FTC Tech Summit on AI
I finally had time to watch the AI tech summit very well-organised by the US Federal Trade Commission on 25 January. I’ve tried to note some key points from each speaker.
Continue readingby Ian Brown and Douwe Korff
I finally had time to watch the AI tech summit very well-organised by the US Federal Trade Commission on 25 January. I’ve tried to note some key points from each speaker.
Continue readingThis new analysis identifies at least five areas where the final text of the EU AI Act on law enforcement use of “real time” remote biometric identification (RBI) systems in publicly accessible spaces could be improved from a fundamental rights perspective.
Continue readingCristina Caffarra’s annual competition-fest today in Brussels was as speaker- and content-packed as ever. As well as much discussion of the eagerly anticipated deadline for Digital Markets Act compliance in five weeks, it was a fascinating look beyond narrow antitrust policy to competition policy linkages with industrial and trade policy (with lots of AI on the side).
Continue readingTechnology policy and regulation continues to need more input from technology experts. But please techies (I’m one myself): learn a little about policy and regulation as well?
Continue readingOn 17 October 2023, the UK First-Tier Tribunal held the use of the surveillance system offered by the US company Clearview by non-UK law enforcement and intelligence agencies constituted “an activity which, immediately before [Brexit] completion day, fell outside the scope of EU law”, and hence the GDPR. In this brief analysis, I look at why the Tribunal came to this conclusion, and show it is fundamentally flawed.
Continue readingI conclude that four of the five scenarios analysed by Calo et al. under US law should be criminalised under the Council of Europe’s Cybercrime Convention, but one should not.
Continue readingThe European Data Protection Supervisor Opinion is a well-meant but ultimately futile and doomed attempt to put parts of a thing – the Commission’s proposed framework for financial data sharing – into a box – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – from which it is designed to escape.
Continue readingIt’s popcorn time: the European Commission will tomorrow publish its first list of the “core platform services” it has designated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and hence are subject to its obligations. Today’s Financial Times reports that Apple and Microsoft are pushing back against designation of iMessage and Bing.
Continue readingWhat type of service is TikTok under the Digital Markets Act? And should an interoperability requirement be applied to its new Twitter-like service?
Continue readingOur responses to chapter 3 of Lord Anderson’s review of the UK Investigatory Powers Act, on the use of bulk datasets with “low/no expectation of privacy” by the intelligence agencies.
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