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Frederik_Borgesius

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Law Prof at iHub, interdisciplinary research hub on digitalization and society & Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud university, NL
Mastodon handle: https://akademienl.social/@Frederik_Borgesius
University web page:
https://www.ru.nl/en/people/zuiderveen-borgesius-f

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Frederik_Borgesius, to apple
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'Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store... after being ordered to do so by the Chinese government, which cited national security concerns.
Telegram and Signal - two other foreign messaging apps - were also removed from the store on Friday, according to app tracking firms Qimai and AppMagic.'
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-removes-whatsapp-threads-china-app-store-wsj-reports-2024-04-19/

Frederik_Borgesius, to privacy
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Dutch public broadcaster website on the 'pay or consent' guidance by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

https://nos.nl/artikel/2517179-privacywaakhonden-meta-mag-gebruikers-niet-dwingen-zich-te-laten-volgen

#privacy #dataprotection #law #economics #gdpr #surveillance

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With a brief quote from me:

Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, professor of ICT and Law at Radboud University, says that the EDPB's position 'makes sense. The regulator should only explain the law, but not invent new laws. It follows from the law that personalised ads are only allowed after valid consent, which must be "freely given". But if it's hard for people not to use a certain platform, it's questionable whether such content is really voluntary.'

https://nos.nl/artikel/2517179-privacywaakhonden-meta-mag-gebruikers-niet-dwingen-zich-te-laten-volgen

Frederik_Borgesius, to privacy
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On Facebook’s ‘pay or consent’ scheme.

‘As regards ‘consent or pay’ models implemented by large online platforms, the EDPB considers that, in most cases, it will not be possible for them to comply with the requirements for valid consent, if they confront users only with a choice between consenting to processing of personal data for behavioural advertising purposes and paying a fee.’
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2024/edpb-consent-or-pay-models-should-offer-real-choice_en

Frederik_Borgesius, to Health
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‘Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international guidelines aimed at preventing obesity and chronic diseases’. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/17/nestle-adds-sugar-to-infant-milk-sold-in-poorer-countries-report-finds

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law
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Sascha van Schendel - Regulating risk profiling by law enforcement. a task for data protection law, non-discrimination law and criminal procedural law - 2024 PhD

https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/89561573/van_Schendel_Regulating_15-03-2024.pdf

Frederik_Borgesius, to tech
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‘TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English. Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese.’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law
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I had not seen this yet. A pop-up in my iPhone, where Apple enables me to select another default browser.

Frederik_Borgesius, to humanrights
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If countries are not taking enough action to mitigate climate change, do they violate human rights? Today, the European Court of Human Rights will be delivering Grand Chamber rulings in the cases of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, Carême v. France and Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others https://www.echr.coe.int/w/forthcoming-rulings

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law
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‘US victim wrongly locked up for years vindicated as identity thief pleads guilty. William Woods was sent to a mental institution because Matthew Keirans – who faces 32 years in prison – stole his name for decades’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/07/identity-theft-william-woods-matthews-keirans

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Curious difference between media in the UK and the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, media tend to write about William W (not William Woods) when writing about suspects and victims. The Dutch tradition is based on self-regulation by the media; not on law.

Frederik_Borgesius, to privacy
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'The reform of Australia’s federal Privacy Act 1988 [!] seems to have become a never-ending process of vague uncertain commitments regularly delaying actual legislation. The latest instalment is the new Labor government’s Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report (September 2023). Draft legislation is not expected until some time in 2024.' Graham Greenleaf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4716602

Frederik_Borgesius, to privacy
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'India’s 2023 Data Privacy Act: Business/government Friendly, Consumer Hostile', by Graham Greenleaf
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4666389

Frederik_Borgesius, to privacy
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Looking forward to Monday!

Rotterdam Symposium on AI-Experiences and Public Safety.

Organised by @marcschuilenburg and his colleagues at Dutch Surveillance Studies

I present a paper 'Automated decision-making and artificial intelligence at European borders and their risks for human rights'. The amazing @yiran_yang is first author. Pascal Beckers, Evelien Brouwer & me are co-authors.

https://dutchsurveillancestudies.org/upcoming-seminar/

Frederik_Borgesius, to Economics
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Sigh. Charlene ‘De Carvalho-Heineken - the richest person in the Netherlands - has hardly paid any tax for years. Every year, she receives hundreds of millions of euros in profit distributions from her shares in Heineken and funnels that money via Luxembourg to the tax haven of Jersey, NRC revealed.’ https://nltimes.nl/2024/04/05/tax-authority-investigating-many-others-use-heineken-construction-tax-avoidance

Frederik_Borgesius, to tech
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‘China will attempt to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea and India this year with artificial intelligence-generated content after making a dry run with the presidential poll in Taiwan, Microsoft has warned.

The US tech firm said it expected Chinese state-backed cyber groups to target high-profile elections in 2024, with North Korea also involved’.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/05/china-using-ai-disrupt-elections

Frederik_Borgesius, to environment
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‘A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since the 2016 Paris climate agreement, a study has shown.

This powerful cohort of state-controlled corporations and shareholder-owned multinationals are the leading drivers of the climate crisis’.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016

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‘Although governments pledged in Paris to cut greenhouse gases, the analysis reveals that most mega-producers increased their output of fossil fuels and related emissions in the seven years after that climate agreement, compared with the seven years before.’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016

Frederik_Borgesius, to Economics
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‘All of the world’s billionaires younger than 30 inherited their wealth - the first wave of “the great wealth transfer” in which more than 1,000 billionaires will pass on more than $5.2tn to their heirs over the next two decades.’ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/03/all-billionaires-under-30-have-inherited-their-wealth-research-finds

Frederik_Borgesius, to ai
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‘The Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war’.
“There was a completely permissive policy regarding the casualties of [bombing] operations,” one source said. “A policy so permissive that in my opinion it had an element of revenge.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

Frederik_Borgesius, to random
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Hm.

My MacBook didn’t choose the best week for its screen to give up :(

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law
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‘A judge in California… dismissed the tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a non-profit that has published reports chronicling the rise of racist, antisemitic and extremist content on X, formerly Twitter, since Musk’s acquisition.’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/elon-musk-hate-speech-lawsuit

Frederik_Borgesius, to Bulgaria
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European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU institutions and bodies, says the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

Full decision is published now https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2024-03/24-03-08-edps-investigation-ec-microsoft365_en.pdf

Frederik_Borgesius, to China
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‘Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state… MPs and peers are thought to be among 43 people who the government looks set to confirm have been targeted by cyber-attacks backed by the Chinese state’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/details-of-millions-of-uk-voters-accessed-by-chinese-state-ministers-will-say

(I edited the toot to add a better link - thanks to Vincent Toubiana for warning me.)

Frederik_Borgesius, to ai
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'Regulating Risk Profiling by Law Enforcement: A task for data protection law, non-discrimination law and criminal procedural law', by Sascha van Schendel

Whole PhD thesis online, open access
https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/regulating-risk-profiling-by-law-enforcement-a-task-for-data-prot

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