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Enforce is hiring: AI Expert How data about European defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and non-state actors

Enforce at the @iccl.bsky.social is hiring.

Full-time role. Remote in the EU.

Apply early. Deadline 5pm Dublin time on 15 April 2026.

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

#AI #AIPolicy #EUAIAct #DigitalRights #TechPolicy
@abeba.bsky.social @rocher.lc @techpolicypress.bsky.social @leevisaari.bsky.social

this took a while, but what a beautiful while it was 🌟

Correction: I got this yesterday, unfortunately. The agreement on the procedure is not certain, might even be rejected. Apologies, I made a wrong assumption.

I love all the various procedures the EU legislative nerds come up with to make sure decisions are taken at the end of the day

🤞for our guy Wojciech Wiewiórowski but it's not looking great right now

@mariamagierska.bsky.social

I thought nothing would top the Belgian DPA independence debacle, but here we are!

I am going to repost this until I get an answer or resultion

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

Shout out to NCC for whoever came up with this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

The Case of the Mysterious Citations Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

Last month, the Polish president vetoed the long-overdue bill implementing the #DSA using some bizarre, unclear arguments that referred to a proposal no longer on the table. h.

I write about it today in Kultura Liberalna (in Polish).

re bubbles bursting, I went recently deep into the allegories of tulipmania, here's one by one of the brueghels

Before the Commission published the first fine against X under the DSA in December, the NYT reported that EU regulators considered “fining X more than $1 billion”.

The now public decision reveals how the Commission arrived at €120 million - and what the ceiling for future fines is.

should print this on a shirt
www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...

DSA nie cenzuruje internetu. A Karol Nawrocki nie wie, co wetuje DSA nie cenzuruje internetu. Weto Karola Nawrockiego odwołuje się do czasów sprzed Neostrady.

kulturaliberalna.pl/2026/02/03/d...

Last month, the Polish president vetoed the long-overdue bill implementing the #DSA using some bizarre, unclear arguments that referred to a proposal no longer on the table. h.

I write about it today in Kultura Liberalna (in Polish).

"Competitiveness and fundamental rights: A false dilemma" 📚 This is the title of @mariamagierska.bsky.social's chapter in our latest European Council Experts' Debrief on the Digital #Omnibus

Find out more about her perspective 👉 tepsa.eu/policy-advic...
@eui-eu.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social

Judgement in WhatsApp vs #edpb on the admissibility and direct concern of the #edpb binding decisions coming up soon!

ok but how is it almost the end of the year and we still have no news on the EDPS elections?

ok but how is it almost the end of the year and we still have no news on the EDPS elections?

In the recent EUCO Debrief TEPSA - Trans European Policy Studies Association, you can find my (very, very) critical comment on the #DigitalOmnibus Proposal.

I argue that the initiative undermines the fundamental values of the EU without enhancing the competitiveness of European operators. 🧵

Thank you!

A link to full text (together with opposing views!): tepsa.eu/wp-content/u...

3️⃣ Finally, the proposed changes are built on a false dichotomy between competitiveness and fundamental rights; instead, these values should be treated as complementary.

2️⃣ Secondly, the proposal creates more uncertainty than clarity, which will only create a greater burden for small and medium-sized companies.

1️⃣ First, because it will be applicable to all operators, including non-European ones, it is unclear how it will incentivise the European players.

In the recent EUCO Debrief TEPSA - Trans European Policy Studies Association, you can find my (very, very) critical comment on the #DigitalOmnibus Proposal.

I argue that the initiative undermines the fundamental values of the EU without enhancing the competitiveness of European operators. 🧵

Omnibus Legislation and EU Regulatory Reform:

Between Efficiency and Constitutional Integrity

A special Issue of the European Journal of Risk Regulation - Call for Papers
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In Critical Condition – How To Stabilize Researcher Data Access? | TechPolicy.Press Mark Scott and LK Seiling discuss the struggle for researcher access to social media data and an alternative future where transparency is seen as a civic good.

Two years into Europe’s Digital Services Act, data access for researchers is on life support, write Mark Scott and LK Seiling. Yet an alternative future is possible—one built on openness, interoperability, and platforms that treat data access as a civic and scientific good.

Complaint v Ireland to European Commission re process appointing ex-Meta lobbyist as Data Protection Commissioner Ireland's appointment process lacked procedural safeguards against conflicts of interest and political interference and may be interpreted by the tech industry as a signal of impunity

We filled a complaint against Ireland to the European Commission today.
Ireland has appointed an ex-Meta lobbyist as its new Data Protection Commissioner.
This will be interpreted by the tech industry as a signal of impunity.
The European Commission must intervene.

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

TikTok and Meta breaching the DSA, EU Commission finds Both TikTok and Meta are breaching the DSA, according to EU Commission. The platforms are not transparent enough with their data for research use, and Meta makes reporting illegal content and appealing moderation decisions too difficult.

Both TikTok and Meta are breaching the DSA, according to EU Commission. The platforms are not transparent enough with their data for research use, and Meta makes reporting illegal content and appealing moderation decisions too difficult.