2 year research postdoc at UCL @laws.ucl.ac.uk on data and democracy, public law focus — could focus on surveillance and/or AI issues www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

After years of regulating tech that flows through clouds, we ended up in a race to build more of it. In a new 📝 at @reggovjournal.bsky.social w/ @fencesitter8.bsky.social & @jvh.bsky.social, we explain how we got here and ask for some breathing room for lawyers and policymakers.

Pre-installed (else, why?) Adobe Acrobat defaulting to automatically opening *every pdf I download, is hands-down the most audacious default one can conspire. It's so wrong I almost respect it.

My book is out today!

Worried about our reliance on the #cloud? Yeah me too, but not because of #privacy or #surveillance: My report for the critical infra lab about the deeper harms of cloudification of internet governance is out! www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u...

Now hiring in law & tech @ucllaws.bsky.social! Lecturer/Assoc Prof in IP & IT law: intersection of platform reg, emerging tech, copyright/designs. Join me @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Orla Lynskey @alinatrapova.bsky.social Ilanah Fhima, Matt Fisher, Robin Jacob & friends www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I spent a year observing the quantum technologies standardisation landscape (so you don't have to) and next week (Tuesday 14th Jan) I will be sharing some of my findings and experience. Register here in case of interest: www.ivir.nl/events/where...

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

Speaking of which: as @petroster.bsky.social puts it, 'Digital Constitutionalism falsely implies the absence of law rather than its presence – or indeed irrelevance – as major causes of this ‘constitutional crisis’. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My new paper on the legal making of the European digital economy is out today on First View in the always insightful European Law Open! 💫 What a wonderful way to close this personally fulfilling and eventful year 😊 (even though, globally, the year's been very bleak...)

Fun fact: The ceiling at the European Commission’s famous hemicycle room has 27 lamps which also means that when the UK left the EU they took down one.

New📝on different ways to think about/act on ‘generative’ AI. Building a different policy agenda is exceptionally hard but we have to start from somewhere. Acknowledging (in law and social practice) the public value of programmability can help. doi.org/10.1080/1757...