Tessera

Should governments ban social media or regulate tech companies? The #SocialMediaBan capsule series exploring #IsABanAPlan Elizabeth Gosme, on why protecting children online starts with holding technology companies accountable. 🎥 youtu.be/R3mGeySCNeM 🌐 informationlabs.org/social-media...

"Privacy-preserving age verification" describes one moment in a long chain. It does not describe the chain. informationlabs.org/zero-knowled... #isabanaplan

Zero Knowledge, Full Record: Age Verification And The Infrastructure The Privacy Label Ignores

The “privacy-preserving age verification” label should be understood at two separate levels: on the one hand, it accurately describes a mechanism, yet on the other, it misleadingly describes a system....

informationlabs.org

🔥 #Isabanaplan: European Commission finds French #SocialMediaBan proposal incompatible with the #DSA & freezes its adoption until 10 Aug! Red card issued, yet Paris plays on: the government still aims for entry into force on 1 Sept. 🔗 @contexte.com: www.contexte.com/fr/actualite...

Who gets to define AI? According to @B Cavello, the answer shapes who is held accountable, what gets regulated, what gets funded, and ultimately whose interests AI serves. 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/8ef34d79 📺 youtu.be/WHW7SA27PEg #AI #MachineLearning #TechPolicy

🔥 Australia’s under-16 #SocialMediaBan isn’t landing & the government’s fix is stuck in an 8-week Senate inquiry Senator @davidshoebridge.bsky.social: “Doubling penalties that they’ve never used doesn’t seem to me to be a meaningful measure.” Brussels, take note #DSA 🔗 abcnews.com/Technology/w...

🔥 #Isabanaplan: In Cork, EC President von der Leyen firms up her plan to legislate on minors’ social media access at the EU level ✱ 13 July | Expert group report ✱ 16 Sept | SOTEU curtain-raiser (@euractiv.com scoop) 🔗 audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/vid... #ChildOnlineSafety #SocialMediaBan

June 2026 information labs recap 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/june-2... ⇒ New expert voices on #IsABanAPlan ⇒ Reflections on shaky evidence behind age bans, EU tech sovereignty, and risks to net neutrality ⇒ Brussels Revisits Copyright in 3 parts ⇒ New AI: Tools or Gods? episodes

🔥 #Isabanaplan: Trust the #DSA or ban the kids? EC sent both signals on 2 July: its DSA annual report & @euractiv.com reporting that President von der Leyen may unveil an EU-wide #SocialMediaBan at her 16 Sept #SOTEU. 🔗 digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/repo... 🔗 www.euractiv.com/news/eu-plan...

Optimising for engagement is an algorithmic choice, not chance. Sole Pera, recommender systems researcher at TU Delft: the ban removes the child from the record. The design decisions behind the harm stay exactly where they were. linkedin.com/pulse/optimi... #isabanaplan

Optimising for Engagement Is an Algorithmic Choice. Associate Professor Sole Pera of TU Delft Explains What That Means.

The social media ban debate has produced a well-worn sequence. A harm is named.

linkedin.com

EU copyright reform is being presented as a fight between AI companies and rightholders. But the real missing voice is the public. My latest piece argues that copyright reform should be written for the empty seats. informationlabs.org/two-megaphon... #EU #Copyright #AI #DigitalPolicy

Two Megaphones and an Empty Room: The Need to Write the Copyright Reform for the Empty Seats

The EU copyright review is being argued by two blocs of private interests. The party that will live with the result, the public, was never really in the room. That…

informationlabs.org

🔥 #IsABanAPlan? Germany’s expert commission says no and delivers 56 recommendations for action 2 alternatives to a ban: (1) a statutory age of 13 (2) risk-based, per-service restrictions. German Minister Prien favours alternative 1. 🔗 www.bmbfsfj.bund.de/bmbfsfj/them...

