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

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20h

Well I'd obviously adore one but I imagine they are gone ..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t say these things outloud..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Nuclear weapons two keys solutions

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Any bets on it turning out some of that pesky AI was used to generate or analyse this data? Turtles all the way down

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Please quote & repost. This is real.

Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Whats most interesting is that its for young men in the West, but career women in China.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Lorna takes on Laura. Wow. More importantly I've been waiting for this analysis of how if at all AI companions etc fit into platform oriented OSA ( and by extension, DSA)

Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · 1d

As Prof Lorna Woods tells @bbclaurak.bsky.social in her piece on risks of #ai #chatbots, the #onlinesafetyact is "clear but doesn't match the market ...
the problem is it doesn't catch all services where users engage with a chatbot one-to-one." 1/2 ⬇️
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Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves - BBC News

In her first UK interview Megan Garcia speaks to Laura Kuenssberg about the death of her teenage son.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I'm definitely going to footnote the title "Bullying is not Innovation". Thanks david.chaplin @SCL

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

The interesting bit is the SCL commentary on the Amazon v Perplexity litigation asking if AI agents on which entire sky rises or falls can't be used for shopping, what er can they do??https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/bullying-is-not-innovation

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good pub quiz question ; Amazon's AI agent is (a) Rufus (b) Alexa (c) Alexis (d) Fido. Who makes these things up ( and who uses them? ) 🙄

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · 1d

You can read our full analysis on #chatbots and the #onlinesafetyact here. 2/2 www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/cha...

Chatbots and the Online Safety Act - Online Safety Act

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · 1d

Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves - BBC News

In her first UK interview Megan Garcia speaks to Laura Kuenssberg about the death of her teenage son.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 5d

Well if anything s gonna get us a new ePrivacy Reg....🤣

Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 5d

Just look at the latest revelations that location data showing where European Commission officials live, and their movements within the Berlaymont -- data being leaked by online advertising.
Consent popups are a red herring.
What we need is enforcement of the law.
netzpolitik.org/2025/databro...

Databroker Files: Targeting the EU

Precise locations and revealing movement patterns: the mobile phone location data of millions of people in the EU is up for sale. Collected supposedly only for advertising purposes, this data can also...

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 5d

Databroker Files: Targeting the EU

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Fa bu lous!

Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 7d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Wow this is almost likeTwitter in the BeforeTimes…

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Mo me neither. I was on plane - there must be a press release?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

@cgoanta.bsky.social !

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

That's um me you and Martin huh? 🤣

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Yes?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Don't you get inundated w dreadful vanity journals that want you to pay to publish? But US law used to have thing called Aggresso which worked really well cos you had to pay to play