“The FCC issued a public notice this week warning that the US would retaliate should the EU prioritise European satellite operators over US alternatives such as Starlink. The warning comes as the EU has to decide on how to allocate a slice of its satellite spectrum.”
www.ft.com/content/f56e...
Risk management in action:
“This technology needs to be utilised by democracies. I think it has to be a partnership with a number of different private companies.”
www.ft.com/content/653f...
"In addition to doling out Worldcoin to new World ID holders, Tools for Humanity awards its cryptocurrency to independent Orb operators in some markets outside the US each time they issue a new ID. Nearly 18m people have received World IDs, including 1.1m in N. America."
www.wsj.com/cmo-today/sa...
Having worked with UN Refugee Agency to understand the impact of identification requirements on displaced people's access to digital connectivity and financial services all over the world, it's disappointing to read the USG is pursuing such a regressive policy
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"This is a public procurement failure... Palantir’s tools were embedded in the [UK Ministry of Defense] and the company was awarded a second contract worth over three times as much as the first... A so-called land-and-expand tactic by the company."
www.ft.com/content/5207...
There is an inherent irony in Palantir listing the immigration crackdown that it is powering as being a potential risk for the company.
www.404media.co/palantir-whi...
"'Starlink bans' are better understood as assertions of telecom sovereignty, with governments applying existing tools to force LEO providers back inside national regulatory and security perimeters."
www.ictworks.org/stop-fightin...
Good stuff from @wayanvota.bsky.social
h/t @emryss.bsky.social 🎩
Amen!
Is anyone monitoring AI companies' compliance with California's Generative Artificial Intelligence Training Data Transparency Act (AB 2013), which came into effect on January 1st?
"Social media age limits would be better set at a European level — rather than nationally — the EU’s digital chief [Henna Virkkunen] said on Tuesday. The European Commission aims to present a proposal before the summer." www.mlex.com/mlex/technol...
Our new research initiative @digsovobs.bsky.social has a page! Give us a follow.
The Digital Sovereignty Observatory examines how emerging technologies reshape social and political boundaries.
@kerenweitzberg.bsky.social @sixfouronea.net @emryss.bsky.social
www.kcl.ac.uk/research/the...
“A full technological ‘decoupling’ from the United States is neither a realistic objective nor one that would serve Europe’s broader strategic interests,” said Lithuania’s economy minister, Edvinas Grikšas.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
Kenya's data protection authority has confirmed that the biometric data collected by various Worldcoin affiliated companies has finally been deleted after its illegal collection 👁️
thekenyatimes.com/law/data-pro...
Grace Mutung’u, Magda Brewczyńska and I have a paper on this case coming out soon 🖋️
"Global humanitarianism is in crisis. The movement that grew up after the Holocaust, drew strength from the cold war and fed off the international outrage at the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s is bewildered and besieged."
www.ft.com/content/8600...
@anupamchander.bsky.social with the money quote:
“My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
"Cybersecurity expert Fleur van Leusden likens tech company attempts to sell sovereignty as a service to vegan chicken breast; it cannot be both. Technology is either sovereign or it is foreign."
www.ft.com/content/8fc2...
"The governor of New York is considering regulating online sports betting with requirements for biometric age checks."
www.biometricupdate.com/202601/new-y...
Thanks for all of these :-)
Refreshing my undergrad data ethics syllabus. Making decisions on the most instructive controversies to include as case studies. Any obvious omissions?
23andMe data sale
AVs/safety
Facial recognition/bias
Algorithmic sentencing (COMPAS)
Mental health (Crisis Text Line)
Gen AI & IP
TikTok in the US
"Children are the easiest targets for tech companies because they don’t know the difference between suffering and friction — one difference between children and adults is that adults do. Or at least, we’re supposed to."
www.thecut.com/article/broo...
<< From 1989 to 2014, battle-related deaths from cross-border conflicts averaged less than 15k a year. Beginning in 2014, the average has risen to over 100k a year. As states increasingly disregard limits on the lawful use of force, this may be just the beginning of a deadly new era of conflict. >>
<< In Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises,” the character Mike Campbell explains how he went bankrupt: “Gradually and then suddenly.” The decades of imperfect but transformative peace that the U.N. Charter helped create now faces the same fate. >>
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
OpenAI and Anthropic will start predicting when users are underage
Economy and Society dedicated an issue to him: 54(3)
Pleased to share my article examining how circulations of data, capital, and discourse shape migrants' im/mobilities through the case of the UK's ASPEN Card – proudly in Ulla Berg, Carolina Sánchez Boe & @dbyler.bsky.social's SI in @survstudiesnet.bsky.social
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"[Corporate humanitarianism] began around two decades ago but has now become the dominant model of humanitarian engagement... Can the UNHCR profit from being led by IKEA’s CEO?" aje.io/r7ifs3
Tim Wu: "In some ways, the American AI race looks not unlike the race to build the grandest cathedrals in late medieval Europe. Then, the motives were a mixture of pride, economics and a sincere religious belief the structures would bring humanity closer to salvation."
www.ft.com/content/1258...
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank
www.404media.co/unauthorized...
