Europol's AI programme wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Just the bit I can read re article30 makes my blood run cold and boil at the same time. 1500 people is more than the headcount at (for example) a small telecommunications company or large charity. Risk is not a function of headcount. We made that argument in 2012 and we’ll have to make it again!

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

This is in the bill to re-open gov. 🤬🤬🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/...

The German Supreme Court has confirmed the dismissal of an injunction action brought by a consumer association, which aimed to prohibit the transmission of so-called positive data to SCHUFA. Such sharing can be justified under Art. 6(1)(f) of GDPR. www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/P...

*Why* does it need to be AI-generated?

Humans evolved strong mechanisms for evaluating credibility. Yet these depend on an information ecosystem rich in trustworthy institutions and credible choices. The question is whether we can rebuild this epistemic infrastructure before norms of authenticity decay beyond repair, writes John Wihbey.

A few days ago X broke the X Ads Transparency Center by shutting down the endpoint that handles search for the ads repository. Type e.g. “apple” here and it will spin indefinitely, with the search requests returning 404s behind the scenes:

"The fact is that large language models remain deeply unprofitable: in the last year they generated an estimated $235bn, but cost an estimated $1.5tn to develop and run. Policy should not be driven by a dogmatic faith that deregulation will always and inevitably liberate innovation."

Are influencers the new enforcers 😉?

Studies of abusers on dark web forums show that while mainstream AI models can produce CSAM, it’s not very realistic, so they use LoRAs to make it so. This testing won’t really do much because abusers aren’t using vanilla models. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Germany’s Tech Betrayal: How We’re Selling Our Sovereignty to US Giants www.linkedin.com/posts/berndk... indeed, I heard it from Arte Journal yesterday and was 🤔

Finally! Was waiting for an EP group to speak up.

S&D Group is speaking out with clarity and conviction against the content of the digital omnibus leak. @brandobenifei. www.linkedin.com/posts/anja-w...

“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”

so much backbone and courage, everywhere you look

"Who believes in superintelligence? Generally not the experts."

Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

It’s gonna be a whole ‘nother ball of wax for Google Search choice screen on iPhone cuz in Japan, the top search engine is the confusingly named Yahoo Japan.

Apple of course willingly put itself in that position www.wired.com/story/apple-...

A Danish Redditor was sentenced for posting nude scenes from copyrighted films. Was similar to massive subreddit r/WatchItForThePlot, where people post clips of nude scenes—almost always featuring female actors—out of context www.404media.co/danish-reddi...

🚨✉️ noyb has joined forces with EDRi and @iccl.bsky.social to send an open letter to the EU Commission concerning the Digital Omnibus. ⚖️ We are seriously concerned about the potential threat that the internal draft poses to Europeans' fundamental rights. More info 👇 noyb.eu/en/open-lett...

I will do that. But the Commission's newest, most vile trick is to proactively publish short, meaningless minutes of lobby meetings, while refusing to disclose anything about what actually went on behind closed doors. This remarkable step has been barely noticed by the Brussels press corps.

I wrote about Europe maybe retreating from strong privacy protections in the name of AI competitiveness and why it may be making a mistake www.platformer.news/eu-ai-act-ch...

Apple’s $1,000 ultra thin iPhone Air which has fewer cameras and worse battery life than the $800 iPhone 17 is selling so poorly they’re second guessing the next release. They really misjudged their audience by betting thinness at the expense of user value was the way to go.

Just saw this via an acquaintance, and yeah, meta just keeps failing:

Do the GDPR amendments violate the principle of non-regression?

And boom, just like that, the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court has done what the Brazilian Congress has been discussing for years: determined a notice and takedown for illegal content and platform liability in case of non compliance. It’s DSA bycourt ruling, baby! www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/cms/...

Almost impossible to achieve slower enforcement of #magicAI illegal data usage but EU is going to try ... Instead of #RegulatingCode

Orban allies have bough Hungary's most read paper. The reason that is possible is because the EU failed to legislate against media concentration. Here is the inside story into the EU's historical blunder: www.ftm.eu/articles/hel...

The old political spectrum: Left/right/center The actual current political spectrum: Progression/regression/stagnation

No one intervening I guess? A real missed opportunity for CSOs I fear. We're gonna be stuck with CJEU's very bad case law on consent-or-pay, just as we are now that it has not adopted an absolute approach to the definition of personal data (taken up by the Commission itself 🤮🤮🤮).

BREAKING: EU attempting last minute resurrection ChatControl client-side scanning & message surveillance under vague “mandate… all reasonable mitigation measures” figleaf; FightChatControl.EU to be rea[…] https://alecmuffett.com/article/119783

I wrote about how law defines personal data, and why - in context of multi-party supply chain architectures and the information economy - CJEU decisions (incl EDPS v SRB) mark a major misstep with bad(!) effects for data protection law's purpose and framework Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Russian government will reportedly add a law allowing the FSB to have individual subscribers cut off by their telecom companies in order to protect the public or the State from threats. www.agents.media/vlasti-sobra...

Hearing EU figureheads talk constantly about AI but not cloud infra leaves me with no faith in their judgment or strategy. Zero.

"Rules set by Google were more important than the rules set by the GDPR" so true @robin.berjon.com

Social media's interoperability: the EC says that it is willing to discuss it "further" [Halleluya]

Interoperability of social media services - a scandal that the Council killed it (still hurting) - study commissioned by the EC, what are the results I wonder

The Court of Justice decided to grant Meta leave to intervene in Cases Bindl/European Commission in support of the form of order sought by the European Commission. This includes reviewing Meta's SCCs. Please read Thomas Bindl's thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....

mainly boggling at the idea that any British media organisation has $1billion to be sued for (did Elon not tell him that we are but a simple land of hobbits, going about our hobbit business in the shires?) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

If the Commission was truly just frightened of the US admin (they're not, they actually believe in these "reforms"), they'd try to do as much as possible with temporary exemptions and delays. What the Commission is doing will leave permanent scars, shatter citizen trust and dismantle the digital

I hope it's not only the *financial* AI bubble that burts but also the one in the heads of politicians and other leadership that thinks it can deliver completely unreasonable economic growth (and all we need to achieve that is bulldoze over a decade of protections that have been built up).

Great setting for a mad max sequel, IMO

EU countries oppose @ec.europa.eu's plan for telecoms rules reset 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇵🇱, and 🇳🇱 are among a majority of countries against key reforms expected in the upcoming Digital Networks Act - @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...

New post from me, for UK folks only, on how you need to start preparing for Apple to switch off Advanced Data Protection and the end-to-end encryption of the data you store on it. Like I said, UK only. #SunlitUplands heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...

GDPR has its problems but privacy is good actually for business that aren't cancerous middleman operations that sticks like a tic to the bidstream and executes data enrichment of unproven providence, usefulness, or accuracy.

If true, this is absolutely not someone suited to lead digital sovereignty in the EU, especially at this critical moment.

You want to know what EU laws annoy Big Tech the most? It's the ones they are gunning for all the time: the DMA and GDPR. Nothing else comes close to challenging their power.

"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly." Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...