and friend Andrew Cormack. He will be greatly…

2023-04-17 07:28:48 @johnthornhillft @hare_brain @timmpsmith @Siftedeu “The issue, Andrulis says, is that “general purpose AI” like LLMs would be treated as high-risk if they could hypothetically be used for a high-risk application.” — he should get a lawyer to read the drafts then, or another viewpoint in the article: that’s not what drafts say

2023-04-15 17:53:11 RT @DavidErdos: Given @iconews secured 0 enforcement notices or criminal prosecutions and gave out just 4 fines totally £180k in 2021-22 ht…

2023-04-13 22:04:17 @jennifercobbe llms great way to sell more cloud congrats all

2023-04-13 22:03:49 RT @jennifercobbe: Major AI service providers like AWS and Azure - who until now have mostly offered their own models as a service - now in…

2023-04-13 21:57:39 @timnitGebru @xriskology i’m sure they’d appreciate treating language as commutative tho

2023-04-13 21:55:56 @timnitGebru @xriskology #TESCREAL can also be written as #REALSECT..

2023-04-13 21:28:31 RT @lilianedwards: Very sorry indeed to hear of the sudden passing of @Janet_LegReg , always a helpful, knowledgeable, cheerful and wise co…

2023-04-12 22:17:18 Mega congratulations today to the shining Dr Paddy Leerssen (cum laude), incredibly well deserved and besides about time as everyone generally assumed you already had a PhD. https://t.co/fTLLx9EKwC

2023-04-11 21:31:42 @ariezrawaldman both sally engle merry and judy l klein

2023-04-11 19:18:18 @BetterBeckenham Beckenham: Peckham: https://t.co/boXOGTMPHB

2023-04-10 21:28:26 @katebevan i was spoiled today as i walked past a succession billboard and it was all glassy with people wearing suits but in my head this show people were talking about was a hilary mantel era spin-off

2023-04-10 21:26:20 @emax have you tried the Pringles Pro? less echoey and also more flavours

2023-04-09 15:00:10 @timnitGebru If there was a rebuttal period added again, the whole timeline would need to be yanked back further. ATM visa timelines (ACM only issue invite letters after registration/acceptance) means it's unlikely all authors can make it when held in the US. Perhaps it never should be.

2023-04-09 12:58:15 @tforcworc yeah. i’ve seen people do this in groups to them. having ridden one without power as it ran out to get to destination, it’s not easy or enjoyable though…

2023-04-09 10:38:22 based on everything i have read about it, the horizon post office scandal was less about technological reliance or indeed computing at all, and more about cultural suspicion in a broken institution suspecting sub postmasters of fraud. https://t.co/6YOw1MIgpC

2023-04-09 09:47:18 @StevenWagner85 @Sandbagger_01 while tempting to be outraged at a tweet the actual article is hardly worth that react… https://t.co/26qdyvJ0fP

2023-04-09 08:25:47 also: the study was desk based, specific to particular individuals (prerequisite: each of 8 individuals watched 30,000 images over 40 MRI sessions over a year), applied to the visual part of the brain which i’m told is incomparably better understood compared to conceptual parts… https://t.co/llWSegN2Td

2023-04-08 23:51:32 @owainkenway studying the increasingly maddening drm hardware stack is on my list of things to do if i have energy, maybe if i get a really good student with interests in this direction.

2023-04-08 23:44:44 timing also matters. you can’t hold this conference in the US, it simply does not work. even with the paper announcements now, many, many people will be unable to get visas (and ACM does not issue letters until registration/acceptance afaik) https://t.co/wkC7zqYcbN

2023-04-07 08:24:21 @grahamgreenleaf @DouweKorff @apf_oz even if consent required, question is whether court will bend its meaning as they did in GC and Others

2023-04-07 08:23:46 @grahamgreenleaf @DouweKorff @apf_oz in canada yes perhaps as regime is consent based, but not all processing needs to rely on consent in the EU, other lawful bases available. but would need their tests to be met. google doesn’t require consent for search spiders it seems even though it’s a controller per G Spain

2023-04-07 07:29:11 @TobyWalsh not sure that’s a useful concept… neither, arguably, is surveillance capitalism. new concepts need a reason to exist, and to have explanatory social science value, not just to be concatenated buzzwords.

2023-04-07 07:21:45 balanced if it ever comes to pass. I can already think of several, partial ‘expert’ academics likely to be on it, and those certain to be vetoed. Perhaps I should put names in a sealed envelope. https://t.co/NMlFiRnOJv (2/2) https://t.co/wnLgv8NKfi

2023-04-07 07:21:44 Minutes of March meeting between EU &

2023-04-06 19:52:05 @RobertJBateman You’re governed by Irish law extraterritorially until end of April no?

2023-04-06 19:02:56 @clarinette02 OpenAI will likely set up a main establishment in the EU in the coming months.

2023-04-06 18:58:29 The Italian DPA v quickly brought OpenAI to the table. Even if they lift the stop processing order (politically likely, now it has achieved its goal), will they stop the inquiry, or put aside the issue of the legal basis of processing of both normal data &

2023-04-06 17:00:25 A great infographic on how incoherent English policy geographies are from the Bennett Institute @ Cambridge (full report: https://t.co/LNBqoxpY0h) https://t.co/o0ADC5x8wU

2023-04-05 11:25:21 RT @Jausl00s: Awesome news: Dutch Court of Appeal rules in favour of @WorkerInfoX and @ADCUnion, condemning Uber &

2023-04-05 10:40:18 RT @tforcworc: Save MAP Cafe https://t.co/vn8DTItiKn

2023-04-05 07:56:34 RT @JamesBesanvalle: Were you born outside the UK but now call it your home? I'm opening up commissions again for my @MetroUK Immigration N…

2023-04-03 10:50:13 @danielverlaan slight fingerprinting issue.. yes you can hide in the crowd of.. other mullvad browser users https://t.co/LKBcC0qiuk

2023-04-03 10:48:58 RT @lilianedwards: Can GPT-4 itself (say) be regarded as personal data , distinct from the personal data in the training set? here is the (…

2023-04-03 10:15:16 RT @rgorwa: Ah! After many months of work, I'm so excited to be able to help host another iteration of the @PlatGov conference. I'm not twe…

2023-04-03 09:53:38 @joyopal @divijualsuspect how was the process of getting speakers visas for this? how early did you have to start?

2023-04-03 09:52:24 RT @divijualsuspect: I'll be presenting work on the limits of conditional immunity regimes in platform regulation here tomorrow, and spend…

2023-04-03 09:44:37 The main effect of the Italian DPA's order is that it forces AI firms to the table to talk and think about regulation they have pretended they are not in scope of if they have global ambitions. Platforms can't be delivered from out of territory forever if they dream of being big. https://t.co/Jb5B7ZhpOe

2023-04-03 07:59:16 @RichardMoorhead @Familoo I thought that there was also a line of critique that said it’s not about hunger, it’s about judges controlling the docket and having reasons to moving different types of cases around the agenda in ways that biased the results.

2023-04-03 07:55:56 Seems a direct result of this government’s choice to delay the Digital Market Unit legislation, as CMA only delayed investigation in expectation of new powers. Regulators’ paralysis, of the sort this gov pushes, means even the decisions they want to make are procedurally fragile. https://t.co/1MhDDiiW5b

2023-04-03 07:52:49 @1Br0wn @RobertJBateman @TheABB @lilianedwards @RDBinns @gabrielazanfir yes we have, first discussed it in 2017 ‘slave to the algorithm’ w @lilianedwards in sections on models as personal data &

2023-04-02 14:29:16 Just to clarify further, the first image is the result of a blocking order (a website blocked by the intermediary subject to the order despite the service still actively attempting to deliver to users), the second is the OpenAI situation (a service no longer delivered by (1/2)

2023-04-02 12:52:10 public intellectuals soothe themselves https://t.co/mXOqxihs0W

2023-04-02 11:15:54 @Floridi Misleading to call the Italian decision a ‘block’. The order is not addressed to ISPs nor other intermediaries. Internet blocking (as in the other countries listed) is very different in mechanics and proportionality from legal action taken against the source of content.

2023-04-02 10:38:13 (France banned internal flights where reasonable alternatives existed, obviously did not ban flights to Corsica. UK seems unable to act with any granularity.)

2023-04-02 10:36:07 If you want to boost UK-wide connectivity, then at *most* only cut taxes on flights that connect places that are infrastructurally prohibitive to get to w less carbon intensive means (eg Shetland, N Ireland). What justifies a tax cut for Manchester, Edinburgh, Exeter ->

2023-04-02 10:12:12 ChatGPT has not been ‘blocked’ in Italy. Blocking orders are addressed at ISPs or internet intermediaries. The provider of a service has been ordered not to provide it until they demonstrate compliance. Cease &

2023-04-02 10:01:32 @JulesPolonetsky OpenAI argues it is unsafe to reveal *any* information about the data sources behind GPT-4. https://t.co/jOcOuS3VaD https://t.co/d4XrgRUlzt

2023-04-02 09:37:38 i hope big tourist trap restaurants continue to ensnare visiting americans in naff joints in the centre of london. residents don’t want queues standing in the way of their enjoyment of the incredible, diaspora-driven food in hundreds of small, poky places across the city. https://t.co/Uc0UanQYRL

2023-03-31 14:38:15 Jobs at UCL Laws! 1. Permanent research &

2023-03-31 11:32:13 @roxanna_law @ClarityTravel_ best bit is where you ask them to book ryanair flights through email as it doesn't come up on their system and they don't send you the info you need to check in, the email they booked it with. however, at least it is possible (at UCL) to book hotels/flights without permission...

2023-03-31 10:54:31 Italian DPA issues a immediate, temporary limitation on OpenAI processing personal data in Italy as part of #ChatGPT, on the basis of - no legal basis - lack of accuracy - no age verification of users - no filters for under 13s https://t.co/e8ObcwiHKw #GDPR #GarantePrivacy #GPDP

2023-03-31 07:26:48 RT @infofannny: Meta announces a risk based tool "using AI to give advertisers more control" so "harmful content is not monetized". The con…

2023-03-31 07:25:41 RT @colmocinneide: Scorching analysis here from @ProfCCostello of the UK's Illegal (sic) Migration Bill.

2023-03-31 07:25:25 @colmocinneide @ProfCCostello I am listening to it on the bus to the Fac and the burn is so strong that I can smell the rubber.

2023-03-30 21:07:06 @BYMYong underrated OSCOLA pdf: https://t.co/wV3zcK8vOM

2023-03-30 08:00:44 RT @EUCourtPress: #ECJ: Live streaming by #videoconference of classes in state school education falls within the scope of the #GDPR #Person…

2023-03-30 06:33:40 RT @LSE_UCU: There's a crisis of academic casualisation and precarity at the LSE. Insecure and short-term contracts are rife. We're social…

2023-03-29 10:00:16 @charrindisguise can email me on my uni email, details https://t.co/T0Zm1YXmKl

2023-03-29 06:57:31 @TimCauser no offence tim but i’m genuinely horrified that it’s your research area that is becoming increasingly relevant in and around this island

2023-03-29 06:57:09 New #OnlineSafetyBill amendments on #ResearcherDataAccess (similar to Article 40, #DSA). Yet does not allow orgs to apply for this status and make requests regardless of Ofcom’s political will, nor clear results publishable/accountable. https://t.co/sRXSrl090B https://t.co/OPasWVh2Ds

2023-03-29 06:55:52 @profgeraintrees interesting use of empower to mean give no new powers to… and interesting omission of the one regulator who has been producing guidance, the Information Commissioner. also note that the first guidance i’ve seen HSE produce on neural networks was 22 years ago - with what effect? https://t.co/nWWP5SwPUt

2023-03-29 06:32:31 UK proposes no AI regulation, instead just urging sectoral regulators to use existing powers. Won’t work, primarily as regulators’ powers are hugely insufficient, misdirected towards the often helpless final actors/users in the AI supply chain who technology (1/2)

2023-03-29 06:27:28 @HetanShah Does not recognise that existing regulators lack the effective powers to do this, typically because existing powers relate to actors who are helpless rule takers in the platformised AI supply chain. Won’t work.

2023-03-28 19:21:45 Parliamentary question from Harriet Baldwin confirms that UK government is abandoning the Royal Mint NFT it should never have embarked upon https://t.co/R3PZYLuvEa https://t.co/t3Ofam22xd

2023-03-28 17:38:31 @ICOnews This guidance makes clear that behavioural advertising targeted at categories of people is direct marketing. When will the ICO take action against social media platforms for not permitting individuals a right to object from this personalised marketing?

2023-03-28 17:33:35 RT @BantshireUni: Called it https://t.co/GeLoqtFDIC

2023-03-28 17:23:08 RT @littlesnitch: This is insane. PayPal has restricted our business account because we have invoiced a license key containing the random l…

2023-03-28 17:18:44 @owainkenway i am definitely not using a socks proxy over ssh to file my expenses no sir

2023-03-28 17:13:43 @owainkenway @uclisd now if anyone could update the unofficial tutorial on how to get linux openconnect to work given the need to SSO with it now that would be ace…

2023-03-28 14:56:40 @MLeiser mixed — tweet could have been clearer, a legal basis was not established in relation to tracking data collected and transmitted simultaneously phones

2023-03-28 09:26:04 The #CNIL fines an e-scooter firm for tracking the #geolocation of its #escooters every 30 seconds without informing them or establishing a legal basis, even if in a separate database as it can be easily cross correlated to users. While not special category data, the CNIL (1/2)

2023-03-28 08:29:00 RT @hdevalence: apple, silently confiscating the "receive from everyone" setting for airdrop transfers: "fuck you and your preferences, we…

2023-03-26 13:28:18 @ShannonVallor the insides of some fridges however...

2023-03-26 11:06:16 RT @AmooreLouise: The erosion of pay in HE has deep implications for the lives &

2023-03-25 20:54:00 RT @zamaan_qureshi: ‼ @RepLoriTrahan “In 2021, the UK’s Age Appropriate Design Code went into effect…You still operate in the United Kingd…

2023-03-24 09:37:51 @JimBethell @UKHouseofLords do you agree with its provision that parents should be able to see all under 18s’ direct messages by technical design?

2023-03-24 08:36:33 oh no https://t.co/ORKaKCfY5o

2023-03-24 06:32:46 i don’t think openai leaning into being ubiquitous robotic process automation (eg through its plugin system and automatically writing glue code) is going to lead to safe and secure and reliable systems. it may even create serious systemic risk. normal accidents galore.

2023-03-24 06:25:14 link to new Utah child protection online bill, which (on the face of it, not a US law scholar) adds age requirements and the ability for parents to view all the private messages of minors (children’s privacy rights clearly mean little in Utah), screen time, ad and messaging (1/2)

2023-03-24 06:15:14 @agstrait the wee crown

2023-03-23 22:55:00 @CatalinaGoanta every 15 seconds, a child publishes an article in an MDPI special issue

2023-03-23 22:50:26 @RobertJBateman i mentioned the famous jackets in passing to my students some weeks back and then was like oh wait. you definitely wont think they are famous or indeed have any idea what i am talking about

2023-03-23 07:25:32 @matthew_d_green they do however let anyone with any privileges ‘encrypt the controls’ at any workstation

2023-03-23 07:15:58 discuss with reference to the reasonable person fiction https://t.co/fcZWRgohDz

2023-03-22 22:54:50 @CourtenayIlbert @rosenbaum6 it’s also the name of a firm not a person

2023-03-22 22:42:28 finally, after years of the ASA doing nothing, Ofcom seems like they might act against ISPs who call their crappy copper or slow upload DOCSIS "fibre"/"full-fibre" https://t.co/rtzhEw7yzS

2023-03-22 17:41:12 what is going on with this corporate signature on sunak’s tax summary https://t.co/OpLrswGjyi https://t.co/Vugi5Wa4hp

2023-03-22 09:12:22 providers do not provide the information on processing purposes, types of data, recipients or sources in the granularity needed by data protection law. perhaps if they did, AI systems would have something to parrot! instead, they do what they do best — invent plausible nonsense.

2023-03-22 09:10:38 ai manufacturers: “this is the future of information retrieval!” also ai manufacturers: “no, not that kind of information, from a law we don’t fully adhere to!”

2023-03-22 09:09:24 it can be both stupid to ask an LLM something about itself &

2023-03-22 06:15:50 @gquaggiotto @EdgelandsInst swiss law is different than EU law on this, but that isn’t surprising as there isn’t a legal requirement in subject access requests to provide that information (location). you do typically have rights to know if it is going abroad though, just not the precise info about location.

2023-03-14 15:07:08 @technollama semantic web

2023-03-12 06:17:27 RT @g_sbardella: MDPI journals have been included in the list of predatory journals. It was about time. https://t.co/sIJ78bPtbB

2023-03-11 18:45:37 @clarinette02 in the US, tiktok are trying to calm people by putting oracle between the company and the data centres (oracle owned), and in the EU, by putting a similar EU company between the company and the data centres (tiktok owned)

2023-03-11 18:42:29 @clarinette02 i’m not a tiktok conspiracy theorist anyway, i think china has much more to gain by not interfering in a growing platform rather than blow it all now with some unnecessary and not particularly valuable data grab or malware injection vector

2023-03-11 18:41:31 @clarinette02 sure, the holding company is in the cayman islands, but the key q is always ‘where are the developers’ as well as where is the data stored, and for tiktok, where are the gpus where the models are trained, not just the data centres

2023-03-11 18:40:10 the tiktok irony that isn’t exactly news but isn’t really constantly stated is that this still relatively inconsequential platform pales in relation to the way the US does the same in reverse through their platforms to almost every country!

2023-03-11 18:37:17 whatever you think about either free expression or specific risks of tiktok, “domestic data privacy laws applicable to all social media platforms” do little to protect against int’l surveillance even where they try to limit transboundary data flows, as the EU-US situation shows https://t.co/yn1jlZCLlu

2023-03-10 07:48:03 @Katlab_UCL if it’s BA, then it’s very unlikely to be the selection issue indeed. ridiculous and shameful you should have to experience what you did in 21st C europe.

2023-03-10 07:34:49 @FusterGloria @Katlab_UCL and as i’m at the same uni as the thread-starter i can speak for exactly how pisspoor the travel agent currently is…

2023-03-10 07:23:20 @FusterGloria @Katlab_UCL i hope i’m not coming across as ‘this didn’t happen to you’, this kind of bias certainly happens regularly, just suggesting a very specific and counterintuitive potential explanation which may indeed not be the case here. MRSPROF is a new one to me.

2023-03-10 05:35:36 @Katlab_UCL it’s also possible that a travel agent did that for you by mistake or similar!

2023-03-10 05:32:47 @Katlab_UCL (it’s common for foreigners with PhDs to select in online systems ‘dhr.’ thinking it means dr when it actually means ‘mr.’. Given you mentioned the system said it, and I’ve never seen a Dutch system ask for a title like doctor, that’s a big possibility)

2023-03-10 05:31:01 @Katlab_UCL that’s horrible to hear, but hoping there’s a charitable explanation: in dutch, the word for ‘mr’ is ‘dhr.’ compared to ‘ms’ being ‘mevr’. however, it’s not exactly the same, and the term dr *is* used (eg ‘dhr. dr.’ could be a male dr, ‘mevr. dr.’ could be a female dr).

2023-03-08 18:35:06 @MissIG_Geek and indeed get promoted sideways when you do particularly badly

2023-03-07 09:31:14 The Irish DPC used to publish in its annual reports it’s ongoing list of cross border statutory inquiries (eg 2020 report). They vanish in the 2021, and today’s 2022 report. Why? Pressure from the investigates firms? Wanting to avoid that so many have been open for five (1/2)

2023-03-06 23:45:46 @rachelcoldicutt thank u 4 ur service

2023-03-06 08:08:36 commission won’t take infringement proceedings against #dataRetention laws but will get angry if they breach technicalities https://t.co/tiKg0eFEpV

2023-03-05 17:27:23 @matthew_d_green they have to make sure they are updated to the very latest version to minimise that notice, as the geolock is encoded in part in updates.

2023-03-05 10:01:41 @SophieWeerts @PaulQuinnBxl @mireillemoret @FusterGloria @LSTSblog @balushkaa link broken

2023-03-05 10:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-03-02 22:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-02-27 22:22:15 @undersequoias surely, Every FAccT paper increasingly has the same first paragraph

2023-02-27 21:30:29 @CJSprigman @PANYNJ these pathetic signs do not make up for it https://t.co/rXIhSxvaV0

2023-02-27 20:23:10 RT @hiddenmarkov: If you ever tried to use standard "adversarial examples" to analyze the security of ML systems, you might have noticed th…

2023-02-27 18:11:21 @hutko @SSRN SSRN is Elsevier/RELX but i can’t see the policy here https://t.co/B6GbvL67YB

2023-02-27 15:04:13 RT @SarahCatGreen: My Current Legal Problems lecture is next Thursday at 6pm - all welcome! #digitalassets Time for a Tertium Quid | UCL Fa…

2023-02-27 14:40:21 https://t.co/oS5LLaqCpP #dataprotection #scotgov (2/2)

2023-02-27 14:40:20 New report following an audit by the ICO of the Scottish Government has an interesting tidbit: that it seems that they have underestimated the amount of Law Enforcement/DPA18 pt 3 processing they actually carry out and may have been mistakenly applying the #GDPR instead (1/2)

2023-02-27 13:44:51 Initially assumed this meant "Julian King" (as in 'the Juncker Commission contains X former PMs, Y former ministers and... Sir Julian King') before I realised it was referring to a different one https://t.co/CBwXKIlzmv

2023-02-27 07:53:57 @gilbert Given it’s mission was explicitly to affordably teach computer science rather than make a shedload of money/achieve some high valuation, RPi has succeeded much more at its own explicit aims. Tens of millions of these devices doing likely hundreds of thousands of customised tasks.

2023-02-27 07:49:35 @gilbert There’s no obvious way to mark ‘success’ but the Raspberry Pi Foundation is pretty astounding in its sales, prevalence, and widespread and incredibly varied use across industry, educational and consumer settings.

2023-02-27 01:01:51 University students and researchers in the Netherlands can now get a fediverse account simply by logging in with their university IDs as single sign on. Not sure what happens if you leave the uni system, though… https://t.co/ulqbr2XTsu @SLURF@social.edu.nl #edtech

2023-02-27 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-02-25 02:26:28 RT @yaleisp: We’re kicking off with our daylong closed-door “Democratic Regulation of AI” workshop! Organized by @YaleISP_WIII https://t.c…

2023-02-21 18:59:45 @Klonick every year i discover new definitions of silence

2023-02-21 18:58:09 @Klonick it’s been several years since i ambitiously tried with my class “so, who remembers google whacks??”

2023-02-21 09:10:56 In particular this move would mean that Meta could claim they can still run targeted ads in the UK under contractual necessity, even when EU regulators, and potentially and importantly EU courts, say otherwise. Would require expensive litigation, or unlikely ICO boldness, (1/2)

2023-02-21 09:10:55 #Meta ships UK users out of EU #GDPR protection. Likely triggered by risk of stop processing orders over #Schrems II and targeted ads, which then wouldn’t apply to the UK, and a desire to keep transferring UK data to the US without the risk of CJEU involvement or (1/2)

2023-02-21 08:21:58 RT @A__W______O: At AWO we have a new vacancy for a full-time Senior Associate to join our Strategic Research and Insight team. Find out…

2023-02-20 07:55:12 @Jackstilgoe @BVLSingler @JamieJBartlett BBC and its Auntie Progress angle

2023-02-19 22:56:31 @chelloway @SNeurotypicals cc @justsaysinmice

2023-02-17 12:34:36 RT @RA_Costello: A bee in my bonnet for a while and now, an open access publication with @GlobConJournal - read all about why digital const…

2023-02-17 10:03:07 @hutko @cyberleagle that's a little unfair, some of the answers are 'ai will solve this' after all

2023-02-17 09:36:36 RT @politicshome: OUT NOW Can the internet be governed? @alain_tolhurst is joined by Tory ex-culture secretary @nickymorgan01, La…

2023-02-17 09:05:26 @cyberleagle indeed, I think there was a little bit of miscommunication when I asked the panel to have a political vision of how all this fits together, and the answer was ofcom will do this, incrementally. trying to coax some new ideas into the echo (first and second) chamber, but tricky...

2023-02-17 07:30:59 the tools are implied without the amendment, but opting out without having clear requirements on publishing these systems efficacy and false positive rates seems a recipe for disaster. people want technology to precisely do stuff it simply cannot…

2023-02-17 07:29:18 I’m worried about how this amendment requires magic AI which cannot reliably detect hate in many communities without catching a load of other speech too. See this article on how toxicity detectors conflate hate with normal comms within the LGBT community https://t.co/4gNBzbFL5Y https://t.co/r1sAQoLqOk

2023-02-17 07:12:47 for #OnlineSafetyBill watchers, I debated the bill for ~35 mins with two key peers amending it in the Lords, Nicky Morgan (former Culture Sec) and Wilf Stevenson (Labour Biz Spokesman) on the Politics Home podcast here: https://t.co/uZ1GxvUD8c #OSB

2023-02-16 16:15:43 Very disingenuous for the #IAB to say that the BE DPA's approval of its 6 mo action plan "confirms the legal functionality of the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) within the provisions of the [#GDPR]". (https://t.co/ChTah4SRMD) The approval is of a plan to try to (1/2)

2023-02-16 12:54:08 @FantaAlexx @mattburgess1 has a really handy book, although older now. https://t.co/swdzv6xLsH … it’s often hard also to win internally without going to the ico and hoping for the best

2023-02-16 11:52:16 (or attempt to undo it, but that's harder) — so it's really worth enabling ASAP. How to enable it: https://t.co/ER3JiGoq6C #encryption #e2ee (2/2)

2023-02-16 11:52:15 #Apple have enabled "#AdvancedDataProtection" (encrypting users' #iCloud server-side) in the UK. Update your device(s) to the latest version, and enable it. The UK have significant powers under the #InvestigatoryPowersAct (&

2023-02-16 00:39:25 @timnitGebru Many lawsuits around the world found Google liable for defamation resulting from its autocomplete system (it is found to author that, unlike the results, which it only intermediates). Similar logic to Bing chat. To talk to: Uta Kohl at Southampton or Gary Chan Kok Yew at SMU (SG)

2023-02-15 20:24:52 @sebkrier I think a simple search would have led them to question their assumption that “we are, to the best of our knowledge, the first to point out and empirically document the credence good nature of algorithmic advice and its implications.” https://t.co/i0d8O6CkX1 https://t.co/Z60ApK4pN6

2023-02-15 10:03:39 @owainkenway wait until you find out that word for mac has no way to change the underlying heading font +Headers to a custom one, unlike word for windows. to make templates, you have to edit the xml.

2023-02-14 19:05:12 @ProfChalmers elsevier gonna elsevier

2023-02-10 12:44:46 @Abebab the hundreds of miscarriages of justice in the UK horizon post office scandal, although algorithmic decisions were only part of why that ruined people’s lives.

2023-02-10 00:22:05 @LeoKelion (and bear in mind new phones are a much, much bigger environmental cost than energy consumption of phones.)

2023-02-10 00:15:58 @LeoKelion Think of it the other way around too. AI models create the demands for specialised local hardware eg Neural Engine and Tensorflow Lite… which enables Apple and android manufacturers to sell more phones!

2023-02-09 23:58:02 RT @bricksilk: The Home Secretary's statutory report, and my own terms of reference, were published today. I welcome informed comment on th…

2023-02-09 23:29:48 RT @owenboswarva: Twitter seems to be ignoring erasure requests made under GDPR: Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That http…

2023-02-09 07:43:25 @alinatrapova @cearta very little tend to stand in the way of the commission making sweeping horizontal digital regulation under 114 with only the most minor evidence of potential future discrepancies…

2023-02-09 07:29:32 RT @sedyst: With estimates for lost lives from the earthquake ranging from 30000-300000 and the importance of messaging for international s…

2023-02-08 00:04:56 @ariezrawaldman @hartzog @DanielSolove @JoeProf @natashanyt so you’d agree that consent should be present in law, but should be effectively unavailable unless it is a last resort backstop for the rare processing individuals truly want to occur, when other legal bases are impossible?

2023-02-07 23:09:04 @Jackstilgoe they need no justification

2023-02-07 22:59:41 @ariezrawaldman @hartzog @DanielSolove @JoeProf @natashanyt Companies should never have the right to send you any commercial mail, even if you want to see new products? At the moment, in the EU, they’re opt in.

2023-02-07 22:13:25 @ariezrawaldman @hartzog @DanielSolove @JoeProf @natashanyt If properly analysed and enforced, most situations online never actually constitute valid consent, whether individuals click Y or N. And your statement would seem to indicate that no-one should have the right to opt in or opt out of, for example, marketing emails?

2023-02-07 21:23:16 @timsquirrell Where is Online Danger?

2023-02-07 20:08:42 RT @C___CS: I co-published an article in New Media &

2023-02-07 20:08:38 RT @sarahbmyers: Excited to share this new piece I co-wrote with @drbrittparis and @C___CS. We've been thinking through a theory of radical…

2023-02-07 09:09:19 RT @sedyst: The infrastructural damage is immense and is going to severely limit the emergency aid that can be brought to the cities devest…

2023-02-07 08:01:50 Moment of silence at 11am for the imminent expected passing of DCMS, the ministry somehow responsible for data protection, cybersecurity and Remembrance Day. To the ten Secretaries of State that have held this role in the last ten years, ensuring strong policy continuity — (1/2)

2023-02-06 18:45:23 RT @Marriyum_A: Prime Minister @CMShehbaz has directed that the Wikipedia website be restored with immediate effect. The Prime Minister has…

2023-02-06 18:25:45 RT @d_mantzari: Delighted to share the programme of the @UCLLaws Bentham House conference 2023 organised jointly with @Marioanni on 'Comp…

2023-02-06 08:39:03 RT @Odangaring: BREAKING The Employment and Labour Relations Court has ruled that the @facebook &

2023-02-06 08:27:55 @xriskology people accuse the history of the early internet of being told through the lens of ‘great men’ (and miss out lots) but i don’t think even those men, massively lauded in retrospect, were even a *fraction* so self-obsessed with their putative historical importance as these are

2023-02-06 08:18:44 @peterkwells not sure if this is that niche though given it’s growing into a pretty mainstream conspiracy theory

2023-02-06 08:05:55 @stokel also uh, wasn’t netflix founded in 1997? surely they don’t mean the 3 years from 1997 to 2000…

2023-02-06 06:56:08 RT @martha__dark: Tomorrow we’re expecting a ruling on whether Daniel Motaung is permitted to sue Facebook in Kenya. More about the case he…

2023-02-06 06:54:31 ‘we all love the Cloud’ says journo on #r4today, controversially

2023-02-06 06:49:15 @timnitGebru @HackingButLegal a whole trope that’s been going for many years now. firms have been claiming to put ML on board of directors since 2014ish. imo says more about broken societal purpose of the corporate form than about AI. see eg paper from ex colleague (which i disagree w) https://t.co/fFBDGf9ZwX

2023-02-05 22:21:34 be forgotten requests? https://t.co/HCfkylFdQk #LLMs #chatGPT #eudp #rtbf (2/2)

2023-02-05 22:21:33 at least #Microsoft’s reported integration of #GPT4 into #Bing saves regulators the back and forth of ‘is a large language model processing personal data’ (spoiler: often) because now they can just look at the Google Spain case. Yet how will Microsoft comply with right to (1/2)

2023-02-05 22:12:01 RT @sedyst: it's clouds all the way down: “Some academics that want to move into their own start-up, their first conversation is with cloud…

2023-02-05 21:03:36 @EUstaran the AI Act would, in my reading, do the exact opposite of your tweet - it would disapply and preclude member states from legislating restrictions the design and use of such non-high risk systems.

2023-02-05 20:56:43 @hackylawyER no i only ever used crabhouse https://t.co/bIMAfIr5o8

2023-02-04 16:04:28 I think it’s pretty misleading &

2023-02-04 08:44:10 regime, where complainants need to go to the HIgh Court (££) to challenge ICO (in)action on merits, while data controllers can do it cheaply in the Tribunal system. #ukdp #gdpr https://t.co/tikfBAAmkz (2/2)

2023-02-04 08:44:09 New #FirstTierTribunal decision against the #ICO, noting limitations on #DPA18 s 166 orders to progress complaints do bite where the Commissioner has failed to register a complaint, even though it has declared it was a duplicate. Still, an extremely limited, lopsided (1/2)

2023-02-04 08:18:51 New #adtech class action filed in California, against #Google, #Meta, #Criteo, and a telehealth firm #GoodRx, alleging the former firms intercepted prescription data through tracking pixels. #RTB https://t.co/ROxpLiWLex https://t.co/waY1OYHNNa

2023-02-04 08:04:18 “the law commission recommended the path the government eventually went down” says the anchor on #r4today on the online safety bill, misinforming the public, as that did not happen. #osb #onlineSafetyBill

2023-02-03 09:34:27 RT @cyberleagle: https://t.co/BPiE7x4UGh

2023-02-03 01:03:32 While Labour says the OSB doesn’t have any major political issues within it, NGOs that previously supported it are dropping it — in its current form. I’m no libertarian, but I’m allergic to making regulation without meaningful scrutiny. https://t.co/ENPb7byK6I

2023-02-03 00:35:39 RT @EU_EDPS: .@W_Wiewiorowski chairs the @UCLCLP Current Legal Problems lecture on ‘Effective or Complete #DataProtection’, delivered by Or…

2023-02-02 17:11:01 What’s also happening here is the typical platform playbook: create a harmful system, make others do the clearly illegal thing, so distribute liability to the fringes of the network (ie dumb startups without much money to sue for). Happens regularly in adtech. Happening in AI. https://t.co/XWlhpa0Q1v

2023-02-02 11:46:14 Months back I suggested people use data protection rights to ask Twitter to erase their DMs, as deleting them manually does not remove them from the server (https://t.co/Naamipy7UD). Twitter sent back an illegal response to all who asked, ignoring the Q &

2023-02-02 11:38:45 @hutko @GabrielleGuill2 @yagoabascal united states government and all the tech firms very good at intervening in the irish national procedures in DP transfer cases before they get to CJEU so they can hang out there too

2023-02-02 10:27:40 RT @cyberleagle: Anyone would think only half a dozen foreign big tech companies were in scope, not 25,000 UK providers.

2023-02-02 09:58:24 @rosamunde_vb i get a lot of plausible but fake papers i allegedly wrote with @RDBinns

2023-02-02 09:51:57 apparently there are no “big political issues” at stake in the governance of the internet. i have to say, my students studying this bill massively disagree!

