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Interested in Law & Tech? Come to Amsterdam 13 and 14 April > 100 presentations (97 on panels, 2 inviteds, and to round up my welcoming) > on privacy, crime, speech, platforms, data.. 38th BILETA conference 2023 first conference was in the 1980s! alti.amsterdam/bileta23

Today, four people online.... organizer: Oh a teams link was included? It was a mistake then, sorry about that

@Outlook If you reply to an e-mail with Teams, you get a Teams meeting. If you reply with just Meeting, you get the same, a Teams meeting. So no matter you chose A or B, you always get A. Could you please change this, so replying with meeting gives you an ordinary meeting? Thanks

Yesterday I had “Streets of Philadelphia” stuck in my head and thought the Boss could rewrite the lyrics. Also, I told yesterday the new students I hardly post here and might stop. So here I am. The Boss wrote this song, about the horror. youtube.com/watch?v=GDaPdp…

A non-issue is not really an issue so a non-paper... Strange name, but apparently common. Never encountered it before. Non-paper by the Netherlands on the Digital Fairness Act rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rap…

Even when AI-generated music, films, scholarly texts are impressive, is that what we want? I notice getting tired by reading AI-produced material. Enjoyment seems related to know that a human created. Like humans playing chess is engaging, way more than watching computers.

Brussels Effect (Bradford 2012/20) avant la lettre in Goldsmith & Wu (2006): Directive 95/46 as global law “results from the unusual combination of Europe’s enormous market power and its unusual concern for its citizens’ privacy” p. 176 - considered Cybercrime Convention failure

Digital learning environment Canvas. So not intuitive: you publish, get green sign, but it is not published, because folder it is in is not published. This month again two colleagues thought they published but did not. Also I sometimes still make this mistake @Canvas_by_Inst

Several of my students are robots. Never understood this algorithm behind the automated check on websites whether you are a robot. I normally pass the test, but not every human apparently.

Negative Google reviews posted by criminals and then asking money to remove them. Targetting small businesses. Was just told about it by colleague who used a moving company that is a victim. Hope Google helps to weed it out.

So this AI company @scale_AI does not know what I am doing, and believes I am a biologist...

Since 2015, Cabanac (..) uncover published papers that aren't upfront about their use of AI tech. As computers have gone from spitting out veritable gibberish to convincing, human-like compositions, the fight has gotten harder. futurism.com/the-byte/paper…

This observation about personal ads seems equally applicable to language models: Often the results are ludicrously inaccurate; sometimes they are creepily precise (maybe with LLMs the often and sometimes interchange) theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The revolution of AI in education is not such as marketers and corporate AI want us to believe. It is more of a fragile and faked kite that flights in revolting air and has no robust anchors. Against the Commodification of Education — if harms then not AI ojs.uni-oldenburg.de/journals/ojs2/…

Apparently the networks increase. Believe never saw more than 1000, here we have 1637 partners.... (and they all value our privacy)

seeking granularity in “profiling for commercial purposes” @elineleijten simone van der hof Dissecting the commercial profiling of children: A proposed taxonomy and assessment of the GDPR, UCPD, DSA and AI Act in light of the precautionary sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @alti_VU

Interesting, listened to some Skunk Anansie. Skin say we do not often covers and sings this Paul Weller song, but the credits mentions her (Deborah Dyer aka Skin) not Paul. Did notify Spotify. Curious they gonna change it

About to teach at university Malta. Beautiful map, but I am glad to have internet navigation to find my way to the lecture hall.

TikTok is moving personal data to Europe. Internet is borderless, so how would it limit options for e.g. Chinese gov to access data once in Europe? Or do I not understand internet sufficiently. TikTok fined £452m by EU authorities over data transfers to China | The Independent

China worked on AI bill in 2016. Quite early. found it in my 2016 head of department Christmas speech . My former colleague Rob was asked (but never happened). Was looking for what I mentioned yesterday at our team dinner, one colleague characterized as Jesus , one as God :-)