What happens when our 🧠 minds become data? In this blog, I introduce the key ideas behind 📖 my book A DATAFIED MIND—examining AI, neurotechnology, emotion analytics, and the legal frameworks (GDPR, AI Act) shaping society in the digital age. #DigitalLaw #Neurotechnology #AI #DataLaw #MindTech4Good

„Digitale Technologien ermöglichen uns hingegen, einen besseren kontinuierlichen Verlauf des Gesundheitszustandes zu sehen. Unsere Studie zeigt deutlich, dass wir dr Smartphones und Wearables objektive Marker für kognitive Leistung und Verhaltensmuster erhalten können" tirol.orf.at/stories/3340...

Finally wrote a short blog entry for Cambridge University Press on my new book #ADatafiedMind 🧠: When Minds Are Turned Into Data: Governing Emotion Technology and Neurotechnology under EU Law cambridgeblog.org/2026/02/when... Have a look! 😎 @cambup-law.cambridge.org @universitypress.cambridge.org

"The neuroscience professor says when students come to him struggling with focus or are unable to complete assignments, he never suggests brain training. 'I would recommend sleep,' he said". 🙃 www.businessinsider.com/americas-obs...

"AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women’s health in a test created by medical professionals" www.newscientist.com/article/2510...

Health experts: Your synthetic text "AI" overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests. Google: Okay, we'll block "AI" overviews on that query. The product is fundamentally flawed and cannot be "fixed" by patching query by query. A short 🧵>>

„Das Selber-Schreiben wird in den Hintergrund treten“ #neuroliteratur #neurotech www.swr.de/kultur/liter...

Excellent interview. Intriguing argument: Regulation helped drive China’s advance in AI. Legal scholars have long made this point, yet the simplistic claim ‘regulation kills innovation’ keeps dominating the debate @karenhao.bsky.social @iwm.at @evakonzett.bsky.social www.falter.at/podcasts/fut...

"The assignments looked brilliant. The understanding didn't. That's when an NYU business school professor decided to fight AI-assisted coursework with AI-powered oral exams." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Der #BÖP Berufsverband Österreichischer Psycholog:innen hat mich eingeladen, über mein neues Buch "A Datafied Mind" zu sprechen. Ich freue mich auf einen spannenden Austausch! #MindTech4Good boep.or.at/veranstaltun...

📢 Full #Postdoc (E14 TV‑L), up to 4 yrs + €15k/yr research funds + training/network @bidt.bsky.social Graduate Center. Start 01.01.2027 · Deadline 31.12.2025. Interested in #AI × Theology 🤖⛪? DM me. Please share! 👉 www.bidt.digital/foerderprogr...

💡Hot off the press, now available as eBook, Paperback, and Hardback: "A Datafied Mind: Untangling EU Regulation of Emotion Technology and Neurotechnology" (Cambridge University Press 2025). #MindTech4Good, at the intersection between #ITlaw, #innovation and #ethics. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

Very happy to share the Call for Papers for the 2nd Legal Tech Summit - submit your research on "genAI in legal practice" until Nov 15 and be part of next year's Summit on 26 and 27 March 2026 @wuvienna.bsky.social! 🚀 #LegalTech #CfP www.wu.ac.at/ltc/events/e...

🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes. 📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

Honored to share insights from my book A Datafied Mind (CUP 2025) at #eMHIC25 the 10th Digital Mental Health Global Congress! Exploring how #law, #innovation & #ethics can shape responsible #neurotech and #emotiontech ➡️https://cambridge.org/core/books/datafied-mind/D6188D95F160FCE0042882303811F90E

🕵🏻https://wien.orf.at/stories/3323344/

Spannend wäre dieselbe Untersuchung an juristischen Fakultäten

Neue Folge! Was kann KI an Schulen leisten & wie viel davon ist überhaupt gut? Darüber spricht Clemens Schreiber mit Elke Höfler. Sie hat ein österreichweites KI-Pilotprojekt an Schulen wissenschaftlich begleitet & erklärt, was Lehrpersonen über die KI denken & wie sie diese im Unterricht einsetzen.

In our field, we’ve been writing about this for well over a decade. It’s in Eli Pariser’s ‘filter bubbles’, in Cass Sunstein’s Republic 2.0, even in my PhD thesis and first book, Internet Privacy Rights. Algorithms and AI exacerbate the problem, but it’s there without them.