2023-02-02 09:42:36 complete groupthink on the online safety bill, now with wartime metaphors, based largely on a misunderstanding that it regulates only Big Tech rather than actually empowering them vis a vis small internet services, federated services, community groups and similar. https://t.co/ZhWw4j0O5v

2023-02-02 07:39:11 This does not mean that there will always be no ground to study without consent. For example, there is a clear public interest to study communities organising hateful or illegal activities, who are unlikely to consent. But just "how do people think about X", or "does X make (1/2)

2023-02-02 07:39:10 Twitter closing API access will drive the (questionable) study of social media posts to places like Mastodon. Classes that were teaching people social media scraping will likely turn to ActivityPub services. However, university #researchEthics committees should be wary of (1/2)

2023-02-01 19:05:16 @ashr no it’s just a fun pic

2023-02-01 18:46:20 @LuizaJarovsky we wrote about the data protection implications of this about five years ago now, in case it is of interest https://t.co/uqFQsNmagY

2023-02-01 18:10:23 @DrJoGrady Might want to cite the figures from UCLSU in their Nov 2022 referendum. https://t.co/0sSmyOyYLQ

2023-02-01 17:20:45 @emilymbender @OpenAI they claim they are a data processor (valid legal role where they just do as they're told, like a rented server, would imply they don't use query records themselves (?)). do not discuss that their models are personal datasets, as we highlighted in 2018 https://t.co/uqFQsNmagY

2023-02-01 17:14:53 @matthew_d_green definitely an activitypub is complicated, nostr asks for beer to be held moment. snortr social also appears just to be pornography and scams from clicking

2023-02-01 17:11:52 @sebkrier @Jisc already in our developing internal guidance, i assume other unis too... probably as unis focussed on talking to staff rather than to the world? am concerned that tech firms, w/ zero experience in institutional plagiarism detection, will have hubris to lead rather than listen

2023-02-01 17:07:19 sorry i spoke too soon, i scrolled and also immediately saw two crypto scams

2023-02-01 17:06:07 If you click the below link for ‘snort social’ you literally just get pornographic gifs. Success for the ‘we must not trust anyone, even a small community server where we know the admin’ brigade. https://t.co/fJ8zBaTWGu

2023-02-01 16:51:54 @sebkrier @Jisc the jisc link is https://t.co/3VbfrljdeS

2023-02-01 16:51:08 @sebkrier @Jisc UK unis have plenty of experience with academic misconduct hearings where detection is imperfect, eg around contract cheating.

2023-02-01 16:50:05 @sebkrier discussed quite a lot? discussed in guidance by both the main UK higher education charity @Jisc https://t.co/2AP7fXSaNn and the (former) UK HE regulator. https://t.co/PADmg7OmoF both who say not to use or rely on detectors due in part to false positives

2023-02-01 12:13:48 RT @FantaAlexx: What you missed last night: FOI'd documents reveal how after Musk took over Twitter, the company fired it's Vice-President…

2023-02-01 02:43:54 @RobertJBateman @adnzaheer funniest thing i’ve seen with this is this one is on the big uk privacy research hub for the IoT, PETRAS https://t.co/4rFKdFwyRd, proudly proclaiming in the CMP’s words that ‘data is your property’ while the project itself did not take this controversial proprietarian view

2023-01-31 09:56:06 @tolvanhe https://t.co/hFkg1LGMKL

2023-01-31 08:24:48 @kareem_carr luckily there is no reason to pay attention to the number it outputs

2023-01-31 07:56:44 @Sandbagger_01 economist only five to ten years late on this story. wait til they learn about ultra wide band…

2023-01-31 07:48:59 #IAB CEO delusional: “No org has done more to protect real consumer privacy in digital advertising environments than the lAB &

2023-01-30 22:55:45 @hackylawyER @shoshanazuboff i’m glad that Zuboff seeing that there’s a bigger infrastructural picture finally rather than the predictive magic she was focussed on before, but - and maybe it’s rude of me to say - perhaps it would be great to be a bit more collegiate as she is learning.

2023-01-30 22:53:33 @hackylawyER @shoshanazuboff a book i’m looking forward to reading! a little jarring being portrayed as one of a group who doesn’t get it by perhaps the person (Z) who has drawn ppl to think far too much about data &

2023-01-30 22:48:42 @hackylawyER @shoshanazuboff i’ve only just been drawn attention to it. clearly she wants to drag academics into being villains, as if we don’t understand (indeed, much better than she did in her book, where she entirely omitted it!) infrastructural, non-data driven power of platforms, infrastructures, OSs.

2023-01-30 22:45:17 @hackylawyER @shoshanazuboff https://t.co/5bWVFzJPJJ this one

2023-01-30 22:42:09 @hackylawyER @shoshanazuboff the paper she wrote that is linked to from that article, which i missed, tries to demonise the research team i was part of, mischaracterise our work, insert ad hominem attacks against individuals, and massively cherrypicks to tell a chosen narrative. disappointing.

2023-01-30 20:04:33 @GazTheJourno so that’s what they mean by a CLOSED judgment

2023-01-30 19:58:55 @valeriodeste active voices are liked by people commonly found writing style guides, although it is unclear if they should be trusted.

2023-01-30 07:16:22 RT @rachelcoldicutt: What’s particularly funny about this is that Austen was a feminist, writing about how ludicrous it was that lack of ec…

2023-01-30 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-01-24 10:12:40 @zsk the only personally useful thing i’ve found it pasting in errors i get from deploying open source software that I cant find answers to through normal searching and asking it to suggest potential issues and directions for further examination and/or searching.

2023-01-24 08:55:26 in homes and businesses (https://t.co/MXe3Kiwdj8). Says report is published, but nowhere to be found. Out of interest, where is it @mattd@defcon.social @BobGourley@defcon.social, or was it briefed to media privately and they’re misreporting? (2/2)

2023-01-24 08:55:25 Lots of media covering a report on Chinese intelligence agency use of #smartDevices (eg https://t.co/cTLnN0LWE0), although ignoring Western intelligence usage of these same devices with bulk #equipmentInterference powers due to pathetically little patching of mics/cameras (1/2)

2023-01-24 08:37:42 @DrAndrewDwyer @Sandbagger_01 it’s true that zero days matter little when people litter their houses with connected microphones and sensors, for which intelligence agencies will have built or bought toolkits to tap into, associated with firms that don’t release patches after 2 years https://t.co/MXe3KiwL8G

2023-01-24 08:00:31 @colmocinneide a little naively though, it’s really an interactive process (make this better

2023-01-24 07:55:02 RT @d_mantzari: Looking forward to hosting our next @UCLCLP lecture on Thursday, 26th Jan with @dinawaked on competition law in developing…

2023-01-24 07:48:52 @Sandbagger_01 will this change the logic from hoarding to security for all? the collection and trade in zero days makes us all less secure, but it’s a tough thing to give up.

2023-01-24 07:46:40 @Sandbagger_01 hoarding zero days, UK can and does too through bulk/targeted equipment interference. if are buggy as so much smart nonsense is, intelligence agencies have v poor record of standing up for the security of consumers by patching rather than hoarding (EternalBlue the worst example)

2023-01-24 07:31:25 RT @JobPlas: Unique @iab opening keynote by David Cohen. IAB seems to open its attack on Apple, lobbying organizations advocating for disru…

2023-01-23 21:38:14 RT @UCLJuris: Big news! UCL Laws is launching a new set of Legal Theory Seminars this year. The first will be by @SimoMila on Monday, 30th…

2023-01-23 14:10:16 RT @divijualsuspect: Loved working on this project with @Archives_NCBS on Archives and the law in India. This will be a useful resource for…

2023-01-23 01:14:18 the panic about #apple either #clientSideScanning or cloud analysing photos on people's devices appears to be very poor programming on the tech giant's part, where Apple Photos scans using local ML for object recognition, but even if turned off, sends an empty GET request (1/2)

2023-01-22 23:49:18 RT @robinberjon: Hey, I know a lot of you tried Mastodon with the early fits of the petulant moron and were put off by that experience. Bu…

2023-01-21 18:00:35 @rowlsmanthorpe Looking forward to everyone who does anything with electronics in their shed and lives in the area being snitched on by their coldest neighbours.

2023-01-21 11:44:34 @PJLeerssen solve culture wars with reader annotations, what could go wrong

2023-01-21 07:38:26 RT @undersequoias: Imagine for just a minute the insane quantity of labor hours that OpenAI imposed on the teachers of the world, and will…

2023-01-20 11:34:13 Airline in the US leaks terrorist screening database of over 1m people from unsecured server, along with employee details. Not the first time it’s leaked it seems, but pretty noteworthy nonetheless. https://t.co/3ayz1Bngop via @stokel@infosec.exchange on birdsite

2023-01-20 11:12:39 RT @cyberleagle: So little understanding among supporters of how random the effects of automatic sunsetting would be. Many EU law implement…

2023-01-20 06:57:12 While the UK Parliament rolls out the carpet for the #OnlineSafetyBill with little consideration of the surveillance it implies, the German Bundestag has been generating broad consensus amongst at least the incumbent coalition and the Left that #csam #clientSideScanning (1/2)

2023-01-19 13:15:21 Incredible to see Dutch privacy legend @sjoera@mastodon.social Nas profiled in the New York Times for her and colleagues' groundbreaking work on public sector #dataProtection, slowly transforming giants like Microsoft, Zoom and Google and forcing significant changes. (1/2)

2023-01-19 09:54:54 @robinberjon if it was being done for non commercial research reasons, such a term would probably be unenforceable in the uk due to the text and data mining exemption, and likely in the eu too. uk may be seeking reform to widen this exemption.

2023-01-19 09:42:48 @stokel naturally the first computer on the arpanet outside of the US, at UCL… dissemination of MOSAIC and then Netscape was important for uptake of the Web. the victory of TCP/IP over the early competing proprietary protocols really changed the trajectory of the entire internet too.

2023-01-18 17:39:45 Is there a more boring name for a state’s higher education research policy than the Netherlands’ ‘sectorplan’?

2023-01-18 07:47:39 @wbm312 compare to projects long doing this eg https://t.co/rHtWfIIvZi

2023-01-18 05:33:19 RT @rachelcoldicutt: I've yet to catch up with the latest amendments, but the "let's make a list of everything we don't like and ban it" ap…

2023-01-18 05:28:51 RT @bricksilk: I have been appointed by the Home Secretary, following her review of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, to conduct my own in…

2023-01-17 23:13:57 RT @psychicyogamat: Because it's ultimately purporting to be a law about the risks of communication, and society *is* communication, the OS…

2023-01-17 23:12:54 RT @timsquirrell: The govt now want the Online Safety Bill to make it illegal to host videos depicting Channel crossings in a "positive lig…

2023-01-17 09:00:40 Good news — “in 2023 the Ministry of Justice will launch a wide-ranging call for evidence exploring the themes of open justice, access to information and data, and transparency across our courts and tribunals” https://t.co/Iz001fiF06 #legalInformatics #openJustice

2023-01-17 08:08:46 @Detig @PhillipDJMorgan some have eg brunel

2023-01-17 07:28:18 RT @nataliesedacca: So proud to see @Kalayaan listed among the @BigIssue changemakers of 2023 in employment. Yet to see the print entry but…

2023-01-17 07:14:15 Useful new initial commentary on the Polish self-employed LGBTQ anti discrimination case C-356/21 TP, by Nicola Countouris, Mark Freedland and @valeriodestefano@mas.to https://t.co/EeWD9ulkKq

2023-01-17 07:05:22 RT @N_Countouris: A short, first, commentary on a recent landmark decision by the CJEU - Case C-356/21, TP -https://t.co/6cQcHAMELh deployi…

2023-01-17 07:01:43 @PhillipDJMorgan you don’t need them to be handwritten, several universities already use bring your own devices, or rented devices, with locked down browsers in exam halls.

2023-01-16 22:08:20 @RobertJBateman only the hearing next week, not the answer https://t.co/Z6AUsIqVzj

2023-01-15 17:54:47 @katebevan hopefully by that time high wattage usb-c is able to fit into wall sockets, that will be a gamechanger...

2023-01-15 12:00:10 RT @m_mariastefania: cheers from the EUI where we all live in Florence but are paid according to our nationalities so some live way below…

2023-01-15 07:41:58 RT @robinberjon: Chrome 2020: Unlike other browsers we could talk about, we're going to do our privacy work through a standards process. C…

2023-01-14 09:12:53 @DavidPriceUCL in places with a pretty unjustified salary difference through ‘market supplements’ compared to the rest of the university given that the market is based on faddish citation scores…

2023-01-14 09:01:10 @CatalinaGoanta @KrauseFx yep! the cnil may have passed complaints on such things on to the dpc… but who knows

2023-01-14 08:58:27 @CatalinaGoanta or information actively sent (eg http requests). some are more obviously in scope (eg probing a device for which fonts it has)

2023-01-14 08:57:37 @CatalinaGoanta i think there’s an argument to be made they could see keyboard taps on a terminal device m under the e privacy directive but non-cookie based tracking has always been less clear cut insofar as the information retrieved from the device is basically information coming from a sensor

2023-01-14 08:45:12 @CatalinaGoanta because the CNIL is not competent under the GDPR to act alone without waiting for Ireland/DPA of the main establishment through the one stop shop, it has been taking direct action under the ePrivacy Directive (also against Google and Apple)

2023-01-13 22:57:24 @lumi_ip @UCLLaws excellent work Dr L! congratulations

2023-01-13 00:01:25 Controversial new #ransomware attackers targeting the Royal Mail weigh in on the 'data is/are' debate. https://t.co/kMi2aQti4P https://t.co/ChSmywnYyM

2023-01-12 13:53:00 RT @krstdt: 1.000.000 Euro hat Brandenburg für die Luca-App bezahlt 1 erfolgreiche Kontaktnachverfolgung gab es dadurch https://t.co/DZg…

2023-01-12 09:32:41 @realhamed @Microsoft @Outlook "Microsoft Edge, Recommended by Microsoft"

2023-01-12 09:32:19 @realhamed @Microsoft @Outlook wow, desperate

2023-01-11 17:52:15 that’s @lynskeyo, crossposted the above from Mastodon where everything happens

2023-01-11 17:51:44 @MLeiser Will have to see if @UCLLaws know. I think not right now because we usually explicitly have that option in the ticketing system when it exists. But regardless, the lecture will be published in CLP later in the year.

2023-01-11 13:51:52 The incredible Orla Lynskey (LSE) is giving a #CurrentLegalProblems lecture at UCL Laws in-person on 2 February. It's entitled "Effective or Complete Data Protection" — can it really be both? Register https://t.co/wuQJsszGba #dataProtection #GDPR #eudp https://t.co/CaDKue8J5G

2023-01-10 18:09:19 @RichardMoorhead improbably, @N_Countouris now has twitter. I think ETUI forced him to . next, mastodon…

2023-01-10 09:23:42 @LeoKelion @benthompson not saying that doing things on-device is bad, but Apple’s hardware business is its key, it needs people to buy new devices and to give them a reason to do so. doesn’t cash in on cloud. environmental cost of getting ppl to buy new devices for largely whimsical reasons is huge

2023-01-10 09:21:30 @LeoKelion @benthompson it’s not just apple though? google launched similar hardware and APIs and conversation tools at the same time… their system is (now) called ‘Google Tensor’ while Apple’s is called ‘Neural Engine’

2023-01-10 09:14:54 @LeoKelion @benthompson sceptically, given not all Apple devices are capable of running this either at good speed or at all, including even slightly older phones &

2023-01-10 09:03:57 RT @PrivacyMatters: Hello @orange @VodafoneGroup @Telefonica @deutschetelekom are there more details available of this Joint Venture https:…

2023-01-10 08:53:48 @hutko good move from the Eccentric Council of Jubilation.

2023-01-10 08:44:42 RT @a_bacci: JOB VACANCY @HRW new tech division is hiring a senior researcher on surveillance tech and human rights. Global remit, woul…

2023-01-10 00:01:32 RT @sjmurdoch: “I wish vulnerability disclosures were more relevant to current products” – someone at Threema holding a monkey’s claw. Beca…

2023-01-09 23:59:59 RT @sjmurdoch: @martinralbrecht @kennyog @ThreemaApp It’s bad but I’ve had worse from UK banking industry: calling the police (the police h…

2023-01-09 23:59:49 RT @kennyog: After a constructive engagement with @ThreemaApp during responsible disclosure, this is unexpectedly dismissive. We broke thei…

2023-01-09 10:20:24 @cynddl yum

2023-01-09 09:42:31 UK universities to subsidise language-model–based plagiarism through their huge Office 365 contracts. https://t.co/HKNrJ2pBDV https://t.co/BIgO1353nU

2023-01-05 09:37:44 would seem to be the use of the #GDPR as a general #cybersecurity law. https://t.co/Xpz5W92Fny cc @Privacymatters@mastodon.social @RDBinns@someone.elses.computer #privacy #CybersecurityLaw (2/2)

2023-01-05 09:37:43 Interesting case from #Spain’s #AEPD, fined a telco for allowing someone to register a #SIM under a fake name without sufficient identification and commit fraud. Unclear exactly where the personal data processing is (the description indicates no legal basis for the name?), (1/2)

2023-01-05 09:22:20 What Isn’t in the useful summary is whether individuals have a right to have their information suppressed or hidden from the more generally available service, even if it remains for scientific use. @Asta_fish@freeradical.zone?

2023-01-05 09:22:19 #RightToErasure refused in #Iceland’s large national #genealogical database, the #Íslendingabók. As I understand it, this contains all Icelanders, including living ones, and even their foreign spouses, It’s log-in only but so widely used, in practice available to all. (1/2)

2023-01-04 20:30:51 @tim2040 @PaulDJohnston Ring records audio, as noted in judgment. Only images are exempted from the the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018.

2023-01-04 19:07:28 competency to fine, and needing to avoid the GDPR, but a welcome development nonetheless. The decision (FR) is here https://t.co/ER2XyKPSMa

2023-01-04 19:03:16 fine, and needing to avoid the GDPR, but a welcome development nonetheless. The decision (FR) is here https://t.co/ER2XyKPSMa

2023-01-04 19:03:15 if it is used for ad fraud detection for contextual ads that are not based on segmentation or profiling. I think you can perhaps argue that this is a security issue, and therefore necessary under ePrivacy (and definitely under any revised Regulation which will inevitably contain

2023-01-04 19:03:14 does not remove the reason for consent. Because the device IDs were used for non necessary purposes, consent is required. In #iOS14 (changed in 15), App Store segmentation was opt-out, not opt-in. The case relates to this period. The advertising in the App Store is worth an

2023-01-04 19:03:13 the basis of Apple ID associated searches, and applied them on receipt of the device-specific IDs. The exact method by which this works is not elaborated in the decision. The #CNIL is not competent to fine Apple under the #GDPR because of the #OneStopShop (Apple has main

2023-01-04 19:03:12 #Apple fined €8m EUR by the #CNIL in #France for breach of #ePrivacy relating to ad targeting on the #AppStore. The facts are typical Apple. Thread follows. Apple has a long history of collecting data on individuals but linking it with IDs your device generates instead of

2023-01-04 14:19:32 RT @SamuelDeats: Are you telling me @Adobe is scraping people's data AS THEY WORK?? We're working on NDA'd projects, Adobe, what the hell…

2023-01-04 13:55:45 @PaulDJohnston You don't need to stop the camera from capturing data across the boundary. Just means you have controllership obligations. Usually imperceptible. See the Rynes case, higher precedent than the Oxford case. but in the UK, the obligations weirdly include a fee, not an EU law thing.

2023-01-04 13:42:51 @PaulDJohnston That's not what the cases say. They place significant weight on what it captures, including if it is pointed outside the home and capturing audio or visual information from e.g. a road, pavement, someone elses driveway. Storage does not determine controllership in DP law.

2023-01-04 13:21:27 If the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill comes back to Parliament, I think someone should ask whether, following the decision in Fairhurst v Woodard (and in Ryneš), everyone with an Amazon Ring doorbell should be paying the #ICO £40 a year. #dataProtection #GDPR (1/2)

2023-01-04 11:55:38 I really want to like the #ECLI standard for case law identifiers (think DOI for judgments) but it simply doesn't function properly. The ECLI resolver at https://t.co/jpsT2hzxeJ doesn't work and I'm not aware of any other, #ECHR ECLIs to my knowledge aren't included in (1/2)

2023-01-04 11:15:36 @IWGBUoL Hi — this may be illegal under UK data protection law. Send me an DM and we can discuss. M

2023-01-04 10:01:09 RT @PaulFScott: https://t.co/9XaSy0mH3o https://t.co/1jmEodY2qO

2023-01-04 09:54:02 @rowlsmanthorpe @puzzlesthewill yeah you fact checked him good

2023-01-04 09:08:02 @puzzlesthewill @rowlsmanthorpe people have attacked for being wrong and I agree, using it as a source of info is bad. instead i’ve found it interesting in ideation, combining rarely combined ideas together (eg lists, or prose)

2023-01-04 09:03:24 @GraemeTR Works better in the UK to modestly support scholarships that we sorely lack, sometimes specific refurbs or new faculty if lucky. Danger when it supports centres in donor steered, arbitrary hyped areas, mostly because these end up being HR disaster fiefdoms run by vain egos…

2023-01-03 16:18:18 Reminder that PornHub owner MindGeek are arguably a beneficiary of these type of laws — they own AgeID, a commercial age verification tool, and have been long lobbying for laws the benefit them. See https://t.co/X8unNjXp4a and the sources cited, including FOI disclosures. https://t.co/I8oygkxfZ4

2023-01-03 15:33:00 @sunildvr The point is that an OS that focusses on *updating* a Web browser and integrating it with hardware APIs, in a world where Web apps exist and are primary (or apps can be crosscompiled to the Web) is less effort than dragging a fully featured OS forward.

2023-01-03 15:31:07 @gagarine__ Then what are the barriers in your view to people keeing it for 10 years?

2023-01-03 15:30:32 @gagarine__ The energy usage and environmental cost of phone software is infintesimal compared to phone replacement. It matters — people don't want a phone that runs out of batteries — but it does not matter very much *directly*.

2023-01-03 12:15:14 why am I waiting so long, this transfer should have been finished by the close of the 18th century https://t.co/uzldARDCx9

2023-01-03 08:29:23 RT @RoboNaudts: The dissertation is entitled "Fair or Unfair Differentiation? Reconsidering the Concept of Equality for the Regulation of A…

2023-01-02 22:08:42 RT @peterhense: 1/ Druckfrisch: LG München I (33 O 14776/19) zu #Tracking, § 25 #TTDSG, #IAB #TCF, #RealTimeBidding, #DarkPatterns - focus_…

2023-01-02 11:22:29 RT @GlasnostGone: How scared of the Russian people is Putin? This amount. Flanked by supposed Russian soldiers who've received awards for f…

2023-01-02 11:22:11 Pretty sure scientists are not testing to confirm the hypothesis of ‘is the UK a world leader in genomics?’. https://t.co/87J8yWritM

2022-12-31 08:38:09 @guardiannews I think you missed @DavidPriceUCL

2022-12-30 18:23:38 @timnitGebru the AI act in practice will let large API providers like OpenAI and Google and Microsoft turn small businesses into liability magnets while they cream off profit query-by-query, and even charge extra for some algorithmic impact assessment as a service.

2022-12-30 18:02:38 @timnitGebru no, it imposes few rules (largely regulates systems applied in certain sectors

2022-12-30 10:16:57 RT @10kpostspod: The Online Safety Bill ft. @mikarv For the final episode of 2022, we're talking to Michael Veale, associate professor…

2022-12-29 17:48:51 @mer__edith back to your evil break in your evil lair

2022-12-28 18:04:26 Just as #privacy became a selling point in platform advertising, #TikTok is now turning online safety legislation into a PR tool in a new London Underground campaign. #OnlineSafetyBill #AgeAppropriateDesignCode #platgov https://t.co/2yYVn37MI8

2022-12-28 11:44:23 It’s an environmental problem as the replacement of phones is a much, much bigger issue than their energy usage. The extent of it surprises modellers who look into it. See https://t.co/b9Dw7Mo1KB

2022-12-28 11:06:23 The seasonal news that #WhatsApp will stop working on #iPhone 5 and below #Android 4.3 highlights how the lack of Web apps is a significant environmental problem. Phones become obsolete in part because they don’t get OS updates, and they become incompatible with compiled (1/2)

2022-12-28 10:55:57 If we didn’t have a platform enforced duopoly of mobile operating systems, with undocumented, proprietary components, &

2022-12-28 09:40:33 @TomValletti this is in part the topic of @divijualsuspect’s thesis at @UCLLaws, you might want to chat!

2022-12-26 08:13:32 @Miles_Brundage who will invest in the type of AI that has the purpose of breaking open platforms and preventing their recreation, rather than seeking to create new ones, and new intermediation middle men?

2022-12-26 08:12:03 @Miles_Brundage such annoying quirks are likely technically surmountable. but who will invest in that, as the aim of expensive text to speech systems is not to increase accessibility as a service, but (like much AI) to create an enclosed platform like audible that is a source of financial value

2022-12-25 12:34:19 @lilianedwards make an alt account!

2022-12-24 13:04:45 @DaveKeating in the UK providers are now using them to forcibly turn people to expensive pay-as-you-go meters remotely.

2022-12-24 13:02:53 @charliemccarley @elonmusk would be a great look for Twitter to post all orders from the FISA court! don't worry about liability, I am sure it will all be fine for you under the Espionage Act.

2022-12-23 19:44:19 Spotted on the Tube — subversive fashion or proprietarian platform enclosure? please not both… #amazon #platgov #platformRegulation https://t.co/56cJxnK6s0

2022-12-23 13:48:56 To add insult to injury, if you use #Linux your seemingly only chance of opening this file is to use #Adobe Acrobat Reader 8, support for which ended *11 years ago*. In order to print a standard about cybersecurity! https://t.co/aizHffMI2M

2022-12-23 13:48:54 Standards organisations, which make and own copyright to proprietary texts which will be necessary to understand and enforce laws such as the EU's AI Act, which mandate them and refer to them directly, are making it even harder to access standards by instituting pretty (1/2)

2022-12-22 11:09:07 @owainkenway i first read that as DirectX

2022-12-21 09:11:38 RT @mozilla: Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testi…

2022-12-20 23:24:01 @jorisvanhoboken @mmitchell_ai from SEO to AIO

2022-12-19 22:37:36 https://t.co/7xUPSveNmH (3/3)

2022-12-19 22:37:35 Not since Matt Levine's FTX piece (a whole month back!) have I read a piece about a grift quite as intense as the apparently ficitious CV of incoming Republican congressman George Santos, dissected in devastating paragraph by devastating paragraph in the NYT. Neither (1/3)

2022-12-19 21:27:24 RT @WorkerInfoX: Tomorrow we are expecting a major judgment to be handed down from the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam in our various cases ag…

2022-12-19 19:28:57 RT @cori_crider: UGH - Until today, @foxglovelegal has never had a post taken down. Now Twitter has blocked us from posting unless we del…

2022-12-19 16:36:04 Pretty dismal piece on the state of automated detection of AI-generated text by Melissa Heikkilä at WIRED. tl

2022-12-19 15:27:29 @hiddenmarkov wow, choose your poison...

2022-12-19 07:12:14 @AndOrNorLyn @JuddLegum @elonmusk i have seen analysis stating twitter doesn’t meet the active user in europe requirement either, particularly since the UK left.

2022-12-18 23:22:40 @JuddLegum @elonmusk nice tweet but it seems unlikely that twitter meets the criteria for the DMA presumption of gatekeeper status (and thus this law) to apply. the commission would have to argue it meets para 3(1) following the lengthy procedure in art 17, and it seems far from a certainty. https://t.co/9w0niXM9wh

2022-12-18 19:24:27 RT @CatalinaGoanta: @beuc @euroconsumers @Forbrukerradet @egelynbraun if EU/EFTA/UK consumers are getting their content moderated before th…

2022-12-18 19:23:16 RT @CatalinaGoanta: Dear EU Twitter users. Under EU consumer law (Digital Content Directive), a service provider needs to inform consumers…

2022-12-18 18:47:16 Twitter seems as worried about people stealing their social graph as Facebook was a decade ago, when it sunk third-party apps it thought were duplicating it (remember Circle? No? https://t.co/0e4HY9naxj). Yet Twitter's case seems more doomed... it's not some company pulling (1/2)

2022-12-18 18:34:36 twitter now mixing the pay-for-your-expression vibes of web3 with the vibes of a poorly drafted early 2020 coronavirus lockdown regulation

2022-12-17 12:22:25 of pattern recognition to detect new images and text, not just perceptual hashing and similar. https://t.co/wYMMEmAbfB #CSAM #ClientSideScanning (2/2)

2022-12-17 12:22:24 Useful new report from the Australian eSafety Commissioner surveying major technology firms on CSAM detection, grooming technologies etc and at what points they are deployed, on the basis of transparency requests made to them. Includes in particular responses around the use (1/2)

2022-12-16 13:49:05 Turns out the main inaccuracy in @mmasnick@mastodon.social's early November piece "Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve" was he didn't quite anticipate the extent of Musk's self-obsession https://t.co/NOR1bh3TIU

2022-12-16 12:08:06 RT @Abebab: in 2021 NYU informed us that they were going to take all of our gift money, leaving us w the choice of litigating, which is exp…

2022-12-16 10:07:31 RT @ISDglobal: With Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the political debate about platform power has intensified. This policy paper by @sarabndt…

2022-12-16 09:42:28 RT @TheOfficialACM: We heard you! ACM's #Mastodon instance is up and running on https://t.co/CF2ZhbBLr0. Our official account has migrated…

2022-12-16 09:14:57 @tforcworc twitter likely too small to be a gatekeeper https://t.co/vpQf1Nfr4U

2022-12-15 08:56:01 RT @Jackstilgoe: “We note the frequent press reports of incidents that cause concern in this area, alongside the 60 or so notifications we…

2022-12-14 17:06:47 remember the Luca app? unbelievable.

2022-12-14 15:05:55 RT @edri: 1/2“It's always great to catch up with like-minded privacy activists, but this event really buzzes with energy &

2022-12-14 14:57:08 RT @valeriodeste: NEW ARTICLE OUT - S.Taes &

2022-12-14 09:09:15 RT @Foxglovelegal: Are you an awesome lawyer looking for a new role holding government and big tech to account? Join Foxglove as a senior…

2022-12-14 08:03:08 @jack misses ‘what happens when a user loses their private key, like users absolutely do all of the time’

2022-12-14 07:48:36 Apple of course have long squealed when other bills have proposed this, as pictured testimony illustrates. Their platform security is built like a jenga tower. How much will they really change this? https://t.co/LUZoS7in9J

2022-12-14 07:48:32 More firm reporting on what has been widely rumoured for months: Apple is indeed going to allow competing app stores and side loading, and pay at least lipservice to the DMA. But devil will be in the details. App stores control both through contract and through vertical (1/2)

2022-12-13 13:10:15 @riptari actually CHI stands for ‘human factors in computing systems’, go figure…

2022-12-13 13:05:08 I set human-computer interaction research in some of my law classes, including ones where I only teach a couple of the seminars. Students are often put off by the way authors in these fields use the terms HCI, CHI and CSCW without spelling them out the first time. CHI in (1/2)

2022-12-13 09:54:41 RT @SecretParole: I don't wish to be picky, but it doesn't seem right to take the credit for something that actually came about differently…

2022-12-13 09:49:48 RT @vmantouvalou: I wrote a piece for the @labour_blog on ‘Pay for Work in Prison’ People in prison spend a lot time working, sometimes f…

2022-12-12 21:13:41 RT @kimvsparrentak: Great news for the millions of platform workers in the EU! Despite aggressive lobbying from Uber, the EMPL committee ha…

2022-12-12 20:15:00 RT @UK_Laws: Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 https://t.co/R8dDMJ1QEV

2022-12-12 20:09:43 RT @Foxglovelegal: We've spent this year battling government abuse and corporate greed during a shocking cost of living crisis. 2022 has…

2022-12-10 11:29:09 @jdp23 fixed

2022-12-08 13:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-12-07 08:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-11-15 09:50:34 @MissIG_Geek Doesn't seem an absolute correlation if so https://t.co/3flXWGytFO

2022-11-15 09:45:11 Reports of this behaviour as early as 8 November https://t.co/yQoDS9oiPg

2022-11-15 09:18:33 @AndrewDMurray The alt I successfully requested data with this AM didn’t have this flow and didn’t have 2FA enabled, so just does the code over email, no phone. But v good thought.

2022-11-15 09:10:55 Second person reporting this exact behaviour. https://t.co/WsgElgrLl3

2022-11-15 09:07:43 RT @RaphV: @mikarv Yes. I go to Settings, Download your Archive, then I am redirected to the "Help Centre" for verification. See screenshot…

2022-11-15 09:00:06 @RaphV Just to clarify: that via "settings" rather than the "privacy policy inquiries" in the privacy policy?

2022-11-15 08:27:57 @milenaac That’s a very long time. I requested 24 hours ago and it came through this morning. Unless you have a huge amount of media, videos on your account, hard to understand why it would take so long.

2022-11-15 07:50:58 Can someone else confirm this who hasn't requested their archive yet? I cannot replicate the behaviour on my own accounts. I've just tried it on an inactive alt account and I still get the old interface. However, what I get is no guarantee of what other users get. https://t.co/bsdx5Rw0ST

2022-11-15 07:43:54 @shockmonger @histoftech Legally, obligation is electronic contact point for data rights (eg email). Many companies do this through weird intermediary forms.Some reduce labour by making auto portability tools, not legally required. But these rarely contain all the data you are entitled to.

2022-11-15 07:42:37 @shockmonger @histoftech Yes. Twitter data rights is a mess. Portability (download w password), your form, the form i linked, all exist in parallel. The form I linked is most ‘powerful’ (lol) for complex complaints or requests, ie it reaches higher up in the org (now tumbleweed presumably).

2022-11-15 07:40:17 Twitter has reportedly made a change affecting some accs: ppl requesting their data now experience illegal friction, data portability tool now requires gov ID. Such a requirement is illegal when less intrusive auth methods available (see €300k fine in https://t.co/vhRy7iymZb) https://t.co/qGiy0d5mhU

2022-11-15 07:36:57 @shockmonger @histoftech (sorry for crossed messages, just saw this one)

2022-11-15 07:36:36 @shockmonger @histoftech ah! that’s different for me so they must be rolling it out. thanks for clearing that up, I’ll write a pro forma complaint and encourage people to file.

2022-11-15 07:34:31 @shockmonger @histoftech the form you’re seeing does, but this one (link 2) doesn’t have that for me. And if you go to Settings ->

2022-11-15 07:30:57 @shockmonger @histoftech also indeed requiring ID when less intrusive verification possible is illegal. (indeed on twitter people can request w/o ID). the ES data protection regulator fined a co 300k last year to an org requiring identity docs for data access when no doubt existed https://t.co/vhRy7iymZb

2022-11-15 07:22:37 @shockmonger @histoftech On my version, there are two: 1 (in image) goes to your form, 2 to the link I sent. It’s possible you’re receiving a different geolocates version but your profile indicates you’re in NO? So shouldn’t be. Very bad practice to have two forms so not condoning it, just indicating. https://t.co/DHDLvgaUXm

2022-11-15 06:27:40 @shockmonger @histoftech if you want your account data, use the option in settings.if you want to contact them about a more complex issue, ignore that form, use the one linked below it in the privacy policy under ‘contact data protection officer’ https://t.co/7QUoy0zDJM (stupidly not hosted at Twitter)

2022-11-15 05:40:40 RT @jennifercobbe: Mastodon certainly has it's quirks, let's say, but what I find odd about takes like this is that it mostly... looks and…

2022-11-14 20:25:01 @MalteEngeler this regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a stone tablet, vellum script or abacus

2022-11-14 20:13:16 By "more than four years", presumably the New York Times means "more than twenty-five years". #dataProtection https://t.co/chfZjxPAc7

2022-11-13 21:02:43 RT @sachee: you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching like did you bother to e…

2022-11-13 14:50:17 RT @ubiquity75: As with most companies in the space, Twitter’s official FTE numbers of around 7500 employees did NOT count the contractors.…

2022-11-13 14:50:15 RT @ubiquity75: There are at least four third-party companies who sourced and managed them. From an ex-colleague I will not name: “of the 3…

2022-11-13 14:49:53 RT @ubiquity75: FYI, reporters:Around 3,000+ contractor employees of Twitter were canned last night (totally normal thing to do, btw). Ho…

2022-11-13 10:31:08 @Floxi_1 @jwildeboer Twitter has about a month to respond in the first instance, so I haven't heard of success, but I also haven't heard of this type of request being made before.

