Norman
@noaasm.bsky.social
💼 Privacy Lawyer | ⚖️ LL.M Candidate in Corporate & Commercial Law @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | interested in tech, cybersecurity, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪 | views my own
Jagasin Threadsis, aga jagan ka siia. Kesiganes tegeleb vaibkoodimisega või on sellest huvitatud, siis vandeadvokaat Tea Park on sügisel korraldamas vaibkoodimise andmekaitse poolega seotud koolitust. Igati soovitan! inkubaator.tallinn.ee/sundmused/an...
Andmekaitse ABC vaibkoodijatele - Tallinna Ettevõtlusinkubaator
Sellel koolitusel vaatamegi, millal saab vaibkoodijast GDPRi tähenduses vastutav töötleja, millised reeglid kehtivad avalikult kättesaadavate isikuandmete kogumisele, millal on üldse tegemist isikuand...
inkubaator.tallinn.ee
For a change again, visiting field office to see Estonian oil refineries and power plant
Ahead of DEF CON 2026, the cybersecurity conference, opening its doors in Las Vegas next week, conference organizers said they have imposed a ban on Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities www.theregister.com/security/202...
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses
theregister.com
If you see someone online ignorantly claiming that entry into Ceuta entails entry into mainland Spain/the Schengen area, here's the text proving otherwise. (Plus almost everyone who entered Ceuta returned within a day)
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 5d agoHere are those special rules on Ceuta and Melilla as regards Schengen - dating back to Spain acceding to the Schengen Convention eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
More news on digital sovereignty - last week European aircraft manufacturer Airbus began moving about 70% of its most critical systems, the ones it uses to design, build and sell planes, off Amazon’s cloud and on to Scaleway, a French provider www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Airbus digital contract award highlights risks for Irish tech sector
Issues now around American authorities having access to data held by US tech companies, even if its located in Dublin or other European cities
irishtimes.com
Wow, I am positively surprised - Irish government has kicked a Microsoft procurement potentially worth €1 billion into touch amid a political debate about the nation's overreliance on US tech providers and a move to free and open source software www.theregister.com/public-secto...
Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions
Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals
theregister.com
I consider this also as a note that there is still a lot of confusion among stakeholders regarding AI Act and its obligations
Norman@noaasm.bsky.social · 3d agoToday the transparency obligations under the art. 50 of the AI Act kick in and I already noticed first AI-label on the webpage of one Estonian company. Though I have a feeling that in this case company published the label just-in-case.
Today the transparency obligations under the art. 50 of the AI Act kick in and I already noticed first AI-label on the webpage of one Estonian company. Though I have a feeling that in this case company published the label just-in-case.
UEFA really going in guns blazing against FIFA and its leadership www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
UEFA welcomes FIFA’s withdrawal of plans to sell a stake in the World Cup
The proposal was unanimously rejected by UEFA’s national associations and by many other federations and confederations of all sizes around the world.
uefa.com
Managed to see Scorpions live for the first time in Tallinn as part of their last Europe show this year. Despite age of band members, they gave their best. Massive shout out to drummer Mikkey Dee
Amazing work and resource for data protection professionals 👇
michael veale@michae.lv · 6d agoParts 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...
According to Hamburg's data protection commissioner, secretly filming with smart glasses is illegal. Smart glasses from Meta are now virtually indistinguishable from conventional glasses. It is quite possible that the glasses could be completely banned in Germany www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Verbot von Meta Glasses möglich
Der Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragte Fuchs warnt vor Meta Smart Glasses: Die Brillen, die kaum von normalen Brillen zu unterscheiden sind, ermöglichen heimliches Filmen. Ein Verbot sei nicht ausgeschl...
tagesschau.de
Asian Football Confederation opposes FIFA sell-off plans www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
AFC joins Uefa and Concacaf in opposing Fifa plan
The Asian Football Confederation "stands in solidarity" with Uefa and Concacaf in opposing controversial Fifa proposals.
bbc.co.uk
The LinkedIn slip has gotten out of hand, but @klonick.bsky.social’s prediction of how this will play out are well worth heeding
Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · 6d agoAn AI slop reporting button? What could possibly go wrong?? 1/ www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
Years later and Swedish House Mafia is still killing it open.spotify.com/track/5Vz9XU...
