Join us on March 27th for our next IViR Lecture! Prof. Nadya Purtova @nadyapurtova.bsky.social (Utrecht University) will give a talk entitled: Does Information Law Suit Information Machines? More information and registration: www.ivir.nl/events/ivir-... cc @uvalawschool.bsky.social

Dear academic network, on 12 May at 16:15 I deliver my inaugural lecture on the tensions between how law understands information and the realities of algorithmic processes. You are warmly invited to join in person or online www.linkedin.com/posts/nadezh...

AG opinion in EDPS v SRB is out. First thoughts: disappointing. 1) The AG seems to have muddied the waters as to status of data after pseudonymisation (it has been: it is still personal, since pseudonymisation might be privacy-preserving but is not anonymisation; now it is: it can be anonymous?) 1/x

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

Marit Hansnen and I are co-curating a dedicated computer science track for the #CPDP.ai conference. More information on the dedicated tracks: www.cpdpconferences.org/news/announc... Submitting a panel proposal: www.cpdpconferences.org/call-for-pan...

I have just learnt of Prof. Dan Burk’s passing news.law.uci.edu/2024/02/05/i... I had a privilege of attending his keynote at a TILTing conf in early postdoc years. He was inspiring and generous. His last ssrn upload was on 20 Dec’23 on asemic AI speech & defamation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW paper (Open Access): @gijsvanmaanen.bsky.social & I examine data as an econ good & commons & draw lessons for / about data gov-ce. Governing data (alone) will not deliver us from most digital harms. We argue for an ecological approach to digital problems www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Could anyone help me remember who / where criticized the AI Act for combining rights protection with product safety?

NEW paper “Code as personal data” (with @tiltronald ) We argue that sometimes software is personal data & explore what this means for data protection & regulation of algos. Applying GDPR principles to code is not as absurd as it may seem academic.oup.com/idpl/advance...

just arrived; anything i should know about this place?

🔊 Privacy Camp 2024 call for panels privacycamp.eu/2023/10/02/p... join us in Brussels on 24 January 2024 to talk about ‘Revealing, Rethinking and Changing Systems’ - send a panel proposal now!

I wondered why Philip Agre didn’t publish since early 2000s & if he passed. Then I read on Wikipedia that he chose to live a very secluded life & withdrew from academia. And I might even get it. I have no idea what actually happened. What have we missed without his scholarship in the past 20 years.

ok, still learning the ropes here, but it’s my first couple hrs on bluesky & nobody is honored, proud, humbled or thrilled by events or people who are talented or brilliant :)