🔥 The @eesc.bsky.social has spoken on the #DigitalNetworksAct (DNA): No to a ‘fair share’! The opinion by Maurizio Mensi calls for explicit exclusion of #FairShare schemes and defends net neutrality as a “central, autonomous safeguard.” 🔗 www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-medi...

Are social media bans the right solution? The #SocialMediaBan capsule series exploring #IsABanAPlan Prof. Sole Pera explains why the focus should be on creating safe digital environments for children. Watch: youtu.be/m_AHY1Oj2zk Visit: informationlabs.org/social-media...

A gamer, a librarian and a random mum walk into a bar. Not a joke. All three paid for digital content they cannot keep or leave to anyone. The Digital Fairness Act should mean they walk out of that bar no longer empty-handed. informationlabs.org/ownership-2-... #DigitalFairnessAct #Copyright

Ownership 2.0: A Gamer, a Librarian, and a Random Mum Walk Into a Bar…

A video gamer, a librarian, and a random mum walk into a bar. That could be the start of a great joke. Sadly, it is not. It reflects a convergence…

informationlabs.org

In a World of Answers, Who Asks Why? Pia Lauritzen joins us to explore a simple but profound question: what happens when a society becomes obsessed with answers and forgets how to ask questions? 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/365454d3 📺 youtu.be/lgP9PfcDP7I #ArtificialIntelligence

An optional research exception isn't really an exception. After 25 years, the EU has 27 different legal environments for cross-border research, creating uncertainty, fragmentation, and barriers to collaboration. Evidence is clear: harmonisation is overdue. informationlabs.org/brussels-rev...

Brussels Revisits Copyright – Part 3: Why an Optional Research Exception Is No Exception at All

This is the third and final installment in a series analysing the European Commission's current call for evidence on EU copyright rules. Part 1 examined live content piracy and the…

informationlabs.org

🔥 #DigitalNetworksAct feedback period closed: the #OpenInternet is still in the danger zone! Big telcos continue to push for mandatory dispute-resolution, while all other stakeholders hold the line. Next hop: IMCO’s 30 June Amendment deadline 🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

A social media ban doesn’t fulfil governments’ UNCRC obligations—it outsources them. Francesca Pisanu of Eurochild: when children turn to social media for support, it signals what governments have failed to provide. New in the SMB Repository: linkedin.com/pulse/govern... #isabanaplan

Governments Are Outsourcing Their Obligations to Tech. Francesca Pisanu of Eurochild Explains What That Costs Children.

The case for social media bans is typically framed as a child protection argument. Governments have a duty to keep children safe.

linkedin.com

Mandatory AI licensing is often presented as a win for creators. But what if it reduces AI performance and still fails to get money to creators? That's the challenge facing proposals currently being discussed in the EU's copyright review. informationlabs.org/brussels-rev... #AI #Copyright

Brussels Revisits Copyright – Part 2: Why Mandatory AI Licensing Is Not a Silver Bullet And Could Ricochet

This is the second installment in a three-part series analysing the European Commission's current call for evidence on EU copyright rules. Part 1 examined live content piracy and the fundamental…

informationlabs.org

🔥 On 13 July, the EU Special Panel on Child Safety Online will hand its recommendations to EC President von der Leyen Experts & civil society are loud & clear Will the panel echo them, or back Australia’s & UK’s bans? #isabanaplan #ChildOnlineSafety 🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/j%C3%B...

Part 2 with Payal Arora is now live. We discuss why optimism is a commitment to change, what the Global South can teach us about innovation, and why AI is best understood as a tool that reflects the values we build into it. 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/9bae4d87 📺 youtu.be/2C_6AqMw_74

🔥 UK doubles down on a blanket #SocialMediaBan for under-16s by spring 2027 #isabanaplan? A ban risks hollowing out the #OnlineSafetyAct & ignores broad consensus among experts and other stakeholders that a ban isn’t a plan! #ChildOnlineSafety 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...