Happiness Is So Sad
Swedish House Mafia, Lykke Li · Happiness Is So Sad · Song · 2026
open.spotify.com
A good paper from @lawbhoy.bsky.social on making Europe's digital supervisory state accountable for rights, growth and scale focusing on the interplay between digital regulation and innovation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Innovation Mandate: Making Europe's Digital Supervisory State Accountable for Rights, Growth and Scale
This working paper argues that Europe’s digital regulatory challenge is not the strength of its rights-based rulebook, but the opacity and under-accountability
papers.ssrn.com
Kas Omniva müümine Hiina ettevõttele ei oleks mitte veidi julgeolekuoht? arileht.delfi.ee/a/120600149/...
Omniva: Venipaki tehing kinnitab, et rahvusvahelised tegijad tunnevad piirkonna vastu huvi
Eile selgus, et Saksa logistikahiid DHL ostab Eestiski tegutseva Leedu pakiäri Venipaki. Kuivõrd samal ajal on Baltikumis müügiks ka teinegi suur postifirma, eestlaste Omniva, uuris Ärileht riigifirma...
arileht.delfi.ee
Reading worthy article by Professor Emerita, Lorna Woods on CJEU judgement in the recent Legal Newsdesk Sweden case C-199/24 regarding applicability of journalistic exemption to new media under the GDPR eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/07/reco...
Reconciling data protection and ‘new media’: The judgment in Legal Newsdesk Sweden (Case C-199/24)
Lorna Woods , Professor Emerita, University of Essex Photo credit : Océanos y dados , via Wikimedia commons Introduction ...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
Embarrassing behaviour from the US, diplomats of which walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Russia’s war against Ukraine as France’s delegation took the floor www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
US diplomats walk out as France addresses UN Security Council
US diplomats walk out of UN meeting during France's speech amid tensions over human rights chief's reappointment.
aljazeera.com
Just to be clear, Musk isn’t just the owner, he’s got the most followers and most reach on X. He dominates it.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.
Certainly an interesting decision by the Italian data protection authority, which has issued a 2 million euro fine on US data broker Lusha. Intriguing case, where one could debate whether the DPA has interpreted the article 3(2) of the GDPR too broadly www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/...
COMUNICATO STAMPA - Il Garante privacy sanziona Lusha per 2 milioni di euro. Monitorati e in vendita i dati di un elevato numero di persone
garanteprivacy.it
On 16 July Chinese LLMs reached near parity with top US LLMs. This indicates 3 things: 1. China’s heavy AI regulation (it has at least as much AI law as the EU) did not stop AI innovation. 2. Revoking Biden’s AI Executive Order did not protect US lead. ...
First Twitter, now Facebook - Facebook is now officially launching Facebook Verified, a free badge, which verifies that there’s a real person behind a profile using a simple selfie-based verification process about.fb.com/news/2026/07...
Introducing Facebook Verified
We’re launching Facebook Verified, a free badge that verifies there's a real person behind a profile.
about.fb.com
The ICC must emerge from this existential ordeal with its integrity and independence intact. Otherwise, it would become a project that the States Parties allowed to fail - a good opinion piece by @sevslv.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/foun...
The founders of the ICC must not let it be destroyed
The Court's viability and future depend on whether States Parties stand up for it and for their sovereign rights in the face of hostile US attacks
middleeasteye.net
Venezuela's foreign minister said on Friday the country has formally notified the United Nations of its irrevocable decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Venezuela notifies UN of withdrawal from ICC, alleging 'bias'
Venezuela's foreign minister said on Friday the country has formally notified the United Nations of its "irrevocable" decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which had been conduc...
reuters.com
Despite threats from the US, with a vote of 144-10, the UN General Assembly votes to renew Volker Turk's 4-year term as UN high commissioner of human rights. Unsurprisingly the US voted against and sided with Russia and North-Korea
A little-known fact: EU sanctions against Russian propaganda material cover also the free distribution of its content online by natural persons (i.e. ordinary citizens). eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Open AI’s ChatGPT entered the top 10 of the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks for the first time in the second quarter of 2026, according to a Check Point study www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT Among Top 10 Most Impersonated Brands in Phishing Attacks
OpenAI’s chatbot tool ChatGPT ranked among the top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks for the first time
infosecurity-magazine.com