2022-11-13 08:05:36 RT @stokel: MEGATHREAD: By the end of today, I’ll have 19 stories published this week. If you want to catch up on a weird week in tech, c…

2022-11-13 08:03:17 @jjaron @MarijnSax indeed, i’ve seen many sources of total incoherence from them over the years!

2022-11-13 07:58:08 @jjaron academic @MarijnSax has read the whole book and characterises it as a series of vague statements that don’t add up to an explicit or coherent framework. great marketing tho https://t.co/u6nxDyw6MD

2022-11-13 07:42:28 RT @MarijnSax: Sorry but this wouldn't even pass as undergrad writing. You built an entire utilitarian palace. Then, in the sections you sh…

2022-11-13 07:40:17 @jimkillock @AdamWagner1 @elonmusk posts i make on mastodon are getting hundreds of boosts (RTs) whereas the exact same post here is attracting just a handful. throes of a dying platform. i doubt the journalists will stick around actively for much longer either.

2022-11-13 07:25:04 RT @zachhazard: Gonna be hard to trust a company that has someone that makes Pepe NFTs as their strategy person https://t.co/ptqXY3tTo7

2022-11-12 17:30:11 @Iwillleavenow @gwbstr i can try and look myself but if you have a brief idea for comparable text to my gdpr one preempting a few of their potential arguments then i’m happy to put it on the post. but also aware that’s free labour! if you do it for yourself or another sometime then please share (:

2022-11-12 15:46:05 @krisnelson @clancynewyork @TwitterSupport indeed! although this form has been unchanged and therefore illegal for several years, just now there’s no one to fix. also they’ve outsourced it…

2022-11-12 15:45:16 @gwbstr i don’t know if californian law would allow you to erase DMs, @Iwillleavenow may have views…

2022-11-12 15:32:38 @billt thanks bill! it’s also important people try it to remind twitter it does have legal obligations in many jurisdictions and to kick some regulators into action if they don’t know where to start enforcing…

2022-11-12 15:06:57 Mastodon denizen reports that the Twitter data protection form is “completely inaccessible with screen readers”. This is illegal, @TwitterSupport — how are these individuals meant to access their data rights to delete DMs given you provide no other electronic contact point?! https://t.co/PbzfLb6mxm

2022-11-12 14:05:58 @Melterialsgal @Write4Research mastodon and the #fediverse, i’m already seeing way more research updates and engagement there than here

2022-11-12 13:39:01 @semiphemeral Because Twitter explicitly retains copies of messages even if you do this, you’ll need to augment it with a legal request — I’ve got instructions of how to make a GDPR erasure request for DMs in a post here: https://t.co/PbzfLb6mxm

2022-11-12 11:53:35 @FusterGloria @ka_iwanska and they now have a logo https://t.co/lasQEHHwcm

2022-11-12 11:53:05 @FusterGloria @ka_iwanska I can't remember a blog but this link exists? https://t.co/BmQwkqpDKY

2022-11-12 10:47:23 @Lenandlar @LSEImpactBlog Certainly plenty of doctoral researchers, if that's what you mean — the article talks about 'student recruitment' though, so we usually would think of undergrad and postgraduate taught students.

2022-11-12 08:20:19 Elon Trussk https://t.co/hKbS5SclE6

2022-11-12 07:15:49 @LSEImpactBlog it’s kind of unclear potential students are even using twitter to be recruited, let alone following institutions to do so, the idea that academic institutions rely on it is a bit odd. they often barely have any followers or engagement.

2022-11-12 00:12:26 @ka_iwanska indeed i do say in the blog that your mileage may vary…

2022-11-11 17:10:47 Twitter is now an insecure platform, haemmorhaging security experts. It could haemmorhage your DMs, through leak or sale.It's no hard guarantee, but your best chance to delete them is with is with #GDPR rights. I've written a blog on how:https://t.co/NaamipxA55

2022-11-11 13:37:11 @nhelberger where are all these people called "van den Berg" from?

2022-11-11 11:22:31 @MissIG_Geek I've seen that comment mention the academic lists before, but in that particular case it seems to be a misunderstanding of how those lists come to be and how they are governed. I definitely agree with the sentiment but am not sure what is actually reacting to.

2022-11-11 11:21:32 @MissIG_Geek I've seen this circulate a couple of times but I haven't actually seen any public non opt-in lists. There are private personal lists you can make and not share, and there are opt in lists with forms to add yourself such as the academic lists here. https://t.co/yEDBUVq0Su

2022-11-11 10:04:07 @katebevan My solution is you change it from katherine to aneurin

2022-11-11 10:00:48 @katebevan drat i was just about to helpfully suggest this innovative solution

2022-11-11 09:20:17 @robinberjon if it was truly open (unlike eg TCF where you need to be on vendors.json), you’d likely have to find an IP right to hang it upon, which could be very hard. such rights would be found more easily in reproducing the text of the standard rather than the act of deploying it.

2022-11-11 08:04:38 section 230 is weird, US, almost every other country has notice &

2022-11-10 22:39:11 RT @JamesClayton5: Twitter’s verification system latest. There are now loads of blue ticked Elon Musks. I’m old enough to remember when a…

2022-11-10 18:28:25 (#chatcontrol to many NGOs). Meanwhile, Ashton Kucher (!) is still trying to write his company into the law by charming policymakers in very one-sided panels (see https://t.co/ilomCR2F5W). Article @netzpolitik_feed@chaos.social (DE): https://t.co/MUOdBAL50X (2/2)

2022-11-10 18:28:14 German justice ministers narrowly vote for “quick freeze” telecoms #dataRetention not the indiscriminate form rejected by the CJEU many times (most recently in the @LaQuadrature@mamot.fr case. They vote more strongly *against* the Commission’s CSAM regulation (1/2)

2022-11-10 17:45:00 Legal academia — if you've heard people talk about Mastodon &

2022-11-10 17:34:41 a dynamic I only realised today, and which isn't really clear from documentation, is that the federated timeline also contains the original posts that people who your instance users follow have replied to. looking through our server, these are the ones that seem to be from (1/2)

2022-11-10 14:59:29 The publicly funded UK/US Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) challenge has (sort of) announced its winners, and the US its winning projects. Striking initially is how many are not PETs to make people less legible to computers (like @torproject@mastodon.social is) but (1/2)

2022-11-10 14:25:28 @M_Niezna @vmantouvalou put your handle in your bio, people will be able to find you that way using automated tools like Debirdify to work out who they follow on Twitter now has mastodon accounts and follow them en masse. https://t.co/xpnLliStJe

2022-11-10 12:51:51 RT @vmantouvalou: Thanks to my great colleague @mikarv I have a Mastodon account:@vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computerI now need to lear…

2022-11-09 20:52:36 Recent arrivals finding their way inside https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa v worth knowing about:secret trade secretonomist NSearle@someone.elses.computerbadgering science-policy KiraM@someone.elses.computertech dehyping journalists… https://t.co/sEPvmhCmgK

2022-11-09 18:39:59 @issielapowsky it verifies that you have 8 dollar a month

2022-11-09 08:48:53 Are the admins of the https://t.co/289Z5xzfL5 server not... concerned that they'll get sued by Twitter for trademark infringement by having set up a directly competing social network using their name? Perhaps displays a… https://t.co/Y8BiuZ5TBd

2022-11-09 05:46:39 University of Suffolk may be #1 in the country for Dark Patterns (a new Bantshire ranking if they make it over here?): both a manifestly illegal cookie banner and a forced pop with no X demanding you register for an open day when you try to view… https://t.co/wyThlEpEpc https://t.co/Z1NzyP0OIM

2022-11-08 15:45:06 In Barcelona with jennifercobbe@someone.elses.computer JennyBrennan@mastodon.social, where even receipts in bars have privacy policies that may please ggf@eupolicy.social. https://t.co/PkdbGmLNT2

2022-11-08 08:17:44 RT @nhelberger: @mikarv Also, this is not simply about standardisation but in some cases a shift of real rule making power. From a citizen…

2022-11-08 08:17:43 RT @nhelberger: @mikarv + one cannot simply standardise human rights like a technical interface or part of a technical system. Human rights…

2022-11-07 22:40:21 @lilianedwards @CatalinaGoanta autographed trouser press ONLY ONE REMAINING

2022-11-07 15:49:50 @AlexCEngler They haven't published their intention anywhere, only confirm it every time I ask, and it's the understanding of the standards bodies too.

2022-11-07 15:48:56 @binocularity I know it is normal practice. However when standards are de facto mandated by law, it's simply not compatible with the rule of law, particularly when it concerns fundamental rights. @carlmalamud has been fighting this good fight for a long time.

2022-11-07 15:24:00 @binocularity Your analogy is incredibly disingenuous. This isn't newspapers or books: they do not have legal effect. The rule of law requires the rules that bind to be known &

2022-11-07 15:21:31 @AlexCEngler Preferred alternative is not use the NLF. The AI Act should not pass in this form, should be deeply rethought, regardless of stage we're at. V dangerous precedent for EU legislation and delegation of rules.(also, mandating a single standard isn't part of the Act, just EC lunacy)

2022-11-07 13:00:09 @CatalinaGoanta For all those that contribute to the premium version I stop dropping product placement in our private chats (for a limited time only, this offer applies across all contexts!)

2022-11-07 11:20:09 @binocularity Because effectively no one in those bodies has experience to make rules around fundamental rights. Literally no expertise from the sectors impacted, no effective way to include them when standardisation is rarely relevant to them, and the rules they produce cost money to read!

2022-11-07 08:44:58 Glad to see more ppl noting illegitimate role private standards bodies will have balancing fundamental rights re AI. Unmentioned: the EC seeks to mandate a single standard for all high risk AI! facial rec, judicial support, edtech! Won’t work. #AIActhttps://t.co/4iErn0yoId

2022-11-07 08:38:34 @KrisShrishak @iverna1 @IoanDragosT @clothildegouj @Gmvolpi see also https://t.co/lYETSBnMYW

2022-11-06 21:31:54 @RKemb @AdamWagner1 it’s also been designed so that only followers of the bot can see the posts so they don’t get spread around as if they were posted by the original person. people try and make helpful things on non commercial platforms!

2022-11-06 21:28:23 @RKemb @AdamWagner1 It says ‘Bot’ next to the name, and links to the ‘official’ twitter, and the server only generates such bots as a service when users first ask. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but it’s not an attempt to deceive, its someone trying to be helpful and provide a community service.

2022-11-06 21:22:51 @AdamWagner1 That’s fair &

2022-11-06 21:08:00 @AdamWagner1 (and by that i mean it doesn’t claim to be a real user, just a service. it’s called a ‘twitter to activitypub bridge’ designed so mastodon users can keep listening to posts on twitter of people who aren’t leaving, because twitter itself does not provide a way to do that smoothly)

2022-11-06 21:04:51 @AdamWagner1 it’s not really ‘fake’, it’s a one way pipe/mirror that allows people to follow accounts still on this site by copying their posts over.

2022-11-06 20:57:48 A load of new law/technology/policy/society people have joined very recently that many will (or should start to!) know. Flagging for public service:wsisaac@mastodon.social linnetelwin@someone.elses.computer … https://t.co/h1faqyACuy

2022-11-06 20:45:33 An interesting post about some of the distinct ways that Fediverse platforms have implemented the quote post https://t.co/sxx2LkTINM, and how they forsee #interoperability with each other. Likely a bit dauntingly technical for many… https://t.co/8EgvorSCpv

2022-11-06 19:02:24 @RichardMoorhead because you wanna be in our cool club richard

2022-11-06 19:01:17 @clancynewyork @timnitGebru @pearlrhein @PanickedFoodie actually pressing the buttons to make it happen is technically easy. but it's a very good point that it's socially or otherwise daunting. hopefully some videos and stuff can be made so the consequences are clearer.

2022-11-06 18:55:34 @timnitGebru @pearlrhein @PanickedFoodie ultimately as timnit says, it doesn't matter so much as you can migrate. the server you want to join may not exist yet! esp if you want to build it in early days as timnit &

2022-11-06 18:52:06 @timnitGebru @pearlrhein @PanickedFoodie the other way it affects, more nuanced, is through hashtags. when you follow or search for a hashtag (the main way mastodon info from non followers is organised), your world of search is not global, but through the haystack of all posts that ppl on your instance have followed.

2022-11-06 18:50:09 @timnitGebru @pearlrhein @PanickedFoodie @dylnbkr nah doesn't make any difference, it's just domain name and dns records.

2022-11-05 19:29:08 @SusanMichie @RichardMoorhead strange, but perhaps because the server you are on is overloaded right now as everyone is moving to community infrastructure! will be super fast once you move servers, as it is for me. when servers are busy they queue actions for execution later.

2022-11-05 17:28:29 @SusanMichie @RichardMoorhead Yep, and when you migrate accounts, followers automatically transfer w you, &

2022-11-05 17:06:11 @rachelcoldicutt @CommonFutrs i thought mine hadn't but they all appeared suddenly at some point, not sure the exact mechanism

2022-11-05 16:58:48 @RichardMoorhead @SusanMichie what's your username/server susan?

2022-11-05 16:57:46 @SusanMichie i could do a UCL workshop (:

2022-11-05 16:56:48 @robertjwest and there's a new initiative to make a list of psychologists by @DrKaitClark https://t.co/kvdYoaAbou here

2022-11-05 16:53:59 @robertjwest growing number of UCL people on it! if you aren't on the biggest server, it's lightning fast, we host a little one for tech law academic friends

2022-11-05 15:54:32 Maybe the problem with today’s services is that they’re designed to be *so* absurdly friction free they can slide and slip and manipulate their users.The digital is political, and nothing political should be totally thoughtless. (and besides, Mastodon is very usable!) https://t.co/o6IXv5pVAd

2022-11-05 15:30:27 @lexzard @1Br0wn logic of federated networks is they don’t have an authoritative list of all existing networks or people in the world. they only know about stuff if they inquire about it or have seen it before. useful heuristic to know whole navigating the system.

2022-11-05 15:20:31 @lexzard @1Br0wn did you type the whole thing?

2022-11-04 23:38:44 RT @PsychedelicSTS: Finally public! My story of how I was sexually harassed, marginalized, silenced, excluded, and gaslighted at/by the @Ha…

2022-11-04 11:31:37 @lexzard @1Br0wn you can, as long as you are on an instance that knows i exist because someone else on it has followed me in the past.

2022-11-04 10:12:30 @lexzard @1Br0wn like what?

2022-11-04 09:59:42 And there are various lists of academics to follow, including https://t.co/kaG1JDjk1h and for tech law/policy https://t.co/pWqYCvVHLN. @1Br0wn also has a list of migration tools https://t.co/Datd8qd1jP

2022-11-04 09:58:28 @RHoogstraat @NWO_SSH yes, of course with the proviso that content moderation may limit this in future as necessary. I guess I mean more functionally than on principle.

2022-11-04 09:55:53 Nederlandse onderzoekers! If you're looking how to migrate to Mastodon but don't know where to start, @RHoogstraat at @NWO_SSH has set up a special server for Dutch academics. You can follow anyone from any server — it's best not to join the biggest ones! https://t.co/1I7MuSMAJB

2022-11-04 06:44:26 RT @evacide: I'm begging people to please do any kind of research into the history of real names proposals before suggesting this idea like…

2022-11-04 06:23:33 @FedEuroAcadMed @Floridi didn’t you first author a paper promoting exactly that approach, calling it ‘capAI©’, and promoting how it would allow firms to meet their AI Act obligations? I didn’t see any of this criticism in that paper, which inherited the AIA’s deep problems. https://t.co/hDpevcgY6o

2022-11-04 06:18:08 @ChrisTMarsden @hackylawyER @Floridi @fborgesius that an academic who has changed his tone on the AI Act after initially running to its praise and literally rush publishing a paper promoting a conformity assessment method for assessing AI within that act… as a product! https://t.co/hDpevcgY6o

2022-11-04 05:58:16 breaking labour law should not be a cost benefit analysis.

2022-11-03 14:13:59 @GiulioCoraggio @CNIL_en afaik Google execs may be in breach of the Espionage Act if they admitted to data transfers under the FISA Act. we also know from the Snowden files that Google cookies are used and piggybacked on by intelligence agencies. https://t.co/f6Un7ej1Mb

2022-11-03 11:49:53 As the @CNIL_en notes from it regulatory work, 'In the context of the investigation, Google indicated that it uses pseudonymisation measures, but not anonymisation' in its analytics product. https://t.co/DgyS3eGYxx

2022-11-03 11:34:44 .@ICOnews should assess gov’s claim that they’ll “continue to ensure that all of the data collected fully respects people's consent, is anonymous, and is free of personally identifiable information.”. PII = US law term &

2022-11-03 06:55:44 @ColinGavaghan there is no episode of emmerdale i am aware of where the characters work out they are fictional and start suing the production company

2022-11-03 06:55:04 @ColinGavaghan i’m talking nonsense colin

2022-11-03 06:53:40 @ColinGavaghan the most notable is Emmerdale v ITV, which made precedent by being the first English case to break the fourth wall.

2022-11-03 06:42:14 @ColinGavaghan in common law systems, judges can and often do refer to fictional TV judgments to inform their thinking, but they are not strictly bound by them

2022-11-02 19:09:30 RT @guardiantech: TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data https://t.co/fWuy29Z3Gi

2022-11-02 19:08:03 @stokel HMM

2022-11-02 18:06:54 @oberonsghost @neil_neilzone this is a very good Q I remember @rossjanderson asking years and years ago, perhaps he has thoughts

2022-11-02 11:16:25 @ChrisTMarsden @technollama @lilianedwards @tforcworc the fediverse to create a single place for all organisations' expenses would be the dream

2022-11-02 10:23:50 Papers including some contributions from @UCLLaws students! https://t.co/34pizFJBiT

2022-11-02 08:53:40 (plus freemium hosted instances potentially pushing ads to their local users but not federating them (as they’d get their instance blocked?))

2022-11-02 08:52:26 People can always pay other people to influence populations. But if the people who are being paid don’t control the rules of the world the populations inhabit, it’s easier (not foolproof!) to switch off the advertisers. Endgame seems a mix of email spam and influencer marketing. https://t.co/313HMNqcfK

2022-11-02 07:48:17 @1Br0wn @joinmastodon not just home to ‘left leaning’ communities… and kind of miss how you don’t need shedloads of funding in one place if your hosting and moderation and (to some extent) development is taken by the community. or that maybe replacing twitter isn’t the idea.

2022-11-02 07:41:34 @rachelcoldicutt Even just highlighting methods or skillsets for assessing coherence might help: ‘tensions in digital policy and how to spot them’

2022-11-02 07:32:19 @rachelcoldicutt you are as ever the strongest connoisseur of public sector doomtweets

2022-11-02 07:31:13 @rachelcoldicutt what did i just watch

2022-11-02 07:29:15 @rachelcoldicutt that’s a very interesting read, i hadn’t thought of that but it makes a lot of sense. maybe they will save national digital software and hardware sovereignty, and content moderation for good measure, while they’re here too. https://t.co/d4ZxtXdCZa

2022-11-02 07:20:48 @rachelcoldicutt yes! i’ve been saying something similar to anyone with political tendencies who will listen. people have their own ideas of how schools should work down to quite a detailed (if inaccurate) level, but contested coherent visions rarely exist for the Internet. Coherence also hard.

2022-11-02 07:18:08 RT @rachelcoldicutt: My weird digital regulatory fantasy (what can I say, I need to get out more) is that there would be a coherent politic…

2022-11-01 21:07:39 Boris Johnson and Dick Cheney as keynotes at a dodgy blockchain conference, with global partner of the organiser being Carnegie Mellon’s @CyLab. If I was a CyLab, I would want to pull support from this scam ASAP. https://t.co/37mrwe02il https://t.co/t3dGfWXKuO

2022-11-01 21:03:30 @voxbec https://t.co/lu2fjptRyT

2022-11-01 19:37:40 @voxbec but also, many people have more than one account for different reasons!

2022-11-01 19:37:16 @voxbec migrating moves your followers. you can also set up a redirect which is less effort. else people might be confused where you really are.

2022-11-01 19:36:22 @mmitchell_ai @sarahbmyers @IEthics @random_walker @rajiinio it was!

2022-11-01 17:32:23 @carlheaton @jimkillock cc @C___CS @nielstenoever

2022-11-01 17:29:12 @carlheaton golden https://t.co/TRPfelcwvG

2022-11-01 17:26:16 RT @carlheaton: Do I read this right? DCMS wants to restrict the release of any communications relating to its pressuring of Nominet to ban…

2022-11-01 15:15:53 RT @FTC: We're back for panel 2 on automated decision-making systems. Panelists are Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker), Michael Veale (@mika…

2022-11-01 12:34:28 RT @sarahbmyers: Excited to moderate a conversation on Automated Decisionmaking Systems this morning with @random_walker, @mikarv and @raji…

2022-11-01 08:23:00 @binocularity If a decision is made without any reason at all being given, and even a human restatement can’t find a reason, then it’s likely going to be illegal under national labour law and can be overturned in tribunal.

2022-11-01 08:21:36 @binocularity And on the parts on transparency not restatement:1. digital labour platforms must provide individuals with a contract point to discuss reasons2. for algorithmic changes, worker groups can be assisted by an expert of their choice, paid for by the platform of over 500 workers.

2022-11-01 08:16:55 @binocularity You might need to read the paper, that’s the actual point. A human restatement of a decision isn’t an explanation, it’s a new, human-made decision, with reasoning that supplants the original and would be challengeable in court independently without reference to the algorithm.

2022-11-01 08:00:25 @fborgesius @AndrewDMurray @ChrisTMarsden Indeed. Even though it would have been a higher number to reach if no Brexit as the idea is it’s pegged to 10% of the EU’s population, disproportionate UK Twitter use knocks it right over.

2022-11-01 07:16:23 @Kira_UCL It’s worth having a look, but there’s no rush. https://t.co/G5sRbU777g is very new so hard to evaluate but could end up nice. https://t.co/RvAKPtYnoI seems solid too. https://t.co/lu2fjptRyT. Also, I owe you an email and plan to do everything today .

2022-10-31 21:50:50 @LeeTomson @TowCenter i think that would be nice, although you're going to hit up against the 'who is a journalist' question pretty quick and I hope you have a low cost way of answering it constantly.

2022-10-31 21:47:54 @gabrielazanfir @futureofprivacy the korean regulator strikes first and then the french go in for the cnil

2022-10-31 21:46:09 @gwbstr come federate graham, people are good

2022-10-31 20:56:30 @clancynewyork no sadly i’m just projecting what i suspect your approach needs to involve. let’s hang next time i’m over though (:

2022-10-31 20:54:25 @clancynewyork first step as a new yorker is presumably to see which part of the fediverse andrew yang is on and not be on that one

2022-10-31 20:52:17 @emilybell quite literally lolled

2022-10-31 20:51:24 Really useful new paper by @petros_ter on issues with the proposed European Health Data Spaces Regulation, for those that haven’t kept up with it, or indeed haven’t even heard of it. https://t.co/bpWoqJStup

2022-10-31 20:46:24 @timnitGebru A lot of ppl using https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 as an entry point to get bearings &

2022-10-31 20:40:39 @timnitGebru You can migrate to wherever &

2022-10-31 20:13:37 also popular with critical tech folks https://t.co/fvlDRQLJs7https://t.co/aOzTWBEmo1 (invites from users)https://t.co/74FvXohRwJ (for visualisation people)https://t.co/qhzdbIYi1I (with interesting developed gov and funding model)https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a (ask admin for invite)

2022-10-31 20:09:34 @binocularity that’s exactly why we specifically don’t suggest humans in the loop explain, but instead restate and replace the decision (eg to fire) in human understandable terms.

2022-10-31 20:07:21 If you haven’t tried Mastodon/the Fediverse, there’re now ~100 tech/policy/law/society ppl on our lil’ list (+100s I know of): https://t.co/pWqYCvV9Wf. Don’t join the big https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5, try eg https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy / https://t.co/G5sRbU777g / https://t.co/4wvHdFJQly

2022-10-31 18:50:59 @eibhear @neil_neilzone @tforcworc @lilianedwards @1Br0wn @cyberleagle @alexbloor @CatherineFlick oh I missed that, thank you!

2022-10-31 18:44:04 @alexbloor @neil_neilzone @tforcworc @lilianedwards @1Br0wn @cyberleagle @CatherineFlick i've been using it for ages now and it's great

2022-10-31 18:39:51 @neil_neilzone @tforcworc @lilianedwards @1Br0wn @cyberleagle @alexbloor @CatherineFlick Sure, but I think you need one thing to set up and make work on a domain, be maintained semi automatically, and can expand out from there. Some apps are silly though. Sandstorm was good for this too before RIP, now I'm told @cloudron_io is interesting instead but haven't tried?

2022-10-31 18:33:44 @neil_neilzone @tforcworc @lilianedwards @1Br0wn @cyberleagle @alexbloor @CatherineFlick NextCloud Social was an attempt to add activitypub to NextCloud but it doesn't work with versions over 21 any more and maintaining it doesn't seem a priority. But bundling it with all sorts of things quite easy (including w other services you buy, like Dropbox or whatever!)

2022-10-31 14:23:17 @JeremiasPrassl @Aislinn_Tweets @Halefom_Abraha Tagging those who can make rights stronger with our academic critiques of these parts of the Platform Work Directive: @gualminielisa @carloppe @tanzen90, and algorithmic management whizzes @valeriodeste @_aloisi (check out their translated book! https://t.co/9faz1ITg3L)

2022-10-31 14:17:19 On monitoring: many provisions require impact to be assessed/context about whether the worker is or is not working, but w little data this is hard. It may interact with fireworks in the world of general online tracking. This part needs some quite significant tweaking to get right

2022-10-31 07:56:55 @CatherineFlick @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @alexbloor i have two servers at home but wasn’t sure about the load, and all the pi 8gbs are sold out, but maybe i’ll move it home when pine release the new rockpro64 version.

2022-10-31 07:52:11 indeed, if someone wants to do a PhD on federated services and duties of care based social media regulation trends, now is the time. (or if you’re doing one, say hi). https://t.co/o7UPTGp4X0

2022-10-31 07:50:18 @CatherineFlick @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @alexbloor luckily it doesn’t need to scale! just enough so that hosting costs are covered by everyone lobbing about 20£ a year.

2022-10-31 07:48:23 @alexbloor @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @neil_neilzone but that’s what’s happening in the fediverse, ppl signing up to a big instance &

2022-10-31 07:37:35 @alexbloor @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @neil_neilzone sure, but i’m not sure carefully choosing a public server is really very hard. it’s hard because people are rushing to a system they have not yet understood. in the real world, people have more time and space, and other users coax people over and direct them to good places.

2022-10-31 07:35:38 @neil_neilzone @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @alexbloor I think a world where people who really know each other make their own shared servers is probably the easiest federation trade off as it removes half the moderation issue just leaving the vulnerability vis a vis the world, but of course won’t work for everyone who wants to join.

2022-10-31 07:33:56 @CatherineFlick @lilianedwards @neil_neilzone @alexbloor yes — i’m very keen to not be a service provider and not to have to deal with internal moderation issues. have not yet seen any external moderation issues eg spam, harassment, raids, but those seem all possible.

2022-10-31 07:18:49 @lilianedwards @neil_neilzone @alexbloor mostly it’s non trivial as i’m not an experienced sysadmin or linux wizard and chose against using something like https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-10-30 16:18:39 RT @PaulNemitz: For all interested in #EU #policy and #law, we have set up a #Mastodon server: https://t.co/hvgVHB0V34 . For crossposting…

2022-10-30 13:31:13 @sophieml1 @Tupp_Ed @klillington the web has long been full of huge number of discussion fora

2022-10-30 13:30:02 @Tupp_Ed @klillington why?

2022-10-30 13:29:33 @israblack @nataliesedacca they shouldn't have made that an actual rule then https://t.co/N2JKYovfHU

2022-10-30 13:12:49 @israblack @nataliesedacca there is https://t.co/UgvgMDnrQx which i think has also stopped accepting for a bit. https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a ive had an account on since 2017 but they blocked some instances with NGOs on so actually was their policies that drove me to steer my own

2022-10-30 12:59:28 @sophieml1 @Tupp_Ed @klillington the web has been pretty effective and useful.

2022-10-30 12:32:09 @nataliesedacca (you can switch servers and bring your followers with you later)

2022-10-30 12:31:27 @nataliesedacca much easier than it sounds. perhaps try https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy (:

2022-10-30 12:09:02 @nataliesedacca it's not just a site, it's a federated system (: don't join https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5, join a different server (you can meet and follow anyone from any of them). read this first https://t.co/nK3k9OFlXJ

2022-10-30 11:51:04 @klillington the one thing I think you can't really move is your old posts, they stay hosted where you were.

2022-10-30 11:50:26 @klillington nope, you register a new account at the place you want to be, in settings there you can indicate an 'alias' (that it expects to be ported to). then in the old account, you can set it to migrate and it will see there is a willing recipient. I did it, v easy https://t.co/35pR8YI5Vr

2022-10-30 11:33:37 @klillington you can move your followers!

2022-10-30 11:31:47 RT @FusterGloria: January is coming soon so please all mark your !!!26 January in Brussels (in person) #PrivacyCamp2327 January 2nd…

2022-10-30 09:32:04 @rriemann_eu heh, i pulled from it for my instance’s. (although we’re closed and tiny and some of the legal bases have changed)

2022-10-30 08:57:59 @SRanchordas @MauritsMeijers There are (many!) other instances of scholarly relevance eg I used to be on https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a but they aren't accepting new members rn. But it doesn't matter, no FOMO as you can still follow anyone and they you. a good guide https://t.co/nK3k9OFlXJ @joix pointed me to.

2022-10-30 08:54:58 @SRanchordas @MauritsMeijers If you already have signed up, you can move your account and followers. Make a new account at https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy and then you can set your old one to port over. https://t.co/35pR8YI5Vr. Also, hi @MauritsMeijers (:

2022-10-30 08:54:15 @SRanchordas @MauritsMeijers You don't need to sign up on https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5, and indeed you shouldn't! You can choose any instance (try something small at a size that is nicely moderated). It doesn't restrict your ability to follow others or be followed. I recommend https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy.

2022-10-30 07:36:35 @SRanchordas https://t.co/ZPUXd6qaMb will likely fail to enforce these because it's too big, but you can and should port your account (and followers) to a smaller instance that is small enough so that moderation is much more social. https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy is an example of this.

2022-10-29 18:35:16 @rriemann_eu @ilumium that would be fun. atm our instance is only open to friends who are willing and technically able to help with the running the innards, not looking to provide a broader service. the first other human on it is @jennifercobbe@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-29 18:20:47 @rriemann_eu @ilumium yep, i recommended it already https://t.co/RcqTHajrD0 but personally i’m running my own (also to learn more)

2022-10-29 17:33:07 Truss' phone was 'heavily compromised', in a hack attributed to Russia, during her prime ministerial campaign, reports MoS. https://t.co/UXGzeCYrEQ

2022-10-29 15:43:31 (note that the blog post is not fully up to date)

2022-10-29 15:42:39 If any IP and platforms people are looking for an idea for a dissertation or paper, then consider the interaction between the Copyright Directive and the fediverse, as the founder of Mastodon wrote in 2018 here. https://t.co/iYO8WSUEMm

2022-10-29 15:15:16 RT @Chronotope: wow a company did the exact thing with tcf that every critic of tcf warned people that companies would do with tcf because…

2022-10-29 14:15:29 RT @craigjcalhoun: UK academic staff are not paid well by international standards or enough to keep up with UK inflation. Cuts to retiremen…

2022-10-29 13:29:09 for those people worried about picking a mastodon server, you may not know you can shift servers whenever and take all your followers with you extremely easily https://t.co/35pR8YIDKZ https://t.co/L9N6qZ12iz

2022-10-29 12:21:15 @robyncaplan you don't need a new account, you can follow anyone on any server from any other server (: https://t.co/um9w11FVZZ

2022-10-29 09:06:55 Great essay by @framasoft/@Framasoft@framapiaf.org looking back at lessons from their efforts to collectivise and convivialise the Internet. Framasoft have monthly hosting expenses of ~50K EUR. https://t.co/La4d1HzgnR

2022-10-29 06:57:11 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @CatalinaGoanta scholar social didn’t say who ran it and blocked whole instances containing digital rights NGOs from being accessible from it, so i migrated my account from it yday to a self hosted instance. https://t.co/IXLFJ9cu36 also exists which may be of interest, some familiar faces there

2022-10-28 17:21:55 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta more seriously though, the mental model issue I think is about who is in or out of the search bar, home feed, federated feed, and why.

2022-10-28 17:18:00 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta instead of https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa I was very tempted to get https://t.co/eFSxj9peaQ but decided against it

2022-10-28 17:17:30 The https://t.co/Fr8VEOCOID server gets about 6k EUR a month in Patreon donations. The increased load is presumably noticeable. Are there more detailed financials on how much these larger instances actually cost to run?

2022-10-28 17:10:41 @CatalinaGoanta i'll probably syndicate to both and see how I feel. you don't need to be on a particular server though, but i agree it's hard for people to make mental models of how it works.

2022-10-28 11:54:54 @sjmurdoch I shifted to @mikarv@someone.elses.computer, trying the migration functionality today. whoever was running https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a I joined in 2017 is a mystery and i'm not willing to abide by that...

2022-10-28 11:49:37 @crystaljjlee @mikarv@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-28 11:38:34 shifting the mastodon account I started 5 years ago on a mystery server with overzealous federation blocking policies to my own server (content moderation galore awaits). you can follow me on @mikarv@someone.elses.computer https://t.co/w0vEMo8ByM

2022-10-27 22:25:32 Re-invoice them with statutory interest rates if universities are late at paying — 8% plus the Bank of England base rate + £40–70 recovery fee. The finance dept at unis aren’t likely to influence repercussion, so use your legal rights. https://t.co/2Gcrts3Uh8 https://t.co/ktmmfTxz6p

2022-10-27 22:04:04 @neilmrichards @salome_viljoen_ @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron unfortunately bluetooth is q low quality, wireless speakers are better w Airplay2 which allows multiple connected nicely using a fusion of protocols but apple keep it proprietary and license it selectively to eg boost HomeKit uptake (Airplay1 was successfully reverse engineered)

2022-10-27 21:24:28 @salome_viljoen_ @neilmrichards @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron impossible to buy a home speaker without echo/google assistant, i gave in and blocked it from successfully resolving google domains with my home dns filter. when you check the logs turns out it asks ‘where’s google?’ two times a second. ‘google’s dead’, my dns pi responds.

