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Michael Veale @[email protected]

@mikarv

Assoc prof, digital rights & regulation @UCLLaws. Not resigned to today's tech power structures (yet). More active on https://t.co/pCUFKDwrUm

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Michael Veale @mikarv@someone.elses.computer(@mikarv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

translation: apple wants a new reason for people to buy phones now that their ‘new feature’ has slowed to an island of dead pixels at the top of the screen.
the unnecessary replacement of phones has been shown to be much more environmentally damaging that energy use from cloud.

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@rachelcoldicutt@assemblag.es(@rachelcoldicutt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I've spent almost my whole working life making fun stuff on the Internet and even I think we should draw the line at podcast popularity equating leading to a seat in the Lords, as if the institution wasn't weird enough in the first place

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Michael Veale @mikarv@someone.elses.computer(@mikarv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

also as long as Twitter’s unlawful tracking infrastructure t.co is down (don’t call it a link shortener, they do that visually with JS+HTML), no one can click on any of the few ads from the advertisers that remain. cash haemorrhage for every hour it’s broken.

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Kim van Sparrentak(@kimvsparrentak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Bad news actually for anyone who wants to stream Parlement... After our success in IMCO, an aggressive media lobby campaign swayed a majority of the EP to vote AGAINST ending geoblocking of streaming services.

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MMitchell(@mmitchell_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At Hugging Face, we've been defining a gradient of openness, looking at the context + sensitivity of different models & data and creating mechanisms to address them. Below is a great example of our v2 of 'gating', huggingface.co/StanfordShahLa… with required ethics training from CITI.

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Tim Cowen(@TC_4KBW) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now the fun begins with the case proceeding to the remediation phase - is dismantling the walls of the garden enough? Damage to a decentralised open web needs to be put back into the position absent the harm..

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Michael Veale @mikarv@someone.elses.computer(@mikarv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Push notifications and their interplay with battery life is a pernicious and hidden form of platform power. Third parties could be selected by the user provide these services but they are not allowed to.

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Meredith Whittaker(@mer__edith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/

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Open Rights Group(@OpenRightsGroup) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 WE WON AGAIN 🚨

The Court of Appeal has confirmed the Immigration Exception is UNLAWFUL in the case brought by ORG and the3million to defend migrants' access to their data.

Home Office can't sidestep Parliament when using data to profile migrants. openrightsgroup.org/press-releases…

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