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.
Together with Robert Gorwa, I have authored a book on the malicious misuse of AI and how it might be stopped, across the whole stack. It's forthcoming next year with MIT Press. You can read it as a preprint https://homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/badcomputers/ or https:
The EU Kids Act is a drafting disaster. I've written a new paper on all the things — or at least some of them — that are wrong with it.
now you too can read the ai act's next evolution
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
We're publishing the 2025-2026 LLB syllabus for the Internet Law and Policy module at UCL Laws. We hope it is useful!
I've been creating some new legal research and writing tools. They're for the nerdy.
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.
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
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
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 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 "
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
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 powerful and comprehensive template letter to make the most of the rights to access your data and metadata in the GDPR.