2022-10-27 11:51:48 @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov Here are some of the other examples catalogued in the POTs paper. For many years these authors have tirelessly pushed 'optimisation' as a frame of thinking instead of fairness or confidentiality alone. Getting to work with them is one of the v best parts of my job as an academic. https://t.co/wrLofqaiTc

2022-10-27 11:47:09 Techniques to foil optimisation systems (the Protective Optimisation Technologies of @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov https://t.co/QHnHWql86R) are promising to politically push back against systems, not as unreliable individual protection. https://t.co/9UkInMMZtY

2022-10-27 11:44:07 RT @cynddl: As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many…

2022-10-27 09:50:20 @Richvn ministerial entanglement

2022-10-27 07:35:54 @hutko literally just emailed around a paper with the highlighted reference gaps in yesterday and spent a pointless ten mins looking for whether it was out on eurlex yesterday! thank you for flagging

2022-10-26 17:26:38 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch so people have to give away their usernames externally to do basic tasks! wonderful security practice

2022-10-26 17:25:55 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch microsoft know the aliases, they should be able to map them, but mapping seems to only happen in native windows apps, in everything else triggering infinite login loop because it tries to stupidly match the document permissioning email to the AD identity without checking aliases

2022-10-26 17:17:20 @emax i never heard of it until your tweet, tried it for 2 mins, now i have disabled it. interacts weirdly with my practice of calling windows i want via alfred

2022-10-26 17:11:07 @RichardMoorhead @Detig @MatthewHappold I assure you there there is no functionality for anyone to edit, manipulate or remove your login data once it has been recorded in your local orcid branch accounts

2022-10-23 23:54:38 @lilianedwards @RaviNa1k it isn’t clear from https://t.co/nx3GlrMY3N if they plan to alter collection patterns of the meters. atm, you can choose for your meter to eg only send once a month. unclear if they plan to override that. aeons ago i wrote a smart meter and law case study https://t.co/pqR0epqcPF

2022-10-23 11:28:11 @technollama political escapism https://t.co/mfS9wqrBvz

2022-10-22 16:38:25 Oh no @igavels. https://t.co/Lg3UkDqjIe

2022-10-22 12:00:18 reflecting on why this is unlikely to spur outrage, it seems largely because the electorate is so arbitrary that compromising them can’t decrease the legitimacy of the process much more. (although systematic compromise should concern us!)

2022-10-22 08:58:21 Furthemore, the proportion without email addresses seems likely to be larger than the proportion that the winner will win by. What could go wrong?

2022-10-22 08:57:29 Someone from the party will call a number and enfranchise with the leadership of this country an questionably transcribed email address given to them by whoever picks up the phone. https://t.co/y9gpZbvX1Y

2022-10-21 14:21:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: I am also looking for postdocs with cryptography background looking into designing practical systems. If you are inter…

2022-10-21 14:08:29 @joetidy Glad NCSC have solved the problem described by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018 that 'no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet'. https://t.co/HXh2gX8cYx

2022-10-21 14:06:31 It's not about the amount of scrutiny. Online voting for hugely consequential votes has structural flaws regardless of scrutiny

2022-10-21 14:04:30 @katebevan It's not about the amount of scrutiny though — the major concerns around online voting for heads of state persist regardless of how much oversight NCSC have. https://t.co/Kwy4IWKfmr

2022-10-21 13:47:55 RT @applecensorship: So Apple now says that developers of the VKontake and https://t.co/GxRiIAwIKQ apps are not on the UK sanctions list. E…

2022-10-21 09:27:48 @psychicyogamat spread by a major product range from some sprawling multinational, and we'll get a huge class action awarding huge damages to Justin Webb, Ken Livinstone and Graham Linehan

2022-10-21 09:25:37 @psychicyogamat in 5 years we will discover it is actually a brain worm, like toxoplasmosis

2022-10-21 09:24:36 @psychicyogamat it was absurd, I shouted at my radio. Elton good at closing down without engaging.

2022-10-21 08:22:52 @MadelineCarr @UCLLaws Do circulate amongst your people with legal-shaped interests! We've lectures and panels coming out of our eyeballs due to cheap ways to hold them online — what I think we've been lacking is a dedicated social dimension.

2022-10-21 07:53:37 @1Br0wn @GCHQ @Conservatives we’ve talked to NCSC and said look, we’ve installed norton 365 and kaspersky, the election is more of a backstop than a plan anyway, and either way, luckily our largely octogenarian populist membership is extremely robust against social engineering.

2022-10-21 05:23:24 @JBAGerritsen @nicolasmarangoz @privacylawGER it’s mainly NL that leans on that standard explicitly in DPA decisions and advice, haven’t seen it elsewhere, have a chapter forthcoming soon on logging in the law enforcement directive…

2022-10-20 18:28:00 @infofannny @EstelMP new twitter bio https://t.co/yCjeBMecwm

2022-10-20 18:13:38 RT @sjmurdoch: There is genuine debate among election security experts as to how computers should be involved in elections, but there is al…

2022-10-20 18:11:58 We already today had over 100 mailing list sign-ups for this — fantastic and thanks for sharing! This incidentally also means that the London Information Technology Law Collective is one step closer to being your new Prime Minister. https://t.co/IxzkBScxxT

2022-10-20 17:20:45 RT @Markfergusonuk: It’s illegal for trade unions to hold our ballots online, but this bunch of self-serving, hypocritical charlatans are u…

2022-10-20 17:05:44 @AlexanderHorne1 @RichardMoorhead yep, the bar is what i had in mind

2022-10-20 16:59:00 @RichardMoorhead st john (:

2022-10-20 15:25:04 RT @owenboswarva: #UKGDPR will be adapted but not repealed. Response from DCMS minister @JuliaLopezMP to further written questions confir…

2022-10-20 14:44:46 @ConnalParsley @psychicyogamat @UCLLaws sure thing, just send an email to the address in the link and you'll be signed up

2022-10-20 13:33:50 @lilianedwards @Elibietti @UCLLaws initially we intend to pay for the drinks but as it settles down maybe will relocate to a pub for settled state

2022-10-20 13:18:35 @jennifercobbe @UCLLaws yes, it's only expectation management, people are welcome to travel etc. just not trying to make a UK wide network because that will end up being unequal cause we can only hold stuff here, and they're only low overhead social events

2022-10-20 13:11:26 @lilianedwards @Elibietti @UCLLaws maybe will settle into that eventually but also want to flip things around, perhaps do midday social things sometimes as some have caring responsibilities

2022-10-20 13:07:02 @SophiaIgnatidou @UCLLaws nope, just a researcher (widely understood) so feel free to sign up!

2022-10-20 12:18:58 @bact @LAWTUDublin @tudublincompsci @UCDCompSci @UCD_iSchool @UCDCentreHRts @ucdpolitics @UCDLawSchool @dcu_lawandtech @DCULawSociety @dcucomputing @tcddublinscss @TCDPoliticalSci @TCDLawSchool @TCDLawSoc @TCDLawPhd @MaynoothLaw @MaynoothLawSoc @MU_Hamilton @TCDBusiness in time we could make... a network of networks

2022-10-20 12:07:49 @neil_neilzone you're very welcome to join! trying to manage expectations more than anything, the focus will be scholarly so not really suited for those not interested in engaging in that

2022-10-20 11:45:02 @Elibietti @UCLLaws new york isn't the only place that is allowed cross institutional IT law fun

2022-10-20 11:32:02 @MailOnline *three weeks ago

2022-10-20 11:11:45 thanks to @NoraNiLoideain @lexprivacy @psychicyogamat @lynskeyo @faheye @EAbrusci @AysemV @PerryKellerKCL for initial eager support, and we're reaching out to more London institutions... if you want to be a contact point, email me (:

2022-10-20 11:07:14 @sjjgo have clarified on the site now too, thanks!

2022-10-20 11:02:31 @sjjgo Happy for others to join the list in case they are in town. Events planned to be low key mostly social, low effort. The 'researcher' scope (understood broadly) is more important than geographic.

2022-10-20 10:55:32 Please also share with people who aren't on Twitter, and think through who in your institution may be working in this area and could benefit from greater integration and exposure, even if you don't work with or supervise them directly!

2022-10-19 07:25:36 RT @dreynders: The Commission has today adopted its 2023 #WorkProgramme. Some good news for #DataProtection: to improve the cooperation bet…

2022-10-19 06:30:02 RT @socialhack: I first didn‘t want to believe this rumor, but it really looks like the big public consultation of @ThierryBreton about his…

2022-10-19 06:13:37 @BVLSingler this doesn’t look true though, new age is a category that isn’t expanded, it looks like they just don’t have subcategories under native american religions…

2022-10-18 14:38:20 RT @PaulFScott: ‘Economic Well-being’ in National Security law and Practice [OA]: https://t.co/d3t1xGVIkW

2022-10-18 08:40:01 of course, platforms' long term desired solution may be very much like how tech firms want to make automated cars: homogenise culture, get rid of tiny languages, make humans match large-scale platform business models rather than platforms match humans...

2022-10-18 08:35:30 It's precisely because these systems do recommend suicide related content to kids that we have to really watch out for regulatory foundations that only support governance in large, rich countries, and throw other humans, in other parts of the world, under the metaphorical bus.

2022-10-18 07:33:55 Recommender based systems by design pull up nearby concepts and inevitably create social incentive to use alternative spellings etc to avoid filtering. Even if TikTok could keep on top in English w/o overfiltering (eg of support content), what governance works for tiny languages? https://t.co/A4nTwNavP7

2022-10-17 09:54:39 @wrklsshrd I'm more focussed on the European standards bodies right now for standards that have legal effects and form part of EU law — as those are the ones with the largest legitimacy issues — so I haven't been involved in BSI standards which generally are not.

2022-10-17 09:53:10 Fees, 'NHS surcharge', all of this. Unis don't build this into their grant costing systems, so academics either have to be proactive, squeeze it out of their budgets afterwards, or leave their new colleagues feeling unwelcome, and much poorer than they were promised — on arrival https://t.co/0YjtipUBud

2022-10-17 09:49:35 RT @ka_iwanska: @mikarv It's not just about standards, it's also (and even more importantly) about the governance (composition of AI Board)…

2022-10-17 08:41:16 Guaranteed, meaningful civil society participation in AI Act procedures requires rebuilding standardisation systems from the ground up, as well as going back in time to stop the exclusionary pre development of standards already happening in the shadows. Amendments won’t cut it. https://t.co/b1I53hL1Np

2022-10-16 21:15:28 @clancynewyork @thewire_in incredible that meta doesn't stop people setting up workplaces called instagram

2022-10-16 20:53:40 Can't spell Liz Truss without 'l iz USS'. We should be told. https://t.co/tEa2sIvA57

2022-10-16 09:46:56 RT @joncstone: This 1985 letter to Margaret Thatcher, from the No.10 policy unit, arguing why water should be privatised, is really illumin…

2022-10-16 09:19:25 RT @MattRogerson: #Kuenssberg shocked at @tesco predicted £2.5bn in TOTAL profit in 22/23. The CMA found in 2018, that @Google @facebook…

2022-10-15 23:48:51 @RonanMcCrea it’s a jungle of conflicts of interest out there

2022-10-15 23:45:56 Says man with company reported to have run an unvisitable battery swap centre to disingenuously prove to regulators that cars could *hypothetically* be so rapidly ‘charged’ they could claim over $100m extra in taxpayers money from the State of California’s CARB credit system. https://t.co/u4E1dWbXEH

2022-10-15 23:29:55 *sound of charles perrow exploding* https://t.co/4vG3GYN0qK

2022-10-15 23:21:41 @jbellack @reckless @jeffjarvis @Google a strategy to homogenise a diverse networked system into a ‘less junky’ one requires accumulating exactly the kind of power that led to resentment of AMP. regardless of initial intent, a bureaucracy like Google sees, seizes &

2022-10-15 19:50:45 Whatever the veracity of this rebuttal by the Wire, the ball is in Meta’s court to rebut with actual arguments rather than the fluffy approach they have taken so far. https://t.co/XQor24xoUl

2022-10-15 14:34:18 @halifaxbeard yeah I thought that. or they could be auto opened and logged and filtered out?

2022-10-15 12:57:28 @doctor_oxford @theresecoffey And potentially an offence under (at least) the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 reg 214 https://t.co/hKVRu2yjsj https://t.co/YrzQnrlOJ4

2022-10-15 12:51:17 Worldwide journalists that stopped to pause to consider veracity (as is fair) now have a responsibility to reassess and come to their own conclusions. If Meta has indeed laid lies upon lies, they cannot be allowed to get away with it.

2022-10-08 10:05:26 RT @benedictrogers: An important piece by my colleagues and friends @SamGoodman22 and @denniswhkwok, published on the same day that British…

2022-10-07 06:42:07 RT @hdevalence: wait, *what* https://t.co/I6vDP29uVA

2022-10-06 21:14:31 RT @maxvonhippel: A few days ago, @Northeastern Senior Vice Provost David Luzzi (https://t.co/5fhygcYBub) had motion sensors installed unde…

2022-10-06 20:44:12 @TomPark1n @luke_stark either @timsquirrell or he may have an even more specific colleague

2022-10-06 20:31:14 RT @CBHessick: Soon you will hear complaints that those who were convicted of marijuana possession actually committed more serious crimes a…

2022-10-06 20:27:42 just in time, as the other private e-bikes will disappear as interest rates rise and silly money doesn’t run after ridiculous unsustainable firms https://t.co/8fstdKLj1W

2022-10-06 20:19:44 @jonsopel @Greenberry_Cafe also the hidden @mothercanteen is a gem there

2022-10-06 20:16:28 RT @matttomic: Parabon, the company that sells this pseudoscience software that claims it can produce a suspect photo based off a DNA sampl…

2022-10-06 20:10:44 @AnnemarieBridy @MattCameronLane @marklemley @contreraslegals Thank you! And thanks Annemarie for directing the q.

2022-10-06 17:41:11 @AnnemarieBridy not an IP person, but FRAND licensing terms and similar came to mind, perhaps if these firms are also involved in robotics standards.

2022-10-06 17:36:07 @AnnemarieBridy are there limits to eg refusing licensing of a patent for a military product? letter talks about customers but not licensees.

2022-10-06 12:54:56 RT @SuVergnolle: Does infringement alone of the GDPR gives rise to a right to compensation, or does there need to be harm as well?The AG's…

2022-10-06 09:23:31 RT @lawvaughan: One week today! My inaugural @UCLLaws public lecture on: are lawyers who help their clients bring about perfectly legal env…

2022-10-06 07:39:42 In the UK, this has a specific associated criminal offence. https://t.co/s1iICpOZqy

2022-10-06 06:56:30 RT @BrexitEnv: New blog post by B&

2022-10-06 06:46:17 RT @ODPC_KE: PRESS RELEASE: ODPC to audit 40 Digital Credit Providers and issues enforcement notice against a health service provider. http…

2022-10-05 14:30:23 RT @OpenRightsGroup: ​​ Nominations Open: Election for Board Directors Election for Three Board members to join our Board of Director…

2022-10-05 12:31:31 RT @BasuArindrajit: My chapter earlier this year exploring factors driving India's negotiation strategy and approach on cross-border flows…

2022-10-05 12:22:01 In the latest political Twitter brainrot, Ugandan president writes letter to apologise for his son, senior general with presidential desires, who flippantly tweets his intentions to invade Kenya. (ht @BerihunGebeye) https://t.co/3fJP8M6C5O https://t.co/VPAjNm1TUd

2022-10-05 11:26:15 RT @biancawylie: continue to think AI is not a good organizing container for legislation. cements its existence and gives it validity/statu…

2022-10-05 09:40:49 RT @Senficon: EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson claimed that AI is capable of detecting unknown depictions of sexualized violence against chil…

2022-10-05 09:34:14 “Sign in to make an emergency call”. https://t.co/JGuhTpJLOJ

2022-10-05 08:21:21 RT @sveckert: (1/3) Es ist eine stille Zensur: TikTok setzt diffuse Wortfilter ein.Kommentare, die "LGBTQ", "gay" aber auch Wörter wie "S…

2022-10-04 16:40:40 @ruchowdh the corporate form was a mistake

2022-10-04 16:12:36 @gabrielazanfir white house is great at pdfs

2022-10-04 16:12:11 RT @gabrielazanfir: It is absolutely great to see the White House laying out such good policy for AI accountability &

2022-10-04 15:46:13 @LSTSblog @ikkibop @VUBrussel @ERC_Research or "DOISLFALC"

2022-10-04 15:44:17 @MicrobiomDigest (phones are not supposed to be used in uk quiet coaches, but quiet conversations are)

2022-10-04 15:43:14 @MicrobiomDigest as a foreigner who has lived in the netherlands, I think there's a disconnect because most other countries have quiet rather than silent carriages, and if people don't know the translation of stilte, they often don't get the difference

2022-09-30 13:40:22 @israblack admittedly we did not get the victory we wanted in that case!

2022-09-30 13:38:26 @israblack It's a sad day when your case stands between the true Queen of the Ocramas, Princess Crown of Himalajas and Himalayan Queen, Barbara Antrimm Batch, Lady Cogan Coogan (Ex Mrs) Lady Lord Batch Kingdom Moore Batch Antrimm Cogan Coogan, and justice.

2022-09-30 13:36:56 It appears that SSRN/Elsevier also cannot answer why they retain download info for at least ~a decade, and in effect concede it was a violation of DP law, now claim to quickly be deleting it.They still refuse to provide data on IP based-download though, despite my static IP. https://t.co/rO6oVo5Izt https://t.co/eZxW3vHK8J

2022-09-30 13:12:57 @neil_neilzone Killock &

2022-09-30 12:04:11 RT @datajournalism: The role of #datajournalism in supporting transparency in public life is vital. Listen to reporters @kenfoxe, @Biro_A a…

2022-09-30 11:16:03 RT @bigblackjacobin: back from vacation so here is a little blog about GDPR, companies in Europe skirting it with cookie banners, and a nif…

2022-09-30 10:08:19 @lynskeyo @neil_neilzone damn orla got there first. the academic vultures descend on the unwitting volunteer

2022-09-30 10:07:26 @neil_neilzone would be great for you to come into either undergrad or postgrad surveillance law part of the relevant modules and talk about what it's like to work with telcos in that area!

2022-09-30 09:19:55 @hawktalk_blog @techUK I think this is more about procurement rules and practices than DP law.

2022-09-30 09:03:56 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: We're recruiting for a new position of Associate Director, Data &

2022-09-30 08:51:27 @techUK Palantir isn't about 'evil analytics'. It's a story of a firm trying to deskill the public sector, layer on top of incompatible data systems and make a *proprietary* compatibility layer, and platformise the sector to shape it and extract taxpayers' money over the long term.

2022-09-30 08:47:47 Devestating scoop from Olivia as she blazes back to the UK tech beat. Palantir also sought to go via @techUK, a lobby group long trying to be the face of tech ethics with the UK Government, to stop gov building their own data linkage tech, and instead become reliant on Foundry. https://t.co/WUdYbswExs

2022-09-29 22:55:57 RT @motherboard: “This add-on automatically answers consent pop-ups for you, so you can't be manipulated. Set your preferences once, and le…

2022-09-29 16:41:18 @neil_neilzone oh i missed your thread!

2022-09-29 15:44:30 RT @valeriodeste: +++BREAKING ON PLATFORM WORK AND VULNERABLE SELF-EMPLOYED WORK+++ The EU Commission just released its Guidelines exemptin…

2022-09-29 15:24:53 @techreview wow, a new way to make cheap and low quality whimsical pictures or stock images, exactly what humanity needs

2022-09-29 15:22:36 @hmtreasury this typical family sounds like they might be a typical first time buyer, so the stamp duty savings don't mean much.

2022-09-29 15:08:55 There's no doubt content harmful to children exists online. But that's no excuse for studies to abandon extremely basic methodology when understanding its prevalence.

2022-09-29 14:55:11 Also adds to where gov stated as evidence in the Online Harms White Paper that "60% of respondents to our Internet Safety Strategy Green Paper consultation had witnessed inappropriate or harmful behaviour online". These are voluntary consultation respondents, not sampled...

2022-09-29 14:50:24 As a result, it adds to a pile of UK literature which bulks up harm stats by adding dubious categories. Reminiscent of the Ofcom reports which calculate harmful content seen online and include... spam! Would love to meet the % of users that haven't seen spam. https://t.co/h1Lkv2lAEA

2022-09-29 14:50:23 Sexualised content is also unclear, particularly as it is distinct from pornography in the survey. Firstly, 17 y/os surveyed are above the legal age of consent, and so there's a disconnect there. Secondly... on a generous reading, huge swathes of adverts and media are sexualised.

2022-09-29 14:50:22 News outlets report on @ChildrensComm report: 45% of 13-17 y/os have seen 'harmful content', but the breakdown of what this involves is controversial. Definition of or harm understood by the most prevalent

2022-09-29 12:43:03 @IABTechLab now READY to be enforced against by European Data Protection authorities given it does not address the illegalities highlighted in the Belgian DPA's decision. The industry might want to think twice about putting its eggs in this basket. https://t.co/aPAcQttX1n

2022-09-29 12:39:44 @tforcworc better be quick, gilt-edged commodities are sinking

2022-09-29 12:27:06 RT @guidonld: NEW BOOK ALERT! I'm ecstatic At long last, you can pre-order my new book "Internet of Things and the Law. Legal Strategies…

2022-09-29 07:29:24 RT @nielstenoever: The ITU plenipotentiary meeting is held in the palace built on instigation of Rumanias dicator Ceausecu. One of the fl…

2022-09-29 07:17:14 @j2bryson sure - a good one https://t.co/xu3Lhzctds

2022-09-29 07:11:09 @j2bryson i don’t disagree we shouldn’t see an artefact as something else (eg a person!!). but product regulation also imagines we can internalise social issues into the artefact in order to regulate it. there are serious limits to what we can internalise into the artefact with AI.

2022-09-29 07:08:57 @j2bryson you call it an ‘an applied discipline of science and engineering’ in 2020 chap. the question for regulation is what we want to see it as in order to achieve policy aims. eg we could see an iphone as a product but it’s also an infrastructure.

2022-09-29 06:59:43 @j2bryson as a result, even ‘product regulation’ is a far too narrow frame on the consequences of AI as a practice (as you call it in your chapter!)

2022-09-29 06:58:46 @j2bryson AI can be a product, but it’s also often not primarily that. For example, ‘AI’ is often shorthand for a business strategy of moving the locus of decisionmaking. It’s also the name of the practice of using the technology (PPE is a product

2022-09-29 06:37:53 RT @MiddleEastEye: "For the moment, Elon Musk is putting in place a system that may benefit a small number of users who manage to get a Sta…

2022-09-28 20:56:47 RT @timnitGebru: That's what Open AI does. They start the race, they put out something that causes harm without guardrails, then all the co…

2022-09-28 19:40:12 @dillonthehuman @OrinKerr his behaviour was nasty. as you said, the piece should have been withdrawn. but the feeling of entitlement to edit and continue comes from the structure of US legal academic publishing as well as his own sense of importance.

2022-09-28 19:36:14 RT @wbm312: Oh good, another fear unlocked. Rent a car &

2022-09-28 19:34:13 @teddipasketty the tweeter isn’t the author of the linked blog

2022-09-28 19:33:25 @OrinKerr a system that allows substantive edits to arguments following acceptance indicates the bar of acceptance has limited scholarly meaning. so why do law schools care about ‘placement’ as an academic signal?

2022-09-28 19:26:55 @dillonthehuman @OrinKerr in every other academic field, you rightly cannot substantively edit (eg whole arguments!) after acceptance. you’d withdraw, or the editor decides whether the piece needs re-reviewing. the shoddy draft culture *at the point of submission* bemuses non US law academics.

2022-09-28 19:00:55 RT @setomwork: Tomorrow, Thursday, the @EU_Commission @vestager is expected to publish its new guidelines on collective agreements regardin…

2022-09-28 14:31:01 @petros_ter “These apps are being distributed by developers majority-owned or majority-controlled by one or more parties sanctioned by the UK government” is what Apple has to say.

2022-09-28 13:13:31 Apple goes from requiring VK to be offered to all new iPhone users (pic) to an App Store ban (link). This is due to UK sanctions — US sanctions exclude telecoms services. What of Google &

2022-09-28 13:00:25 @AarhusUni @MidasNouwens You're doing good work when companies are spending money patenting ways to get around your plugin. OneTrust even cite our paper, how kind! They don't say it finds only 1.8% of OneTrust plugins in the wild are in *minimal* compliance with the law. https://t.co/sHWjKbJ6m5

2022-09-28 11:23:30 RT @neil_neilzone: Nothing says "valid consent" like building a tool to reject my attempt not to consent or to withdraw consent, because I…

2022-09-28 10:46:18 @SSRN @ElsevierConnect (i was going to write about crowdfunding in 2013 but decided against it, you may be able to tell...)

2022-09-28 10:39:45 What could the legal basis or justification under data protection storage limitation be for @SSRN @ElsevierConnect retaining data on what everyone has ever downloaded using their system since their account was created

2022-09-28 09:53:58 ICO in action on subject access requests shock! 6 public bodies + Virgin Media. https://t.co/8ezNv4Xw6O

2022-09-25 15:05:32 @lumi_ip I think when you write a filepath in the WSL you have to type "/mnt/c/" instead of "C:\", and you may come up with some hiccups along the way. but windows subsystem for linux is very useful for lots of things.

2022-09-25 15:02:38 @lumi_ip in PowerShell you can type "wsl --install". Then when that is done and you restart your computer, you can open PowerShell again and type "wsl" then type "apt install ocrmypdf". It should then be installed and you can OCR a file with "ocrmypdf -i [filepath] [outputpath]"

2022-09-25 14:57:34 @lumi_ip yes, but you have to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux https://t.co/8eQLPaJIv1

2022-09-25 13:49:57 @TomValletti @1Br0wn valletti t (2022) transitivity in pizza disutility functions

2022-09-25 13:46:31 RT @DrNSearle: It's aaaalive! Our report on trade secrets in data sharing for @EU_EISMEA now published.TLDR: We found limited use of trad…

2022-09-25 13:20:59 @MarijnSax universities have web servers

2022-09-25 13:10:07 liveable for whom? https://t.co/fNJ7Zw9Fny

2022-09-25 13:08:49 @MarijnSax not sure what you need these days to run a youtube video that has guaranteed no adverts, though.

2022-09-25 13:01:41 we should be teaching people the simple skill of using very simple, powerful commnand line tools. free software like is bundled up and sold as ephemeral subscription or spyware software on app stores. we are not teaching people basic computing skills.

2022-09-25 12:57:37 academic tool tip: ocrmypdf is a incredibly useful free package for mac/linux that adds an OCR text layer to PDFs. supports many languages. https://t.co/QF8oTWYooG

2022-09-25 11:06:47 Newsweek reports on an (unverified) Mumsnet thread where a person uses a subject access request and discovers that her medical records have been accessed by her husband's ex-wife. https://t.co/8wfOyzhX4o

2022-09-24 14:10:11 @emilymbender I agree, it’s overused beyond its origins in international affairs, where its purpose is clearer. I don’t use it when I organise things.

2022-09-24 02:33:27 @and_cities @PhDVoice in my experience, academics gladly adopt tools like MS Bookings that allow booking of short slots within a 2-3hr weekly office hour block if trained on them — the opposite of calendar syncing. else, my availability is a function of the quality of your request.

2022-09-24 02:04:59 @llmunro @Skyphly genuinely, how else do you propose academics reliably communicate across every university and system in the world in a way that doesn’t require each uni to buy in to a platform and hope it exists more than a few years? listservs have seen almost every other method rise and fall

2022-09-23 12:09:23 RT @EP_Justice: As the @EP_Justice visit to Ireland concluded, Vice-Chair @maitepagaza said: "After many fruitful exchanges in Ireland…

2022-09-23 10:55:43 pained imagining the inevitable accompanying "visual identity" slidedeck, likely saying the lines inside the O symbolise bookshelves but ALSO stairways to knowledge

2022-09-23 10:26:43 incredible work changing your university brand to look like one of those suspect companies that calls themselves ‘oxford something’ without a university link https://t.co/bw4ust90Mv

2022-09-23 09:40:47 RT @GeorgePeretzKC: And a further point. Ministers may well be coming to Parliament with rafts of new rules in November/December 23. At whi…

2022-09-23 09:08:58 @colmocinneide @thebigbogg @jamessflee Looking forward to year 2 "Assimilated Law" tutorials

2022-09-23 09:04:01 @colmocinneide @thebigbogg @jamessflee I was half expecting the bill to state that courts 'must have regard to the need to depart from EU case law.'

2022-09-23 09:02:17 @thebigbogg @colmocinneide @jamessflee i've been reading a little labour law theory this week (am writing on the algorithmic parts of the platform worker directive) and am enjoying the forceful mixing of the normative and the descriptive that i've seen so far...

2022-09-23 08:08:24 @AileenMcHarg broadly also data protection law is a mixed bag here

2022-09-23 08:04:13 RT @AileenMcHarg: This is a crucial point. Cl 1 of the Retained EU Law Bill covers some really important provisions. The TUPE Regulations a…

2022-09-23 08:03:04 @AileenMcHarg rules on net neutrality (the open internet regulations), which ensure telcos can’t slow down bits of the internet that aren’t paying them enough, and which have seen street protests in the US and beyond when they are attempted to be changed

2022-09-23 07:58:47 @AileenMcHarg the electronic commerce regs, the EU parallel to the highly politicised s 230 CDA in the US immunising large online platforms

2022-09-22 19:44:41 @trishgreenhalgh @medicamentum89 there will one day be an edit button…

2022-09-22 18:23:16 @trishgreenhalgh @medicamentum89 to people without it, surely?

2022-09-22 15:34:58 @tforcworc @WoWGradStudent the original meta verse

2022-09-22 15:09:42 RT @AileenMcHarg: The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill has now been published. Enjoy!https://t.co/l3MLxvH275

2022-09-22 14:15:07 @WoWGradStudent @tforcworc i did my phd all with bibtex files not generated with zotero, but switched after

2022-09-22 14:14:15 @WoWGradStudent @tforcworc i'm gonna guess jon uses an emacs-based reference manager

2022-09-22 11:39:43 where will the parliamentary time come from to democratically decide on replacement rules, or are these regulations going to be replaced with undemocratically-imposed statutory instruments? https://t.co/RL9ssGpHId

2022-09-22 08:52:19 RT @VeroCimina: @EU_EDPS takes legal action @EUCourtPress as new #Europol Regulation puts rule of law and EDPS independence under threat -…

2022-09-22 07:06:13 @ruskin147 Ofcom does have concurrent powers w the CMA though to enforce competition in the communications sector. If the DMU isn’t being put on a statutory footing then this seems like a reasonable development.

2022-09-22 06:49:50 @matthew_d_green If as reported this is occurring in European ISPs, it seems to breach art 5 of the e-Privacy Directive.

2022-09-21 17:03:36 if you use the above information on me I will, against my thoughts on the statute, encourage a Communications Act 2003 s 127 prosecution

2022-09-21 17:00:54 there's a different kind of academic phone number hell though, where they migrate your office number to MS Teams which then rings your mobile phone via push if anyone tries to ring this as you've needed to install the app before to deal with various videoconferencing emergencies https://t.co/VagwoJ0rGx

2022-09-21 16:58:43 @wendyg it's pretty nice! main downside is it doesn't currently work natively on ARM machines because of old firefox dependencies, but I imagine this will change soon with Apple's ARM gambit.

2022-09-21 16:54:39 @wendyg do you follow a rigorous storage methodology, or use another type of tool? I find Zotero so useful for the metadata it adds and you can alter, and sync it to my server and all devices with webdav so am not reliant on cloud storage.

2022-09-21 16:47:50 RT @davidthewid: What do modular software supply chains mean for "Ethical AI"? Developers release discrete modules, or compose existing…

2022-09-21 16:45:33 @cryptodavidw tend to it and it will grow

2022-09-21 16:44:56 @mayameme this is the lesson https://t.co/z82GBHbsLb https://t.co/M7dBrAehtL

2022-09-21 16:43:55 @tjmcintyre @Klonick 2,000 of them are new digital single market regulatory proopsals

2022-09-21 16:08:56 @eriklongo probably gigabytes of that is your telemetry and logging data being sent straight to thomson reuters for guzzling

2022-09-21 16:06:57 @npseaver as if it knows, my twitter timeline has just handed me this OA book about the history of german beards https://t.co/SJOAvyXgLf

2022-09-17 00:38:15 @lilianedwards @timnitGebru @tadhgwad ah right - this is one of the search engines that searches IoT stuff people have unknowingly exposed on the public internet though rather than a tourist thing or some designed street streaming service

2022-09-17 00:24:55 @timnitGebru @lilianedwards @tadhgwad i haven’t seen such type of cameras in the uk since back since time lapse webcams online were popular though… and not sure how they would argue they were lawful or what the legal basis under data protection law for putting them up was.

2022-09-17 00:19:34 @emilymbender i would add to your authors there @mireillemoret who talks and writes about this distinction as the difference between “legal by design” (a form of technoregulation) versus “legal protection by design”.

2022-09-17 00:12:12 fwiw apple have been much better about this than the others. siri in the UK defaulted first to a male voice, and now i believe now you choose the gender at set up and there’s no default. amazon on the other hand took a product, echo, and branded it with a female name and wakeword https://t.co/TE4OCCT3ow

2022-09-16 20:47:40 @geomblog there’s been some… cheap data labelling for online user interfaces? and we had a pandemic where AI projects provided effectively no help whatsoever?

2022-09-16 20:45:31 @geomblog especially when very few of such positive benefits have materialised even slightly and companies like google keep drawing on the same one example of protein folding despite billions of investment

2022-09-16 20:38:49 @mmitchell_ai ‘and by people, we mean consumers or targets of computation’

2022-09-16 20:37:45 RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: income inequality in US &

2022-09-16 20:28:38 @timnitGebru Yes — if I remember Google did make some moves on this area but largely because they didn’t have as many customers as the others, journalists should ask this of all cloud firms loudly.

2022-09-16 20:26:04 (the linked article has some Google loose change put towards corporate greenwashing. for comparison note that this week the ECJ’s General Court upheld a fine of over €4 *billion* concerning Google’s illegal practices) https://t.co/rx8ajHmw72

2022-09-16 20:22:46 Journalists talking to Google about AI and sustainability: ask them if Google Cloud will stop courting firms and selling compute for oil and gas exploration. https://t.co/MOamPQ92XY

2022-09-16 17:04:20 @israblack @petros_ter @leotanczt @divijualsuspect @chaban_olena that’s exactly it

2022-09-16 16:33:54 Important new revelations about just how misleading the Facebook ‘download your information’ tool is, and how far away it is from fulfilling access rights. https://t.co/VDLy2Psfri

2022-09-16 15:37:23 @petros_ter @leotanczt @divijualsuspect @chaban_olena ok done one https://t.co/KwKfOnTjRs

2022-09-16 15:34:04 @petros_ter @leotanczt @divijualsuspect @chaban_olena yes but i havent made a logo... we will go for a drink though when term starts soon...

2022-09-16 15:33:23 @je5perl @Kirst3nF @k_irion on one hand, this might be saying 'this will regulate non national security uses of spyware', on the other, MSs will be very reluctant to let the CJEU or European law define the boundaries of national security, which remains underdefined, and where they become politics...

2022-09-16 15:31:18 @je5perl @Kirst3nF also... as TEU 4(2) ensures that national security "remains the sole responsibility of each Member State", I'm not sure that the provision would have as much practical effect as it is written (cc @k_irion) https://t.co/bhyUGolhr4

2022-09-16 12:52:23 @DaanDRDR @TilburgU @TechRegJournal @DOAJplus @TiltR will they be indexing articles dating from before the registration date? i have two and it would be nice to have them syndicated and searchable https://t.co/2Kh0QPjFPa

2022-09-16 12:51:10 @DaanDRDR @TilburgU @TechRegJournal @DOAJplus @TiltR great news!!

2022-09-16 12:48:33 @leotanczt a group also a big directional choice — if your ideal team size is quite small (as mine is) branding it might not be worth the effort so you dont become manager over researcher. although maybe i should ask @divijualsuspect @petros_ter @chaban_olena if they want a team...

