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