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Doctoral Researcher at KUL - Law & Technology, human rights and policy studies
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Is using Open Science a matter of research integrity? Is it a moral obligation? What are the common pitfalls, and can Open Science help you avoid them? Join us on May 5th for a panel discussion and a practical session to test your ideas. Please use the link below to register.
April 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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White House complains about EU applying tech law

(nb it's false to claim that the law only applies to US companies - TikTok is also covered by it)
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US will not tolerate EU fine against Apple, says White House
The White House has described the European Union's fining of Apple and Meta as extortion and called the Digital Markets Act discriminatory.
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April 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The EU Commission has proposed the early application of parts of the EU 'asylum pact' - and an EU-wide list of 'safe countries of origin'. My analysis of the proposal: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/04/jump...
Jumping the Gun? The proposed early application of some of the EU’s new asylum pact – and a common list of supposedly ‘safe countries of origin’
Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Andre Engels, via Wikimedia Commons The EU’s asylum...
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April 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
bilgesumer.bsky.social
New case analysis on trans rights and data protection available! I enjoyed writing this so much! I hope you’ll do so too :)
April 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📣New blogpost by Alexandra Papageorgiou: Algorithmic environmentalism uses data to inform environmental decision-making, but what if the data is biased, corporate-controlled, and blind to injustices? Environmental governance should be fair and inclusive. Innovation without inclusion isn’t progress.
Governance by data, bias by design: how algorithmic environmentalism is falling short - CiTiP blog
Algorithmic environmentalism harnesses the power of machine learning and data modelling to tackle climate challenges, promising smarter, faster environmental decisions. However, beneath its otherwise ...
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April 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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📣We are recruiting!

CiTiP is looking for a junior researcher in the field of law, agriculture and technology, including the regulation of data in the agri-food sector in Flanders and Europe.

Interested in doing a PhD on this topic? Deadline 5 May. More information👇
RU CiTiP - PhD scholarship holder (100%) - law, agriculture and technology (COOCK+)
PhD scholarship holder with an interest in law, agriculture and technology
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April 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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📣 New blog post by Andrea Palumbo

Enabling a sociotechnical approach to AI risk management: what are systemic risks to social systems?

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Enabling a sociotechnical approach to AI risk management: what are systemic risks to social systems? - CiTiP blog
The EU regulates AI systems of large intermediary services and powerful AI models through the notion of systemic risk. This regulatory model has been largely criticised for giving potentially unfetter...
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April 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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📣New blog post!

Flavia Giglio discusses the legal implications of the Paragon case, concerning the alleged involvement of the Italian government in the surveillance of journalists and other members of civil society by means of a military spyware.
The Paragon case: Walking the fine line between press freedom and national security in Italy and the EU - CiTiP blog
The Italian government has recently been at the center of a controversy, due to its alleged role in surveilling journalists and other members of the civil society with military spyware. This blog post...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM