Is Canada in the room with us right now? I so rarely see snow in Europe despite living here for 20 + years I’m always a bit surprised when it sticks.

One of my favourite reactions to train prices. Granted it was on a fully booked stretch, and fortunately I had my interrail. (My friend was discussing how much are flights to Brussels from Finland, and at that money was looking up my train schedule on the DB app).

I’m very happy to be at the University of Leiden faculty of law for #PLSC-Europe. Joining in the session of @barbararlaz.bsky.social et al. session on joint controllership in smart cities. It’s a fascinating discussion.

Back in Brussels, on the tram home I saw these shoes and wondered “wait were those cremated in 1998” nope it was obviously creWated in 1998. What a conllegion!

I’m very happy to spend this weekend in one of the most beautiful Canadian towns (Banff) to take part in a workshop supported by BIRS on creating an interdisciplinary research agenda studying the effects of online privacy regulation. #dataprotection #BIRS thanks to Joel for the invitation!

Call for abstracts on Gender, Sexuality and Education in Chinese Contexts, to be published by Gender and Education journal. Further details 👉🏼 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

🚨 Call for abstracts is open! ILSI Europe ECS Event 2025 – Session 1: Hidden Threats – Emerging Contaminants in Food and the Environment. Share your research on emerging risks, detection, and safety strategies. 📅 10 Oct | Prague 🔗 ilsi.eu/event/early-... #ECS2025 #FoodSafety

Call for Abstracts „Widerstehen, Widerständigkeit, Widerstand: (Queer-)feministische Perspektiven und Praxen angesichts erstarkender autoritärer Politiken“ für das Heft 2/2026 der feministischen studien.  Zum Call und mehr Informationen: blog.feministische-studien.de/2025/06/call...

📢Call for Abstracts & Special Sessions is NOW OPEN! We are inviting researchers, practitioners, community leaders, and storytellers to join the conversation. Deadline for submission is August 18, 2025. ▶ Full submission details are available here: www.unbcwildfireworkshop.ca/call-for-pro...

📢ONE MONTH TO GO: Call for Abstracts, 2025 DMA Enforcement Symposium📢 Got thoughts on gatekeepers’ compliance with DMA obligations? Their impact on users’ rights? How enforcement structure can be improved? Procedural issues? Submit to our #CallForAbstracts by 30 JULY tinyurl.com/473v5mtk

Call for articles: "Children as rights holders in the digital world." For a special issue of the journal Global Studies of Childhood, co-edited by our member Helena Sandberg. Abstracts are due by 30 September. journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/GS...

EC has published it nature credits road map: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... Intentions seem good but we'll see if they can avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing and offsets.

Hate seeing this. Please pay attention around you. No speed, or few minutes shaved off a journey is worth risking the lives and safety of others. (At bourse /RueAntoine dansaert)

📢The EU has confirmed that access to the Court in environmental matters is a fundamental right📢 In a decision delivered yesterday, the EU Commission referred the Polish gov to the EU's Court of Justice, for there being too many barriers to Polish citizens' environmental 'access to justice'.

📢 Call for contributions! Together with Valerie Steeves and @ubisurv.net I'm editing the Elgar Encyclopedia of #Privacy and #Surveillance. Deadline proposals 15 July! www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

#CfP: Emotions & Society Special Issue Masculinities and Emotions: Changing Times and Contexts. Guest editors: @rpatulny.bsky.social and Fiona McQueen Abstracts (200-300 words) to the editors by *JULY 15th* Details below! @bupjournals.bsky.social #Emosoc #sociology

📢 Call for Papers #NLC2026! Next May 6-8, we will host the 15th International Conference on Networked Learning in Brussels! We invite submissions that engage with the field of networked learning and address one or more of the conference themes. 📎 Submission requirements here:

New report by GRAIN & ETC Group on the world’s top 10 agribusiness giants shows extreme concentration in seeds, pesticides, fertilisers, farm machinery, animal drugs & livestock genetics. Get the data here: grain.org/e/7284 @etcgroup.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @corporateeurope.org @civileats.com

Are there any photos? ↘️

On the way to STS Nordic today (this time at KTH not SU) will be doing more real conferencing today as I have scheduled talks to give. But was happy to take part in some of the « out of the laboratory » activities in the forest yesterday.

Greta Thunberg qui vient d’arriver à Paris dénonce une attaque illégale et un kidnapping d’Israël et elle a mille fois raison parce que c’est exactement ce qui s’est passé. #FreedomFlotilla

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

⏰ Application deadline in 1 week 🚨 Opportunity to support our work investigating and exposing the use of data and technology in the migration context. If you are a legal researcher interested in migration, please apply before EOD 30th May 2025: privacyinternational.org/opportunitie...

