I've updated UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws — it now features ~40 EU instruments as well as Irish & UK digital laws; what cites each article/para/sub para from a db of 6.5M cases, statutes, decisions, guidance, pending CJEU preliminary rulings & more homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

Much of the scholarship (+ the US govt btw) finds LLMs politically biased (aka too left-leaning). Our new preprint explains why these claims are methodologically misguided and conceptually wrong. So, instead of looking at the outputs, we seek for ‘politics’ inwards, at GPT-5’s web search function

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/...

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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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!

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · last yr.

In "Interception," @bernardkeenan.bsky.social exposes the complex, largely obscure history of a covert and fundamental connection between the secret powers of the state and the means by which we communicate our everyday lives: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255257...

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...

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI

Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking

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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...)

European Law Open@europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 2y ago

On First View: @miikkamh.bsky.social would like to see a little less 'gap' research into the European digital economy, and more attention to the structuring role of law in the current grotesque conditions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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...