Frederik_Borgesius

@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social

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 Law

EU rules against greenwashing. ‘Parliament has given its final green light to a directive that will improve product labelling and ban the use of misleading environmental claims.’ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240112IPR16772/meps-adopt-new-law-banning-greenwashing-and-misleading-product-information

Frederik_Borgesius, to Netherlands

NL. ‘The police intelligence services unlawfully monitored entire population groups, the Supervisory Committee of the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD) said. In the four-month period between February 23 and July 1, 2022, they crossed that line three times’ https://nltimes.nl/2024/02/08/police-intelligence-services-unlawfully-spied-whole-population-groups

Frederik_Borgesius, to privacy

‘Legitimate Interest is the New Consent – Large-Scale Measurement and Legal Compliance of IAB Europe TCF Paywalls’

Morel, Victor and Santos, Cristiana and Fredholm, Viktor and Thunberg, Adam

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3603216.3624966

Frederik_Borgesius, to tech

‘Iranian state-backed hackers interrupted TV streaming services in the United Arab Emirates to broadcast a deepfake newsreader delivering a report on the war in Gaza, according to analysts at Microsoft.’ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/08/iran-backed-hackers-interrupt-uae-tv-streaming-services-with-deepfake-news

Frederik_Borgesius, to tech

‘Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says. A group known as Volt Typhoon, geared toward sabotage, quietly burrowed into critical US infrastructure networks’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/08/chinese-hack-us-transportation-infrastructure

Frederik_Borgesius, to ai

Looking forward to reading this.

‘The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now’, Hilke Schellmann

Frederik_Borgesius, to security

The MIVD, the Dutch Intelligence Service, has exposed Chinese cyber espionage in the Netherlands. The MIVD discovered sophisticated Chinese malware enabling the espionage. A Chinese state actor is responsible for this. The MIVD states this based on its own intelligence. The MIVD found the malware on a standalone computer network of the army. No serious harm for army apparently. https://www.ncsc.nl/documenten/publicaties/2024/februari/6/mivd-aivd-advisory-coathanger-tlp-clear https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/02/06/mivd-onthult-werkwijze-chinese-spionage-in-nederland

Frederik_Borgesius, to random

Fun! Starting after lunch: ‘Navigating the EU AI Act: Innovation, Regulation, and the Future of the Digital Society’, in Groningen. @mikarv @oj_gstrein, me, and more in the first panel https://www.rug.nl/jantina-tammes-school/calendar/2024/navigating-the-eu-ai-act-innovation-regulation-and-the-future-of-the-digital-society?lang=en

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law

Reading the AI Act. Complicated stuff.

Frederik_Borgesius,

AI Act. ‘Polygraphs’ (lie detectors) are not banned, but are merely categorized as ‘high risk’. Annex III art. 6 and 7 (law enforcement and immigration).

A ban would have made sense to me. It’s not really my expertise, but I’ve seen meta review papers that conclude that such tech is snake oil.

Frederik_Borgesius,

AI Act. The requirement for a fundamental rights impact assessment (FRIA) applies, in short, to AI deployers in the public sector and private parties if they provide public services. And to AI operators that use high-risk systems for credit scoring or life or health insurance underwriting. If I understand it correctly, most of the private sector is thus excluded from the FRIA requirement. Art. 29a.

Frederik_Borgesius,

AI Act. As expected, it contains a debiasing exception to the GDPR’s in-principle ban on using special categories of data (art 10(5) AI Act), if the AI operator uses the data for bias detection and correction. There are - sensible - strict rules and safeguards. The provision has much improved since the original proposal. For background see https://iapp.org/news/a/using-sensitive-data-to-prevent-ai-discrimination-does-the-eu-gdpr-need-a-new-exception/

Frederik_Borgesius,

AI Act. I’m very happy that the final text says ‘deployer’, rather than ‘user’ as the original proposal confusingly said.

Frederik_Borgesius,

AI Act. A humble request to the EU when they are finalizing the text. Could you please present the dozens of definitions alphabetically?

Frederik_Borgesius,

About lie decors being snake oil.

'It is not possible to confidently infer happiness from a smile, anger from a scowl, or sadness from a frown, as much of current technology tries to do when applying what are mistakenly believed to be the scientific facts.’ From a review paper by Barrett et al.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31313636/ @douwekorff

Frederik_Borgesius, to tech

‘Deal on strengthening consumers’ right to repair… EU negotiators reached a provisional deal on a bill that aims to reduce waste and bolster the repair sector by making product repairs more accessible and cost-effective.’
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240129IPR17216/deal-on-strengthening-consumers-right-to-repair

Frederik_Borgesius, to environment

Estimates by the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption ‘put electricity supporting Bitcoin mining in 2023 at about 0.2% to 0.9% of global demand for electricity. Based on those estimates, global electricity use in cryptocurrency mining was about the same as total electricity consumption in Greece or Australia, respectively.’ https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law

‘The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) is imposing a fine of €10 million on Uber. The fine is in response to the company's failure to disclose the full details of its retention periods for data concerning European drivers, or to name the non-European countries in which it shares this data. The DPA also found that Uber had obstructed its drivers’ efforts to exercise their right to privacy.’ https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/uber-fined-eu10-million-for-infringement-of-privacy-regulations

Frederik_Borgesius, to twitter

Good. Dutch Minister for Digitalisation @avhuffelen quits with Twitter (X). Her reasons include Twitter’s (lack of) policies and its apparent lack of willingness to comply with European rules. https://www.nu.nl/tech/6299220/staatssecretaris-van-huffelen-digitalisering-stopt-met-x-vanwege-wanbeleid.html

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law

‘French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) fined Amazon €32 million for setting up an excessively intrusive system for monitoring employee activity and performance. The company was also fined for video surveillance without information nor sufficient security.’ https://www.cnil.fr/en/employee-monitoring-cnil-fined-amazon-france-logistique-eu32-million

Frederik_Borgesius, to Law

Interview with @ingridrobeyns in @TheGuardian. & extract from her new book. ‘No one should have more than €10m’: the author of Limitarianism on why the super-rich need to level down radically https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/21/how-much-personal-wealth-is-enough-ingrid-robeyns-limitarianism

Frederik_Borgesius, to security

‘What's worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database?

Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table’ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/extortion_bot_is_autopwning_postgresql/

Frederik_Borgesius, to security

‘Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that's infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi. At least 170,000 bots were running daily at the campaign's height’ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/18/bigpanzi_botnet_smart_tvs/

Frederik_Borgesius, to random

Erhhh, SoundCloud, 776 partners?

No, thank you.

<When clicking on "I accept", you agree that we and our 776 partners may store and/or access information on your device, such as unique IDs in cookies to process personal data.>

Frederik_Borgesius,

Erhhh, Letsrun.com, 1516 partners?

No, thank you.

A colleague sent me this.

wchr, to random
@wchr@mastodon.social avatar

As part of a new report on digital advertising as a security threat published today by @johnnyryan and me (https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf), and previously unreported:

We reveal 'Patternz', a global mass surveillance system that harvests digital advertising data on behalf of 'national security agencies'.

Patternz is operated by a company based in Israel and/or Singapore. It claims to collect data about 5 billion users from 87 ad exchanges and SSPs via 6 data centers around the world.

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Frederik_Borgesius,

@404mediaco @wchr @josephcox Wow! Great work Wolfie & Joseph!

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