2022-09-11 21:57:48 ALT: Image is screenshot of linked website

2022-09-11 21:56:29 The privacy policy of the 5 billion image dataset that is used to train the generative Stable Diffusion model has their own definition of personal data under the GDPR. Discuss. https://t.co/rmF1eXIW3s https://t.co/osGK4Pkgxl

2022-09-11 14:10:01 @Sandbagger_01 not so suprising, this year at the albanian sea border i had to turn my head away to avoid looking at the agent typing in his username and password into the web app

2022-09-11 11:37:56 RT @Samfr: This is a year or two away from becoming a big political issue but it will unless the economics of HE change. The supply of plac…

2022-09-11 06:10:34 RT @bert_hu_bert: A brief statement in English on my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services. Things are c…

2022-09-10 12:22:18 @jennifercobbe when you manage, you’ll find that ukraine are retaking a range of areas whilst the russians are distracted with the royal news

2022-09-10 12:14:09 @chrishanretty perhaps not all royalty are the same, and the polity datasets need a further sentimentality index on how often national royals are mentioned in glossy mags…

2022-09-09 20:17:25 @maosbot (not saying that as some claim to magically not having to prove my claims, just that seeing and thinking about this kind of method isn’t new to me)

2022-09-09 20:14:40 @maosbot (fwiw i’m aware of the practice and literature on forecasting and futures, and have taught it, professionally advised around it, and peer review for the relevant journals about it)

2022-09-09 20:12:36 @maosbot you can also treat the rising sun as a probability, it doesn’t make it conceptually valid. STS as a discipline has key lessons and lit here. empirically, i have further doubts that predicting benchmarks within 5 years is at all relevant to predicting AGI, let alone impacts.

2022-09-09 19:57:11 @maosbot i also think there are serious conceptual issues with treating the potential emergence of a technology as a probability.

2022-09-09 19:55:53 @maosbot perhaps, although my point was that there’s no consistency. generalist organisations or movements like EA do not exhibit similar appetite to act on low probability huge risks with considerably more empirical backing than AGI, the possibility of which is entirely speculative.

2022-09-09 19:36:49 @maosbot there’s a “meta-worry”: that proponents of AGI risk don’t make space for other discussions, using up all the air in the room. i agree no one gets just one worry. but those in the middle of outsized attention &

2022-09-09 19:31:02 (there’s a separate issue with conflating technology development with probability. what about the ‘probability’ someone uses new physics to make a ridiculously cheap destructive weapon? what’s different about that logic from completely imagined AGI?)

2022-09-09 19:19:51 the logic of effective altruists and AI existential risk people saying we should care about small probability huge risk events surely means they should treat the extreme, improbable tail of climate models as seriously. weirdly, i don’t see them ever push for that. https://t.co/8kufKpJnMU

2022-09-09 08:45:38 RT @nhelberger: Job opportunity: The AI, Media &

2022-09-09 08:07:16 RT @ArchivalDaze: My understanding is that in nine days all the regius professors will be entombed in a giant mausoleum alongside the queen…

2022-09-09 05:54:18 Very interesting short article on why the EU has a surprisingly strong hand against Russia in gas price negotiations. https://t.co/v4kaeYsbgH https://t.co/Rue6nKdNmt

2022-09-09 05:33:38 @MicheleAcuto inspired

2022-09-09 05:32:17 @claesdevreese Glad to see the ÖBB investment going from concept photos to real photos. Have taken their new expansions a few times this year, but really need ones through Belgium and France to Italy and Spain (esp since SNCF killed its Milan one during Covid…)

2022-09-08 19:29:14 two mins after my tweet was the ok time, according to the bar council https://t.co/AkMzl9il1J

2022-09-08 19:26:02 no way! https://t.co/3D7ygUCELg

2022-09-08 19:19:46 RT @mathver: Publishers didnt get an exemption for their content in the content moderation rules in Digital Services Act.But art.17 of the…

2022-09-08 18:26:57 Meta might want to pull forward whatever it was going to release last thing on Friday. https://t.co/5GMSDTgevn

2022-09-08 17:59:35 @fgbjr a big CSL challenge

2022-09-08 17:52:56 In a genuine sense, it's going to cause a lot of immediate stress to a lot of organisations.

2022-09-08 17:52:13 Barristers anxiously look at each other's bios and wonder the appropriate time to edit to KC.

2022-09-08 16:21:35 New ECHR judgment today on violations of Article 8 by France regarding data collection and retention of data designed to exclude men who have sex with men from blood donation. https://t.co/UTQA6MzxkS

2022-09-08 16:13:28 @emilymbender @rcalo @Kobotic the UK Government Data Ethics Framework was an attempt at internal guidance

2022-09-08 15:27:17 Someone please leak Meta and Twitter's Queen death content moderation protocols.

2022-09-08 15:23:44 Huw Edwards' impressive lengthy royal no-information filibuster is in stark contrast to the deeply incompetent camera operator who had *one job*, to point a camera at a building not containing the Queen without somehow broadcasting the menu or pointing it at himself. https://t.co/b3sFOhrD23

2022-09-08 15:11:07 A fearsome filibusterer if he ever goes into politics. Or perhaps just a contestant on Just a Minute. https://t.co/MnBwAu3C6t

2022-09-08 15:06:29 @Elibietti this edit button can’t come soon enough

2022-09-08 14:12:16 Just want to clarify that I often normally wear black.

2022-09-08 12:51:35 RT @Chronotope: TCF continues further down the path of being declared illegal. At the same time, the blockers to enforcing the Belgian DPA’…

2022-09-07 16:46:08 RT @johnnyryan: News: the Brussels Court of Appeal dismisses various IAB Europe procedural grounds of appeal and agrees to refer our prelim…

2022-09-07 14:27:38 @Chronotope who would users complain to?

2022-09-07 10:09:58 RT @jrhennessy: are you hearing yourself talk https://t.co/CZbNYrlaie https://t.co/YPrpDe8njj

2022-09-07 09:08:28 RT @MrHarryCole: Well well.. Usual senior aides who sit at back of Cabinet appear to have been replaced by only the PM’s principle privat…

2022-09-07 09:05:26 Kira is an incredible mentor, and pretty much why I'm in academia. I'm still paying it forward. If you are considering a PhD in the environmental interactions of emerging technologies, this is a great opportunity. https://t.co/kipTqhDYNH

2022-09-07 09:01:55 (In practice the English education secretary but this is pretty wild.) https://t.co/XLuEGNdnac

2022-09-07 08:21:48 @lynskeyo that’s incredibly frustrating, i hope deeply it’s an admin issue that gets resolved and stays resolved and not something more lasting. even the fact that that can happen is pretty telling about the fragility of this whole system…

2022-09-07 07:42:18 RT @digitalasiahub: Less than 30minutes before we commence our second #PlatformFutures roundtable on Digital Rights and Consumer Protection…

2022-09-07 07:37:42 RT @PJDunleavy: Interesting research here shows beyond any doubt that UK MPs with 2nd jobs ask 60% more questions in Parliament than compar…

2022-09-07 07:33:16 Industry lobby group which has long lobbied to water down DP &

2022-09-07 06:30:47 @Klonick (blame patent law, licensing fees and a powerplay of large companies avoiding open video standards)

2022-09-07 06:28:22 @Klonick it is likely because the videos are recorded using ‘high efficiency mode’ on an iphone, which uses the H.265 codec not the older H.264 one. i don’t believe the former is properly supported in PPT. download Handbrake and you can convert it to H.264.

2022-09-06 19:32:58 @lilianedwards @openpolicynz @GavinFreeguard it was there, but vince cable shenanigans forced it out to dcms after the bskyb scandal https://t.co/fAejcL6ZFU

2022-09-06 15:37:09 @corintxt maybe it is a very personalised phishing campaign, be careful!

2022-09-06 15:34:54 @corintxt some say it already has

2022-09-06 15:32:49 @robleathern Pocket change for running a crucial global technical infrastructure

2022-09-06 14:33:55 RT @Chronotope: I've published my comment on IAB's Global Privacy Platform. GPP proposes to not just replace the TCF framework as the new s…

2022-09-06 14:31:31 @halhod @jackclarkSF @rodolfor (remarkably low quality for the Onion)

2022-09-06 14:30:19 @halhod @jackclarkSF @rodolfor https://t.co/XYYXBd5bJC

2022-09-06 13:47:46 RT @WebDevLaw: Translation: if the Online Safety Bill survives, it will do so as a weapon in an imported and artificial debate about "woker…

2022-09-05 16:03:46 An exciting in-person event at UCL on defining data with, inter alia, @divijualsuspect of @UCLLaws, next Wednesday (14th) afternoon! https://t.co/KeDObYbnfA https://t.co/Y4lDCpxPUs

2022-09-05 12:53:14 RT @mckinneytweets: All estate agents in the UK are regulated by Powys Country Council, according to @commonslibrary research by my colleag…

2022-09-05 08:32:34 @ChrisTMarsden a market valuation of that but... not so liquid it seems... lots of unrest at the bird site HQ

2022-09-05 07:52:36 @TimandraHarknes bowes wow

2022-09-05 06:21:13 Subsidising content moderation w/ advertising is a failed model, even more so given concentration in the absurd, illegal adtech market. It breaks new/small innovative platforms &

2022-09-03 22:29:39 RT @TaylorLorenz: SCOOP: Under pressure, security firm Cloudflare has dropped KiwiFarms. By @josephmenn and me https://t.co/MwqMvHvRBP #Dro…

2022-09-02 15:08:37 @bekah_overdorf @unil congratulations! also, an envelope with TWO windows? that's an envelope gone mad

2022-09-01 17:14:45 @ammandalari welcome to UCL!

2022-09-01 17:13:13 RT @CJSprigman: @JenniferMRomig @fgbjr When @carlmalamud and I decided to do the first edition of the Indigo Book, the Harvard Law Review A…

2022-09-01 17:12:26 @JenniferMRomig @CJSprigman @carlmalamud @fgbjr as a non US scholar who sometimes gets asked to write stuff with this ridiculous citation style, thank you so much.

2022-09-01 17:10:49 @CJSprigman @carlmalamud @JenniferMRomig @fgbjr Fantastic work all. It’s time for journals to stop calling it Bluebooking and start calling it Indigobooking. Disintermediate this weird and stupid clique and make something better.

2022-09-01 17:08:23 RT @CJSprigman: @JenniferMRomig made Indigo Book 2.0 happen, and @fgbjr made it live online. My deepest thanks to both of them. And a word,…

2022-09-01 11:13:10 A subject access request showed how document disclosure was woefully incomplete in the tribunal case of Isle of Man whistleblower Dr Rosalind Ranson, the island’s most senior dr, against the Manx Dept of Health &

2022-09-01 04:29:18 RT @omertene: California's 2022 legislative session closed tonight and CCPA's employee exemption was NOT extended. Starting Jan 1 2023, CPR…

2022-08-31 19:54:17 @vqtli @yarime yes - that makes more sense. the point i was taking issue was Masaru’s initial statement that this is about a trade off between privacy and public health. You can’t really trade off something for public health without evidence an intervention makes a difference.

2022-08-31 12:01:53 @yarime @vqtli is there any real evidence that providing granular dashboards to the public (rather than decision-makers) does anything useful for public health? i didn't see any in the paper or brief.

2022-08-31 07:43:14 @CIGIonline zero mention that meta and google and co are effectively US intelligence assets around the world?

2022-08-30 14:47:40 an... ambitious public law argument, claiming that the Conservative party is a body w/ functions of a public nature pursuant to HRA98 s6, and is thus subject to a common law duty of openness regarding the manner it runs elections to party leader when they de facto decide the PM. https://t.co/Gnq55wMFl0

2022-08-30 10:46:06 RT @5RightsFound: ‼ TOMORROW: Join us for the virtual launch of the #DigitalFutures Commission's newest Education Data report. The pan…

2022-08-28 15:43:01 @cfiesler As a non-US scholar, this always seems entangled with the toxic US tenure system which requires arbitrary venue rejection rates and exports them around the world as a result, through the police force of academics on conference committees. How will US scholars tackle that?

2022-08-27 16:47:08 @FusterGloria @Jausl00s @EU_EDPB i find it strange they don’t seem to have an audio option, not very accessible…

2022-08-27 16:45:30 @FusterGloria @Jausl00s @EU_EDPB ouch. it’s not loading so maybe it’s being blocked by an ad blocker, dns blocking, pi hole… maybe try disabling some of that, that’s all i can suggest…?

2022-08-26 19:55:39 @neil_neilzone deepfake phishing has gotten really good really quick

2022-08-26 15:37:47 @FusterGloria so this is the answer to your cryptic out of office!

2022-08-26 11:28:09 Presumably it will continue to refer to excellence in denying &

2022-08-26 11:24:02 Gov to disband controversial "clearing house" for FOI requests, repeatedly accused of profiling requestors &

2022-08-26 10:14:42 @Hannah_O_Rourke @JonCruddas_1 maybe… a non amazon link?

2022-08-25 18:17:36 US brings different platform laws, EU and UK being different standards of illegality e.g. some member states have disinfo-related offences that will interact with the DSA

2022-08-25 13:57:49 This is an incredibly impressive and informative report on “Splinternets” from Perarnaud, Rossi, Musiani and Castex, deeply at the intersection of Internet standards, law and platform power. https://t.co/cd7UCm5181 https://t.co/YeClg9h6V8 https://t.co/CCeMoFBTcR

2022-08-25 09:10:26 RT @thezedwards: Twitter apparently used their cookies for "all purposes" (security cookies used for advertising) ++ once told by the Frenc…

2022-08-25 09:08:00 Decision: https://t.co/MlDdwy3eonGDPRhub writeup: https://t.co/dlo7y2l5QHPrivacy Company's NL report: https://t.co/lzRtM1dZnF

2022-08-25 09:07:59 Last week, the Danish DPA maintained a ban on Helsingør Kommune using Google Workplace/Chromebook in schools. Core was G's use of childrens' data for independent purposes, &

2022-08-24 12:19:30 @profgeraintrees @mel_hogan in the Netherlands, Microsoft's data centres consumed 4-8x more than initially declared, at 84m litres in 2021. they require water cooling on days above 25C, so the bulk of this usage comes when water scarcity is worst. Google release no public figures. https://t.co/jCdcQXe6tW

2022-08-24 12:11:34 @profgeraintrees indeed, see further on this @mel_hogan's work on water and data centres in the context of huge facilities such as the NSA's in Utah, consuming 1.7m gallons a day in one of the driest states in the US... https://t.co/izEfARD8XU

2022-08-24 10:05:03 @MindyWishart yes, I think for cashew milk and for peanut milk.

2022-08-24 09:29:47 @MindyWishart can promise it’s no-one at UCL Laws, where we consistently have enough faculty milk to nourish an entire picket line of barristers https://t.co/gy9Tjlk0ax

2022-08-24 08:42:16 @colmocinneide @GazTheJourno will propose a Centre for Legal Chaos to legitimise the work

2022-08-24 08:24:37 @TimandraHarknes @GazTheJourno @colmocinneide yeah, that’s what i was thinking, which is pretty unwieldy…

2022-08-24 08:00:18 @GazTheJourno if you want to cause legal chaos, try FOI-ing government services with non-medical user data relating to a deceased person. It’s a study I’ve wanted to do simply to see how they react in England, but it’s hard to think of how to do it ethically (cc @colmocinneide)

2022-08-24 07:33:30 @GazTheJourno Courts and tribunals have repeatedly gone down this route, even though it’s a bit questionable in terms of how duties tend to work, because otherwise there’s no clear way to deny an FOI request for celebrity medical records after death.

2022-08-23 21:26:38 RT @MalloryKnodel: Catch yourself up on the debate about whether and how mandated interoperability will make Big Tech more competitive.I’…

2022-08-23 16:18:03 @Senficon @freiheitsrechte @_blueck @lto_de old man shakes fist at hosting providers

2022-08-19 15:22:58 Al Masarir's privacy tort case v Saudi Arabia (re NSO Pegasus spyware) allowed to proceed by the High Court. Judge declined to follow US courts (in Kidane v Ethiopia) which required the entire tort to be in the US in order to lose state immunity. https://t.co/bPd8XEfxTB https://t.co/bg2jXXdoWX

2022-08-19 14:22:04 @chelloway @tforcworc @halfon4harlowMP yeah, there's always a danger that joke proposals become policy these days. at UCL we have flirted with campuses abroad, but both UCL Qatar (Doha museum money) and UCL Australia (extractive industry money) are now no more...

2022-08-19 14:01:13 @tforcworc @halfon4harlowMP perhaps, as degrees are the UK's second largest export, we should build universities in freeports

2022-08-19 07:03:11 RT @MarijnSax: I finished reading What We Owe the Future.If you see it as a book developing a *philosophical argument* for Longtermism --…

2022-08-19 06:40:42 @ChrisTMarsden Energy is pretty huge for campuses. But yes — where does inflation hit…

2022-08-19 06:39:42 The first hurdle is the way that the access your information option doesn’t allow you to actually send a query despite the options given being incomplete. Disingenuous and possibly illegal. Instead, contact the DPO using the bottom option. https://t.co/y5Rjyr2XHd

2022-08-19 06:33:58 This problem is only getting worse as inflation and energy hikes hit but neither subsidy nor tuition fees rise.

2022-08-19 06:32:26 Universities like Oxford distort the narrative too. College life is largely, often subsidised by the college endowment and assets, by the past. The fact so much of the political class went to a university with a non replicable funding model compounds issues hugely.

2022-08-19 06:29:50 Tuition fees are a political topic because they’re visible to students, but the real question is ‘how is a degree funded’? The burden continues to shift from taxation into individual student debt, precarious reliance on int’l students, and lecturer pay.

2022-08-19 06:25:13 Int’l students are indeed used to subsidise teaching. High quality undergraduate degrees cost more than £9250 to run (always have in real terms), but were been subsidised by both govs (now rarely) &

2022-08-19 06:08:34 RT @EstelMP: 1/The EU adopts important legislations but often fails to provide needed ressources to authorities to make sure they are well-…

2022-08-19 06:06:18 If you have trouble getting it (you will) you can return and ask for tips here, or read our thoughts &

2022-08-19 05:13:26 @mrchrisadams happy to provide help or feedback, you know how to get in touch.

2022-08-19 04:56:17 Form: https://t.co/X6fN46SvY4Say you are using Art 15 GDPR to access a copy of data from in-app browsers, including all telemetry and click data for all time. Say it is not in ‘Download your Information’. Link to Krause’s post for clarity. Mention your Instagram handle.

2022-08-19 04:50:51 Users of the Instagram app should today send a subject access request email to Meta requesting a copy of all this telemetry ‘tap’ data. It is not provided in the ‘Download Your Information’ tool. Users of other apps in the thread that do this (eg TikTok) can do the same. https://t.co/yyvnj4wkV5

2022-08-18 10:41:15 RT @5RightsFound: ‼ Join us for the virtual launch of the #DigitalFutures Commission's newest report in their Education Data series. #EdTe…

2022-08-16 11:56:29 @AnnemarieBridy @torrentfreak Haven’t seen the judgment but it’s hard to reconcile the judgement based on its description with the discussion of the active role by the CJEU in Youtube and Cyando.

2022-08-14 18:51:21 surveying business leaders is a methodology that tells you about business leaders, not the economy. https://t.co/EpPyzUKG9X

2022-08-13 10:28:25 incredibly unlikely to ever be a forthcoming ‘summer blackout’ in any case as the Irish DPA’s decision would have been domestically appealed, then appealed, then appealed. https://t.co/P6Vv9D0nln

2022-08-13 08:47:26 @MarkkuPatynen @KrauseFx (when I say ‘does it’, I mean uses their own in app browser, I haven’t examined the effect of this browser)

2022-08-13 08:46:34 @MarkkuPatynen @KrauseFx Google does it eg in Maps. TikTok I don’t know, but either way TikTok structurally isn’t huge on links to other pages (yet).

2022-08-11 19:05:44 Forced in-app browsers as used by Instagram, Facebook, Twitter should be prohibited. Users should have freedom to open links in a browser of their choice, which renders them as they choose. https://t.co/lOMdj810pX

2022-08-11 18:28:00 @Elibietti @SRanchordas indeed. pedagogically though (which i know wasn’t the q but is where my mind is…) it’s hard to find a text which is balanced and doesn’t just preoffer code is law as a way of thinking… as a whole book, also don’t forget Regulating Code (MIT Press) by @1Br0wn @ChrisTMarsden

2022-08-11 18:23:40 @SRanchordas presumably you have julie cohen’s configuring the networked self, particularly chapter 7? that’s what I set undergrad students as compulsory on this topic instead of lessig. https://t.co/rAgEu0T0qq

2022-08-11 08:53:51 @HRChallenger too many mystery abbreviations, i will need a moment to put them into my wooden enigma machine

2022-08-11 06:58:53 as @JoshuaRozenberg notes, if an aim is to reduce gov spending, then underfunding immigration tribunal system simply shifts the costs onto immigration detention centres. what is the treasury for if not to join up spending and stop shifting between depts? https://t.co/izvkDrsB97

2022-08-10 06:20:18 @wbm312 so is https://t.co/OUf5rVA1GY

2022-08-10 06:19:02 @wbm312 https://t.co/OmFYWq3tgt is designed for this

2022-08-08 13:53:32 @SophieintVeld @EU_Commission indeed, if they’re so desperate for the British to have access they could just have given the contract straight to Belgacom…

2022-08-08 13:51:31 @PaoloSandro2 can’t deactivate the profit motive

2022-08-08 09:55:32 @PaoloSandro2 mix of personal salience &

2022-08-08 08:23:42 RT @alexhern: Bike theft is legal in London

2022-08-08 08:16:28 @brianlfrye @technollama in a time-poor world this leads to reinforcement entrenching networked, established, top schools. w good editors, blind reviews remove gatekeeping by affiliation (cf US LRs needing CVs, rejecting students). still gatekeeping based on how to write for a venue but that’s learnable.

2022-08-08 07:58:30 @brianlfrye Good luck disentangling them.

2022-08-08 07:56:39 @brianlfrye Anonymous review does allow people to speak out against BS without consequence. I’m not claiming it’s a flawless system. I’m responding to your claim of ‘what’s wrong with post publication review’, which is that it doesn’t work in US academia due to power structures.

2022-08-08 07:54:42 @brianlfrye Marketplace of ideas is always a lame metaphor, but it’s even more useless in an atmosphere of intense self censorship.

2022-08-08 07:53:18 @brianlfrye Several times when I’ve criticised work by US law scholars publicly I have immediately got streams of messages from brilliant untenured scholars thanking me for saying out loud what they felt they could not about the quality of work.

2022-08-08 07:51:38 @brianlfrye Because academia, and particularly US legal academia, is built upon a tenure-driven atmosphere of sycophantic, not stepping on anyone’s toes-ism. So much BS in law reviews goes unchallenged and even praised, particularly by junior scholars, just in case the authors hold grudges.

2022-08-08 06:48:04 @brianlfrye … none of these are legal journals? what am I meant to be looking at? (I know Retraction Watch well and have followed it for years). besides, papers don’t get retracted in US law journals because there is no process to do so, not because there are no flaws in them…

2022-08-08 06:37:33 @brianlfrye perhaps look at other countries’ academic legal publication methods rather than other academic disciplines in the US for inspiration. not perfect, but a start.

2022-08-08 06:36:21 @marklemley science/nature/cell are extreme exceptions that are more like magazines than journals. to be fair would be to compare to other countries’ legal journals, which are in general less ‘hide-bound’ and also don’t force you to give your CV as cover page and have a pithy title.

2022-08-07 19:15:33 non-research student gatekeepers are not substitutes for academic judgment exhibit 634 https://t.co/xfZmGQcrk6

2022-08-07 17:35:48 @1Br0wn yep, that’s what this was in response to

2022-08-07 17:34:46 @TheRealRevK siri, show me a manufacturer of fruit drinks that judges fruit in its production line industrial masher on their shape

2022-08-07 17:33:21 @AmeliaMN if you’ve ever been in a special issue and they make everyone cite every other paper in it…

2022-08-07 17:31:16 if this is the proper functioning of a market, i’m a banana. companies use and entangle themselves in the law, intellectual property, pharmaceutical &

2022-07-27 07:13:29 @oliviasolon @Jackstilgoe i’d assumed forbes was unembarassable after they (from the view of an outsider, no inside knowledge) seemingly blurred their genuine news content with more or less a very, very slightly gatekept, identically branded wordpress instance for randomers to opine rabidly

2022-07-27 07:08:19 @oliviasolon forbes blogs seem recently to have old telegraph blog vibes, the latter over a decade ago disciplined writers into clickbait madness by dropping blogs based on view leaderboard (launching nonsense peddlers eg James Delingpole). this article however is very funny, cc @Jackstilgoe

2022-07-26 15:30:29 Commissioner highlights importance of DPOs as... Government proposes to abolish mandatory DPOs. https://t.co/0o7IdRzBVZ

2022-07-26 12:41:18 RT @wrklsshrd: Facebook's Oversight Board has to study the hell out of UK Drill for a forthcoming decision. Love to see it.https://t.co/e…

2022-07-26 12:19:47 @jjvincent are you now Verge Measurement Correspondent?

2022-07-26 12:06:35 @ladbible is this website just about reposting stories you wrote last year now https://t.co/FlW4UTddCj

2022-07-26 05:52:02 RT @sedyst: Job alert @tudelftTBM: Assist/Assoc Professor position on "programmable infrastructures", or how the expansion of computational…

2022-07-25 13:42:35 The Channel Tunnel is an underused resource and needs serious political will to fix — also to connect it to other parts of the UK, potentially through night trains which do not stop in London.

2022-07-25 13:31:54 Easy? Major problem here is carbon emissions. The UK refuses to allow border checks on its territory for int'l train arrivals, not wanting asylum claims. Thus all boarding stops on inbound UK trains require a Schengen &

2022-07-25 11:03:34 While ppl going to the IPT hopefully have solid legal representation, if you follow the website, your ECHR ruling will say you have not exhausted domestic remedies, go away, as w/ @privacyint after R (Privacy International) v IPT [2019] UKSC 22 https://t.co/Mo2gqd9TGu

2022-07-25 10:49:32 The Investigatory Powers Tribunal should update its website. https://t.co/HGDxS04lYL https://t.co/bOcq5UVCVK

2022-07-25 10:44:48 RT @TamarSharon: We have several exciting positions at the assistant prof and postdoc levels at the Department of Ethics and Political Phi…

2022-07-25 10:05:58 @dmvanderloo @Jackstilgoe indeed. perhaps you should ask the grandmaster…

2022-07-25 06:20:21 @Jackstilgoe “A Russian grandmaster, Sergey Karjakin, said the incident was no doubt due to “some kind of software error or something””

2022-07-24 12:38:11 @SarahLudford Realistically though this is unlikely to be necessary for many as the EES should come online next year &

2022-07-24 12:31:58 Just wait until the stamp-abolishing EES comes in next year and the Eurostar, already queued back to the end of time, becomes entirely unusable due to the majority of non EU passengers needing to enrol and provide fingerprints supervised by a French border official. https://t.co/yXH1c494ZT

2022-07-22 21:45:46 @asta_fish yeah was thinking that maja didn’t look very pregnant when lodged in that sofa

2022-07-22 16:30:28 That’s not saying you can’t have cool applications of PETs that link datasets that are hard to share, and produce societally useful things. It’s simply that that does not follow from the PETs aspect of the exercise, and we must not make a category error.

2022-07-22 16:29:25 Next: Connect all the international immigration records together to best predict overstayers? Connect all international CCTV databases together to best analyse faces or gait? Crucial that PETs researchers regularly emphasis that confidentiality does not solve Qs of bad purpose.

2022-07-22 16:26:56 As noble as tackling pandemics/financial firms is, note both challenges concern training algorithmic systems destined to profile entities &

2022-07-22 12:49:25 @Livingstone_S @edri If client side scanning didn’t come w all the many practical, ethical, mission creep, platform entrenchment &

2022-07-22 12:47:36 @Livingstone_S @edri I’m also very concerned that this whole policy area is being driven by companies both in the UK (‘Safety Tech’ bubble) and EU (see lobbying of the Commission and its promises competence centre) which are self serving, promising snake oil that cannot be delivered, and distracts.

2022-07-22 12:46:23 @Livingstone_S @edri [..] infiltrating &

2022-07-22 12:43:55 @Livingstone_S @edri I think we can take tackling both creation and dissemination seriously w/o pinning false hopes on a technofix that risks displacing and distracting from much richer strategies, involving both human resources &

2022-07-22 08:41:47 @JanetGunter what would you have liked to see more focus on?

2022-07-22 08:41:13 @FloraClairePage @TheCriminalBar oversimplicity of market thinking ignores the value of institutions, mentorship, good will, social connections that get destroyed when playing funding rollercoaster — in this field as so many others. Sometimes, humans have to build things that reliably work, not that compete…

2022-07-22 08:20:47 While the UK gets worked up about AI, which, frankly, it will never be a central leader in reaping value from selling as it does not have a domestic platform industry, it misses and misunderstands its broader technology industries. https://t.co/D7LbqSIUQF

2022-07-22 08:17:47 RT @EdConwaySky: The tale of Newport Wafer Fab is a parable for our times.Tells you everything u need to know abt: - UK's industrial stra…

2022-07-22 08:17:41 RT @LeoKelion: Fantastic explainer about what goes on at Newport's chip-making factory and why the UK govt lacks a semiconductors strategy…

2022-07-22 06:19:36 @nickclegg aren’t you just doing this because EU law is gonna make you do it in a few months anyway https://t.co/ASsjVM8lWr

2022-07-22 06:18:58 As part of our ongoing effort to claim little PR wins from selectively following laws, like draft art 29 of the Digital Services Act that will force our hand in a few months anyway… https://t.co/XgKkCX18Xt https://t.co/e6AUSNaRt1

2022-07-22 06:14:07 @technollama https://t.co/cBIYW9p2VA

2022-07-21 16:14:13 @BenjaminEHowe no that's okay — it's more that the UK could in theory (but almost certainly won't) bind its own hands in law, but can never bind the hands of those overseas

2022-07-21 16:13:28 @MissIG_Geek as i just replied to someone else but same point: i'm being generous here, but also pointing to a general ignorance of externalities other countries in domestic digital policy

2022-07-21 16:12:28 @BenjaminEHowe i'm being generous, but also pointing to a general ignorance of externalities other countries in domestic digital policy

2022-07-21 15:59:50 @DaniellaLock are you allowed to put an open access version up or will you be excommunicated?

2022-07-21 14:22:32 @alexhern I don't think we can analyse this w/o looking at the categories of content captured in this way. Relatedly, the idea of stopping dissemination is tied w protecting children — I'd want to better understand how the cleartext subset contributes to the disruption of upstream abuse

2022-07-21 14:05:57 @Livingstone_S @edri CSAM is a huge issue. Finding the disseminators automatically is extremely appealing, a magic solution to a deeply complex human problem (it always is in all areas of state surveillance). Perhaps it is a dangerous distraction though.

2022-07-21 13:58:51 @Livingstone_S @edri I agree we need more options on the table. In their defence, EDRi do say this (img). Policy currently enamoured w a cheap technosolution that I do not think will even deliver

2022-07-21 13:48:39 not that it matters what i say because the snowflake lobbyist author is so into groupthink he blocked me even though i recall no meaningful interaction https://t.co/TswBMZrZvn

2022-07-18 14:16:04 @katebevan only one font, and an acrostic, so it's ok right https://t.co/j7MXBth2j4

2022-07-18 13:33:18 remote entry level opportunity for anyone with ‘At least 1 year experience in sociotechnical research (domain of technical, social andlegal fields’ https://t.co/vG5yhNk2ML

2022-07-18 13:11:29 Naturally the gov consultation response suggests that child pseudo gambling issues can be mitigated through, among other things, data protection impact assessments… which the government will propose legislation to abolish the requirement for later today! https://t.co/A8BaqDMyDu

2022-07-18 13:11:27 Meanwhile, on early Sunday morning, the government announced it would not legislate around pseudo-gambling loot boxes in video games for kids, instead relying on the pseudo-gambling industry to regulate itself! https://t.co/XtdnKyvb5a

2022-07-18 12:06:17 @j2bryson @carminadietrich @mathver @dcampbell_iptv fine by me!

2022-07-18 10:31:40 https://t.co/IOV4ojDAz9

2022-07-18 10:25:00 Meanwhile, regulators are warned not to actually do anything, and care about unspecified, directionless innovation most of all, as will be clearer this afternoon as the UK's proposed data protection reforms are perhaps published in a Bill.

2022-07-18 10:23:27 No legislation envisaged, just v general "cross-sectoral principles on a non-statutory footing". UK gov continues its trend of shuffling responsibility for developing a regulatory approach onto the regulators themselves, while EU shuffles it onto private standards bodies. https://t.co/QdE9xicI3d

2022-07-18 09:07:13 Incredibly, incredibly powerful event on the Post Office Horizon Scandal—especially @RichardMoorhead’s talk on the ethical culpability of lawyers and @FloraClairePage’s talk on the PO’s potential criminal culpability for perverting the course of justice. https://t.co/VymIzUjxD2 https://t.co/9FHzSCMg2X

2022-07-16 22:09:46 @neil_neilzone cc the creator @MidasNouwens

2022-07-16 17:01:14 @DocStefflbauer @p2173 there’s a new version from OUP thankfully after the original fell out of print and was hard to get hold of. it seems that, as with anything, @sedyst was a strong voice in making that happen…

2022-07-16 16:57:45 RT @Iwillleavenow: There is no reason for Amazon to streamline this process so much. Law enforcement has a long history of reaching out to…

2022-07-16 16:28:52 @DocStefflbauer @p2173 adding oscar gandy jr, back in 1993, who doesn’t get cited enough despite his prescience

2022-07-15 20:05:00 @dswillner @daphnehk @neil_neilzone that’s only attribute attestation, it doesn’t verify that the person in front of you is who they say they are, see s ‘verification theatre’ here on the distinction. https://t.co/NeSG0xY5rz

2022-07-15 19:18:17 observation: step count data (both from fitness wearables but passively collected by most phones) clearly reveals periods of COVID-19 isolation https://t.co/M7Z4v1d3jP

2022-07-15 13:29:56 Naturally there seem to be no sections or country mentions in the new Rule of Law reports from the European Commission on the commonly and consistently violated CJEU rulings on data retention... https://t.co/RkKRaKFiwL

2022-07-15 09:20:10 RT @israblack: Confirmation of massive 2022-23 real terms pay cut for university staff. #LoveHE https://t.co/owfTS5zylJ

2022-07-14 15:11:50 flagged also here, thanks https://t.co/cmoRmE0lrJ

2022-07-14 15:11:16 On image generation, indeed I didn't know this — the gist being that for some generation models (seemingly not DALL-E 2 though), ppl get higher quality outputs by adding "trending on Artstation" to the end as it filters scraped art to bias the generation towards popular pieces... https://t.co/RAHaGyve2v

2022-07-14 11:13:33 @_riwsa @justainet (i’m not organising it but can confirm it’s not on)

2022-07-13 20:29:06 is it just me or does it seem pretty clear that @OpenAI's DALLE-2 must have scraped a huge proportion of @DeviantArt?

