Great to be back @uottawa.ca last week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Centre for Law Technology and Society; reunite with brilliant, talented and committed colleagues; and talk about the future of digital rights.
Flottille #Madleen : le reporter d'@aljazeera.com Omar Faiad a atterri en #France à 16h, après avoir été retenu arbitrairement plus de 24h par les autorités en #Israël. Yanis Mhamdi de @blast-info.fr est toujours détenu. RSF dénonce ces détentions arbitraires et exige la libération de Yanis Mhamdi.
#Israel: Together with @efjeurope.bsky.social, we urge the Israeli authorities to immediately release French journalist Yanis Mhamdi, who was arbitrarily arrested on board the Madleen vessel. No journalist should be forced to sign documents to secure their release. @blast-info.fr
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social is carrying aid to Gaza, but today Israel has already jammed their communications and threatened to stop the ship.
🚨 Help protect the international volunteers on board, by sending the letter linked below to their governments 🚨
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.
China’s restrictions on 7 rare earth elements (retaliation for Trump-tariffs) raise supply concerns re critical minerals — esp for ICTs and “green” technologies
www.ft.com/content/24187c18-9cfe-4b8c-8863-6f3bf09e2cd4
AI was built by humans and fed human inputs- of course it will reflect human values like survival and self-preservation.
“Anthropic says its Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail software engineers when they try to take it offline.”
techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...
Perhaps it would have helped if over the last 30 years Germany had developed a comprehensive system of free access to legal information, so that it was more likely that non-proprietary alternatives to a German legal LLM could emerge.
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The environmental cost of Al is real, but blaming users? There's an irony about the same corporations that create endless advertising, surveillance capitalism, and militarized tech now trying to guilt individuals for tiny acts of politeness
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Al is built on the promise of "humanizing" it, yet human gestures (respect, relationality) are being framed as a barrier to industrial efficiency
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futurism.com/altman-pleas...
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
We are witnessing live how the extreme right is gentrifying Nazism.
👏🏽 @francescabria.bsky.social
CDT joined @pressfreedom.bsky.social & others urging the U.S. to stand up for press freedom after a March 14 EO called for dismantling the U.S. Agency for Global Media. USAGM-funded media provide news to those under authoritarian regimes—abandoning them undermines democracy. cdt.org/insights/cdt...
AI isn’t omniscient, it’s a reflection of its imperfect inputs & instructions— themselves reflections of our imperfect selves
Poland opted for an integrated supervisory approach to AI governance, setting up a new AI Commission composed of existing regulators. However, this new body raised questions about the involvement of independent authorities, most notably the DPA.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
Marine Le Pen condamnée dans l’affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN : ce que la justice lui reproche
UK Police broke into a Quaker Meeting on 27 March and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
Digital imperialism: How US social media firms are using American law to challenge global tech regulation
Parabéns 👏🏽 @yasmincurzi.com @camillegrenier.bsky.social
@mmasnick.bsky.social 👏🏽
The Times: “Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta”. Incredibly proud of my colleague @ravinaikawo.bsky.social at @awo.agency for representing @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social in this landmark case www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...
Bravo à toutes celles et ceux (notamment chez LQDN, chez @signal.org, etc.) et qui se sont mobilisés pour rappeler à la raison tant les Sénateurs que les Députés.
On a réussi à ne pas trop passer pour des cons aux yeux du monde grâce à vos efforts 💪
Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Repeal S.230
“They appear to be doing this out of a deep misunderstanding of how the law works combined with an astounding naiveté about how this process will be used by the MAGA faithful.”
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
