michael veale
@michae.lv
prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
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michael veale
@michae.lv
· May 6
How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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I'm continuing my research into global tech politics, including the politics of digital sovereignty, and the political economy of the digitalisation and statecraft in my role at ODI Global - please reach out if you're keen to collaborate or want to know more about my research!
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I'm continuing my research into global tech politics, including the politics of digital sovereignty, and the political economy of the digitalisation and statecraft in my role at ODI Global - please reach out if you're keen to collaborate or want to know more about my research!
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I’ll be putting out much more of this work into the world in the weeks and months ahead, but for now, I want to thank my supervisor @michae.lv for his mentorship and support, and my examiners Dr. Gavin Sullivan and Dr. Cecilia Rikap for their excellent feedback and critique.
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I’ll be putting out much more of this work into the world in the weeks and months ahead, but for now, I want to thank my supervisor @michae.lv for his mentorship and support, and my examiners Dr. Gavin Sullivan and Dr. Cecilia Rikap for their excellent feedback and critique.
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My thesis examines the mutual interactions between emerging platform and data-based technologies with forms of political economic authority, structures and subjectivities, through a case study of India’s ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’, aka the 'India Stack'.
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
My thesis examines the mutual interactions between emerging platform and data-based technologies with forms of political economic authority, structures and subjectivities, through a case study of India’s ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’, aka the 'India Stack'.
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Last week, I successfully defended my PhD Thesis, ‘Platform Politics and Data Publics: Sovereignty, Statecraft and Citizenship in the India Stack’, at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.
January 19, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Last week, I successfully defended my PhD Thesis, ‘Platform Politics and Data Publics: Sovereignty, Statecraft and Citizenship in the India Stack’, at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.
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Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
January 4, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Financial barriers to environmental litigation are against the law, because protecting the environment is an important public interest.
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment
Please read and take action 👇
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Over on Twitter/X, Bill Ackman (of Harvard/Claudine Gay/plagiarism/tennis debacle fame) has written another 3,000+ word post.
He believes that Francesca Gino's RAs faked her data. And, plot twist, he's been funding Gino's legal battle against Harvard since 2024.
x.com/i/status/200...
He believes that Francesca Gino's RAs faked her data. And, plot twist, he's been funding Gino's legal battle against Harvard since 2024.
x.com/i/status/200...
January 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Over on Twitter/X, Bill Ackman (of Harvard/Claudine Gay/plagiarism/tennis debacle fame) has written another 3,000+ word post.
He believes that Francesca Gino's RAs faked her data. And, plot twist, he's been funding Gino's legal battle against Harvard since 2024.
x.com/i/status/200...
He believes that Francesca Gino's RAs faked her data. And, plot twist, he's been funding Gino's legal battle against Harvard since 2024.
x.com/i/status/200...
thankful for books on how to do this
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
thankful for books on how to do this
Happy New Year www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/inco...
January 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Happy New Year www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/inco...
As you’re watching a Disney film at Christmas, raise a glass to Disney’s lawyers who, in Florida’s 2021 social media law, had a blanket exemption placed in to except any theme park owner from the definition of ‘social media platform’ www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...
![Social media company means any information service [cont.]…
The term does not include any information service, system, Internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex as defined in s. 509.013.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ujstglmdsoymx3t2yffcvgtm/bafkreicejfu7ghvtrtizcgcyfvq6fhbk4f6wgudbmnrueweqvukgjqao7a@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As you’re watching a Disney film at Christmas, raise a glass to Disney’s lawyers who, in Florida’s 2021 social media law, had a blanket exemption placed in to except any theme park owner from the definition of ‘social media platform’ www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...
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Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵
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We spent long time studying the question "does training data filtering help prevent generative models from generating unwanted content?"
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We spent long time studying the question "does training data filtering help prevent generative models from generating unwanted content?"
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.
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Europe’s Digital Markets Act aims to open ecosystems: alternatives to app stores, fair access to OS features, real interoperability. But for many free and open source developers, those promises remain fragile without robust enforcement, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.
Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly | TechPolicy.Press
Big Tech restrictions on app stores and operating systems put small developers at risk, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Europe’s Digital Markets Act aims to open ecosystems: alternatives to app stores, fair access to OS features, real interoperability. But for many free and open source developers, those promises remain fragile without robust enforcement, write Lucas Lasota, Dario Presutti and Jithendra Palepu.
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Tech whistleblowers say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives... They became isolated among their colleagues, suffered severe professional damage, or were pushed out of the industry altogether...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @naominix.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @naominix.bsky.social
She blew the whistle at Meta. Then her career fell apart.
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Tech whistleblowers say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives... They became isolated among their colleagues, suffered severe professional damage, or were pushed out of the industry altogether...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @naominix.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @naominix.bsky.social
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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NSF under threat from itself.
@markhisted.org on Bluesky
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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bsky.app
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
NSF under threat from itself.
VPNs starting to enter the regulatory frame: now in Denmark www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/d...
Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy • The Register
: Minister insists 'modest' bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech
www.theregister.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
VPNs starting to enter the regulatory frame: now in Denmark www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/d...
Not sure the Online Safety Acts — either UK or AUS flavours — are ready for kids setting up and running social media services themselves as regulated entities. This already happens: expect more. I ran online forums *as a child* that would now need child access assessments under the UK OSA!
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Not sure the Online Safety Acts — either UK or AUS flavours — are ready for kids setting up and running social media services themselves as regulated entities. This already happens: expect more. I ran online forums *as a child* that would now need child access assessments under the UK OSA!
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EC has formally opened an investigation into Google for using publishers’ content without meaningful consent or compensation for its AI Overviews feature.
Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes
The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on th
ec.europa.eu
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
EC has formally opened an investigation into Google for using publishers’ content without meaningful consent or compensation for its AI Overviews feature.
Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Big win for civil society orgs like @foxglovelegal.bsky.social who’ve been asking for this.
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
original statement in may that freaked out many at the time but didn't get that much media coverage www.state.gov/announcement...
Announcement of a Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans - United States Department of State
Free speech is among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans. This right, legally enshrined in our constitution, has set us apart as a beacon of freedom around the world. Even as we take acti...
www.state.gov
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
original statement in may that freaked out many at the time but didn't get that much media coverage www.state.gov/announcement...
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One thing I found odd was the reference early in the judgment to the content being manifestly unlawful. But if it was, the identity checks that the controller has to carry out wouldn’t be necessary. FWIW, it comes from para 17 of the referring court’s request. curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
curia.europa.eu
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
One thing I found odd was the reference early in the judgment to the content being manifestly unlawful. But if it was, the identity checks that the controller has to carry out wouldn’t be necessary. FWIW, it comes from para 17 of the referring court’s request. curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
I was referring to non GDPR liability created by GDPR related scans g and considering the CJEU’s views on automation in Glawischnig and YT/Cyando (Martin Husovec’s DSA GM chapter great on this). I agree that don’t think it matters for the GDPR liability - and that’s going to create big issues too.
December 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I was referring to non GDPR liability created by GDPR related scans g and considering the CJEU’s views on automation in Glawischnig and YT/Cyando (Martin Husovec’s DSA GM chapter great on this). I agree that don’t think it matters for the GDPR liability - and that’s going to create big issues too.
it's a little known fact but the AI Act bans academic articles containing the words "in the Era of" — sorry if that's you, I don't make the rules
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
it's a little known fact but the AI Act bans academic articles containing the words "in the Era of" — sorry if that's you, I don't make the rules
or, when they look at the model marketplaces like Hugging Face that @gorwa.ca and I deal with here www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... — will they need to scan ML models for sensitive data before letting them be uploaded?
Moderating model marketplaces: platform governance puzzles for AI intermediaries
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December 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
or, when they look at the model marketplaces like Hugging Face that @gorwa.ca and I deal with here www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... — will they need to scan ML models for sensitive data before letting them be uploaded?