Janis Wong
@janiswong.org
✨ data protection, governance, ethics & policy across law + tech
🖥️ currently leading tech policy at The Law Society
🧩 elsewhere & past: janiswong.org
🖥️ currently leading tech policy at The Law Society
🧩 elsewhere & past: janiswong.org
Last night's @alphaville.ft.com Art of the Chart in the very beautiful St Bartholomew the Great 💙
February 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Last night's @alphaville.ft.com Art of the Chart in the very beautiful St Bartholomew the Great 💙
Night time in the City
February 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Night time in the City
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Wonderful evening yesterday at the Serpentine for the Choral Data Trust panel 🎵 Congratuations to Jen Ding, AWO & team - white paper on the project coming soon and see the exhibition while you can! Ends 2 Feb www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/hol...
January 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Wonderful evening yesterday at the Serpentine for the Choral Data Trust panel 🎵 Congratuations to Jen Ding, AWO & team - white paper on the project coming soon and see the exhibition while you can! Ends 2 Feb www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/hol...
Libraries thread!! 😍
This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
January 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Libraries thread!! 😍
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We are doing some work @royalsociety.org on researcher access to social media data for use in analysing and combating disinformation.
If you are working in this space or have recommended reading / people to look up, please get in touch.
If you are working in this space or have recommended reading / people to look up, please get in touch.
January 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We are doing some work @royalsociety.org on researcher access to social media data for use in analysing and combating disinformation.
If you are working in this space or have recommended reading / people to look up, please get in touch.
If you are working in this space or have recommended reading / people to look up, please get in touch.
Brilliant reporting @washingtonpost.com on wrongful arrest facilitated by facial recognition. In 8 cases explored, police didn't check alibis in 6, relied on problematic witness statements in 6 & ignored suspect's physical characteristics in 3 (1 was pregnant) www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Arrested by AI: Police ignore standards after facial recognition matches
Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps; at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Brilliant reporting @washingtonpost.com on wrongful arrest facilitated by facial recognition. In 8 cases explored, police didn't check alibis in 6, relied on problematic witness statements in 6 & ignored suspect's physical characteristics in 3 (1 was pregnant) www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Cory Doctorow's new kickstarter campaign for his new book is live! Enjoyed the first Marty Hench novel and no better way to support DRM-free e-publishing 📖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...
Picks & Shovels: Marty Hench at the dawn of enshittification
The standalone origin story of Marty "Red Team Blues" Hench (read by Wil Wheaton), a tale of weird PCs and tech's first enshittifiers
www.kickstarter.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Cory Doctorow's new kickstarter campaign for his new book is live! Enjoyed the first Marty Hench novel and no better way to support DRM-free e-publishing 📖 www.kickstarter.com/projects/doc...
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Adobe has officially jumped the shark. Their AI remove feature in lightroom just added a bitcoin to my gull bird in flight photo. A bitcoin!?!
Image 1 is the raw file.
Image 2 is the result of removing three circle highlights in the water.
Image 3 is a 100% crop. Bitcoin. WTAF.
#photographers
Image 1 is the raw file.
Image 2 is the result of removing three circle highlights in the water.
Image 3 is a 100% crop. Bitcoin. WTAF.
#photographers
January 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Adobe has officially jumped the shark. Their AI remove feature in lightroom just added a bitcoin to my gull bird in flight photo. A bitcoin!?!
Image 1 is the raw file.
Image 2 is the result of removing three circle highlights in the water.
Image 3 is a 100% crop. Bitcoin. WTAF.
#photographers
Image 1 is the raw file.
Image 2 is the result of removing three circle highlights in the water.
Image 3 is a 100% crop. Bitcoin. WTAF.
#photographers
Gravy train leaving a lot of residue behind, scroll through to find the link to the very, very long list of apps 🚂 www.wired.com/story/gravy-...
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
www.wired.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Gravy train leaving a lot of residue behind, scroll through to find the link to the very, very long list of apps 🚂 www.wired.com/story/gravy-...
