Here's the link to the article by Olivia Carville: news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...
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TJ McIntyre
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I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
"TikTok’s algorithm pushed him thousands of videos about suicide, sadness, hopelessness and loneliness, right up until he killed himself." The company did this "by design" to test the effect on "daily active users" "one of the top data points by which Wall Street judges social media companies"
New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
This is (yet another) major escalation from Russia.
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 8h agoAn explosive-laden drone with a detonator was found near a Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport overnight, Bild reported. The airport briefly suspended operations. Police are investigating possible sabotage and searching for the operator. #Ukraine
“In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code.” Mad stuff.
philpax@philpax.me · 21h agoa new contestant has entered FelonyBench: the UK government! www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
To all the lgbt folks out there who say age verification doesn’t matter. Surprise surprise they intended to use it against us. Like this doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see. When they get to change the rules all of us are targets.
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 7d agoThe Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.
EDPB Letter to the European Commission on US Supreme Court judgment Trump v. Slaughter. www.edpb.europa.eu/documents/ed...
Social media bans cannot be effectively enforced, and come with profound implications for everyone's human rights. Nevertheless the EU and Irish government seem hell bent on pushing through similar legislation here, without presenting a shred of evidence that such a ban will have a positive impact.
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
But this could never happen in America, right? /anakin_padme.gif
How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners (Gift Article)
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
nytimes.com
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
wapo.st
Germany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 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
How to spoil your weekend: Read my new paper, “Putting the Brakes on a No-Drive List” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Its trying to get ahead of plausibly foreseeable repression. I hope it scares you. It scares me.
Christmas has come early for data protection folks.
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...
AI agent that escaped OpenAI's sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face carried out a 4.5-day autonomous intrusion involving about 17,600 actions. huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... www.reuters.com/business/ope...
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
This is the correct decision. Private spaces should restrict ppl from using these.
DEF CON@defcon.bsky.social · last wk.Friendly #DEFCON34 reminder: Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities are prohibited at DEF CON. There is no exception for recording glasses with prescription lenses. Be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them. Please see our Photo policies for more. defcon.org/html/links/d...
This case illustrates why we must not allow Meta to normalise its pervert glasses.
Lorcan Murphy’s use of ‘spy pen’ to record women in Dublin part of ‘path to future crime’
The Dubliner was jailed this month for murdering US nurse Mackenzie Michalski in Hungary
irishtimes.com
Rich English woman threatening Irish cultural organisation, outside of the supine UK press I can't see that story playing well anywhere else
Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 2w agoRowling 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.
To reinforce what @hypervisible.blacksky.app says below, recall that Zuckerberg’s first project Facemash pulled students’ images from campus directories so visitors could rate them without their consent. Each project of his since—especially Facebook—has operated with little or no regard for consent.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoNo worries. ai will solve it 🙄
“The judgment contains a clear warning for practitioners. Witness coaching, by any means, is not permitted. Witnesses should be firmly discouraged from using AI to “prepare” their evidence.”
Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 2w agoCourt of Appeal rules on AI use by witness at a criminal trial www.linkedin.com/posts/judeco...
🇪🇺BKA (German Federal Criminal Police) releases new stats on #ChatControl: NCMEC/US tech reports have never been so unreliable! In 2025, 52% of flags were legally irrelevant. As a result, 113,000 private photos, videos & chats were wrongfully exposed (+14%)—a new record. 🧵 1/6
The thing that everybody said wouldn't work isn't working
Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2w agoA year after the Online Safety Act, British regulator Ofcom confirms its age-verification regulations haven't stopped kids from accessing porn — despite widespread industry compliance. "Our research shows that almost half of the pornography services visited by children have no age checks in place"
A banned song in Germany has become a rallying cry against a far-right surge www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
A banned song in Germany has become a rallying cry against a far-right surge
Surge in support for far-right AfD leaves young woman from a village in former East Germany ‘very, very afraid’
irishtimes.com