2022-07-13 15:28:58 @C___CS @nielstenoever oui, optional reading in seminar 2 https://t.co/10OYqfMLfd

2022-07-13 13:56:58 Re-reading @melanieddr's excellent 2015 paper 'Peer-to-Peer as a Design Principle for Law: Distribute the Law’ in the Journal of Peer Production. Deep food for thought on digital group rights that I think is not being built upon by many authors today. https://t.co/MP1vrS4nHz

2022-07-12 12:52:09 @neil_neilzone DMCA counterclaims are possible but iirc come with both having to consent to US jurisdiction and the risk of perjuring yourself if you are mistaken about your copyright defences… hardly a regulatory process that will be appealing for most.

2022-07-12 10:52:17 RT @justinhendrix: "Documents show how its lobbyists planned to use academic research as part of a production line of political ammunition…

2022-07-12 10:52:04 RT @Elinor_Carmi: First Google, then Facebook, now Uber - Tech companies have been using academics to lobby their interests. Academic repor…

2022-07-11 21:56:40 @matt_dathan will be sure to buy you a drink or two next time if asking “what about anyone in the same situation without the public profile?” gets the same answer…

2022-07-11 21:30:37 precarious migrants, gain security by making your specific situation a national electoral issue, you can do it!

2022-07-11 21:28:59 thank goodness he is safe from classic decontextualised persecution from the home office, supported by growing judicial executive deference, mainly due to *checks notes* having against extreme odds integrated and become a national treasure. https://t.co/FHxAhenekQ

2022-07-11 19:29:39 @katebevan now sinking in to everyone on all devices *runs^

2022-07-11 18:45:19 It’s not just Uber, but so many platform companies. When academics take money from some of these firms, they take money from organisations that integrate illegality as part of their business model. https://t.co/FKNt1OJkFT

2022-07-11 18:20:43 @floorter in england that would constitute a criminal offence https://t.co/bnqR1dsJBc

2022-07-11 10:32:41 RT @sedyst: For 44.000 euro from a tech company (in this case Uber), Haucap, an economics professor from Duesseldorf risked his reputation,…

2022-07-11 09:39:47 @marc_mcgeemoore regardless, would need change of UCL regs I think, PhD by articles is currently forbidden…

2022-07-09 17:26:19 @neil_neilzone @aaisp @ispreview @GNetworkComms it’s a new ISP yet doesn’t even support IPv6, what a joke

2022-07-09 17:26:03 @neil_neilzone @aaisp @ispreview also do @GNetworkComms too please (:

2022-07-09 15:32:12 The only way to stop this is to shout from the rooftops, dismantle the tracking infrastructures of these giants, and call out those taking funding from them until they are dismantled.

2022-07-09 15:31:11 This article is solid on stalkerware, but I don’t see many US law profs pointing out that the tracking giants Google &

2022-07-08 17:12:49 @iamtrask @agstrait @wsisaac also https://t.co/ufd7wsABiV

2022-07-08 17:12:07 @random_walker +1. in separate replies i try to explain why i think it’s wilful, at least insofar as these orgs have unrivalled resources to inquire w law &

2022-07-08 16:58:53 @iamtrask @agstrait @wsisaac (especially, frankly, a company with such sheer disregard for law as Meta, and who I am in active legal dispute with)

2022-07-08 16:57:39 @iamtrask @agstrait @wsisaac I really don’t have energy as a time poor academic to try &

2022-07-08 16:55:39 @iamtrask @agstrait @wsisaac didn’t call it disinformation: misinformation does not imply intent. yet i feel repeated willfulness re him &

2022-07-08 15:48:43 @agstrait @iamtrask @wsisaac (he being YLC, not William)

2022-07-08 15:48:05 @agstrait @iamtrask @wsisaac yes that’s it, it’s already covered by EU product safety law which will be altered in future in a way consistent with those sectors’ needs. and also there is no strict explainability requirement either. he should delete this misinformation.

2022-07-08 13:35:27 @mireillemoret it’s such a common trope, i assume wilful — as it’s what such a commentator wants the law to say in order to generate outrage.

2022-07-08 07:03:42 Chief AI Scientist at Meta and professor at NYU wilfully misrepresenting the law. Maybe do some interdisciplinary collaboration before you talk about requirements you haven’t parsed correctly. https://t.co/pMrnuaxGbz

2022-07-08 06:44:30 cool and normal for a body where member state standards bodies hold only 2% of the votes, civil society/academia are ‘barely countable’, and even the legally mandated and EC funded civil society orgs in standardisation have no real structural role or formal right of opinion. https://t.co/cVThuwSiYp

2022-07-07 16:31:12 RT @RichGreenhill: So was a Secretary of State who hadn’t the a chance to kiss hands and receive the seals of office ever legally a Secreta…

2022-07-05 12:09:08 @mariafarrell moving, brave and powerful. thank you.

2022-07-05 12:07:37 RT @mariafarrell: Settling in for the Long Haul - when you realise you may not recover'The life you could almost reach out and touch grad…

2022-07-03 20:57:28 @emilymbender there’s definitely a use for this meme in here somewhere https://t.co/x29SlmTntA

2022-07-03 16:27:06 @colmocinneide @MindyWishart they are also enjoying the political events’ PR capacity, gave a talk there back in early 2020 after this compelling invite https://t.co/a6o8WVYG1I

2022-07-03 16:24:10 @Abebab of course, everyone on the street without a car just suffocates.

2022-07-03 16:23:43 @Abebab apple selling an infrastructure where the main, imperfect mitigation for android users is to install apple detection software on their phones is like a firm selling vehicles that emit a toxic smog that only their own brand of cars’ custom filters can avoid pumping inside.

2022-07-03 15:04:27 RT @CraigSilverman: It’s the kind of privacy and national security risk that a group of US senators warned about last year. They asked Goog…

2022-07-03 06:01:54 RT @Caffar3Cristina: #DMA implementation underway fast. But it’s a myth rules are “self executing” &

2022-06-29 11:39:58 @nielstenoever @erasmusuni is this the tilburg harmonised standards workshop? i wanted to come

2022-06-29 11:39:31 @nielstenoever @erasmusuni what

2022-06-29 09:16:46 @lilianedwards @JBAGerritsen @tforcworc @tnhh @m_j_chalmers @fborgesius so question is often ‘who is involved nationally’…. answers on a postcard

2022-06-29 09:16:21 @lilianedwards @JBAGerritsen @tforcworc @tnhh @m_j_chalmers @fborgesius they don’t have votes though, and commission emphasise the input and participation of national standards bodies in mandated harmonised standards

2022-06-29 08:11:43 RT @stokel: Want a cookie? Vodafone is trialling a new way of advertising. Critics, including @WolfieChristl and @PrivacyMatters, call it a…

2022-06-29 03:04:45 RT @owenboswarva: I see @DCMS has refused @mikarv's #FOI request for responses submitted to the 'Data: A New Direction' consultation, on th…

2022-06-28 08:23:58 @why0hy @lilianedwards @BeterOpDeFiets @1Br0wn and doubly excludes systems which have human or societal components like ranking or recommenders

2022-06-26 06:03:03 RT @paulmschwartz: Amazing resources @FusterGloria of historic data protection resources. A veritable goldmine. In a word: wow! https://t.c…

2022-06-24 23:01:05 RT @Nadya_Purtova: In this NEW PAPER I argue that when someone is reached, continuously or transiently, he is identified under the GDPR —>

2022-06-24 06:24:11 @CoHuBiCoL1 yes, C-588/21 P

2022-06-23 13:27:06 @carlmalamud @JeniT @mireillemoret @alan_winfield @adrian_weller @maria_axente @isostandards @IECStandards @Microsoft @frossi_t @SophiaIgnatidou @jacquitaylorfb @CDEIUK @ghaziahamat @turinginst Yes! We eagerly await the appeal in the CJEU case.

2022-06-23 08:30:21 @jacquitaylorfb @mireillemoret @alan_winfield @adrian_weller @maria_axente @isostandards @IECStandards @Microsoft @frossi_t @SophiaIgnatidou @CDEIUK @ghaziahamat @turinginst “European AI standards experts” have no legitimacy to decide on the interpretation of fundamental rights. Yet that is what the EU AI Act demands.

2022-06-23 08:29:38 @jacquitaylorfb @mireillemoret @alan_winfield @adrian_weller @maria_axente @isostandards @IECStandards @Microsoft @frossi_t @SophiaIgnatidou @CDEIUK @ghaziahamat @turinginst International standards which had pathetic to zero levels of civil society involvement despite being value laden &

2022-06-23 07:50:22 @mireillemoret @alan_winfield @adrian_weller @maria_axente @isostandards @IECStandards @Microsoft @frossi_t @SophiaIgnatidou @jacquitaylorfb @CDEIUK @ghaziahamat @turinginst Yes, that's exactly it. The AI Act can in effect only be complied with through the use of standards. See https://t.co/aawuWFuVuY p105 https://t.co/4dOZoCuytq

2022-06-23 07:28:49 @stokel @gwbstr I'm @mikarv and I endorse this message.

2022-06-23 04:06:37 @jacquitaylorfb @mireillemoret @maria_axente @isostandards @IECStandards @Microsoft @adrian_weller @alan_winfield @frossi_t @SophiaIgnatidou @CDEIUK @ghaziahamat @turinginst Shows why it is totally inappropriate for the EU to involve standards organisations (CEN/CENELEC and national standards orgs) as the rule makers in the AI Act, which concerns fundamental rights.

2022-06-23 04:03:14 @adrian_weller @mireillemoret @maria_axente @isostandards @IECStandards @Microsoft @alan_winfield @frossi_t @SophiaIgnatidou @jacquitaylorfb @CDEIUK @ghaziahamat @turinginst highly standard — standards bodies are funded by having the copyright to their standards. unless this changes, totally inappropriate for fundamental rights rules, even more so for those that will be blessed by law like the AI Act

2022-06-23 04:01:59 RT @kim_weatherall: Yet another paywalled standard. I'm sorry, but if you're developing rules, that influence people's lives, then people h…

2022-06-23 02:19:51 RT @aaronsnoswell: Overheard at #FAccT2022: @mikarv "Smartphones are basically fungible rectangles" w/ @kim_weatherall

2022-06-23 01:24:07 @KLdivergence @megyoung0 @Liza_Bolton statisticians know deeply that they live on a distribution

2022-06-22 04:44:09 good job @TheOfficialACM on blocking the IP of the ACM @FAccTConference venue in Seoul from the ACM digital library (it's currently 211.210.76.12 if you want to fix...) https://t.co/uTiVmWgLwO

2022-06-21 01:39:20 Hour long panel on intersectionality left only... 2 minutes for questions? #FAccT2022 moderators need to be much stricter with panellists, not sure people have time for 'broadcast-mode' physical/hybrid conferences after 2 years of online broadcasting.

2022-06-21 00:44:29 @gcamilo_lima @nekozzang @FAccTConference thanks! i do have some reservations about that part of the study, and also to the use of prolific which seems to introduce a particular risk of bias for people who are Rather Online, but will read paper with more than a skim in coming weeks.

2022-06-21 00:05:13 @gcamilo_lima @nekozzang @FAccTConference thanks — q on this paper — you separate 'conspiracy theorists' from 'users' but users are meant to categorise this on their own. isn't that a prettly relative distinction that could cause methodological issues? do all people think all conspiracy theorists are the same group?

2022-06-18 12:10:23 attempting to head to seoul today — anyone experienced there have recommendations? (it’s for @FAccTConference)

2022-06-17 06:47:45 RT @JosephineCumbo: But the impact of the April 2022 cuts is harshest on the under 40s, according to the academic analysis. Losses to thei…

2022-06-17 00:33:21 Fujitsu of course facilitated one of the biggest IT failures in UK history, the Post Office Horizon system, leading to one of the largest miscarriages of justice this country has known, with many subpostmasters wrongfully imprisoned, and some dying before justice. https://t.co/DAT2YNpBqt

2022-06-16 15:52:42 @buchtan @Jausl00s @shoshanazuboff i would be much more interested if the diagnosis of our predicament was more precise and robust than this presentation is.

2022-06-16 15:51:42 RT @Jausl00s: Wait, have I done the time warp back to 2019?How are we having EXACTLY the same conversation with @shoshanazuboff about her…

2022-06-16 15:49:20 academic or large language model? #EDPSConf2022

2022-06-16 14:44:33 RT @matthew_d_green: Sen. Blumenthal has introduced a bill that would force phone manufacturers to open up private APIs: this could break A…

2022-06-16 14:41:12 @infofannny I think you might have said Brussels bubble, might not have got it down in full :)

2022-06-16 13:26:36 @Jausl00s @bendrath @kamara_irene @maxschrems @EU_EDPS the sun is the ultimate power tool

2022-06-16 13:22:55 @bendrath @Jausl00s @kamara_irene @maxschrems @EU_EDPS find me later and then it's household exemption

2022-06-16 13:22:31 @bendrath @Jausl00s @kamara_irene @maxschrems @EU_EDPS i have a great photo of jef on this topic but he will destroy me if i post it

2022-06-16 13:12:43 @kamara_irene @bendrath @maxschrems @EU_EDPS put your hand up irene!!

2022-06-16 13:12:17 "This whole city of Brussels has been running around talking about digital enforcement for a few months, but perhaps it is not really the expertise of this town" — @infofannny #EDPSConf2022

2022-06-16 13:00:59 @FusterGloria @bendrath has "snitchtagged" them

2022-06-16 12:24:07 #EDPSConf2022 on enforcement is one, never-ending, ongoing subtweet, by academic, civil society and regulators alike, of the Irish Data Protection Authority.

2022-06-16 07:36:03 @EUdelegationUK it is quite confusing to have examples that are in the past

2022-06-16 07:02:02 @nataliesedacca if @officestudents doesn’t do something about this, what exactly is it for?

2022-06-16 06:58:04 RT @Jausl00s: Just out: Study for @accessnow on the (many issues with) filing a complaint with DPA's under the GDPR...by @FusterGloria @k_…

2022-06-16 06:57:35 RT @EU_EDPS: Today on the menu: more than 50 high-level speakers in several panels and interventions! Read @W_Wiewiorowski welcome letter t…

2022-06-15 15:51:19 RT @EstelMP: NEW! Study by the Data Protection Law Scholars Network for @accessnow "The right to lodge a data protection complaint: OK,…

2022-06-15 11:10:01 RT @BertuzLuca: #DSA COREPER approved the consolidated text, paving the way for adoption in @EP_SingleMarket tomorrow. Several countries we…

2022-06-15 11:07:39 Interesting project, early days still but super simple operating system for old hardware. If you can’t keep up with keeping out bugs, perhaps limiting functionality allows the reduction of useless e-waste? cc @katebevan https://t.co/W748KrDI2p

2022-06-15 09:41:54 @TheRealRevK @neil_neilzone even i concede that would be a staggeringly uninteresting proposition

2022-06-15 09:36:05 the zombie staggers on https://t.co/vSITsoUxGm

2022-06-15 08:38:25 @roryboland @katebevan unless it’s a one way leg out of UK/EU, then it’s covered regardless of the airline

2022-06-15 07:37:06 RT @timsquirrell: An ISD report based on 2 years of research finds that al-Shabaab and Islamic State networks are operating openly, with im…

2022-06-15 07:21:45 @xotoxot we looked for one for an application a few years back and the closest i found was https://t.co/x3sgo32Syf

2022-06-15 06:42:43 RT @EU_EDPS: What will be our perception of the #GDPR in 2025? What compliance challenges will we be facing? @AxelVossMdEP, Anna Fielder, @…

2022-06-15 06:30:59 @lilianedwards @neil_neilzone NDAs sure, also SAR doesn’t give you automatic right to disseminate copyrighted material, but I’d be more interested in seeing the process and the shape of the haul than the exact content. doubt such contractual clause would be legal.

2022-06-15 06:06:14 (this is not a subtweet to the secretary of state in charge of data protection, i don’t want to see her reality tv records)

2022-06-15 06:01:21 disestablishmentarianism and the removal of international human rights protection. the only silver lining of this ridiculous rwanda farce is it might gum up the dismal legislative agenda — although then we probably just get all laws as undebated statutory instruments, forever. https://t.co/qSyQyjGkyA

2022-06-15 05:57:14 i would like:all the footage and audio you have stored of meall the observations made by writers and other staff, including opinions, planned interventions, attempts to set me up with a new contestant, all emails and IM records that ever mention my name and nickname…

2022-06-15 05:55:48 @neil_neilzone hah - not AS the show, someone who has already been surveilled and manipulated by producers for weeks!

2022-06-15 05:51:38 i would like to see a reality TV contestant make a subject access request.

2022-06-15 05:47:14 Essentially, the solution is *stop putting incredibly value laden choices in the hands of standardisation bodies*. You cannot amend them into legitimate entities to make political decisions on fairness, good administration, migration, dignity, intersectionality! Do not do it!

2022-06-15 05:44:39 the Comm will write a report saying that ANEC/ETUC/ECOS, without knowledge or legitimacy on half the AIA charter issues, are in CEN(ELEC) so it’s fine (!!!!), small MSs might not even have committees, so no way for civil society to engage (!!!!!)

2022-06-15 05:44:38 This will result in the EC mandating a single standard for all AI systems, from facial rec to judicial support (!) covering fundamental rights issues (!!) where national bodies ALREADY have groups discussing it without civil society due to pre-mandate from EC last month (!!!) …

2022-06-15 05:34:24 It’s all well and good saying ‘the standardisation process will’ have these characteristics, but it’s run by private entities who the Comm does not control. And what about the how these fundamental rights rules will cost money to even read, &

2022-06-15 05:32:19 The EP compromise is unfortunately v naïve and hand wavey with regards to adding societal input in standards bodies, which are national &

2022-06-14 16:37:26 @Ted_Underwood @sebkrier ah, the issue I think is that I find it odd to call ‘this isn’t very new’ AI critique. It would be very shallow and quite boring critique if it was. Seems to imply some fairly linear idea of progress too, when AI is often about reconfiguring and relocating power and decisions.

2022-06-14 14:58:55 @Ted_Underwood @sebkrier I'm still not sure I follow how people using new software in creative and social ways (as they do with much software and hardware) 'changes the rhetorical situation for critique of AI'.

2022-06-14 14:28:01 @Ted_Underwood @sebkrier they have interesting uses perhaps, might make more realistic digital environments, which might spur people to be in them more? they’re potentially useful, potentially important but I think more in an ancillary way

2022-06-14 14:26:09 @Ted_Underwood @sebkrier people have been making digital images from descriptions or briefs with many methods for a long time. it’s certainly neat technology but low cost stock images aren’t exactly world-changing. another example of ai working backward from capabilities rather forward from challenges.

2022-06-14 14:14:45 @BVLSingler a poor pun

2022-06-14 14:13:45 @BVLSingler his reasoning has been subject to numinous criticisms over recent days

2022-06-14 08:48:52 RT @PietEeckhout: This is terribly important. It is such an awful licence for all kinds of regimes to claim that they are entitled to overr…

2022-06-13 15:37:45 RT @m_mariastefania: Data Protection Scholars Network will be present at the @EU_EDPS conference! @FusterGloria, @lynskeyo, @mikarv and I w…

2022-06-13 08:52:22 RT @BertuzLuca: #DSA After the European Parliament contested the consolidated text, the PCY backed down and removed the reference to the…

2022-06-13 07:47:15 @neil_neilzone because there’s no reason to think they would or could have even the limited, non audio based protective or alert feature that airtags had to introduce after apple turned on this manifestly abusable global tracking infrastructure without consulting anyone.

2022-06-13 07:42:25 @neil_neilzone people are already selling airtags with removed alert beeping speakers online, i think there’s a pretty strong market for stalkerware, doesn’t necessarily require a customer to operate the server.

2022-06-13 07:28:00 @neil_neilzone airtags have vastly insufficient protection against this already, are implicated in huge numbers of police reports in the US for stalking, and they’re a fairly tightly closed network (although they have been reverse engineered and fake info upload and piggybacking is possible)

2022-06-13 07:26:33 @neil_neilzone how would such an open source covert tracking protocol (even if it was allowed to used the Find My network or the gatekept LoRa as Tile does) not be immediately abused by stalkers…?

2022-06-12 15:55:53 @LydNicholas chickens dammit

2022-06-12 15:55:46 @LydNicholas You May Have Read Alt Text About These Chickes Before

2022-06-11 16:16:02 @ViliLe the main thing being that doesn’t actually require getting into who owns the app, in what shares, etc…

2022-06-11 16:14:50 @ViliLe an extreme move to nationalise them, but government intervention could also put procedural and transparency and inclusive decision making requirements on private firms as a societally consequential infrastructures, and i think that would be pretty well supported.

2022-06-11 10:48:51 @israblack @colmocinneide @dzehtsiarou @BYMYong oh, that’s the way i refer to my research subjects

2022-06-11 10:45:13 @colmocinneide @israblack @dzehtsiarou @BYMYong ah here it is https://t.co/9QygIyvv1n

2022-06-11 10:37:52 @colmocinneide @israblack @dzehtsiarou @BYMYong an inverse risk exists, a prior (incorrect) UCL data protection training said ‘who made a mistake here?’ re ppl leaving files on trains, passwords open, etc. all the failing characters were women, the only successful one was ‘michael’. cue mails to me on why i made it that way…

2022-06-10 18:06:40 @PirateOrg thanks for clarifying!

2022-06-10 17:59:52 @PirateOrg do Yuser pay you as an advisor?

2022-06-10 17:31:34 @brindy @PirateOrg that would explain

2022-06-10 17:23:02 @PirateOrg genuine question, why is this interesting?

2022-06-10 16:44:18 @why0hy ‘it’s over!!’ no mate you’re just tired

2022-06-08 13:41:02 RT @rgorwa: The seminar series I've been hosting this year now has a webpage! Happy to welcome @mikarv to Berlin to talk about the AI Act a…

2022-06-08 11:58:03 @PaulOckenden @pcpro remembering when i expressed shock at the huge virgin media asymmetry to a sales rep and said that it was way out of step with the london fttp market (which hadnt got to me then, but has now), they said i was wrong and it definitely wasn’t that price and it was a leased line

2022-06-08 10:45:58 RT @jilltoh: Anyone at re:publica we should meet? Slide into our DMs! @Jausl00s @FusterGloria @mikarv @EkkerAnton &

2022-06-07 17:56:08 @johnwilander can this be seen as apple committing to not do or facilitate confidential on-device micro targeting then? because that has the same effect…

2022-06-07 04:44:25 @adrian_weller @lilianedwards @bubbagrub stylus is good, it’s got a wacom tip, but wacom tip pens while they write v nicely, if you use them a lot they can occasionally get scratchy and that might damage your screen (or if dropped etc), so just buy the box of spare tips, easy to change.

2022-06-07 04:32:23 @adrian_weller @lilianedwards @bubbagrub they look fine in skim, which i use on the mac, and they also work in preview and look good. i don’t use adobe software after they moved to installing their near-malware creative cloud system with everything.

2022-06-07 04:23:50 @adrian_weller @lilianedwards @bubbagrub caveat: PDF annotations are always temperamental regardless of platform, applications render them and add them in different ways, so they don't always show up in all applications. i don't have a good mental model for how or when they appear or don't, and in what viewers.

2022-06-07 04:22:58 @adrian_weller @lilianedwards @bubbagrub yes. you just open the foldersync app when you either have new things to fetch or are done annotating. i don't know how pdfexpert on ipad works but if it can access a live folder in a cloud service then it should be seamless.

2022-06-07 04:13:51 @adrian_weller @lilianedwards @bubbagrub the thing to note about at least my onyx device is that the native annotation app (which is very good) is fast and reliable, but other android apps lag due to slow chip/epaper, so they're only useful as utilities. couldn't annotate in them well. maybe the newer ones are diff.

2022-06-07 04:12:51 @adrian_weller @lilianedwards @bubbagrub i have an onyx boox max 2, yes, annotates well in bright light w pen. easiest way is to make a shared folder with a onedrive/nextcloud/dropbox and use foldersync or similar on android. no seamless workflow with zotero yet, send the files you want to annotate to tablet w zotfile.

2022-06-06 10:15:44 @veikkoeeva @PrivacyMatters @1Br0wn I’m not suggesting Firefox is perfect, or has made perfect decisions, but I don’t think pointing out flaws in the idea that new browsers create deep competition is sniping. No browser is or should be a religion. Indeed, Chromium is designed to generate the illusion of competition

2022-06-06 10:11:08 @PrivacyMatters @1Br0wn I use Firefox. Engaging in W3C is great, but the problem here is that Google’s dominance allows it to circumvent the W3C and set de facto standards that others have to follow. Multi stakeholder Web governance isn’t what it used to be.

2022-06-06 09:46:29 @PrivacyMatters @1Br0wn the balance is that Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, compete with Chrome on some browser features, but empower Google by reducing web rendering competition in other ways.

2022-06-06 09:44:13 @PrivacyMatters @1Br0wn Or reifying it. If it relies on Chromium, there is a significant extent to which it empowers Chrome, and makes it so Google decides web standards, and websites build only or primarily for Chrome. I stopped using Brave after it switched from Gecko to Blink.

2022-06-06 09:23:50 @PrivacyMatters @1Br0wn although the tweet ian quoted would apply to brave too, as a blink/chromium browser… not directly about privacy as much as monoculture web standards which consolidate google’s power to do other things…

2022-06-06 05:47:23 perhaps this is the wrong way around, and instead, high value problems are rarely proving to be particularly amenable to machine learning solutions. https://t.co/iN0ur5GkBE

2022-06-05 12:32:57 @C___CS @OpenTechFund @radsandy @rgorwa @nahema_marchal @F_Kaltheuner @InterwebzNani @octopuscitizen @zararah @FiekeJ @a_yung_ @jilltoh @Jausl00s @FusterGloria @EkkerAnton and I will be there

2022-06-03 11:51:04 @ChrisTMarsden @EU_EDPS @PaulNemitz @lynskeyo @johnnyryan @buchtan @anna_colaps but i am actually speaking at this!

2022-06-02 05:39:48 RT @huibmodderkolk: Nieuw: Nederland is klant bij het omstreden NSO Group. De AIVD heeft de Israëlische hacksoftware onder meer ingezet om…

2022-06-01 20:13:23 RT @tsimonite: Sheryl Sandberg's goodbye note says that when she first met Mark Zuckerberg she "Thought the internet was a largely anonymou…

2022-06-01 14:23:39 RT @valeriodeste: NEW PUBLICATION OUT - @MathiasWouters1 and I have just published a report for the @EP_ScienceTech of the @Europarl_EN. W…

2022-06-01 10:52:49 might this have anything to do with how hard it is to use amendments fix something built on deeply bad foundations? https://t.co/ULBEVb8IkF

2022-06-01 06:38:55 @karen_ec_levy @CornellInfoSci @CornellCIS surely this now means NO ONE is safe from your critical gaze. congratulations!

2022-06-01 06:26:56 @MarijnSax has been clearly (&

2022-06-01 06:23:32 Are all tax law professors in the Netherlands paid, employed, or have their selection influenced by, large accountancy firms that specialise in tax avoidance? Answers on a postcard (to the British Virgin Islands.) https://t.co/ALIkHa17V0

2022-05-31 20:30:03 When I’m upset about the state of the Internet these days, I visit Man in Seat 61 https://t.co/JZAkm2Soak, the best remaining website. Getting on a Nightjet in just a few mins. https://t.co/z8wIqnlFgx

2022-05-31 19:05:44 @marc_mcgeemoore well, the biggest brewer is the most powerful in those terms...

2022-05-31 18:48:41 @katebevan disestablishmentarianism is not a bad starting point

2022-05-31 18:47:28 @marc_mcgeemoore Of course not, everyone knows UCL is sponsored by Heineken. Crack open a refreshing bottle as you savour our range of undergraduate and graduate programmes today #ad https://t.co/njdaelHyTI

2022-05-31 18:44:49 @katebevan if i were the archbishop of canterbury i don’t think i’d comment on this

2022-05-31 18:42:23 @katebevan half hoping this is a disingenuous paraphrase of a statement he once made saying ‘everyone should be forgiven’ or deserves to be or words for that effect. could be never ending source of headlines.

2022-05-31 16:12:40 RT @UCLLaws: Watch a recording of 'Accountable Algorithms', a #CurrentLegalProblems Lecture delivered by Professor Rebecca Williams (Univer…

2022-05-31 13:42:56 @nielstenoever @OpenBookPublish @UCLpress indeed, though I do wonder about more specialist books. law books and referencing, and books with complex images or typesetting, are expensive to publish and need specific typesetting skills. same with mathematics (ppl often typeset themselves as a result!)

2022-05-31 12:13:52 @nielstenoever @OpenBookPublish hmm, are you sure? @UCLpress for example only publishes open access. unless you mean publishers that also never have fees to typeset etc — there are some fees for non UCL authors/projects but they also have a waiver scheme.

2022-05-31 12:07:55 RT @OpenRightsGroup: ​ We're looking for a policy manager to help us stop the government’s destruction of the General Data Protection Regu…

2022-05-31 08:17:08 @Birnhack @mireillemoret @SurvStudiesNet @lexatlasc19 very much appreciated!!

2022-05-31 08:13:52 @Birnhack @mireillemoret @SurvStudiesNet @lexatlasc19 (as far as I have seen, Israel might be unique(-ish) in the executive role it gave to the signals intelligence agency, rather than just using a national security route which may involve a signit agency to get data, but I don't feel confident enough to say it was the only one)

2022-05-31 08:11:27 @Birnhack @mireillemoret @SurvStudiesNet More information on many countries as we update @lexatlasc19 with the privacy sections for the ~60 countries being written up in great detail as part of the Oxford Compendium of Legal Responses to COVID-19 https://t.co/eHIBcdXHW6

2022-05-31 08:08:35 @Birnhack @mireillemoret @SurvStudiesNet See e.g. Executive Instrument 61 in Ghana, attempted to use communication metadata powers specified for law enforcement/national security for COVID-19 (&

2022-05-31 05:51:05 @Birnhack @mireillemoret @SurvStudiesNet interesting! can’t see the actual paper but what’s the evidence that Israel was the *only* democratic country to use ‘security-based’ technology? Many used telecoms data (eg Ghana, Kenya) and had legal disputes around these measures too.

2022-05-30 12:08:20 @MadelineCarr (i believe it would be relevant to the winter ones

2022-05-30 12:06:40 @MadelineCarr a very very good question!

2022-05-30 10:35:59 forbidding websites hardcoding nationally specific versions of international communications or banking standards should be prohibited under the EU’s digital single market, an easy win. https://t.co/Uigz67oS73

2022-05-30 10:31:19 @TSelkl @j2bryson yep, i keep telling policymakers to look at the CPR debacle, particularly also on the similar inability to distinguish between design and use that CPR has struggled with and AIA really, really struggles with.

2022-05-30 09:22:03 @Jausl00s u r such a data altruist

2022-05-30 09:19:11 @MadelineCarr more info in the ‘enforcement’ section of the first part of our UCL Laws big @lexatlasc19 project’s United Kingdom report by @jeff_a_king @NatalieByrom https://t.co/et0FXMyRhK

2022-05-30 09:17:56 @MadelineCarr there is a diff type of fine that was introduced for organisers. other fixed penalty notices start low (in England initially 60, later 200) &

2022-05-30 09:10:54 given one of the main nationally salient policy issues in the south west is giant traffic jams caused by people slowing down to look at stonehenge, jams so big the gov are trying to build a £1.25bn tunnel mainly to hide the stones from motorists, this is bonkers. https://t.co/PWRDRev5fa

2022-05-30 09:04:37 @j2bryson yes, but making money off standards relies on IP and being only available for ££, which conflicts with openness of law if integrated like the AIA — which is why we have democratic institutions making open law paid by taxes. both directions (pay more, open more w/o pay) look bad!

2022-05-30 09:01:09 RT @j2bryson: Someone asked a question about inclusion in standards – Answer was "we may stop charging fees from SMEs etc". But in fact mos…

2022-05-30 08:53:08 @fborgesius watch out not to romanticise these registers, though, as @C___CS @FiekeJ warn in their article ‘Dutch Comfort’ https://t.co/vBZKWIq4ZC

2022-05-30 08:38:46 RT @UCLLaws: UCL Laws is hiring! We're looking for people to join our community of researchers, students and leading academics:- Associat…

2022-05-29 22:02:30 horrifying https://t.co/TlOG8xDO5E

2022-05-29 20:44:41 @HannaFlint @clancynewyork yep, can still be funny (and is!)

2022-05-29 20:38:11 Indeed, but it would be right if the gov were instead to say that EU law prohibited/precluded a (hypothetical) UK law which *required* pubs to only use glasses with crowns on them

2022-05-29 19:37:43 @HannaFlint @clancynewyork sadly this is fake, but even gizmodo journos fell for it and had to issue a correction https://t.co/dexRAZ5eqM

2022-05-29 17:57:27 @PaulbernalUK this statement is in many ways typical of a brexit concept to what ‘regulation’ means politically, which is a mix of law and market forces around free trade, laissez faire economic incentives and standardisation which globalises the domestic.

2022-05-29 17:54:56 @PaulbernalUK they wouldn’t have to adjust much to actually make this true, which makes the lie worse. the EU didn’t mandate the removal, but EU law would preclude a hypothetical (and pointless) domestic regulation saying only crown stamped glasses could be used in pubs.

2022-05-29 17:51:54 @HzBrandenburg @PJDunleavy also, poor journalism

2022-05-28 15:48:26 I beg you please just make whatever ridiculous law only apply to consumer facing street greengrocers because that surely is the only politically relevant situation for this reform

2022-05-28 15:42:43 I also recall the below thread indicating the sheer financial cost and technical, legal, and generally human effort of administering this change. https://t.co/XyVw4YVuxE

2022-05-28 15:38:38 UK Government: We need to move on to talk about the important things like the cost of living, Ukraine, net zeroAlso UK Government: Let’s focus scarce legislative time on allowing ppl to *only* denominate prices in imperial measurements to win the imagined metric martyr vote https://t.co/UA6WhfVOhf

2022-05-28 09:50:04 @aoifewhite101 is it a cynical approach to effectively get people to pay £200 for shite coffee in Business

2022-05-28 09:46:12 @ArmelaDi oh I’m leaving after being here for a week! thankfully @lynskeyo flagged the Midi issue although I thought it’s because they were in the process of refurbing not that this was the disastrous end product.

2022-05-28 09:42:33 what evil sadist refurbed the Eurostar terminal at Bruxelles Midi and installed a giant pseudo duty free and removed *every* coffee vending facility in the process?

2022-05-28 08:02:22 RT @gikii: Reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstracts for this year's mixed Online/IRL conference is approaching! https://t.c…

2022-05-27 16:04:44 @halhod i have been doing that (bit unwieldy if you don't use safari), but can be a bit of a pain when they want you to send things *from* that email and they do not initiate the message. if they are like 'email this to complain', you can't. if they start, you can chat through the proxy

2022-05-27 16:03:29 RT @lilianedwards: Friday Frantic Reminders!!!! 2 days to go for #gikii Iceland CFP. This deadline will not be extended!! Dont end up on th…

2022-05-25 15:52:14 @daphnehk @AlexCEngler @blakereid @neil_neilzone @doctorow as long as they are non-professional users, they are not in scope.

2022-05-25 12:19:30 @infofannny @CPDPconferences @AdaLovelaceInst @RaviNa1k @ShmaeganM @szymielewicz and???

