Looking forward to discussing my book with the amazing Delphine Dogot, Kristina Irion, and Maša Galič on 15 December. Join us in person or online through the link below!

Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks. Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...

The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...

Suspending the right to asylum and cutting food rations is not "getting tough" but a blatant breach of EU law. The @ec.europa.eu should of course intervene, but @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu will not bother an ally with infringement proceedings. www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2025/07/10/g...

“The goal [is] to concentrate the entire Gazan population into the remaining 25% of the territory and to debilitate them to the extent that they either flee, are permitted to leave or simply wither away. And western govts and big tech are happy to facilitate it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol. Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇 wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Journalists and rights defenders in Europe are under spyware surveillance. We join civil society in calling on the EU to act. Now. Spyware like Graphite is too invasive to comply with human rights. www.ecpmf.eu/civil-societ...

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

UPDATE: it's now 187 NGOs & trade unions urging suspension of the #EU - #Israel Association Agreement. Credible findings of genocide & apartheid are NOT compatible with the human rights clause - nor is inaction. EU ministers failed on June 20. They must not fail again on July 15. #SuspendTheDeal

Friedrich Merz's arrival as German chancellor in May rekindled the fading Franco-German love affair — and the lovebirds have already found a shared interest: killing Europe's ethical supply chain dream.

If you missed our #facct2025 CRAFT session on the "Hidden costs of digital sovereignty: Greece’s data infrastructures as a site of political contestation", it is now online available online! youtu.be/Xb2UhtBsr2w

"Israel’s use of force against Iran is, on the facts as we know them, almost certainly illegal."

In a 1985 LA Times oped, Mark Bruzonsky compared Israel and South African apartheid. He described how he first rejected the analogy but then came to see it as apt. Now, of course, Israel’s variation has proven to be far more destructive and deadly.

I call that (confirming) a market expansion www.theverge.com/policy/68569...

novaramedia.com/2025/06/04/k... Data centres will not create the thousands of jobs gov would like us to think they will.

Greek coast guards charged over migrant deaths www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We were excited to have a panel accepted on the role of technology in genocide in Gaza at this year’s Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. However, CPDP then requested that Access Now & others remove the word “genocide” from panel titles & descriptions. We declined."

One more week to submit your abstracts for Gikii 2025 🎉

When workers send emails including words related to Israel’s war on Gaza, messages are delayed as much as 45 minutes or never arrive at all. interc.pt/3H5WAtI

"Which is to say, The Pitt’s literalism may be its superpower. In the face of mass institutional acquiescence to fascism, there’s a lot to be said for loudly asserting the value of radical empathy and social justice."

TODAY 📣 Join @plixavra.bsky.social, @hannescools.bsky.social at SPUI25 to learn more about the role of #AI 🤖 in democratic societies. You can also join online at 4 pm bit.ly/437yJBv#AI@uvahumanities.bsky.social #Democracy

When Trump sanctioned the ICC, Microsoft cut off services to the court. Now imagine our government, hospitals, and power grid running on Microsoft Cloud. Digital self-determination isn't abstract—it's about whether our society functions when geopolitics shifts. #CloudRisks #DigitalResilience

European Parliament LIBE votes on the #Europol reform report next week Tuesday, 20 May. MEPs 👏must 👏vote 👏against the expansion of Europol’s surveillance powers! Read & share the detailed #ProtectNotSurveil position paper now: ➡️ protectnotsurveil.eu

Around 100.000 people have been demonstrating in The Hague against our government's stance towards, and complicity in, Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is huge for two reasons: (1) the largest demonstration in 20 yrs; (2) The Netherlands is traditionally pro-Israel. Picture: nos.nl/artikel/2567...

Join us for a lively discussion on #AI in democratic societies! Looking forward to talking about risks and regulation through the example of #predictivepolicing and what the implications are for the EU's #digitalsovereignty. Link below 👇

Today, @hrw.org publishes a new report on the media freedom crisis in #Greece. The pervasive constraints on journalism are fostering a climate of self-censorship, harming democracy & the rule of law “From Bad to Worse: The Deterioration of Media Freedom in Greece” www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Another Thursday, another UvA sit-in against the genocide in Gaza, for divestment, and for freedom and justice in Palestine!

CJEU declares golden passports (at least as designed by Malta) contrary to EU law; breach of the principle of sincere cooperation. curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

Taylor & Francis have made my note on Gaza and the crisis of international law freely available online. You can access it below and partake to my impeding sense of doom.

We’ve joined over 130 journalists across Europe to demand real transparency from the EU Commission. In 2023, it missed deadlines in 85% of access-to-docs requests. As the letter says, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” www.politico.eu/wp-content/u...

In light of the latest Hungarian government actions, here's my blog post from 2022, on whether Member States can be expelled or suspended from EU membership eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/04/can-...

Lawsuits pending against Meta in Nairobi represent an unusual opportunity to consider the obligations powerful technology companies have to the populations that make their mighty profits possible, writes Paul M. Barrett from the Center for Business and Human Rights at NYU Stern School of Business.

'DOGE wants Palantir’s Foundry software to become the “read center of all IRS systems,”'

Get ready and get creative for the upcoming edition of GiKii "Technology in its villain era?" bringing together law, technology and popular culture from angles you never thought of before. Happening in Amsterdam (hybrid also possible) on 11-12/09/25! www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...

Excited to be at the @algosoc.org conference today and see the cloud taken up seriously — I’ll be moderating a panel with @josévanDijck on computational infrastructures @article19.bsky.social

This afternoon 📣: a programme about the effectiveness of regional human rights regimes, led by Dilek Kurban. If you can't make it in person, feel free to join online @acil-uva.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3Ym0X9P

If you missed our #IIPPInConversation event, including my book presentation and a lively Q&A, you can watch the recording via the link below! #masssurveillance #predictivepolicing #PNR #dataretention #AML #privacy #dataprotection #fairtrial #presumptionofinnocence #AIAct

@purplekimchi.bsky.social and I are editing a handbook on Feminist Digital Studies/Scholarship/Humanities! If you're a feminist technologist, scholar, activist, etc., regardless of where you work or where you are in your career, we want to hear from you! CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Gaza medics killed by Israel found handcuffed and shot in mass grave - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-medics-killed-israel-found-handcuffed-and-shot-mass-grave

Solidarity with our collaborator @davidyambio.bsky.social who was one of the victims of this surveillance by the Italian government. Migration is a human right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“three of those targeted for deportation are citizens of European Union member states who normally enjoy freedom of movement between E.U. countries” 🤯 theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

I greatly enjoyed discussing my book with @mattcole.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and the participants online and in person at the @iipp-ucl.bsky.social #IIPPinConversation

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Turkey said it rejected 'prejudiced' international statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the nationwide protests triggered by it, as authorities detained nearly 1,900 people taking part in the demonstrations reut.rs/4hLsWGU

BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey

If you must travel to the US at the moment, go through preclearance at a foreign airport. For EU visitors this means flying through Dublin or Shannon. If there's a problem, better an unexpected stay in Dublin than in a holding cell in JFK. Activists and trans women are particularly at risk.