New on @indicator.media: With @mattburgess1.bsky.social at @wired.com, I built a map of the reported cases where AI was used to create nonconsensual intimate imagery within schools around the globe.

"Some claim EU digital law holds back innovation. But there’s nothing innovative about exploiting children to maximize profit. What’s truly groundbreaking is designing apps and games that take children’s rights and well-being seriously."

What is the role of law in regulating social media’s impact on children? Read my blog post on Media@LSE where I discuss some improvements necessary in EU digital law to better protect children's rights and well-being: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

This an interesting comparative report on online safety regulations around the world (hat tip to Cesare Pitea) bhr.stern.nyu.edu/publication/...

Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write. What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

Interesting CfP for all gamestudies folks out there interested in phenomena like self-referentiality and meta-textuality in games and videogames >> www.gamesbeyond.org/home <<

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change! 📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible) 🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=... ❓Reach out if you have any questions

This event will explore issues of abuse and harassment amongst youth online. May 20, 2025. London @ioe.bsky.social

📢 Come to our book launch: The Platformization of the Family As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships? 🗓 Monday 20 Jan ⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english... Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

started a Starter Pack of people with something interesting to say about technology, society and the future -- who else should be here? go.bsky.app/PYtcTt5

Excited to share that AI Snake Oil is one of Nature's 10 best books of 2024! www.nature.com/articles/d41... The whole first chapter is available online: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... We hope you find it useful.

Meanwhile targeted ads to people with gambling addiction are rampant - I always thought that is one of the most vile manifestations of surveillance capitalism

The end of a privacy era thanks to @carlykind.bsky.social: The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of a settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c...

Feed me #caturday

Faithless Champion Sound Tour 2024 | Great show 🔥🔥🔥

Just received the book proofs from the publisher! So close. Years of work culminating. Wow www.routledge.com/Human-Power-...

Mijn interview met @nrc.nl over kinderen en social media. Als je kinderen verbiedt op sociale media te komen, blokkeer je een heel deel van hun leven, incl positieve kanten. Het probleem is het ontwerp van die diensten. Dat is niet gezond. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce

How do neurodiverse children and adolescents experience digital spaces? Read Hannah Coulstock’s literature review and advice for parents and carers navigating this new environment. #DigitalYouth #Parenting4DigitalFutue blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...

Door nu in te stemmen, zijn deze bezuinigingen wel degelijk de plannen waar het CDA actief voor kiest. Letterlijk.

In welke bochten het CU en CDA zich ook wringen, het is een bezuiniging op het hoger onderwijs om belastingkorting mogelijk te maken voor het grote bedrijfsleven, en wat snippers voor het volk.

Maar je kiest er wel voor. De rest is retoriek. Je. Kiest. Hier. Voor. Own it.

Het CDA, CU & Co hadden tegen Wilders kunnen zeggen: redelijke argumentatie laat zien dat deze bezuinigingen funest zijn voor Nederland. En ze zijn niet nodig, als we de belastingverlaging op de meest vermogenden niet doorvoeren. Dus dáár heeft CDA voor gekozen. Erken dat dan tenminste, lafaard.

Welcome to Bluesky 🦋 The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) is now here too: @edmo-eu.bsky.social EDMO is a unique stakeholder in the battle against #disinformation. It unites scholars, fact checkers, media literacy communities, and policy work. Share this and make EDMO blue 🚀🦋 edmo.eu

Geslaagde #WOinActie demonstratie met fluitconcert bij Lipsius in Leiden. Er was nog een demonstratie in Leiden bij het Pieter de la Court.

Woensdag nieuwe acties!

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We’ve just published a fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society with a special Dialogue section on the #surveillance dimensions of #SyntheticData. The journal is always, fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Time for some music 🎶 #caturday

[Event alert] "Decoding DSA Risk Assessments and Audits", 22.1.2025 at LSE. I will interview @agnekaarlep.bsky.social, Curtis Barnes, and Prof. Lorna Woods - three leading (industry / academic) experts - about the first batch of reports. Pre-registration here: husovec.eu/2024/12/save...

More pressure being brought in the UK to ban social media for under 16s www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Some MPs want to ban smartphones for under 16s altogether news.sky.com/story/smartp... And one UK MP on SkyNews this morning wants a phone designed just for under 16s

these people are so clueless they disqualify themselves for power...

Marit Hansnen and I are co-curating a dedicated computer science track for the #CPDP.ai conference, because we believe CPDP and computer scientists could benefit from each other.

In 2021, a young man told his AI girlfriend he thought his purpose was to assassinate the Queen. She encouraged him to do it. He was later arrested at Windsor Castle holding a crossbow. That's the story that first got me interested in an AI "companionship" app called Replika 🧵

Friends, this week marks a monumental step forward in my path towards pushing for a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI. Thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) @theaial.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie

"Pavel Popescu, the deputy chief of Romania’s telecoms regulator: “I call for the TikTok platform to be suspended in Romania as of Nov. 28 until state institutions finalize an investigation concerning the manipulation of the electoral process"" www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

Re-sharing this to tag Critical Data/AI colleagues who I’d love to see do their own regional starter packs. @ubisurv.net already made one, @spdesouza.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @derechosdigitales.bsky.social @fleurjohns.bsky.social? go.bsky.app/Gi8YKJ1

Vandaag was er een hoopvolle demonstratie op het malieveld tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs Een snelle rekensom laat zien dat er makkelijk 5,4 miljard euro verschoven kan worden. Deze bezuinigingen zijn een politieke keuze 🧵 Een draadje

UN Women's report on femicide showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

De jongeren van nu zijn anders dan voorgaande generaties: minder vrij. Ze houden elkaar via het internet nauwlettend in de gaten en worden verleid door traditionele ideeën over man en vrouw. Waar komt dit nieuwe conservatisme vandaan?

A growing starter pack for anyone interested in children’s rights and childhood studies go.bsky.app/RgNmwD6

These are pretty good tips! Especially about creating a real profile, investing some start energy, exploring starter packs, and getting used to a low-algorithm space 🦋🌈 #academicsky #academicchatter #commsky blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Super helpful Law & Tech starter pack by @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social --realized I wasn't even following @orinkerr.bsky.social or @tiffanycli.bsky.social and other friends before!

UK gov would be wise to let Australian gov fail first with its under-16 ban....

We just published Children’s Rights and Online Age Assurance Systems, brill.com/view/journal... which finds that many current age verification methods – especially self-declaration – provide far too low a level of age assurance to ...

Tomorrow, "Algorithms of resistance: the everyday fight against platform power", a research seminar with @emilianotrere.bsky.social & @tbonini.bsky.social 🗓️ ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...