#AI is built on historical data. It inevitably reflects, prolongs, and—at its worst—amplifies #bias. ➡️ No, "clear ethical standards" for AI development and deployment alone won’t erase systemic discrimination already embedded in real-world practices. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Post-Editing von KI-übersetzten Texten ist anstrengend und ermüdend, Literaturübersetzerinnen wollen in ihrer Arbeit aber gerade sprachlich kreativ. "Der Spaß daran, die Sprache zu biegen und zu benutzen, geht so verloren." AI writing poems, we doing laundry ... www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

LSE study reveals that AI tools to generate or summarise case studies reinforce gender #bias: Women’s health issues are downplayed or left out entirely, male cases are presented using serious, urgent language. This can lead to discrimination in care decisions. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🧠 Emotion tech & neurotech are no longer sci-fi. They’re in our workplaces, politics, commercial ads & mental health apps. But… is EU law ready? My new book, A Datafied Mind @cambup-law.cambridge.org‬, tackles exactly that. Discount info in first reply below. #Neurotech #AIethics #emotionAI

Expect the U.K. to try to follow.

What did 'that MIT study' really find? 💡In this post, I go behind the viral clickbait to explore what the MIT research led by Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D actually says about #AI, cognitive debt, and #learning - and why the “Brain-to-LLM” approach might be one of the most important ideas for educators

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"We live in a time where technology has infiltrated personhood so systemically that our waking lives are mediated through tech." Paul Lynch on the role of fiction in our world of complexity and how it can unlock the imaginative capacity needed therein. Worth watching. youtu.be/_D2ugzfoDvU?...

"We live in a time where technology has infiltrated personhood so systemically that our waking lives are mediated through tech." Paul Lynch on the role of fiction in our world of complexity and how it can unlock the imaginative capacity needed therein. Worth watching. youtu.be/_D2ugzfoDvU?...

AI is trained on historical data #bias #gendermedicine and can only process and deliver quality outputs for parameters it was designed for — in the best case 🙃 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AI #medicine #LLM #chatbot

'nur 26 Buchstaben schwarz auf weiß: Literatur ist ein grandioses und dabei sehr ökonomisches Wunder. Sie hat keinen Zweck und keine Funktion [...] Aber sie hat eine Fähigkeit [...]: Sie kann uns "in die Schuhe der anderen steigen" ­lassen' www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

'nur 26 Buchstaben schwarz auf weiß: Literatur ist ein grandioses und dabei sehr ökonomisches Wunder. Sie hat keinen Zweck und keine Funktion [...] Aber sie hat eine Fähigkeit [...]: Sie kann uns "in die Schuhe der anderen steigen" ­lassen' www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Assessment as we knew it is dead. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This is bleak reading

Who knew steganography would become so important for college profs.

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...

🧠 #Neuroscience / #neuro data along with #quantum technology singled out by #EDPS Wojciech Wiewiorowski as substantial future challenges for #EU #law

One of the finest formats for deep thinking: This time featuring a conversation with @rushkoff.com about the pioneers who shaped the internet’s early spirit and where it is headed. (Answers in English, questions in German) #SRFKultur #SRFKulturSternstunden #SRFSternstunde youtu.be/PU0eQ4mjXK4?...

'Also to be shared (...) are “health markers which are expected to have significant predictive power”, such as data relating to mental health, addiction, suicide and vulnerability, and self-harm, as well as disability' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

book burning 2025 or 'digitale Bücherverbrennung' ⬇️ @netzpolitik.org @datarescueproject.org

One of the finest formats for deep thinking: This time featuring a conversation with @rushkoff.com about the pioneers who shaped the internet’s early spirit and where it is headed. (Answers in English, questions in German) #SRFKultur #SRFKulturSternstunden #SRFSternstunde youtu.be/PU0eQ4mjXK4?...

Scientific publishing bizarrstes System ever. Hier bestens erklärt 🧐

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So Leute, ich hab mir mal alles genauer angeschaut, was die Schweiz vorhat in Sachen #KI-Regulierung. Fazit: Das Vorbild von Rösti&Co ist die USA und "Innovation First", die KI-Konvention wird minimalistisch umgesetzt und die EU ignoriert. Kein Wort zu Nachhaltigkeit. republik.ch/2025/03/17/s...

Fascinating case: Does Freedom of Information cover chatbot interactions of government officials? Are these different to WhatsApp messages or Google searches? What advice does ChatGPT give to a national technology secretary? Would it be different if it wasn't a privately developed commercial tool?

🧠 #Neuroscience / #neuro data along with #quantum technology singled out by #EDPS Wojciech Wiewiorowski as substantial future challenges for #EU #law

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While Sweden and Denmark are scaling back digitalisation in schools, Estonia is going full speed ahead with AI.

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