<3 this discussion at the culture club at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social Eduard Forsch-Villaronga makes an excellent reference to the late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. I’ve been rereading lots of Bauman and Im so happy that others see value in integrating his work in data scholarship.

📢 Call for Papers Special Issue: Digital Platforms as Urban Infrastructure Journal: Urban Matters Seeking contributions (3500–4000 words) Abstract deadline: June 15, 2025 Full details in the attached images.

🔊Call for Papers Interpellations and Orderings of AI-Human Constructs Symposium Inviting submissions that explain, explore and critique the AI-Human construct in contemporary as well as in near-history legal contexts #AI #LawTech lthj.qut.edu.au/AI-HumanCons...

📢Call for papers for the 21st Joint Seminar of the Geneva Association and the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) on 'Legal and economic issues of emerging (liability) risks and insurance' to be held at @JesusCollegeCam on 18–19 June '26: 🔗https://bit.ly/3GWOYdc

"The AI Race in the Metaverse" Organised by MetaverseUA Chair with Javier López-Guzmán, Eleni Kosta, @piagro.bsky.social, Martin Sas More information: cpdp.be/33862 #CPDP2025 #TheWorldisWatching #CPDP.ai

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At the 2025 Privacy Symposium, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned that mass surveillance and government overreach are eroding individual liberty and democracy, and reaffirmed America’s commitment to protecting privacy and civil rights.

Very happy to have presented my paper: “Flowing Data, Shifting Power: The Paradox of Data as a 'Fifth Freedom' in the European Union” here in Venice. Thank you to the organisers and reviewers for your support and federal. I’ll share the published version here when it’s ready!

"From Food Commons to Data Spaces: Shaping Data Governance for and with Sustainable Food Systems" Organised by Wageningen Social and Economic Research with @piagro.bsky.social (moderator), Can Atik, Monja Sauvagerd, Elena Spolidoro, Seth van Hooland More info: cpdp.be/4340 #CPDP.ai #CPDP2025

Andare a Venezia! On the way to the #PrivacySymposium to present my paper on Data Flows! Looking forward to great feedback and discussions over the next week :) taking the green option for travel and getting lots of work done with these awe-inspiring views out my window! #travelgreen #travelslow

Call for papers deadline has been extended until the 25th April. Apply now for the U.K.’s first and biggest international LGBTQ+ rights Summit #SaferToBeMe @reportout.bsky.social

Great interview about ancient food. I did my PhD on Ancient Greek and Roman food, specifically food taboos, vegetarianism and restricted diets. Less obscure and niche than you might think.

📝 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗨𝗠 Call for Papers ‘Colonialism, Colonial Legacy and Environmental Crisis: History and Memory’ will be held from 28 to 29 May as part of Disciplinary Affinities in Coimbra. The call for papers is open until 10 April 2025. ➥ shorturl.at/5Jgar © British Library/CEIS20

Call for Papers Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians

Call for papers for a Digital Journalism special issue, titled Bypassing Journalism. Please spread the word! @digitaljournalism.bsky.social @leahellmueller.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social Deadline for abstracts: 1 Sept 2025

Call for Papers "Greening the Digital Society: Platforms, Sustainability & the Climate Crisis." Deadline for abstract: May 23rd, 2025. We aim to publish the special issue in Platforms & Society in winter 2026/2027. Info: journals.sagepub.com/page/pns/cal...

CLEBC’s annual Human Rights Law Conference returns this fall, and this is our last call for papers! If you’d like to present at November’s conference, the deadline to submit is April 7. Learn more about getting in your proposal here: www.cle.bc.ca/human-rights...

📢 New call for papers! Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance seeks submissions for a themed issue focusing on "Towards Trustworthy and Responsible AI in Adjudication." Abstracts due 1 June. Learn more: cup.org/4jaEy7q #CambridgeForum

FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION: “The Prediction Society: Algorithms and the Problems of Forecasting the Future,” 2025 Illinois Law Review 1 (2025) (Daniel Solove and Yuki Matsumi) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We also have a guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance. Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

An important glass ceiling shattered at the IOC.

Is it just me, or is this a bit overly performative? (for a Canadian PM's first day) TBH, it reminds me of something from another "leader" in North America. All I remember of signing ceremony or photo of thereof is the queen signing the constitution act 82... am I wrong? Please tell me I'm wrong.

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on US v Google Search: I do a little dive into oversight of AI investments, and the opt-out approach for web publishers' data on Google AI products (keeping anti-retaliation protections). This last bit would be really good news for news publishers!

📢 CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Edible Tales 🍷🔥 A feast of folklore, myth, and food narratives awaits. We summon storytellers, scholars, and seekers of the mythic table—if your work breathes, haunts, and nourishes, join us. 🔮 Submit by May 30, 2025 📖 Details: www.drmilaz.com/uploads/6/1/...