Tessera
Folgen

Jennifer Cobbe

@jennifercobbe.bsky.social

Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662

543 Posts1392 Follower727 Folgt
michael veale@michae.lv · 2d ago

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws Varying digital legal instruments across jurisdictions, each able to be clicked on a section/article/paragraph basis to find the hard and soft law instruments that cite and interpret each specific part (or substantively very similar parts of previous/neighbouring laws.) Snippets provided for each citing source along with original links to that source. Typically thousands of citations for each. Citing documents can be ordered by date, citation numbers, or 'authority/influence' (PageRank algorithm). Database of citing documents maintained and updated daily/weekly; the below documents intended to be updated weekly. Last update 3 August 2026. Document coverage and national grammar for document detection is strongest and best tested for UK, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, EU and ECHR, but the database contains and attempts to link administrative decisions and guidance from other jurisdictions. Unlike Westlaw or other providers, this is not only free, with links to the originals, and incorporates a large amount of guidance and secondary material. Documents generated from a dataset held and maintained by Michael Veale, Professor of Technology Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London. If you wish to study these instruments and the tech and practices that interact with them, consider learning about it at UCL Laws: on our LLM in Law and Technology, or our week-long executive education on AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation.
michael veale@michae.lv · 6d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

Image of the interface, featuring Article 5 with citation counts per article and per paragraph.
absolute horses@jcoglan.com · 4h ago

one day this will be recognised as an utterly shameful campaign to purge trans people from society, and we will have to ask how the views of a tiny fringe of extremists became the consensus of our press, government and regulatory bodies

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Quote from Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'At the EHRC we want a society where everyone’s rights are respected and realised, so that we can all live well together. Our statutory guidance will help services across the country comply with the Equality Act, protecting service users from discrimination and harassment while reducing the risk of the provider being subject to litigation. As Britain’s equality regulator, our work doesn’t end upon publication of this guidance. We monitor compliance with the law and take enforcement action where proportionate and necessary, in line with our well-established regulatory model and decision-making framework.'
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

democracyforsale.substack.com

Jennifer Cobbe@jennifercobbe.bsky.social · last wk.

Northern Ireland gets 9 weeks, which as a child is glorious Despite living in England for years, I'm still always surprised and mildly horrified to see kids going to and from school in mid-July

Nicolai von Ondarza@nvondarza.bsky.social · last wk.

Fun graph by the EU Commission on the length of summer holidays in the EU. To be frank, as a parent, even the six weeks in Germany feel long. How are parents supposed to bridge 14 weeks of summer holiday?

Graph of the length of summer holidays, ranging from 14 weeks (Italy) to 6 weeks (Denmark, Netherlands, Germany).
Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social · last wk.

When anti-trans groups have access to more money than God, you end up with the launch of this sort of outlandish judicial review which stretches the credibility of the concept of a public body in crazy directions and that no other group could dream of bringing: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Women’s Rights Network claims ‘breach of contract’ in Féile event cancellation

The judicial review case will now be heard on Wednesday at the High Court in Belfast

irishnews.com

Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

Bild
michael veale@michae.lv · 2w ago

now the AI Omnibus has been published, if you want to read a version with redline or a total consolidated version (not just the list of what has been deleted and added, which is what the omnibus is), i've published both recast and track-change versions on my website michae.lv/ai-act-as-am...

An illustration of the recast text at the available link showing that it has green text for new introduced text and red strikethrough text for that which has been removed. The link contains the machine readable text; strikethrough text cannot be put into an alt text on bluesky.
Craig 'VI' Slee: Wednesday Consultant@mrvi.cold-albion.net · 2w ago

"An entire generation of young creatives were paid to dump terabytes of posts and videos in a black hole, trying to entertain users long enough to be surveilled and train AI. And not only do they have nothing to show for it professionally, they have nothing to show for it creatively, as well."

Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 2w ago

I wrote about the lost decade of millennial creativity www.garbageday.email/p/you-get-wh...

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rather despondent this morning. Each and every of Shabana Mahmood’s planned reforms will cause immense harm for no benefit, be hugely costly to implement, and cause extensive upheaval and complexity. The excellent recent letter by various Labour MPs explained this very well.

Jennifer Cobbe@jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fun to see - given how much US commentators big up the peaceful transfer of power on inauguration day - the BBC talking about the orderly, peaceful change of a Prime Minister and using the US as the prime example of what it's *not* like

Jennifer Cobbe@jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 3w ago

The questioning here is so vapid, and they react to the idea of a public health approach to drugs like he's coming out with some mad shit that should barely be entertained Prohibition doesn't stop people taking drugs, it just fuels crime and drives people to more risky behaviours. We can do better!

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ranvir Singh, "Are you still as a party in favour of legalising drugs, and how would that benefit society?" Zack Polanski, "Yes we are. The war on drugs is failing. It's pushing people with addiction to drugs into back alleys, that's fuelling gangs able to sell these drugs"

Joanna Hardy-Susskind@joannahs.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the most extraordinary judgment I’ve read all year. If there was not about to be a reshuffle - I suspect it might have been a resigning matter for the Attorney General. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...

R -v- X, Y and Z (follow on judgment) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

[2026] EWCA Crim 913Case Numbers: 202601875 A1202601873 A1202601874 A1 In the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)on appeal from the Crown Court at SouthamptonHis Honour Judge Rowland44SC0053025 17 Jul...

judiciary.uk