Reposted by Janis Wong
New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
January 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
Sad to see the (hopefully temporary!) end of @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social's fantastic digests for @connectedbydata.org 😢 A real treasure trove and brilliant effort to make sense of all things data policy 💚
🚨 NEW 🚨
It's the latest - and for now, *final* - Data Policy Digest from @connectedbydata.org
Bills, consultations, announcements, news stories... all the major data and AI policy developments from the last month (spoiler: there's a lot)
connectedbydata.org/news/2025/01...
It's the latest - and for now, *final* - Data Policy Digest from @connectedbydata.org
Bills, consultations, announcements, news stories... all the major data and AI policy developments from the last month (spoiler: there's a lot)
connectedbydata.org/news/2025/01...
Data Policy Digest
Hello, and welcome to our 28th Data Policy Digest, bringing you all the latest data and AI policy developments.
And Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and a relaxing break from all...
connectedbydata.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sad to see the (hopefully temporary!) end of @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social's fantastic digests for @connectedbydata.org 😢 A real treasure trove and brilliant effort to make sense of all things data policy 💚
Reposted by Janis Wong
Thank you to everyone who supported BAILII's December campaign and our efforts to provide free access to the law.
If you were unable to donate at this time, BAILII welcomes contributions at any time of the year: cafdonate.cafonline.org/24984#!/Dona...
Or, visit www.bailii.org/bailii/appea...
If you were unable to donate at this time, BAILII welcomes contributions at any time of the year: cafdonate.cafonline.org/24984#!/Dona...
Or, visit www.bailii.org/bailii/appea...
January 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thank you to everyone who supported BAILII's December campaign and our efforts to provide free access to the law.
If you were unable to donate at this time, BAILII welcomes contributions at any time of the year: cafdonate.cafonline.org/24984#!/Dona...
Or, visit www.bailii.org/bailii/appea...
If you were unable to donate at this time, BAILII welcomes contributions at any time of the year: cafdonate.cafonline.org/24984#!/Dona...
Or, visit www.bailii.org/bailii/appea...
A wonderful evening yesterday celebrating Professor Hamed Haddadi for his inaugural, someone who truly embodies the values he reminded us about, of compassion, integrity and kindness 🧡
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A wonderful evening yesterday celebrating Professor Hamed Haddadi for his inaugural, someone who truly embodies the values he reminded us about, of compassion, integrity and kindness 🧡
Reposted by Janis Wong
Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging. Seeing as Shutterstock has an agreement with OpenAI, will this agreement have an effect on Getty's ongoing litigation against Stability AI?
Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging into one stock photo powerhouse
Stock photo megamerger.
www.theverge.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Getty Images and Shutterstock are merging. Seeing as Shutterstock has an agreement with OpenAI, will this agreement have an effect on Getty's ongoing litigation against Stability AI?
Reposted by Janis Wong
I made a Cyberlaw one back in the day.
November 18, 2024 at 2:30 AM
I made a Cyberlaw one back in the day.
Time to be more bored in 2025! Great piece by Embedded on reclaiming your attention embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-...
You might just have to be bored
Or: How to fix an attention span.
embedded.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Time to be more bored in 2025! Great piece by Embedded on reclaiming your attention embedded.substack.com/p/you-might-...
Not usually one for food books as they can get outdated quick, but picked up a copy of David Paw's London food guide to pencil in when I've been where and most importantly with who 🍴
January 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Not usually one for food books as they can get outdated quick, but picked up a copy of David Paw's London food guide to pencil in when I've been where and most importantly with who 🍴
New year, same me with a new @thestorygraph.com pages goal, and an attempted new profile!
I prefer spending more time offline than on these days, but do miss social media chattering. Let's give this a whirl 💫
I prefer spending more time offline than on these days, but do miss social media chattering. Let's give this a whirl 💫
January 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New year, same me with a new @thestorygraph.com pages goal, and an attempted new profile!
I prefer spending more time offline than on these days, but do miss social media chattering. Let's give this a whirl 💫
I prefer spending more time offline than on these days, but do miss social media chattering. Let's give this a whirl 💫