Also, the last days to submit your abstract to the #Privacy #Law Scholars #Conference Europe (PLSC-E)! The Conference will take place in October in Leuven, but submissions are due by May 15th More information can be found at: plsc-europe.eu @citip.bsky.social #callforabstracts

Last days to secure your spot to visit Leuven and participate in amazing events! First, IFIP Summer School on #Privacy and #Identity Management: ifip-summerschool.github.io Abstract submission until May 15th, summer school in August @citip.bsky.social #CallForAbstracts #SummerSchool

21st IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2026

Website for IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management.

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Meta said it planned to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the U.S. would distract critics from the feature’s release. nyti.ms/4qyZZlK

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

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Busy busy summer with cool things coming out 😀 looking forward to discuss more open data and transparency with anyone interested

CiTiP KU Leuven@citip.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣New blog post by @isabelarosal.bsky.social Can you re-use public access information without accessing it? The CJEU understands that one depends on the other, but also highlights that access and re-use are different activities. #opendata #publicsector #opendatadirective #datagovernance

📣New blog post by @isabelarosal.bsky.social Can you re-use public access information without accessing it? The CJEU understands that one depends on the other, but also highlights that access and re-use are different activities. #opendata #publicsector #opendatadirective #datagovernance

Data access vs. data re-use: can the open data movement survive in the CJEU? - CiTiP blog

Discussions around open data and re-use of public sector information (PSI) have increased and occupy a central role in the European Data Strategy. As a central part of this debate, one should differen...

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I'll just add that in the Dauphin experiment, eliminating poverty with basic income reduced emergency hospitalizations by 8.5%. As one doctor described the finding, if this were something we could put in the water, we would. Also, the richest 10% of the US live 11 years longer than the poorest 10%.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea.bsky.social · last yr.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Got humiliated by a worker on the train that was basically fluent in Spanish after only 3 years of duolingo while there I was using all my Dutch classes + domingo for 3 years to be able to communicate (he was the best made my day)

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Latin America = all countries that bad bunny makes an homage to

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

Muito interessante e importante acompanhar isso: jornalistas do Politico vão levar a direção a arbitragem pelo uso de IA na produção jornalística do grupo (com erros e absurdos sendo publicados). “Repórteres humanos são disciplinados se erram, mas se é IA a gerência faz vista grossa”.

PEN Guild@pen-guild.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

📣We are recruiting! CiTiP is looking for an enthusiastic and proactive PhD researcher to join its team and work on children’s rights to privacy and data protection. Interested in doing a PhD on this topic? ⌛Deadline 14 July 2025. More information👇

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The view on my way to the Intensive Doctoral Week @sciencespolawphd.bsky.social not too shabby

yep! unpaywalled:

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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quiggy@quiggy.itch.io · last yr.

wired please make information this important free without paywall

Riots in Northern Ireland, mass murder is Austria, troops on the street in America; it's a dark time. Now more than ever we need celebrities to sing Imagine.

Surviving with less than 4 hours of sleep but my eye is giving it away

Tenerife é a guarapari europeia

👀 Word jij onze nieuwe collega?

CiTiP KU Leuven@citip.bsky.social · last yr.

📣CiTiP werft aan! We lanceerden een vacature voor een junior onderzoeker om in het kader van het @kc-dama.bsky.social te werken rond de juridisch-ethische uitdagingen van AI. Deadline: 27 mei 2025 Interesse? Meer informatie lees je hier👇

Following the tradition that whenever I fly with Ryanair I get to enjoy a bachelor party traveling with me

Same drama as always: the delivery that I needed to happen at a specific timeframe disappeared 🤡

I am not the best at keeping my carbon print low, but at least I do not interact with AI chatbots to create drawings

Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · last yr.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot to summarize a lengthy legal document or conjure up a cartoon squirrel wearing glasses, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Join for a week of all things privacy and data protection at the 20th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management, co-organised by our Laura Drechsler! When? August 19-22 Where? Copenhagen, Denmark More info at ifip-summerschool.org *** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 26, 2025 ***

20th IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2025

Website for IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management.

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The mol is by far my favorite TV show at the moment

Oh no

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

New York City wants subway cameras to predict ‘trouble’ before it happens

Almost May and I still think we are in 2024

📢 Call for Participants We organise another policy prototyping project, in which we take a closer look at the minimum requirements in contracts between providers of high-risk AI systems and their suppliers, as mandated by the #AIAct. ✏️ More info & details: data-en-maatschappij.ai/en/news/poli...

🎥 ASSUMINDO AS NARRATIVAS! Saiu ontem o teaser do curta-metragem que acompanha Erika Hilton, Benedita da Silva e Joyce Trindade na linha de frente da política — enfrentando a violência de gênero e defendendo suas agendas. 1/4 @revistaazmina.bsky.social @nucleo.jor.br youtu.be/1HD5Tc5oe8I

Taking on the narratives | #SolutionsInsideOut | InternetLab & AzMina Institute

YouTube video by InternetLab

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Op. cit. continues to be my number 1 enemy

📣We are recruiting! CiTiP is looking for a junior researcher in the field of law, agriculture and technology, including the regulation of data in the agri-food sector in Flanders and Europe. Interested in doing a PhD on this topic? Deadline 5 May. More information👇

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