Kenya’s DPA will recognize BCRs approved by the EU and other countries, provided personal data is transferred to those countries. Am I wrong?

Seven Arguments for Limiting Russmedia’s Reach in European Courts Daphne Keller explores potential limits to the ruling's impact and arguments that platforms might make in saying new obligations do not apply to them.

My second Russmedia post is out! This one is about all the arguments for limiting the impact of Russmedia, how important it is for them to succeed, and how weak I think they actually are given the reasoning of the ruling.

techpolicy.press/seven-argume...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

The Korean Law Information Center's website now provides the English version of the Korean Enforcement Decree of the AI Basic Act.

Law: lnkd.in/esyEZ4Vw.
Decree: lnkd.in/eZ4C9m4G.
Guidelines: lnkd.in/ejAJak5X

FOX GRAPHIC: STRAIT OF HORMUZ TANKER TRAFFIC TODAY: 4 BEFORE CONFLICT: 100+ DAILY

is that bad?

America Is Losing the Innovation Race Why the future of science might be Chinese.

"Under President Donald Trump, the government is turning universities from partners into adversaries." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

While the President sends more American troops to the Middle East, the price of everything - groceries, gas, mortgages - keeps rising.

Let’s be clear: we are worse off today, and no safer, than before this unnecessary war began.

Internal messages of concern about platform decisions were used to great effect by the plaintiffs' attorneys in the social media cases. As @masnick.com observes, this will lead companies to shut down internal dissent channels or internal reviews of risks. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/e...

‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY …under the “design liability” theory, implementing encryption becomes evidence of negligence, because a small number of bad actors also use encrypted communications […] encryption itself harms no o…

‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151775
#EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #meta #surveillance

Request:

Does anyone have a person/outlet that went through the evidence presented about addiction at the KGM/LA Social Media trial?

Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Judge on the Anthropic case. "Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/t...

It's okay to hate Meta and wish for its collapse and failure. But the two jury verdicts this week are not the vehicle for that. They're going to have widespread impact across the internet, and will do real damage to every other internet service.

Wonderful news for us all on the mainland!

I got wild and linkedin-posted, but we all know the real privacy folks are here, so if you're on both places, bear with me, I'm gonna talk about the CJEU case that came out today. Because this is a pretty big one for privacy nerds!

Read along: Brillen Rottler GmbH & Co. KG v TC (Case C-526/24)

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

$200 BILLION for a war of choice that Americans don't want and that isn't making us safer. This should be an absolute nonstarter. 

The best way to end this war, protect our troops, save civilian lives, & rein in a lawless Administration is to cut off funding. I’m a hell no.

Today in history: U.S. bombed Cambodia for the first time. "A total of 3,630 flights over Cambodia dropped 110,000 tons of bombs during a 14-month period through April 1970." www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich is the Bing Professor of Population Studies, Emeritus and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. He has carried out field, laboratory and theoretical research on th...

It's important to note the media's role in pushing Paul Erlich's harmful ideas. His Stanford bio even today says, "He has appeared on more than 1,000 TV and radio programs and was a correspondent for NBC News." Johnny Carson helped make him famous. woods.stanford.edu/people/paul-...

Decisions were being made to "maintain a strong relationship" with political figures to avoid threats of regulation or bans, not because of the risks to users, the TikTok staffer said.

Shocker.

The Biggest Lies About Section 230 YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

Mike Masnick joined my section 230 mini series this week to break down how this one law became so villainized and debunk the most common myths about it.

Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93

This @nytimes.com obituary presents a largely glowing portrait of a man whose apocalyptic predictions of a 1968 "population bomb" justified coercive sterilization policies in many parts of the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

Event: What Place Does Law Have in the International Order? w/ Prof. Philippa Webb KC - 8 April, 6pm

Webb is an expert in public international law, international dispute settlement, human rights, international organisations, humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Register: bit.ly/3OXxe5n

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

People in my neighborhood were out, kids were playing, and dogs were greeting each other--thanks to the extra hour of sunlight we had this evening. Let's make Daylight Savings Time permanent.

This line of attack against Trump Admin decisions will be devastating in a variety of cases, including findings underlying replacement tariffs: “it is clear that the outcome was fatally predetermined by the Department’s retaliatory animus. Prejudgment [fails] requirements of the Due Process Clause.”

Anthropic sues the US government In response to the Pentagon’s unprecedented, punitive determination that Anthropic is a national security supply chain risk, the AI startup has...

Like they said they would, Anthropic has filed suit against the US Government:

“These actions are unprecedented and unlawful. The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech.”

Read the complaint
sherwood.news/power/anthro...

Looking for someone to write an index for an edited volume on digital trade. Please DM me with any recommendations.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

From FT comments

Prediction markets are betting on death YouTube video by Drew Harwell

Prediction markets are betting on death

The dystopian betting sites let anyone profit off war and disaster, and insiders are cashing in

www.youtube.com/shorts/-UMYl...

The Dutch DPA is conducting an investigation into Reddit, Inc. (Reddit). The DPA has raised questions regarding the legality of Reddit's licensing of Public Content from its users to LLM Partners. See uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E...