AI Act as amended by Omnibus (Recast, original and redline)
now you too can read the ai act's next evolution
I'm Professor of Technology Law and Policy at the Faculty of Laws at University College London. On this page you can find some writing, a list of my publications and links, some free teaching syllabi, lists of media appearances and talks, and some other things from time-to-time. If I'm giving a talk for you, you can use my bio and photo without further permission or confirmation. You may even find some shooting stars.
Current Legal Problems
At UCL Laws, we moved our journal, which documents and tracks our 75+ year old lecture series, from Oxford University Press to open access UCL Press. We also wanted to make a website — so I made on for us at https://currentlegalproblems.org/. It's been an interesting experience
Updated Internet Law and Policy Syllabus
We're publishing the 2025-2026 LLB syllabus for the Internet Law and Policy module at UCL Laws. We hope it is useful!
New Legal Research and Writing Tools
I've been creating some new legal research and writing tools. They're for the nerdy.
Deleting DMs from Twitter using the GDPR
Twitter is falling apart at the seams. You might want to do your best to ensure your DMs don't end up in the wrong hands.
Value-Laden Areas for Standardisation in the AI Act
A note from Michael Veale, UCL (m.veale@ucl.ac.uk) As I have previously noted, the Commission's proposed AI Act gives a significant role to standards bodies, likely CEN and CENELEC, to implement its essential requirements. I have written about that before here. I have often been
The English Law of QR Codes: Presence Tracing and Digital Divides
Posting here in advance of posting on the forthcoming Lex-Atlas Covid 19 project blog: Digital interventions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have attracted great amounts of interest and controversy. In this post, I'll examine the interaction of technology and English law in the case of presence tracing
Access request for call records
This is material for the Eyes Online Scottish Universities Insight Institute event in February 2020, concerning making data requests to mobile phone companies for mast and location data. It may be useful to others too.
Response to the ICO's blog on regulating adtech
Response from Dr Johnny Ryan, Jim Killock, Dr Michael Veale to the ICO's recent blog updating on their thoughts on adtech enforcement. The ICO has today announced that it will be taking no substantive action to end the largest data breach ever recorded in the UK. The "
Reasons for Concern around Mariana Mazzucato's Proposals for Data Governance
Economist Mariana Mazzucato has recently been writing about the governance of data. I have some problems with her proposals. Mazzucato's theses (primarily found in her books The Entrepreneurial State[1] and The Value of Everything[2]) have generated recent public interest. Her work inherits a lot from innovation
Comments on the consultation to the draft EDPB Video Surveillance Guidelines
I'm going to start to make a habit of posting bits and pieces I do here that should be public, in case they are of interest to anyone. I wrote a short, partial response to the recent guidelines from the European Data Protection Board on video surveillance. It
A better data access request template
A powerful and comprehensive template letter to make the most of the rights to access your data and metadata in the GDPR.