A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.

I asked Gemini's image editing mode to transform my headshot in Magritte style. I had a bit of Brussels blues today. Nailed it 🤣 Soon, at a conference close to you 🍏🎩

Privacy job/AI job: Please take a look - lnkd.in/eGS_nRpS Vice President of U.S. Policy

"One of the country’s top compliance training companies recorded the conversations of its employees by turning their #Laptops into covert #ListeningDevices while they were at home, in a case that tests the boundaries of workers’ #Privacy." www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Brave finds serious security issue in new browser from Perplexity. Let the browser wars begin......er, return! brave.com/blog/comet-...

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

There is a wave of #AI bills sweeping Latin America 🌊 We’ve looked at the ones with most traction in 6 key jurisdictions - #Brazil, #Mexico, #Argentina, #Peru, #Chile, #Colombia, and found they have a lot in common! Including proposals for unacceptable risks. Enjoy! #AIlaw fpf.org/blog/global/...

👁️‍🗨️ A bit of an eye-opener: Turns out that for 95% of companies studied, generative AI implementation is falling short. This is according to a report from an MIT research project launched this week, "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025". 1/ fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

Charlemagne is on a strike against Europe, after last week's pot stir with Europe's Hogwarts, the EUI in Florence 😂 This week he is taking aim at... the sweet European summer vacation - ... www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

This sounds to me more realistic as a source of Europe’s competitiveness problem rather than the likes of GDPR and digital regulation 🤓 At the very end of the article there’s also a note on unsuccessful capital markets harmonization efforts for the past 10+ years. More realistic indeed.

An MIT literature professor discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. Joshua Bennett on what this means for the future of AI and why poetry matters in a world ruled by tech:

So maybe data minimization is not an AI killer after all? 🚀 In this recent essay for The New Yorker, computer scientist Cal Newport contends with the fact that, possibly, using more compute and more data does not make an AI model better on an indefinite scale. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

A must-read, from Miranda Bogen - every paragraph translates in my head to: “And this is why data protection is absolutely core to any AI governance efforts” - helentoner.substack.com/p/personaliz... Credit goes to @staceygray.bsky.social for finding this text & sharing it.

Fantastic

Me, looking for cross-referencing to the #GDPR in the Commission's #GPAI Code of Practice under the #AIAct that would ensure consistency among EU's digital rules and support streamlining compliance. Missed opportunities: 1/x

"It may have come as a surprise that the first existential legal challenges LLMs faced ... were under data protection law, a legal field that looks arcane ... But DP law was created in the 1960s and 1970s specifically in response to automation, computers and the idea of future “thinking machines”.

Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots - on.ft.com/46hV6qW via @FT

This blog post provides an in-depth analysis of Japan’s AI Promotion Act, its strategic objectives, and unique regulatory philosophy. 😳 The Act establishes policy drivers to make Japan the world’s “most AI-friendly country” Read more & access a comparative table 1/2 fpf.org/blog/underst...

Many thanks to all the participants of the scoping workshop 'A future for binding law in Global Data Governance' held at The City Law School on 1 July @thecitylawschool.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social @davidheniguk.bsky.social @clsisel.bsky.social @marcoalmada.com @gzf.bsky.social

Many thanks to our speakers @marcoalmada.com, @michae.lv, @corneliafurculita.bsky.social, @davidheniguk.bsky.social, @elifmendosk.bsky.social, @gzf.bsky.social, @elifbiber.bsky.social, David Mangan, Jose Camarena Lopez, Mira Burri, Sylvia Chen, Claude Moraes, Joe Dunne and to anyone who joined us!

Very much looking forward to participate in this workshop in London and to connect with thinkers and scholars in this space for a full day of geeking out on Global Data Governance 🤩

FPF Center for #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy Forum 2025: Governance for #Digital #Leadership & #Innovation “#Privacy/#CyberSecurity” PWC Jocelyn Aqua Gibson Dunn Stephenie Gosnell Handler @cloudflare.social Emily Hancock @dlapiper Andrew Serwin #DCPrivacyForum @futureofprivacy.bsky.social

#Governance for #Digital #Leadership & #Innovation “Youth – Intersection of #Youth #Security, #Safety & #Privacy Online” @futureofprivacy.bsky.social Bailey Sanchez ESRB Ratings Stacy Feuer TikTok David Lieber Roblox Tyler Park Apple Nick Rossi @discord.com Kate Sheerin #DCPrivacyForum

In DC today for the #DCPrivacyForum, bringing to DC some views from around the world from the law of data protection as AI regulation 🤓 Things are moving and shifting in this space: Have you checked recent movements in South Korea and the EU?

Speakers include: @marcoalmada.com, @michae.lv, @corneliafurculita.bsky.social, @davidheniguk.bsky.social, @elifmendosk.bsky.social, @gzf.bsky.social, @elifbiber.bsky.social, David Mangan, Jose Camarena Lopez, Mira Burri, Sylvia Chen, Faye Wang, Claude Moraes + welcomes by @dimitriosgian.bsky.social

Next was an excellent panel on how data protection principles apply to AI systems with friends of the playlist @gzf.bsky.social and Valentina Pavel (👋), Diarmuid Goulding, Helena Koning, and @irenekamara.bsky.social at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE43... (4/12)

The annual event for developers focused on a new 'Liquid Glass' interface for Apple products, but did little to follow up on last year's promise of a bold push into artificial intelligence.

If you are not following Brazil’s DPA work on AI, you should! In this recent blogpost, we break down a preliminary study its Research department published at the end of last year on how Generative AI jives with the LGPD (Brazil’s data protection law). Check it out below! fpf.org/blog/brazils...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Golden Frozen Age? 🤔

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

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

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

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

The principle of purpose limitation in data protection law.

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

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

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

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