2022-05-25 09:12:55 RT @infofannny: Hey #CPDP2022 spread the word or apply to join @accessnow as Surveillance Campaigner to fight against surveillance laws, te…

2022-05-25 08:33:21 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today at #CPDP2022, and on the 4th anniversary of GDPR, Ada has organised a panel: Power over data and algorithms - ca…

2022-05-24 12:45:14 “the Commission is getting its Acts together” - mixed laughs and groans as @EikeGraef recalls a joke he heard

2022-05-24 12:36:28 @jamesfarrar collective action around data enabled @ADCUnion to be recognised as a union — litigating alone was not seen as collective action – @jamesfarrar

2022-05-24 12:33:02 "an employment claim for minimum wage has cost millions of pounds, 6-7 years" — @jamesfarrar

2022-05-24 12:29:50 "if you're already marginalised, you don't always like to be too close to the law" – @jilltoh

2022-05-24 12:24:21 .@divijualsuspect @UCLLaws now chairing important panel at #CPDP2022 on the (f)laws of individual use of data rights for collective aims, feat. @EkkerAnton @EikeGraef @jilltoh @jamesfarrar https://t.co/3lO7iGiRda

2022-05-24 10:20:09 RT @shivan_kaul: This is shocking. DuckDuckGo has a search deal with Microsoft which prevents them from blocking MS trackers. And they can'…

2022-05-24 09:50:09 @mireillemoret @bpreneel1 @EU_Commission Given so key I think it would have been wise for the EC to introduce both in parallel, as they did with DMA/DSA.

2022-05-23 23:07:19 @FusterGloria @m_mariastefania @Jausl00s @eleni_kosta @k_irion @lynskeyo @Nolan_Katie @olga_gkot @HriscuAna carefully reflected on further

2022-05-23 15:56:40 @FusterGloria @djleufer i will try and sauce some ‘samurai’

2022-05-23 09:51:18 @AlexMartin French already made similar order

2022-05-23 09:51:07 RT @AlexMartin: BREAKING: Facial recognition company Clearview AI fined more than £7.5m by the UK's privacy watchdog for illegally collecti…

2022-05-23 09:50:26 @PrivaSense (we didn’t submit to the appathon)

2022-05-23 09:50:09 @PrivaSense also, as one of the DP-3T team, our ideas were represented by tiny firms that didn’t understand them and just reskinned our SwissCovid code we had released 8 days prior.

2022-05-23 09:49:18 @alexhanna and another company with their own app hardcoded the emails and data of test users and released them all on github

2022-05-23 09:48:53 @alexhanna it was 8 days or so after we had released the code for the DP-3T system which preceded &

2022-05-23 09:41:45 Panel at #CPDP reminding me one of the most absurd tech policy things in the pandemic was the Dutch contact tracing “Appathon”, where a series of low capacity orgs &

2022-05-23 09:04:20 (My sophisticated theoretical framework of Drinks + Borrelhapjes indicates that they are entwined, that one and the other add to each other and make them more than the whole etc etc)

2022-05-23 08:52:47 data protection scholars at #CPDP, come to the launch of the Data Protection Scholars Network this PM! drinks+borrellhapjes. Monday 23 May 2022, 19:00-20:00 at Maison des Arts (Chau. de Haecht 147, 1030 Schaerbeek) https://t.co/VPyJeRp77H

2022-05-22 21:47:41 RT @seefryar: So actually this isn’t about citations at all but a fundamental (but common) misunderstanding of what historians do. In most…

2022-05-22 08:21:00 RT @divijualsuspect: I'll be at @CPDPconferences next week, moderating this excellent panel on problematising individual approaches to data…

2022-05-20 11:30:52 RT @lilianedwards: What fundamental change of circumstances has happened between start of pandemic and now which has rendered it "too risky…

2022-05-20 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-10-29 06:57:11 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @CatalinaGoanta scholar social didn’t say who ran it and blocked whole instances containing digital rights NGOs from being accessible from it, so i migrated my account from it yday to a self hosted instance. https://t.co/IXLFJ9cu36 also exists which may be of interest, some familiar faces there

2022-10-28 17:21:55 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta more seriously though, the mental model issue I think is about who is in or out of the search bar, home feed, federated feed, and why.

2022-10-28 17:18:00 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta instead of https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa I was very tempted to get https://t.co/eFSxj9peaQ but decided against it

2022-10-28 17:17:30 The https://t.co/Fr8VEOCOID server gets about 6k EUR a month in Patreon donations. The increased load is presumably noticeable. Are there more detailed financials on how much these larger instances actually cost to run?

2022-10-28 17:10:41 @CatalinaGoanta i'll probably syndicate to both and see how I feel. you don't need to be on a particular server though, but i agree it's hard for people to make mental models of how it works.

2022-10-28 11:54:54 @sjmurdoch I shifted to @mikarv@someone.elses.computer, trying the migration functionality today. whoever was running https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a I joined in 2017 is a mystery and i'm not willing to abide by that...

2022-10-28 11:49:37 @crystaljjlee @mikarv@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-28 11:38:34 shifting the mastodon account I started 5 years ago on a mystery server with overzealous federation blocking policies to my own server (content moderation galore awaits). you can follow me on @mikarv@someone.elses.computer https://t.co/w0vEMo8ByM

2022-10-27 22:25:32 Re-invoice them with statutory interest rates if universities are late at paying — 8% plus the Bank of England base rate + £40–70 recovery fee. The finance dept at unis aren’t likely to influence repercussion, so use your legal rights. https://t.co/2Gcrts3Uh8 https://t.co/ktmmfTxz6p

2022-10-27 22:04:04 @neilmrichards @salome_viljoen_ @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron unfortunately bluetooth is q low quality, wireless speakers are better w Airplay2 which allows multiple connected nicely using a fusion of protocols but apple keep it proprietary and license it selectively to eg boost HomeKit uptake (Airplay1 was successfully reverse engineered)

2022-10-27 21:24:28 @salome_viljoen_ @neilmrichards @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron impossible to buy a home speaker without echo/google assistant, i gave in and blocked it from successfully resolving google domains with my home dns filter. when you check the logs turns out it asks ‘where’s google?’ two times a second. ‘google’s dead’, my dns pi responds.

2022-10-27 11:51:48 @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov Here are some of the other examples catalogued in the POTs paper. For many years these authors have tirelessly pushed 'optimisation' as a frame of thinking instead of fairness or confidentiality alone. Getting to work with them is one of the v best parts of my job as an academic. https://t.co/wrLofqaiTc

2022-10-27 11:47:09 Techniques to foil optimisation systems (the Protective Optimisation Technologies of @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov https://t.co/QHnHWql86R) are promising to politically push back against systems, not as unreliable individual protection. https://t.co/9UkInMMZtY

2022-10-27 11:44:07 RT @cynddl: As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many…

2022-10-27 09:50:20 @Richvn ministerial entanglement

2022-10-27 07:35:54 @hutko literally just emailed around a paper with the highlighted reference gaps in yesterday and spent a pointless ten mins looking for whether it was out on eurlex yesterday! thank you for flagging

2022-10-26 17:26:38 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch so people have to give away their usernames externally to do basic tasks! wonderful security practice

2022-10-26 17:25:55 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch microsoft know the aliases, they should be able to map them, but mapping seems to only happen in native windows apps, in everything else triggering infinite login loop because it tries to stupidly match the document permissioning email to the AD identity without checking aliases

2022-10-26 17:17:20 @emax i never heard of it until your tweet, tried it for 2 mins, now i have disabled it. interacts weirdly with my practice of calling windows i want via alfred

2022-10-26 17:11:07 @RichardMoorhead @Detig @MatthewHappold I assure you there there is no functionality for anyone to edit, manipulate or remove your login data once it has been recorded in your local orcid branch accounts

2022-10-23 23:54:38 @lilianedwards @RaviNa1k it isn’t clear from https://t.co/nx3GlrMY3N if they plan to alter collection patterns of the meters. atm, you can choose for your meter to eg only send once a month. unclear if they plan to override that. aeons ago i wrote a smart meter and law case study https://t.co/pqR0epqcPF

2022-10-23 11:28:11 @technollama political escapism https://t.co/mfS9wqrBvz

2022-10-22 16:38:25 Oh no @igavels. https://t.co/Lg3UkDqjIe

2022-10-22 12:00:18 reflecting on why this is unlikely to spur outrage, it seems largely because the electorate is so arbitrary that compromising them can’t decrease the legitimacy of the process much more. (although systematic compromise should concern us!)

2022-10-22 08:58:21 Furthemore, the proportion without email addresses seems likely to be larger than the proportion that the winner will win by. What could go wrong?

2022-10-22 08:57:29 Someone from the party will call a number and enfranchise with the leadership of this country an questionably transcribed email address given to them by whoever picks up the phone. https://t.co/y9gpZbvX1Y

2022-10-21 14:21:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: I am also looking for postdocs with cryptography background looking into designing practical systems. If you are inter…

2022-10-21 14:08:29 @joetidy Glad NCSC have solved the problem described by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018 that 'no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet'. https://t.co/HXh2gX8cYx

2022-10-21 14:06:31 It's not about the amount of scrutiny. Online voting for hugely consequential votes has structural flaws regardless of scrutiny

2022-10-21 14:04:30 @katebevan It's not about the amount of scrutiny though — the major concerns around online voting for heads of state persist regardless of how much oversight NCSC have. https://t.co/Kwy4IWKfmr

2022-10-21 13:47:55 RT @applecensorship: So Apple now says that developers of the VKontake and https://t.co/GxRiIAwIKQ apps are not on the UK sanctions list. E…

2022-10-21 09:27:48 @psychicyogamat spread by a major product range from some sprawling multinational, and we'll get a huge class action awarding huge damages to Justin Webb, Ken Livinstone and Graham Linehan

2022-10-21 09:25:37 @psychicyogamat in 5 years we will discover it is actually a brain worm, like toxoplasmosis

2022-10-21 09:24:36 @psychicyogamat it was absurd, I shouted at my radio. Elton good at closing down without engaging.

2022-10-21 08:22:52 @MadelineCarr @UCLLaws Do circulate amongst your people with legal-shaped interests! We've lectures and panels coming out of our eyeballs due to cheap ways to hold them online — what I think we've been lacking is a dedicated social dimension.

2022-10-21 07:53:37 @1Br0wn @GCHQ @Conservatives we’ve talked to NCSC and said look, we’ve installed norton 365 and kaspersky, the election is more of a backstop than a plan anyway, and either way, luckily our largely octogenarian populist membership is extremely robust against social engineering.

2022-10-21 05:23:24 @JBAGerritsen @nicolasmarangoz @privacylawGER it’s mainly NL that leans on that standard explicitly in DPA decisions and advice, haven’t seen it elsewhere, have a chapter forthcoming soon on logging in the law enforcement directive…

2022-10-29 06:57:11 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @CatalinaGoanta scholar social didn’t say who ran it and blocked whole instances containing digital rights NGOs from being accessible from it, so i migrated my account from it yday to a self hosted instance. https://t.co/IXLFJ9cu36 also exists which may be of interest, some familiar faces there

2022-10-28 17:21:55 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta more seriously though, the mental model issue I think is about who is in or out of the search bar, home feed, federated feed, and why.

2022-10-28 17:18:00 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta instead of https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa I was very tempted to get https://t.co/eFSxj9peaQ but decided against it

2022-10-28 17:17:30 The https://t.co/Fr8VEOCOID server gets about 6k EUR a month in Patreon donations. The increased load is presumably noticeable. Are there more detailed financials on how much these larger instances actually cost to run?

2022-10-28 17:10:41 @CatalinaGoanta i'll probably syndicate to both and see how I feel. you don't need to be on a particular server though, but i agree it's hard for people to make mental models of how it works.

2022-10-28 11:54:54 @sjmurdoch I shifted to @mikarv@someone.elses.computer, trying the migration functionality today. whoever was running https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a I joined in 2017 is a mystery and i'm not willing to abide by that...

2022-10-28 11:49:37 @crystaljjlee @mikarv@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-28 11:38:34 shifting the mastodon account I started 5 years ago on a mystery server with overzealous federation blocking policies to my own server (content moderation galore awaits). you can follow me on @mikarv@someone.elses.computer https://t.co/w0vEMo8ByM

2022-10-27 22:25:32 Re-invoice them with statutory interest rates if universities are late at paying — 8% plus the Bank of England base rate + £40–70 recovery fee. The finance dept at unis aren’t likely to influence repercussion, so use your legal rights. https://t.co/2Gcrts3Uh8 https://t.co/ktmmfTxz6p

2022-10-27 22:04:04 @neilmrichards @salome_viljoen_ @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron unfortunately bluetooth is q low quality, wireless speakers are better w Airplay2 which allows multiple connected nicely using a fusion of protocols but apple keep it proprietary and license it selectively to eg boost HomeKit uptake (Airplay1 was successfully reverse engineered)

2022-10-27 21:24:28 @salome_viljoen_ @neilmrichards @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron impossible to buy a home speaker without echo/google assistant, i gave in and blocked it from successfully resolving google domains with my home dns filter. when you check the logs turns out it asks ‘where’s google?’ two times a second. ‘google’s dead’, my dns pi responds.

2022-10-27 11:51:48 @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov Here are some of the other examples catalogued in the POTs paper. For many years these authors have tirelessly pushed 'optimisation' as a frame of thinking instead of fairness or confidentiality alone. Getting to work with them is one of the v best parts of my job as an academic. https://t.co/wrLofqaiTc

2022-10-27 11:47:09 Techniques to foil optimisation systems (the Protective Optimisation Technologies of @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov https://t.co/QHnHWql86R) are promising to politically push back against systems, not as unreliable individual protection. https://t.co/9UkInMMZtY

2022-10-27 11:44:07 RT @cynddl: As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many…

2022-10-27 09:50:20 @Richvn ministerial entanglement

2022-10-27 07:35:54 @hutko literally just emailed around a paper with the highlighted reference gaps in yesterday and spent a pointless ten mins looking for whether it was out on eurlex yesterday! thank you for flagging

2022-10-26 17:26:38 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch so people have to give away their usernames externally to do basic tasks! wonderful security practice

2022-10-26 17:25:55 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch microsoft know the aliases, they should be able to map them, but mapping seems to only happen in native windows apps, in everything else triggering infinite login loop because it tries to stupidly match the document permissioning email to the AD identity without checking aliases

2022-10-26 17:17:20 @emax i never heard of it until your tweet, tried it for 2 mins, now i have disabled it. interacts weirdly with my practice of calling windows i want via alfred

2022-10-26 17:11:07 @RichardMoorhead @Detig @MatthewHappold I assure you there there is no functionality for anyone to edit, manipulate or remove your login data once it has been recorded in your local orcid branch accounts

2022-10-23 23:54:38 @lilianedwards @RaviNa1k it isn’t clear from https://t.co/nx3GlrMY3N if they plan to alter collection patterns of the meters. atm, you can choose for your meter to eg only send once a month. unclear if they plan to override that. aeons ago i wrote a smart meter and law case study https://t.co/pqR0epqcPF

2022-10-23 11:28:11 @technollama political escapism https://t.co/mfS9wqrBvz

2022-10-22 16:38:25 Oh no @igavels. https://t.co/Lg3UkDqjIe

2022-10-22 12:00:18 reflecting on why this is unlikely to spur outrage, it seems largely because the electorate is so arbitrary that compromising them can’t decrease the legitimacy of the process much more. (although systematic compromise should concern us!)

2022-10-22 08:58:21 Furthemore, the proportion without email addresses seems likely to be larger than the proportion that the winner will win by. What could go wrong?

2022-10-22 08:57:29 Someone from the party will call a number and enfranchise with the leadership of this country an questionably transcribed email address given to them by whoever picks up the phone. https://t.co/y9gpZbvX1Y

2022-10-21 14:21:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: I am also looking for postdocs with cryptography background looking into designing practical systems. If you are inter…

2022-10-21 14:08:29 @joetidy Glad NCSC have solved the problem described by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018 that 'no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet'. https://t.co/HXh2gX8cYx

2022-10-21 14:06:31 It's not about the amount of scrutiny. Online voting for hugely consequential votes has structural flaws regardless of scrutiny

2022-10-21 14:04:30 @katebevan It's not about the amount of scrutiny though — the major concerns around online voting for heads of state persist regardless of how much oversight NCSC have. https://t.co/Kwy4IWKfmr

2022-10-21 13:47:55 RT @applecensorship: So Apple now says that developers of the VKontake and https://t.co/GxRiIAwIKQ apps are not on the UK sanctions list. E…

2022-10-21 09:27:48 @psychicyogamat spread by a major product range from some sprawling multinational, and we'll get a huge class action awarding huge damages to Justin Webb, Ken Livinstone and Graham Linehan

2022-10-21 09:25:37 @psychicyogamat in 5 years we will discover it is actually a brain worm, like toxoplasmosis

2022-10-21 09:24:36 @psychicyogamat it was absurd, I shouted at my radio. Elton good at closing down without engaging.

2022-10-21 08:22:52 @MadelineCarr @UCLLaws Do circulate amongst your people with legal-shaped interests! We've lectures and panels coming out of our eyeballs due to cheap ways to hold them online — what I think we've been lacking is a dedicated social dimension.

2022-10-21 07:53:37 @1Br0wn @GCHQ @Conservatives we’ve talked to NCSC and said look, we’ve installed norton 365 and kaspersky, the election is more of a backstop than a plan anyway, and either way, luckily our largely octogenarian populist membership is extremely robust against social engineering.

2022-10-21 05:23:24 @JBAGerritsen @nicolasmarangoz @privacylawGER it’s mainly NL that leans on that standard explicitly in DPA decisions and advice, haven’t seen it elsewhere, have a chapter forthcoming soon on logging in the law enforcement directive…

2022-10-29 09:06:55 Great essay by @framasoft/@Framasoft@framapiaf.org looking back at lessons from their efforts to collectivise and convivialise the Internet. Framasoft have monthly hosting expenses of ~50K EUR. https://t.co/La4d1HzgnR

2022-10-29 06:57:11 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @CatalinaGoanta scholar social didn’t say who ran it and blocked whole instances containing digital rights NGOs from being accessible from it, so i migrated my account from it yday to a self hosted instance. https://t.co/IXLFJ9cu36 also exists which may be of interest, some familiar faces there

2022-10-28 17:21:55 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta more seriously though, the mental model issue I think is about who is in or out of the search bar, home feed, federated feed, and why.

2022-10-28 17:18:00 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta instead of https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa I was very tempted to get https://t.co/eFSxj9peaQ but decided against it

2022-10-28 17:17:30 The https://t.co/Fr8VEOCOID server gets about 6k EUR a month in Patreon donations. The increased load is presumably noticeable. Are there more detailed financials on how much these larger instances actually cost to run?

2022-10-28 17:10:41 @CatalinaGoanta i'll probably syndicate to both and see how I feel. you don't need to be on a particular server though, but i agree it's hard for people to make mental models of how it works.

2022-10-28 11:54:54 @sjmurdoch I shifted to @mikarv@someone.elses.computer, trying the migration functionality today. whoever was running https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a I joined in 2017 is a mystery and i'm not willing to abide by that...

2022-10-28 11:49:37 @crystaljjlee @mikarv@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-28 11:38:34 shifting the mastodon account I started 5 years ago on a mystery server with overzealous federation blocking policies to my own server (content moderation galore awaits). you can follow me on @mikarv@someone.elses.computer https://t.co/w0vEMo8ByM

2022-10-27 22:25:32 Re-invoice them with statutory interest rates if universities are late at paying — 8% plus the Bank of England base rate + £40–70 recovery fee. The finance dept at unis aren’t likely to influence repercussion, so use your legal rights. https://t.co/2Gcrts3Uh8 https://t.co/ktmmfTxz6p

2022-10-27 22:04:04 @neilmrichards @salome_viljoen_ @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron unfortunately bluetooth is q low quality, wireless speakers are better w Airplay2 which allows multiple connected nicely using a fusion of protocols but apple keep it proprietary and license it selectively to eg boost HomeKit uptake (Airplay1 was successfully reverse engineered)

2022-10-27 21:24:28 @salome_viljoen_ @neilmrichards @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron impossible to buy a home speaker without echo/google assistant, i gave in and blocked it from successfully resolving google domains with my home dns filter. when you check the logs turns out it asks ‘where’s google?’ two times a second. ‘google’s dead’, my dns pi responds.

2022-10-27 11:51:48 @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov Here are some of the other examples catalogued in the POTs paper. For many years these authors have tirelessly pushed 'optimisation' as a frame of thinking instead of fairness or confidentiality alone. Getting to work with them is one of the v best parts of my job as an academic. https://t.co/wrLofqaiTc

2022-10-27 11:47:09 Techniques to foil optimisation systems (the Protective Optimisation Technologies of @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov https://t.co/QHnHWql86R) are promising to politically push back against systems, not as unreliable individual protection. https://t.co/9UkInMMZtY

2022-10-27 11:44:07 RT @cynddl: As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many…

2022-10-27 09:50:20 @Richvn ministerial entanglement

2022-10-27 07:35:54 @hutko literally just emailed around a paper with the highlighted reference gaps in yesterday and spent a pointless ten mins looking for whether it was out on eurlex yesterday! thank you for flagging

2022-10-26 17:26:38 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch so people have to give away their usernames externally to do basic tasks! wonderful security practice

2022-10-26 17:25:55 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch microsoft know the aliases, they should be able to map them, but mapping seems to only happen in native windows apps, in everything else triggering infinite login loop because it tries to stupidly match the document permissioning email to the AD identity without checking aliases

2022-10-26 17:17:20 @emax i never heard of it until your tweet, tried it for 2 mins, now i have disabled it. interacts weirdly with my practice of calling windows i want via alfred

2022-10-26 17:11:07 @RichardMoorhead @Detig @MatthewHappold I assure you there there is no functionality for anyone to edit, manipulate or remove your login data once it has been recorded in your local orcid branch accounts

2022-10-23 23:54:38 @lilianedwards @RaviNa1k it isn’t clear from https://t.co/nx3GlrMY3N if they plan to alter collection patterns of the meters. atm, you can choose for your meter to eg only send once a month. unclear if they plan to override that. aeons ago i wrote a smart meter and law case study https://t.co/pqR0epqcPF

2022-10-23 11:28:11 @technollama political escapism https://t.co/mfS9wqrBvz

2022-10-22 16:38:25 Oh no @igavels. https://t.co/Lg3UkDqjIe

2022-10-22 12:00:18 reflecting on why this is unlikely to spur outrage, it seems largely because the electorate is so arbitrary that compromising them can’t decrease the legitimacy of the process much more. (although systematic compromise should concern us!)

2022-10-22 08:58:21 Furthemore, the proportion without email addresses seems likely to be larger than the proportion that the winner will win by. What could go wrong?

2022-10-22 08:57:29 Someone from the party will call a number and enfranchise with the leadership of this country an questionably transcribed email address given to them by whoever picks up the phone. https://t.co/y9gpZbvX1Y

2022-10-21 14:21:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: I am also looking for postdocs with cryptography background looking into designing practical systems. If you are inter…

2022-10-21 14:08:29 @joetidy Glad NCSC have solved the problem described by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018 that 'no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet'. https://t.co/HXh2gX8cYx

2022-10-21 14:06:31 It's not about the amount of scrutiny. Online voting for hugely consequential votes has structural flaws regardless of scrutiny

2022-10-21 14:04:30 @katebevan It's not about the amount of scrutiny though — the major concerns around online voting for heads of state persist regardless of how much oversight NCSC have. https://t.co/Kwy4IWKfmr

2022-10-21 13:47:55 RT @applecensorship: So Apple now says that developers of the VKontake and https://t.co/GxRiIAwIKQ apps are not on the UK sanctions list. E…

2022-10-21 09:27:48 @psychicyogamat spread by a major product range from some sprawling multinational, and we'll get a huge class action awarding huge damages to Justin Webb, Ken Livinstone and Graham Linehan

2022-10-21 09:25:37 @psychicyogamat in 5 years we will discover it is actually a brain worm, like toxoplasmosis

2022-10-21 09:24:36 @psychicyogamat it was absurd, I shouted at my radio. Elton good at closing down without engaging.

2022-10-21 08:22:52 @MadelineCarr @UCLLaws Do circulate amongst your people with legal-shaped interests! We've lectures and panels coming out of our eyeballs due to cheap ways to hold them online — what I think we've been lacking is a dedicated social dimension.

2022-10-21 07:53:37 @1Br0wn @GCHQ @Conservatives we’ve talked to NCSC and said look, we’ve installed norton 365 and kaspersky, the election is more of a backstop than a plan anyway, and either way, luckily our largely octogenarian populist membership is extremely robust against social engineering.

2022-10-21 05:23:24 @JBAGerritsen @nicolasmarangoz @privacylawGER it’s mainly NL that leans on that standard explicitly in DPA decisions and advice, haven’t seen it elsewhere, have a chapter forthcoming soon on logging in the law enforcement directive…

2022-10-29 18:35:16 @rriemann_eu @ilumium that would be fun. atm our instance is only open to friends who are willing and technically able to help with the running the innards, not looking to provide a broader service. the first other human on it is @jennifercobbe@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-29 18:20:47 @rriemann_eu @ilumium yep, i recommended it already https://t.co/RcqTHajrD0 but personally i’m running my own (also to learn more)

2022-10-29 17:33:07 Truss' phone was 'heavily compromised', in a hack attributed to Russia, during her prime ministerial campaign, reports MoS. https://t.co/UXGzeCYrEQ

2022-10-29 15:43:31 (note that the blog post is not fully up to date)

2022-10-29 15:42:39 If any IP and platforms people are looking for an idea for a dissertation or paper, then consider the interaction between the Copyright Directive and the fediverse, as the founder of Mastodon wrote in 2018 here. https://t.co/iYO8WSUEMm

2022-10-29 15:15:16 RT @Chronotope: wow a company did the exact thing with tcf that every critic of tcf warned people that companies would do with tcf because…

2022-10-29 14:15:29 RT @craigjcalhoun: UK academic staff are not paid well by international standards or enough to keep up with UK inflation. Cuts to retiremen…

2022-10-29 13:29:09 for those people worried about picking a mastodon server, you may not know you can shift servers whenever and take all your followers with you extremely easily https://t.co/35pR8YIDKZ https://t.co/L9N6qZ12iz

2022-10-29 12:21:15 @robyncaplan you don't need a new account, you can follow anyone on any server from any other server (: https://t.co/um9w11FVZZ

2022-10-29 09:06:55 Great essay by @framasoft/@Framasoft@framapiaf.org looking back at lessons from their efforts to collectivise and convivialise the Internet. Framasoft have monthly hosting expenses of ~50K EUR. https://t.co/La4d1HzgnR

2022-10-29 06:57:11 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @CatalinaGoanta scholar social didn’t say who ran it and blocked whole instances containing digital rights NGOs from being accessible from it, so i migrated my account from it yday to a self hosted instance. https://t.co/IXLFJ9cu36 also exists which may be of interest, some familiar faces there

2022-10-28 17:21:55 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta more seriously though, the mental model issue I think is about who is in or out of the search bar, home feed, federated feed, and why.

2022-10-28 17:18:00 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta instead of https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa I was very tempted to get https://t.co/eFSxj9peaQ but decided against it

2022-10-28 17:17:30 The https://t.co/Fr8VEOCOID server gets about 6k EUR a month in Patreon donations. The increased load is presumably noticeable. Are there more detailed financials on how much these larger instances actually cost to run?

2022-10-28 17:10:41 @CatalinaGoanta i'll probably syndicate to both and see how I feel. you don't need to be on a particular server though, but i agree it's hard for people to make mental models of how it works.

2022-10-28 11:54:54 @sjmurdoch I shifted to @mikarv@someone.elses.computer, trying the migration functionality today. whoever was running https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a I joined in 2017 is a mystery and i'm not willing to abide by that...

2022-10-28 11:49:37 @crystaljjlee @mikarv@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-28 11:38:34 shifting the mastodon account I started 5 years ago on a mystery server with overzealous federation blocking policies to my own server (content moderation galore awaits). you can follow me on @mikarv@someone.elses.computer https://t.co/w0vEMo8ByM

2022-10-27 22:25:32 Re-invoice them with statutory interest rates if universities are late at paying — 8% plus the Bank of England base rate + £40–70 recovery fee. The finance dept at unis aren’t likely to influence repercussion, so use your legal rights. https://t.co/2Gcrts3Uh8 https://t.co/ktmmfTxz6p

2022-10-27 22:04:04 @neilmrichards @salome_viljoen_ @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron unfortunately bluetooth is q low quality, wireless speakers are better w Airplay2 which allows multiple connected nicely using a fusion of protocols but apple keep it proprietary and license it selectively to eg boost HomeKit uptake (Airplay1 was successfully reverse engineered)

2022-10-27 21:24:28 @salome_viljoen_ @neilmrichards @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron impossible to buy a home speaker without echo/google assistant, i gave in and blocked it from successfully resolving google domains with my home dns filter. when you check the logs turns out it asks ‘where’s google?’ two times a second. ‘google’s dead’, my dns pi responds.

2022-10-27 11:51:48 @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov Here are some of the other examples catalogued in the POTs paper. For many years these authors have tirelessly pushed 'optimisation' as a frame of thinking instead of fairness or confidentiality alone. Getting to work with them is one of the v best parts of my job as an academic. https://t.co/wrLofqaiTc

2022-10-27 11:47:09 Techniques to foil optimisation systems (the Protective Optimisation Technologies of @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov https://t.co/QHnHWql86R) are promising to politically push back against systems, not as unreliable individual protection. https://t.co/9UkInMMZtY

2022-10-27 11:44:07 RT @cynddl: As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many…

2022-10-27 09:50:20 @Richvn ministerial entanglement

2022-10-27 07:35:54 @hutko literally just emailed around a paper with the highlighted reference gaps in yesterday and spent a pointless ten mins looking for whether it was out on eurlex yesterday! thank you for flagging

2022-10-26 17:26:38 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch so people have to give away their usernames externally to do basic tasks! wonderful security practice

2022-10-26 17:25:55 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch microsoft know the aliases, they should be able to map them, but mapping seems to only happen in native windows apps, in everything else triggering infinite login loop because it tries to stupidly match the document permissioning email to the AD identity without checking aliases

2022-10-26 17:17:20 @emax i never heard of it until your tweet, tried it for 2 mins, now i have disabled it. interacts weirdly with my practice of calling windows i want via alfred

2022-10-26 17:11:07 @RichardMoorhead @Detig @MatthewHappold I assure you there there is no functionality for anyone to edit, manipulate or remove your login data once it has been recorded in your local orcid branch accounts

2022-10-23 23:54:38 @lilianedwards @RaviNa1k it isn’t clear from https://t.co/nx3GlrMY3N if they plan to alter collection patterns of the meters. atm, you can choose for your meter to eg only send once a month. unclear if they plan to override that. aeons ago i wrote a smart meter and law case study https://t.co/pqR0epqcPF

2022-10-23 11:28:11 @technollama political escapism https://t.co/mfS9wqrBvz

2022-10-22 16:38:25 Oh no @igavels. https://t.co/Lg3UkDqjIe

2022-10-22 12:00:18 reflecting on why this is unlikely to spur outrage, it seems largely because the electorate is so arbitrary that compromising them can’t decrease the legitimacy of the process much more. (although systematic compromise should concern us!)

2022-10-22 08:58:21 Furthemore, the proportion without email addresses seems likely to be larger than the proportion that the winner will win by. What could go wrong?

2022-10-22 08:57:29 Someone from the party will call a number and enfranchise with the leadership of this country an questionably transcribed email address given to them by whoever picks up the phone. https://t.co/y9gpZbvX1Y

2022-10-21 14:21:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: I am also looking for postdocs with cryptography background looking into designing practical systems. If you are inter…

2022-10-21 14:08:29 @joetidy Glad NCSC have solved the problem described by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018 that 'no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet'. https://t.co/HXh2gX8cYx

2022-10-21 14:06:31 It's not about the amount of scrutiny. Online voting for hugely consequential votes has structural flaws regardless of scrutiny

2022-10-21 14:04:30 @katebevan It's not about the amount of scrutiny though — the major concerns around online voting for heads of state persist regardless of how much oversight NCSC have. https://t.co/Kwy4IWKfmr

2022-10-21 13:47:55 RT @applecensorship: So Apple now says that developers of the VKontake and https://t.co/GxRiIAwIKQ apps are not on the UK sanctions list. E…

2022-10-21 09:27:48 @psychicyogamat spread by a major product range from some sprawling multinational, and we'll get a huge class action awarding huge damages to Justin Webb, Ken Livinstone and Graham Linehan

2022-10-21 09:25:37 @psychicyogamat in 5 years we will discover it is actually a brain worm, like toxoplasmosis

2022-10-21 09:24:36 @psychicyogamat it was absurd, I shouted at my radio. Elton good at closing down without engaging.

2022-10-21 08:22:52 @MadelineCarr @UCLLaws Do circulate amongst your people with legal-shaped interests! We've lectures and panels coming out of our eyeballs due to cheap ways to hold them online — what I think we've been lacking is a dedicated social dimension.

2022-10-21 07:53:37 @1Br0wn @GCHQ @Conservatives we’ve talked to NCSC and said look, we’ve installed norton 365 and kaspersky, the election is more of a backstop than a plan anyway, and either way, luckily our largely octogenarian populist membership is extremely robust against social engineering.

2022-10-21 05:23:24 @JBAGerritsen @nicolasmarangoz @privacylawGER it’s mainly NL that leans on that standard explicitly in DPA decisions and advice, haven’t seen it elsewhere, have a chapter forthcoming soon on logging in the law enforcement directive…

2022-10-30 08:57:59 @SRanchordas @MauritsMeijers There are (many!) other instances of scholarly relevance eg I used to be on https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a but they aren't accepting new members rn. But it doesn't matter, no FOMO as you can still follow anyone and they you. a good guide https://t.co/nK3k9OFlXJ @joix pointed me to.

2022-10-30 08:54:58 @SRanchordas @MauritsMeijers If you already have signed up, you can move your account and followers. Make a new account at https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy and then you can set your old one to port over. https://t.co/35pR8YI5Vr. Also, hi @MauritsMeijers (:

2022-10-30 08:54:15 @SRanchordas @MauritsMeijers You don't need to sign up on https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5, and indeed you shouldn't! You can choose any instance (try something small at a size that is nicely moderated). It doesn't restrict your ability to follow others or be followed. I recommend https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy.

2022-10-30 07:36:35 @SRanchordas https://t.co/ZPUXd6qaMb will likely fail to enforce these because it's too big, but you can and should port your account (and followers) to a smaller instance that is small enough so that moderation is much more social. https://t.co/IXLFJ9bWdy is an example of this.

