Lilian Edwards

@lilianedwards.bsky.social

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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk .. more

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Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · Dec 12

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 15h

I got my mum's not very smart TV to read the WiFi and hence get iPlayer, Netflix etc , does that count?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

I knew I felt strangely at home in Morocco

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to be so humbug but people still sending video cards to their entire client list which are so long they have "Skip to the End", probably ought to discover that newfangled thing the World Wide Web..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Effectively that's already the case on most trains...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh you've reminded me I meant to rewatch that in homage

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

It's my perception that getting decent academic jobs has become far more a matter of patronage and connections than when I first became an academic with zero smarts or guile. I suppose this is obv but it's also pretty sad for one of the few genuinely meritocratic profession.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahaha moan. Try being two different types of writer!

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

whew

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

In the US. Let's reach for the sky on this one

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I love that. Sadly most years I'm in a perfectly respectable adult bedroom but there's always hope!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 2d

My pitch: Equip the train quiet carriage with a faraday cage

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

And individual Lords also have public email addresses

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

You sound like more of an insider than me! I suspect the clerks of the various Committees may have more focus and staff than a general inbox.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Also given civilian legislation is more principled less micro detailed the process of scrutiny is presumably less onerous

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Do they really? Italy?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

It was a "pilot". It is fairly clearly not as appalling as SyRi but it's still... Not good

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

My own general feeling is if you have one tiny thing in our hellscape govt that works don't fix it... Incidentally I've dealt w various HL committees by email & not had problems...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Well if you think you can make reform of the HC work for genuine non party whipped analysis of arcane legal clauses before heat death of universe BE MY GUEST

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Funnily I actually thought he'd toned down the accent a little this time - possibly to go with the more serious subject matter

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

It's very effective as a scrutiny body of difficult not especially political legislation. Things would be very bad if it went whatever you think of it's constitutive background

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

It adds/ learns from people's mistakes as much as their correct words - it can't tell bad text from good text. I used to have this with predtext on my phone back in the good old days of local models. Bring back dictionaries..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Yes absolutely, exactly. That was my whole career

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4d

60%. Christ. This is flat out negligence. Who is organising the class action?! ( Yes I know the difficulties in UK) @ravinaikawo.bsky.social

Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile, the UK’s equivalent of the Dutch SyRi scandal (excessive data sharing and surveillance of benefit recipients, resulting in flat-out wrong and occasionally batshit errors) has been met not with government resignations but with a shrug.
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