Interested in Law & Tech? Come to Amsterdam 13 and 14 April > 100 presentations (97 on panels, 2 inviteds, and to round up my welcoming) > on privacy, crime, speech, platforms, data.. 38th BILETA conference 2023 first conference was in the 1980s! alti.amsterdam/bileta23

Breaking news: Trump Falls After Lake Ontario being named Lake America he changed the nearby Niagara Falls into Trump Falls

Surprizes :-) in Amsterdam I am getting used to it, but still Yesterday paid 5,25 for a soda (and was even surpised some week ago to pay 4,25) Some years ago when I paid 6 euro for a small bottle of beer Some years ago when I paid 8 euro for a bottle of water

EU publishes consolidated texts of amended directives. The DSA amends Directive 2000/31/EC by deleting Articles 12-15. In the consolidated text this seems the only change. The Dutch implementation in art. 6:196c BW was deleted 2/2/2025. Curious what other Member States also did.

EPIC Series The Madison It is your father Why are you going? It is rude to talk on a phone in a restaurant It is also rude to play on your phone in a restaurant and surf the internet Basically what all of you are doing right now is rude

In legal scholarship, too many papers are not particularly interesting. This is not a new phenomenon, but AI may exacerbate it. What we need are well written, analytical papers, original in their ideas. References should add value: too often, they amount to empty signaling.

Today, four people online.... organizer: Oh a teams link was included? It was a mistake then, sorry about that

Yesterday I had “Streets of Philadelphia” stuck in my head and thought the Boss could rewrite the lyrics. Also, I told yesterday the new students I hardly post here and might stop. So here I am. The Boss wrote this song, about the horror. youtube.com/watch?v=GDaPdpwA…

A non-issue is not really an issue so a non-paper... Strange name, but apparently common. Never encountered it before. Non-paper by the Netherlands on the Digital Fairness Act rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/…

Even when AI-generated music, films, scholarly texts are impressive, is that what we want? I notice getting tired by reading AI-produced material. Enjoyment seems related to know that a human created. Like humans playing chess is engaging, way more than watching computers.

Brussels Effect (Bradford 2012/20) avant la lettre in Goldsmith & Wu (2006): Directive 95/46 as global law “results from the unusual combination of Europe’s enormous market power and its unusual concern for its citizens’ privacy” p. 176 - considered Cybercrime Convention failure

Digital learning environment Canvas. So not intuitive: you publish, get green sign, but it is not published, because folder it is in is not published. This month again two colleagues thought they published but did not. Also I sometimes still make this mistake @Canvas_by_Inst

Several of my students are robots. Never understood this algorithm behind the automated check on websites whether you are a robot. I normally pass the test, but not every human apparently.

Negative Google reviews posted by criminals and then asking money to remove them. Targetting small businesses. Was just told about it by colleague who used a moving company that is a victim. Hope Google helps to weed it out.

So this AI company @scale_AI does not know what I am doing, and believes I am a biologist...

Since 2015, Cabanac (..) uncover published papers that aren't upfront about their use of AI tech. As computers have gone from spitting out veritable gibberish to convincing, human-like compositions, the fight has gotten harder. futurism.com/the-byte/paper-…

This observation about personal ads seems equally applicable to language models: Often the results are ludicrously inaccurate; sometimes they are creepily precise (maybe with LLMs the often and sometimes interchange) theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The revolution of AI in education is not such as marketers and corporate AI want us to believe. It is more of a fragile and faked kite that flights in revolting air and has no robust anchors. Against the Commodification of Education — if harms then not AI ojs.uni-oldenburg.de/journal…

Apparently the networks increase. Believe never saw more than 1000, here we have 1637 partners.... (and they all value our privacy)

seeking granularity in “profiling for commercial purposes” @elineleijten simone van der hof Dissecting the commercial profiling of children: A proposed taxonomy and assessment of the GDPR, UCPD, DSA and AI Act in light of the precautionary sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @alti_VU