2022-10-29 18:35:16 @rriemann_eu @ilumium that would be fun. atm our instance is only open to friends who are willing and technically able to help with the running the innards, not looking to provide a broader service. the first other human on it is @jennifercobbe@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-29 18:20:47 @rriemann_eu @ilumium yep, i recommended it already https://t.co/RcqTHajrD0 but personally i’m running my own (also to learn more)

2022-10-29 17:33:07 Truss' phone was 'heavily compromised', in a hack attributed to Russia, during her prime ministerial campaign, reports MoS. https://t.co/UXGzeCYrEQ

2022-10-29 15:43:31 (note that the blog post is not fully up to date)

2022-10-29 15:42:39 If any IP and platforms people are looking for an idea for a dissertation or paper, then consider the interaction between the Copyright Directive and the fediverse, as the founder of Mastodon wrote in 2018 here. https://t.co/iYO8WSUEMm

2022-10-29 15:15:16 RT @Chronotope: wow a company did the exact thing with tcf that every critic of tcf warned people that companies would do with tcf because…

2022-10-29 14:15:29 RT @craigjcalhoun: UK academic staff are not paid well by international standards or enough to keep up with UK inflation. Cuts to retiremen…

2022-10-29 13:29:09 for those people worried about picking a mastodon server, you may not know you can shift servers whenever and take all your followers with you extremely easily https://t.co/35pR8YIDKZ https://t.co/L9N6qZ12iz

2022-10-29 12:21:15 @robyncaplan you don't need a new account, you can follow anyone on any server from any other server (: https://t.co/um9w11FVZZ

2022-10-29 09:06:55 Great essay by @framasoft/@Framasoft@framapiaf.org looking back at lessons from their efforts to collectivise and convivialise the Internet. Framasoft have monthly hosting expenses of ~50K EUR. https://t.co/La4d1HzgnR

2022-10-29 06:57:11 @xotoxot @mireillemoret @CatalinaGoanta scholar social didn’t say who ran it and blocked whole instances containing digital rights NGOs from being accessible from it, so i migrated my account from it yday to a self hosted instance. https://t.co/IXLFJ9cu36 also exists which may be of interest, some familiar faces there

2022-10-28 17:21:55 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta more seriously though, the mental model issue I think is about who is in or out of the search bar, home feed, federated feed, and why.

2022-10-28 17:18:00 @neil_neilzone @CatalinaGoanta instead of https://t.co/l0XSziP5aa I was very tempted to get https://t.co/eFSxj9peaQ but decided against it

2022-10-28 17:17:30 The https://t.co/Fr8VEOCOID server gets about 6k EUR a month in Patreon donations. The increased load is presumably noticeable. Are there more detailed financials on how much these larger instances actually cost to run?

2022-10-28 17:10:41 @CatalinaGoanta i'll probably syndicate to both and see how I feel. you don't need to be on a particular server though, but i agree it's hard for people to make mental models of how it works.

2022-10-28 11:54:54 @sjmurdoch I shifted to @mikarv@someone.elses.computer, trying the migration functionality today. whoever was running https://t.co/Cy9OOOgd0a I joined in 2017 is a mystery and i'm not willing to abide by that...

2022-10-28 11:49:37 @crystaljjlee @mikarv@someone.elses.computer

2022-10-28 11:38:34 shifting the mastodon account I started 5 years ago on a mystery server with overzealous federation blocking policies to my own server (content moderation galore awaits). you can follow me on @mikarv@someone.elses.computer https://t.co/w0vEMo8ByM

2022-10-27 22:25:32 Re-invoice them with statutory interest rates if universities are late at paying — 8% plus the Bank of England base rate + £40–70 recovery fee. The finance dept at unis aren’t likely to influence repercussion, so use your legal rights. https://t.co/2Gcrts3Uh8 https://t.co/ktmmfTxz6p

2022-10-27 22:04:04 @neilmrichards @salome_viljoen_ @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron unfortunately bluetooth is q low quality, wireless speakers are better w Airplay2 which allows multiple connected nicely using a fusion of protocols but apple keep it proprietary and license it selectively to eg boost HomeKit uptake (Airplay1 was successfully reverse engineered)

2022-10-27 21:24:28 @salome_viljoen_ @neilmrichards @MargotKaminski @daniellecitron impossible to buy a home speaker without echo/google assistant, i gave in and blocked it from successfully resolving google domains with my home dns filter. when you check the logs turns out it asks ‘where’s google?’ two times a second. ‘google’s dead’, my dns pi responds.

2022-10-27 11:51:48 @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov Here are some of the other examples catalogued in the POTs paper. For many years these authors have tirelessly pushed 'optimisation' as a frame of thinking instead of fairness or confidentiality alone. Getting to work with them is one of the v best parts of my job as an academic. https://t.co/wrLofqaiTc

2022-10-27 11:47:09 Techniques to foil optimisation systems (the Protective Optimisation Technologies of @bekah_overdorf @sedyst @carmelatroncoso @hiddenmarkov https://t.co/QHnHWql86R) are promising to politically push back against systems, not as unreliable individual protection. https://t.co/9UkInMMZtY

2022-10-27 11:44:07 RT @cynddl: As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many…

2022-10-27 09:50:20 @Richvn ministerial entanglement

2022-10-27 07:35:54 @hutko literally just emailed around a paper with the highlighted reference gaps in yesterday and spent a pointless ten mins looking for whether it was out on eurlex yesterday! thank you for flagging

2022-10-26 17:26:38 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch so people have to give away their usernames externally to do basic tasks! wonderful security practice

2022-10-26 17:25:55 @owainkenway @sjmurdoch microsoft know the aliases, they should be able to map them, but mapping seems to only happen in native windows apps, in everything else triggering infinite login loop because it tries to stupidly match the document permissioning email to the AD identity without checking aliases

2022-10-26 17:17:20 @emax i never heard of it until your tweet, tried it for 2 mins, now i have disabled it. interacts weirdly with my practice of calling windows i want via alfred

2022-10-26 17:11:07 @RichardMoorhead @Detig @MatthewHappold I assure you there there is no functionality for anyone to edit, manipulate or remove your login data once it has been recorded in your local orcid branch accounts

2022-10-23 23:54:38 @lilianedwards @RaviNa1k it isn’t clear from https://t.co/nx3GlrMY3N if they plan to alter collection patterns of the meters. atm, you can choose for your meter to eg only send once a month. unclear if they plan to override that. aeons ago i wrote a smart meter and law case study https://t.co/pqR0epqcPF

2022-10-23 11:28:11 @technollama political escapism https://t.co/mfS9wqrBvz

2022-10-22 16:38:25 Oh no @igavels. https://t.co/Lg3UkDqjIe

2022-10-22 12:00:18 reflecting on why this is unlikely to spur outrage, it seems largely because the electorate is so arbitrary that compromising them can’t decrease the legitimacy of the process much more. (although systematic compromise should concern us!)

2022-10-22 08:58:21 Furthemore, the proportion without email addresses seems likely to be larger than the proportion that the winner will win by. What could go wrong?

2022-10-22 08:57:29 Someone from the party will call a number and enfranchise with the leadership of this country an questionably transcribed email address given to them by whoever picks up the phone. https://t.co/y9gpZbvX1Y

2022-10-21 14:21:24 RT @carmelatroncoso: I am also looking for postdocs with cryptography background looking into designing practical systems. If you are inter…

2022-10-21 14:08:29 @joetidy Glad NCSC have solved the problem described by the US National Academy of Sciences in 2018 that 'no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet'. https://t.co/HXh2gX8cYx

2022-10-21 14:06:31 It's not about the amount of scrutiny. Online voting for hugely consequential votes has structural flaws regardless of scrutiny

2022-10-21 14:04:30 @katebevan It's not about the amount of scrutiny though — the major concerns around online voting for heads of state persist regardless of how much oversight NCSC have. https://t.co/Kwy4IWKfmr

2022-10-21 13:47:55 RT @applecensorship: So Apple now says that developers of the VKontake and https://t.co/GxRiIAwIKQ apps are not on the UK sanctions list. E…

2022-10-21 09:27:48 @psychicyogamat spread by a major product range from some sprawling multinational, and we'll get a huge class action awarding huge damages to Justin Webb, Ken Livinstone and Graham Linehan

2022-10-21 09:25:37 @psychicyogamat in 5 years we will discover it is actually a brain worm, like toxoplasmosis

2022-10-21 09:24:36 @psychicyogamat it was absurd, I shouted at my radio. Elton good at closing down without engaging.

2022-10-21 08:22:52 @MadelineCarr @UCLLaws Do circulate amongst your people with legal-shaped interests! We've lectures and panels coming out of our eyeballs due to cheap ways to hold them online — what I think we've been lacking is a dedicated social dimension.

2022-10-21 07:53:37 @1Br0wn @GCHQ @Conservatives we’ve talked to NCSC and said look, we’ve installed norton 365 and kaspersky, the election is more of a backstop than a plan anyway, and either way, luckily our largely octogenarian populist membership is extremely robust against social engineering.

2022-10-21 05:23:24 @JBAGerritsen @nicolasmarangoz @privacylawGER it’s mainly NL that leans on that standard explicitly in DPA decisions and advice, haven’t seen it elsewhere, have a chapter forthcoming soon on logging in the law enforcement directive…

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-24 16:06:22 Strong UCL Laws picket today for the #UCUStrike feat. inter alia @vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computer @divijualsuspect@someone.elses.computer @Olena@eupolicy.social @TranscribeBentham@zirk.us #UCURising https://t.co/chyJdQtrqE

2022-11-24 15:29:18 RT @jon_agar: At @stsucl we are on strike https://t.co/hTH0UkJXsP

2022-11-24 07:58:16 RT @stokel: I'm striking because I'm overworked and tired. My university is severely understaffed, and at times thinks fractional contracts…

2022-11-24 07:35:32 68.7% of students at UCL, the largest in-person uni in the UK, support the #UCUStrike action (UCLSU vote, 26.9% oppose, 4.4% abstain). They get it: decaying staff working conditions are their decaying learning conditions.

2022-11-24 07:03:59 RT @tom_western: Our first teach-out tomorrow! UCL as Logistics Machine. With Pushpa Arabindoo and Andrew Barry. 9am at the geography picke…

2022-11-23 13:25:42 @Ramoncp72 now they've cut up hooge catherine, finally...

2022-11-23 10:40:48 The research arm of the French #dataProtection authority, the #CNIL, is hiring a #digitalSociology researcher https://t.co/fS80ziNItf #job

2022-11-23 09:54:23 @BirkbeckLaw @hyoyoonkang cc @MariaLeeLaw @lawvaughan @allowrites @UCLlaw_env

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-25 11:30:43 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Strong picket lines out for day 2 of #UCURising #UCUstrike #dogsonpicketlines https://t.co/43KhOWjOBW

2022-11-25 10:23:46 On #UCUStrike today again at UCL Laws. Very few teaching activities occurring. (Feat fediverse denizen @annajsaunders@zirk.us.) #ucurising https://t.co/alHQTLmkQA

2022-11-25 07:55:13 @akulith still going ahead despite nationwide academic strikes and pickets, including at Westminster? I doubt there’ll be so many in the audience.

2022-11-24 16:06:22 Strong UCL Laws picket today for the #UCUStrike feat. inter alia @vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computer @divijualsuspect@someone.elses.computer @Olena@eupolicy.social @TranscribeBentham@zirk.us #UCURising https://t.co/chyJdQtrqE

2022-11-24 15:29:18 RT @jon_agar: At @stsucl we are on strike https://t.co/hTH0UkJXsP

2022-11-24 07:58:16 RT @stokel: I'm striking because I'm overworked and tired. My university is severely understaffed, and at times thinks fractional contracts…

2022-11-24 07:35:32 68.7% of students at UCL, the largest in-person uni in the UK, support the #UCUStrike action (UCLSU vote, 26.9% oppose, 4.4% abstain). They get it: decaying staff working conditions are their decaying learning conditions.

2022-11-24 07:03:59 RT @tom_western: Our first teach-out tomorrow! UCL as Logistics Machine. With Pushpa Arabindoo and Andrew Barry. 9am at the geography picke…

2022-11-23 13:25:42 @Ramoncp72 now they've cut up hooge catherine, finally...

2022-11-23 10:40:48 The research arm of the French #dataProtection authority, the #CNIL, is hiring a #digitalSociology researcher https://t.co/fS80ziNItf #job

2022-11-23 09:54:23 @BirkbeckLaw @hyoyoonkang cc @MariaLeeLaw @lawvaughan @allowrites @UCLlaw_env

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-26 11:11:44 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Credit to UCL SSEES staff who took to the picket line to oppose casualisation &

2022-11-26 11:11:23 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: A common question that comes up in conversations with colleagues about the current #ucuRISING industrial action is, 'do…

2022-11-26 10:42:20 @alexhern do you know why they consider faithful chronology so important? (I don’t). relatedly: mstdn works great if your server is provisioned fine at normal loads, main issue is dealing w peaks. small servers will get huge lags in a crisis when people on those server post viral posts.

2022-11-25 11:30:43 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Strong picket lines out for day 2 of #UCURising #UCUstrike #dogsonpicketlines https://t.co/43KhOWjOBW

2022-11-25 10:23:46 On #UCUStrike today again at UCL Laws. Very few teaching activities occurring. (Feat fediverse denizen @annajsaunders@zirk.us.) #ucurising https://t.co/alHQTLmkQA

2022-11-25 07:55:13 @akulith still going ahead despite nationwide academic strikes and pickets, including at Westminster? I doubt there’ll be so many in the audience.

2022-11-24 16:06:22 Strong UCL Laws picket today for the #UCUStrike feat. inter alia @vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computer @divijualsuspect@someone.elses.computer @Olena@eupolicy.social @TranscribeBentham@zirk.us #UCURising https://t.co/chyJdQtrqE

2022-11-24 15:29:18 RT @jon_agar: At @stsucl we are on strike https://t.co/hTH0UkJXsP

2022-11-24 07:58:16 RT @stokel: I'm striking because I'm overworked and tired. My university is severely understaffed, and at times thinks fractional contracts…

2022-11-24 07:35:32 68.7% of students at UCL, the largest in-person uni in the UK, support the #UCUStrike action (UCLSU vote, 26.9% oppose, 4.4% abstain). They get it: decaying staff working conditions are their decaying learning conditions.

2022-11-24 07:03:59 RT @tom_western: Our first teach-out tomorrow! UCL as Logistics Machine. With Pushpa Arabindoo and Andrew Barry. 9am at the geography picke…

2022-11-23 13:25:42 @Ramoncp72 now they've cut up hooge catherine, finally...

2022-11-23 10:40:48 The research arm of the French #dataProtection authority, the #CNIL, is hiring a #digitalSociology researcher https://t.co/fS80ziNItf #job

2022-11-23 09:54:23 @BirkbeckLaw @hyoyoonkang cc @MariaLeeLaw @lawvaughan @allowrites @UCLlaw_env

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-26 11:11:44 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Credit to UCL SSEES staff who took to the picket line to oppose casualisation &

2022-11-26 11:11:23 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: A common question that comes up in conversations with colleagues about the current #ucuRISING industrial action is, 'do…

2022-11-26 10:42:20 @alexhern do you know why they consider faithful chronology so important? (I don’t). relatedly: mstdn works great if your server is provisioned fine at normal loads, main issue is dealing w peaks. small servers will get huge lags in a crisis when people on those server post viral posts.

2022-11-25 11:30:43 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Strong picket lines out for day 2 of #UCURising #UCUstrike #dogsonpicketlines https://t.co/43KhOWjOBW

2022-11-25 10:23:46 On #UCUStrike today again at UCL Laws. Very few teaching activities occurring. (Feat fediverse denizen @annajsaunders@zirk.us.) #ucurising https://t.co/alHQTLmkQA

2022-11-25 07:55:13 @akulith still going ahead despite nationwide academic strikes and pickets, including at Westminster? I doubt there’ll be so many in the audience.

2022-11-24 16:06:22 Strong UCL Laws picket today for the #UCUStrike feat. inter alia @vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computer @divijualsuspect@someone.elses.computer @Olena@eupolicy.social @TranscribeBentham@zirk.us #UCURising https://t.co/chyJdQtrqE

2022-11-24 15:29:18 RT @jon_agar: At @stsucl we are on strike https://t.co/hTH0UkJXsP

2022-11-24 07:58:16 RT @stokel: I'm striking because I'm overworked and tired. My university is severely understaffed, and at times thinks fractional contracts…

2022-11-24 07:35:32 68.7% of students at UCL, the largest in-person uni in the UK, support the #UCUStrike action (UCLSU vote, 26.9% oppose, 4.4% abstain). They get it: decaying staff working conditions are their decaying learning conditions.

2022-11-24 07:03:59 RT @tom_western: Our first teach-out tomorrow! UCL as Logistics Machine. With Pushpa Arabindoo and Andrew Barry. 9am at the geography picke…

2022-11-23 13:25:42 @Ramoncp72 now they've cut up hooge catherine, finally...

2022-11-23 10:40:48 The research arm of the French #dataProtection authority, the #CNIL, is hiring a #digitalSociology researcher https://t.co/fS80ziNItf #job

2022-11-23 09:54:23 @BirkbeckLaw @hyoyoonkang cc @MariaLeeLaw @lawvaughan @allowrites @UCLlaw_env

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-26 11:11:44 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Credit to UCL SSEES staff who took to the picket line to oppose casualisation &

2022-11-26 11:11:23 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: A common question that comes up in conversations with colleagues about the current #ucuRISING industrial action is, 'do…

2022-11-26 10:42:20 @alexhern do you know why they consider faithful chronology so important? (I don’t). relatedly: mstdn works great if your server is provisioned fine at normal loads, main issue is dealing w peaks. small servers will get huge lags in a crisis when people on those server post viral posts.

2022-11-25 11:30:43 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Strong picket lines out for day 2 of #UCURising #UCUstrike #dogsonpicketlines https://t.co/43KhOWjOBW

2022-11-25 10:23:46 On #UCUStrike today again at UCL Laws. Very few teaching activities occurring. (Feat fediverse denizen @annajsaunders@zirk.us.) #ucurising https://t.co/alHQTLmkQA

2022-11-25 07:55:13 @akulith still going ahead despite nationwide academic strikes and pickets, including at Westminster? I doubt there’ll be so many in the audience.

2022-11-24 16:06:22 Strong UCL Laws picket today for the #UCUStrike feat. inter alia @vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computer @divijualsuspect@someone.elses.computer @Olena@eupolicy.social @TranscribeBentham@zirk.us #UCURising https://t.co/chyJdQtrqE

2022-11-24 15:29:18 RT @jon_agar: At @stsucl we are on strike https://t.co/hTH0UkJXsP

2022-11-24 07:58:16 RT @stokel: I'm striking because I'm overworked and tired. My university is severely understaffed, and at times thinks fractional contracts…

2022-11-24 07:35:32 68.7% of students at UCL, the largest in-person uni in the UK, support the #UCUStrike action (UCLSU vote, 26.9% oppose, 4.4% abstain). They get it: decaying staff working conditions are their decaying learning conditions.

2022-11-24 07:03:59 RT @tom_western: Our first teach-out tomorrow! UCL as Logistics Machine. With Pushpa Arabindoo and Andrew Barry. 9am at the geography picke…

2022-11-23 13:25:42 @Ramoncp72 now they've cut up hooge catherine, finally...

2022-11-23 10:40:48 The research arm of the French #dataProtection authority, the #CNIL, is hiring a #digitalSociology researcher https://t.co/fS80ziNItf #job

2022-11-23 09:54:23 @BirkbeckLaw @hyoyoonkang cc @MariaLeeLaw @lawvaughan @allowrites @UCLlaw_env

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-11-29 07:55:51 @cyberleagle I imagine the insane width of john penrose’s amendments did not pass you by https://t.co/TnGl1OItUp

2022-11-29 07:48:26 @cyberleagle what a snazzy new amendment paper layout

2022-11-26 11:11:44 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Credit to UCL SSEES staff who took to the picket line to oppose casualisation &

2022-11-26 11:11:23 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: A common question that comes up in conversations with colleagues about the current #ucuRISING industrial action is, 'do…

2022-11-26 10:42:20 @alexhern do you know why they consider faithful chronology so important? (I don’t). relatedly: mstdn works great if your server is provisioned fine at normal loads, main issue is dealing w peaks. small servers will get huge lags in a crisis when people on those server post viral posts.

2022-11-25 11:30:43 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Strong picket lines out for day 2 of #UCURising #UCUstrike #dogsonpicketlines https://t.co/43KhOWjOBW

2022-11-25 10:23:46 On #UCUStrike today again at UCL Laws. Very few teaching activities occurring. (Feat fediverse denizen @annajsaunders@zirk.us.) #ucurising https://t.co/alHQTLmkQA

2022-11-25 07:55:13 @akulith still going ahead despite nationwide academic strikes and pickets, including at Westminster? I doubt there’ll be so many in the audience.

2022-11-24 16:06:22 Strong UCL Laws picket today for the #UCUStrike feat. inter alia @vmantouvalou@someone.elses.computer @divijualsuspect@someone.elses.computer @Olena@eupolicy.social @TranscribeBentham@zirk.us #UCURising https://t.co/chyJdQtrqE

2022-11-24 15:29:18 RT @jon_agar: At @stsucl we are on strike https://t.co/hTH0UkJXsP

2022-11-24 07:58:16 RT @stokel: I'm striking because I'm overworked and tired. My university is severely understaffed, and at times thinks fractional contracts…

2022-11-24 07:35:32 68.7% of students at UCL, the largest in-person uni in the UK, support the #UCUStrike action (UCLSU vote, 26.9% oppose, 4.4% abstain). They get it: decaying staff working conditions are their decaying learning conditions.

2022-11-24 07:03:59 RT @tom_western: Our first teach-out tomorrow! UCL as Logistics Machine. With Pushpa Arabindoo and Andrew Barry. 9am at the geography picke…

2022-11-23 13:25:42 @Ramoncp72 now they've cut up hooge catherine, finally...

2022-11-23 10:40:48 The research arm of the French #dataProtection authority, the #CNIL, is hiring a #digitalSociology researcher https://t.co/fS80ziNItf #job

2022-11-23 09:54:23 @BirkbeckLaw @hyoyoonkang cc @MariaLeeLaw @lawvaughan @allowrites @UCLlaw_env

2022-11-22 22:58:12 @tforcworc solid! but as neil says, there’s more to say in some areas. i think a big challenge for those instances that are eager to totally follow laws might be uk based instances that according to the DSA need an eu legal rep if they have eu users

2022-11-22 17:48:14 @tim_libert The fun part is the daunting stuff, and understanding if people can, in the 21C, find other mechanisms for tackling daunting challenges, together. Network power can work both ways.

2022-11-22 17:47:27 @tim_libert Users have to accept posts may lurk indefinitely. Agree a big possibility of spam, and that that spam could in turn contain abusive and illegal material. Collective flagging mechanisms for rapid response needed. Reputation based vouching before federating. But not impossible.

2022-11-22 16:40:50 @EUinSF @DigitalEU @EU_Commission I know several European citizens (also others, but I understand they need case-by-case exemptions) who have left big tech, would be interested, but are based in SF. Have you discussed the possibility of locating any of these jobs there?

2022-11-22 11:21:03 Our little Mastodon instance, https://t.co/l0XSziOxkC, home to around 50 people, is now aware of (and has cached) the existence of almost 120,000 fediverse users!

2022-11-22 09:53:26 looks like my mastodon to twitter poster is half broken. go on my account there to find out more!

2022-11-22 08:48:26 @JessicaShurson yes, but i don’t think staff should join them (or be allowed to), only depts and faculties and projects and similar. your employer shouldn’t usually run your social network (maybe if it’s tiny it’s ok)

2022-11-22 08:23:39 @DonMacAskill @Flickr yes, you should!

2022-11-22 07:12:41 @C___CS @rgorwa yeah i’m down, and probably @petros_ter and @divijualsuspect too given their research areas!

2022-11-21 22:07:29 The fediverse has had a really big cold start challenge with the sudden entry of many un-networked people and new instances. Common complaints of ‘the search doesn’t work’ are largely about the way it doesn’t work *yet*, when everyone joins at once with no history. It’s (1/2)

2022-11-21 21:39:30 RT @FusterGloria: @mikarv in the meantime, not far away from there, la quadrature had already like 20k points but cool of course

2022-11-21 21:39:01 @FusterGloria indeed! i boosted their fundraiser earlier today, https://t.co/JLitOFNJlC is great.

2022-11-21 20:55:39 RT @jen_m_mcarthur: Staff from @UCLSTEaPP are hosting a teach out on Day 1 of the @ucu @UCL_UCU strike action. Where will this experiment i…

2022-11-21 20:54:05 The digital rights groups in the UK are leading the way with their own organisational fediverse instances: @awo@mastodon.awo.agency @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org

2022-11-21 19:45:50 @mireillemoret @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog Discovery doesn’t really happen via servers but via boosting and then everyone sees it. I wouldn’t worry about this, very popular accounts are on their own instance. The main issue with your own instance is it being harder to find others, not being harder to find yourself.

2022-11-21 14:12:08 @LSTSblog @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald not sure it’s quite postdoc work! getting a VUB domain will be a headache i imagine but hopefully you have a friendly IT department…

2022-11-21 08:42:57 @Abebab @djleufer you’re likely looking for incredible law firm and compliance agency https://t.co/avdB4MRrFt @A__W______O

2022-11-21 08:00:41 @wbm312 backups are manually organised on mastodon, so the admin will know their retention schedule

2022-11-21 07:54:51 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog hence managed hosting is the way. first need to find someone who manages the VUB dns records, convince them to add https://t.co/s4FpuougMC, then buy the hosting on Spacebear for a couple of yrs in a block w the ERC... before long more VUB will want on, pass the project to IT…

2022-11-21 07:50:33 @laurencediver @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog given it’s mostly broadcasting out, a pleroma instance may be more cost effective than a mastodon instance as it’s lighter software. can still log in with mastodon apps as it supports the API. https://t.co/WTKKvrKjxw

2022-11-21 07:18:01 @CoHuBiCoL1 @CatalinaGoanta @KiddoThe2B @random_walker @xotoxot @tiltronald @LSTSblog perhaps VUB should set up its own instance for projects and groups and departments (not individuals i think) using something like https://t.co/SSYUDZswZA or https://t.co/iENzzOF33E

2022-11-21 06:10:20 @jorisvanhoboken @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta worth noting too that the average *US* user expects moderation. for huge a proportion of the world with less ad revenue and outside of the priorities of californians, federated systems (not the .social server) promise more carefully and contextually crafted moderation, not less.

2022-11-20 19:38:44 @lexzard @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli yes, insofar as you can layer 'middleware' (which then becomes important) over the distributed pieces through either severs or users subscribing to APIs for moderation or similar.

2022-11-20 18:11:24 @garrett_wollman @jimkillock @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Only in some ways. Communication both within &

2022-11-20 18:08:19 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Orchestrating responses to this will be hard because without super rapid moderation response, there will need to be a 'securitisation' of parts of the fediverse in combination with allowlists. Will need further protections (e.g. when can new accounts federate)

2022-11-20 18:06:14 @jimkillock @garrett_wollman @technollama @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta Moderation is/will be most challenging against orchestrated external attacks. Some instances will turn from blocklists to allowlists. Attackers will seek to make and abuse accounts on instances close to the attacked instance (so instance blocking is costly).

2022-11-20 17:41:42 @Ignactro @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta i don't have data distinguishing between that.

2022-11-20 17:40:42 @schock @mlmillerphd @sjjphd i really hope that twitter don't try and sue https://t.co/MJ6wLmjTHY for trademark infringement. it will be hard to defend given it's clearly a competing social network.

2022-11-20 16:28:52 @tiffanycli @CatalinaGoanta I don't think complaints are being set aside. Indeed more + more servers are defederating from https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 / https://t.co/VA6yx0FWm8 over exactly these issues. And ppl who do not spend lives studying content moderation are having serious discussions over its politics!

2022-11-20 16:21:33 @Jackstilgoe make sure to put it in your Twitter bio because then people can use tools like https://t.co/smtmfPPaQQ to find you (and you to find others!)

2022-11-20 16:20:40 RT @Jackstilgoe: Thanks to @mikarv, I am now on Mastodon @jackstilgoe@someone.elses.computer/

2022-11-20 16:19:23 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli It is widely acknowledged that the .social and .online servers are not well-moderated. It is widely acknowledged there is no clear 'on-ramp' where people can learn the ropes in a well moderated space while finding their people (who may not have set up a community yet!)

2022-11-20 16:17:54 @CatalinaGoanta @tiffanycli Mastodon 'fans', as well as 'acknowledge and deal with' is doing a lot of unspecified work. https://t.co/Fr8VEOCgT5 alone, the server in question, has swelled in size by 12x in a single fortnight, and constructing governance takes time.

2022-11-19 16:30:51 @daphnehk my DMa full of spammers too. also flagging here the work (for others

2022-11-18 23:42:58 @Livingstone_S i think it’s probably intended for institutional accounts but that’s a very good question even in that context

2022-11-18 17:07:09 My university has just cascaded to all relevant faculty and professional services special "UCL guidance in response to the developing situation on Twitter", recommending all users download archives of their data and strategise how to "diversify their engagement" https://t.co/DR9Gk2aQr2

2022-11-18 16:20:08 Presumably now Trump gets reactivated on a rapidly degrading Twitter and... then what happens?

2022-11-18 15:59:29 @riptari best to be on someone elses computer rather than all on the same computer

2022-11-18 11:36:47 @wendyg add yourself! 'researcher' in broadest sense. didn't want to just say anyone at the intersection because list might lose some focus, but not curating it narrowly

2022-11-18 09:53:32 @sylviademars of course let’s not jump to conclusions without a deep scientific study on whether this phenomenon of ‘underpaying’ indeed exists

2022-11-18 08:28:14 @hdevalence we’ve moved now from controlling your own rules to ‘if i move, people browsing my inactive account’s posts from 3 years ago have to check whether posts or replies still exist somewhere in the known network’

2022-11-18 08:26:01 @hdevalence theoretically a lot of updating of all servers (including those that replied to you) is possible, albeit at high communication cost! some cooperation from the old server is needed for perfection/completeness but the aim is a social network not an immutable archive.

2022-11-18 08:18:58 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann you were specific about ‘germany’ before, rather than european law, i think the issue may well be untrained, uncreative german judges. a system where there is even automatic propagated deletion from posts you’ve yourself made public is not the same set of facts as Lindqvist.

2022-11-18 08:16:02 @hdevalence there’s zero reason i can think of that a series of redirects, or instructions to pull old replies and links from other servers, as well as signpost to them from the old server, cannot be implemented as well. these are unimplemented features, not structural impossibilities.

2022-11-18 08:10:56 @j2bryson i bet, from hearing experiences, it’ll take significantly more than that.

2022-11-18 08:03:51 @hdevalence followers move, who you’ve followed can move if you want, a redirect is placed on your old account, and if your incoming server permits it, you can import all your posts (no technical barrier to this, it’s just not implemented in mastodon main branch yet https://t.co/e8GZIlPRv0)

2022-11-18 07:57:44 @hdevalence you can move between instances and take followers with you automatically.

2022-11-18 07:49:00 @hdevalence which… you can do on mastodon? just choose, or if you really want assurance, set up with friends a server that either doesn’t block or doesn’t suspend only silences, and use the API and personal moderation tools to manage your own block lists w middleware.

2022-11-18 07:44:49 @hdevalence still requires a collective method to make moderation decisions due to individuals being time poor, they have to de facto trust people to do this if they accept block lists via API to a middleware service.

2022-11-18 07:41:39 @frank_grimm @AlexAmtmann that can be turned off with a flick of a switch

2022-11-18 07:39:25 @hdevalence your ‘decentralised’ trustless direction simply moves decisions about moderation, blocking, spam filtering, into less accountable and more obscure directions.

2022-11-18 07:37:37 @hdevalence hence *managed hosting* — your issue seems to be with autonomy over moderation rules. my point is you can set your own rules, if important to you, without any home hosting etc (defo not recommending unless people really intrepid) if you pay an org to set up an instance for you.

2022-11-18 07:10:51 @stephanschmidt @AlexAmtmann depends on your definition! the point is that if you do something illegal, it’s illegal, and you’re identifiable to law enforcement, enforcement is possible? what powers law enforcement has to acquire info is usually a matter for national law, overseen by the ECHR.

2022-11-18 07:08:56 @AlexAmtmann an ‘Impressum’ is a German law obligation afaik that doesn’t exist as a general obligation in other countries so I don’t know the exact sources of it to comment.

2022-11-17 17:37:56 @JBAGerritsen uneventful from my reading earlier other than the slight re-emphasis of notice that first appeared in Watson

2022-11-17 15:25:34 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy 43 was a random number but indeed, that's an option

2022-11-17 15:23:49 @WebDevLaw @wikimediapolicy what if that data is "age 43, occupation: MP in London, target edit: own page" etc etc...

2022-11-17 15:00:23 @AGKarlRacine @riptari should probably add that iMessage typically doesn’t count as it typically stores data on iCloud in a format that Apple can access (and be compelled to access).

2022-11-17 11:37:34 RT @AdaLovelaceInst: Today, Ada publishes Rethinking data, the culmination of a 2-year project that began with the question: 'What is a m…

2022-11-17 05:56:33 @BeyerMalte Still EU cards are capped at 0.2% by European law.

2022-11-16 21:13:03 @MargotKaminski US cards are actually uncapped for fees regardless of type in european i believe which adds further complexity…

2022-11-16 20:50:26 lies https://t.co/MxTrijAT3X

2022-11-16 13:51:58 @PJLeerssen @CatalinaGoanta @UniUtrecht @jilltoh @N_Appelman @Jausl00s @MarijnSax hope you’re feeling ok that far above sea level

2022-11-16 10:12:00 @adejoode Fees are capped for debit cards in the EU, whether Mastercard, Maestro or Visa, at 0.2% of the transaction, by Regulation 2015/751 https://t.co/YdrzbzYsk7

2022-11-16 09:17:28 RT @NoraNiLoideain: It’s tomorrow! The @infolawcentre Annual Conference 2022: Online Safety in a Connected World We hope you can joi…

2022-11-16 09:17:16 @sorsoup don't accept unless they accept credit cards https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:50 Info from the birdsite: apparently fixing this is the dramatically named "Project DCA: Debit Card Acceptance"... https://t.co/7KgqeZWhii

2022-11-16 09:06:39 Giving this talk this evening at @UniUtrecht — if you're in town, come along! https://t.co/x0FDeZc2A4

2022-11-16 09:04:50 @hildeweerts am only here until tomorrow AM, a flying visit, but will be back soon!

2022-11-16 08:10:09 When will shops in the Netherlands learn that VISA and Mastercard *debit* cards exist? How did this category error that Maestro == Debit

2022-11-15 21:10:53 @jessphillips I do often wonder why have none of these committees yet invited an actual amazon worker or worker representative though? it seems like it should be an absolute priority @darrenpjones

2022-12-07 13:25:34 RT @journalcrcl: We're delighted to publish the recordings of our inaugural Conference on Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law…

2022-12-07 13:25:34 RT @journalcrcl: We're delighted to publish the recordings of our inaugural Conference on Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law…

2022-12-08 12:41:54 And a reminder: these banners are *not required* by data protection law — in many ways they are *prohibited by it*. You cannot give valid consent in this manner, to this many vendors, for this many things. Cookie banners were never about compliance, they were about subversion.

2022-12-08 12:41:53 New paper from TU Braunschweig: "Accept All Exploits: Exploring the Security Impact of Cookie Banners" - a user consenting to tracking executes +45% 3rd-party scripts, is exposed to +63% security sensitive data flows - by consenting, the # of sites vulnerable to cross-site (1/2)

2022-12-07 13:25:34 RT @journalcrcl: We're delighted to publish the recordings of our inaugural Conference on Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law…

2022-12-08 12:41:54 And a reminder: these banners are *not required* by data protection law — in many ways they are *prohibited by it*. You cannot give valid consent in this manner, to this many vendors, for this many things. Cookie banners were never about compliance, they were about subversion.

2022-12-08 12:41:53 New paper from TU Braunschweig: "Accept All Exploits: Exploring the Security Impact of Cookie Banners" - a user consenting to tracking executes +45% 3rd-party scripts, is exposed to +63% security sensitive data flows - by consenting, the # of sites vulnerable to cross-site (1/2)

2022-12-07 13:25:34 RT @journalcrcl: We're delighted to publish the recordings of our inaugural Conference on Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law…

greeing with the opinion of Justice Patel, has found the IT Rules 202…