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Mahdi

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Working on data rights @A__W______O. Blogging @cyber_solicitor

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I wrote a little something on data rights and why I think they are important thecybersolicitor.com/p/what-data-ri…


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#AImodels event: today the EDPB is meeting companies, organisations, academics, legal and technology experts to get their views on #AI. 🤖🛡️💻 The direct dialogue with experts in the field will help collect input for the next #GDPR opinion on AI. ➡️ europa.eu/!RHBYbg

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Super excited to share how Apple is deploying homomorphic encryption! It'll be used for private information retrieval (mail, calls, content restrictions) and private nearest neighbor search (photos). This was an amazing effort across multiple teams! 💪🎉 machinelearning.apple.com/research/homom…


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Very appropriate for this platform: I wrote my latest piece for New York Times Opinion (gift link) on the tyrannical rise of the "for you" algorithm and how we can take back control of our feeds: nytimes.com/2024/10/21/opi…


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More than just cookies. What are we discussing with clients about the applicability of the Section 5(3) of the ePrivacy directive pursuant to the new @EU_EDPB guidelines (...and nothing about the need for consent, that's for a future episode). 🔹️It's not just about personal…

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The "AI Safety" folks not only have coopted the term safety itself, but are now attempting to weaken what safety cases are, and the intention they fit to serve, to safety-wash abysmal and unverifiable models and make them appear as if they're fit for purpose in critical systems.


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What to expect when you’re expecting the first Generative AI enforcement decisions under the #GDPR: A (very close) look at the EDPB ChatGPT Taskforce Report. I broke a 4-years hiatus on my personal blog to do this deep dive Read the whole piece below: 1/x pdpecho.com/2024/10/15/wha…


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Most people would be better off with a simple static site than Wordpress. Static sites are faster, cheaper, and easier to edit. And because you own your content in plain text you can more easily switch site generator or host. You're not held hostage.


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One of the biggest changes since I wrote my book is that I view Scenario 1 - that AI ability plateaus quickly - as even less likely than I originally assessed. And Scenario 1 is still disruptive. Here's what I wrote then. You can buy Co-Intelligence here: a.co/d/cjRmUdH

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🚨 BREAKING: Like in the movies, the judge in one of the AI copyright lawsuits allows authors' representatives to INSPECT OpenAI's confidential TRAINING DATASET in a secure room. Will it become the norm? Here's what will happen: "Training Data shall be made available for…

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📢 AI Snake Oil is out today! I have too many feelings because this book has been five years in the making. In 2019 I gave a talk on AI Snake Oil and tweeted out the slides. I had no idea my career was about to change. Within a couple of days I had 30 or 40 invites to write a…

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📣NEW! Don’t believe the hype: bigger AI ≠ better AI. @SashaMTL @GaelVaroquaux, and me on the harms of the race to AI scale—from climate costs, to concentrated power, to more surveillance, to the capture of AI research. And what we can do instead 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

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Announcing the opening of ⭐AWO's office in Australia⭐ To celebrate, we’re offering free data privacy health checks up to the value of AUD$10,000 to three organisations undertaking public interest work. Email enquiries@awo.agency by 17 November. 🔎 awo.agency/blog/announcin…


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🚨[Privacy & AI] As many are confused about the state of AI training on Facebook & Instagram and how it affects them, here's a quick public utility summary of Meta's AI practices: ➡️ Meta used public posts from Facebook & Instagram (from 2007 to now) to train its AI. ➡️ The…

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Revisiting 2 of the 5 docs from the Snowden leaks that mention 'cookies'. GCHQ 2009 on 'target detection identifiers': snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/188/ NSA 2011 on 'selector types': snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/172 ...featuring cookie/browser IDs from Google/Doubleclick, FB, Microsoft and more.

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The Algorithm Governance Roundup is out! We interviewed @lara_groves @AdaLovelaceInst on NYC’s algorithm audit regime which requires employers using automated decision-making tools in hiring to be subject to annual bias audits by an independent auditor.👇 eocampaign1.com/web-version?p=…


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Peak AI hype in the tech community was Q1-Q2 2023. Peak AI greed in the public markets was Q1-Q2 2024. But progress on AI research and applications moves on.

"THE peak in the AI frenzy is behind us. Unappreciated by the crowd, it occurred in late February/early March. As they always do, the worst left the party first — and dramatically so." -@Peter_Atwater bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

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Today, our multi-disciplinary team of experts at AWO have published a paper exploring some of the significant data protection issues arising from the development and use of open-source LLMs. You can sign up and download the paper here: buff.ly/45VO1dy

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Closing this weekend!

We have an exciting opportunity for a junior solicitor to join our growing team @A__W______O Details are below. Please apply and share! app.beapplied.com/apply/vwazgymn…



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Apple introduces homomorphic encryption via Swift. A cryptographic technique that enables computations to be done on encrypted data without revealing the underlying unencrypted data in th process. For example during cloud computations. In short, the building blocks of…

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