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Maria Helen Murphy
@mariamurphy.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law.
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mariamurphy.bsky.social
Delighted to be a part of this Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence focused on Realising European Values and European Law @maynoothlaw.bsky.social! Excited to lead the work package on digital enforcement! 🇪🇺
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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tobiaslock.bsky.social
Delighted to be part of a wonderful team and leading the new @reveljmce.bsky.social. Lots to come in terms of activities (please follow us!) - for now: thanks to our wonderful colleagues @maynoothlaw.bsky.social; @muresearch.bsky.social for their invaluable support!
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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tobiaslock.bsky.social
And a bit shout out to our wonderful team (who will be doing all the substantive work): Dr Derek Barter, Dr Ollie Bartlett; Dr David Mangan; @orlakelleher.bsky.social; @mariamurphy.bsky.social; @hubertsmekal.bsky.social; @oscharles.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
In a similar vein, the Orkney Islands produce an excess of electricity from wind, wave and tide power.
marklemley.bsky.social Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...

applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome

pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
The "don't worry about facial recognition tech" arguments are not faring well...
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12d
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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profferguson.bsky.social
denverite.com/2025/10/27/b...
Police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of package theft. She had her own evidence
"Like I said, nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing."
denverite.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
EU Big Tech law

EU Commission - preliminary finding that Meta and TikTok have breached the Digital Services Act ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
concerns content moderation appeals, notice of illegal material, researchers' access to data

NB not a final decision (possibly with fines) yet
Commission preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission preliminarily found both TikTok and Meta in breach of their obligation to grant researchers adequate access to public data under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
ec.europa.eu
October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
It was great to be back at the Irish Parliament yesterday at the Joint Committee on AI. Joe O'Brien and I @iccl.bsky.social are grateful for the invitation from the Committee.

Video: IHREC at minute 20 and ICCL from 1 hr 40 min.

www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Tory MP reports deepfake video to police
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tory MP George Freeman reports deepfake defection video to police
Such political disinformation has the potential to corrupt democracy, says the Mid Norfolk MP.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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robin.berjon.com
Infrastructure x Democracy — what could be more interesting? I'm very excited to be moderating this panel!
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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jessicashurson.bsky.social
This event looks incredible. Really sad I can’t make it to London that evening. Congrats @nniloideain.bsky.social on the book-it’s next in my to read pile!
nniloideain.bsky.social Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social · 28d
Very excited for all the debate and discussion on the right to privacy in an era of AI, surveillance, data retention with this stellar panel:

Prof David Feldman (University of Cambridge)
Prof Orla Lynskey (UCL)
James Baker (Harvard)
Robert Spano (Former President of ECtHR)

Hope you can join us!
infolawcentre.bsky.social InfoLawCentre@IALS @infolawcentre.bsky.social · 28d
Only 2 days to go!

Join us on Wednesday for a timely discussion on the themes and findings of the book - EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime.

@ials.bsky.social @nniloideain.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/
Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says
“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.
www.politico.eu
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
mariamurphy.bsky.social
Jane Goodall quotation “"I was somebody sent to this world to try to give people hope in dark times. Because without hope, we fall into apathy and do nothing. And in the dark times that we are living in now, if people don't have hope, we're doomed. How can we bring little children into this dark world we've created and let them be surrounded by people who have given up? So even if this is the end of humanity as we know it, let's fight until the very end. Let's let the children know that there is hope."
October 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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dannyderaney.bsky.social
"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall was the best of us.
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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luckytran.com
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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dearlstephens.bsky.social
🕊️ The world has lost a revered conservationist -- a colossal power for what is truly good.

🕊️ Jane Goodall is a legend who helped open the door to science to the best humans among us: woman.

🕊️ She was brave, brilliant and introduced us to the best things among us: animals.

🕊️ I grieve her passing.
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
mariamurphy.bsky.social
New article out with Katie Nolan (@katieanolan.bsky.social) and Orla Lynskey in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies: 'Digital Empire or Digital Fiefdoms? Institutional Tensions and the EU Right to Data Protection'.
Open access at: doi.org/10.1017/cel....

@cambup-law.cambridge.org
Abstract: The EU has been represented as a singular ‘Digital Empire’ speaking with one voice on matters of EU digital regulation. Closer examination of discrete areas of EU digital regulation reveals a more nuanced picture suggesting clear institutional divergence between the EU institutions regarding the substantive protection afforded by EU law. A detailed analysis of EU data protection adequacy decisions brings to the surface intra-EU tensions concerning the substance of core EU fundamental rights. This analysis reveals that the EU Commission has taken on a more prominent role in adequacy decision-making since the entry into force of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation at the expense of other relevant stakeholders. Furthermore, the Commission’s decisional practice does not align fully with the stance of the Court of Justice on the right to data protection. New sites of intra-EU human rights tensions are therefore uncovered with consequences for the legitimacy of the EU as a digital regulator and the role of the Commission as a guardian of the treaties.Keywords: digital regulation; fundamental rights; data protection; institutional balance; judicial review; data adequacy; EU Commission
September 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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colinmurray.bsky.social
Hobbyhorse: at university, lectures remain an incredible format. They introduce & explore a huge amount of content in a short period of time. They scaffold further reading, with a personal twist. Workshops, etc, do their own thing, but don't replace effective lectures:

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To save in-person lectures, unis need to provide lessons worth showing up for
In-person lectures have been a staple of university learning for centuries. But they are going out of style in an age of TED Talks and Tiktoks.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
Oh this is BAD.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…
September 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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alangreene.bsky.social
Conor Gearty was, without hesitation, the best academic writer I’ve read. He was also a thoroughly decent and kind human being who fearlessly used his position speak truth to power.
Conor did law, politics and academia the right way and he will be sorely missed.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.
September 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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tjmcintyre.com
Very sad to hear of the untimely death of Conor Gearty, a lovely individual, one of our finest legal academics, and a central figure in promoting human rights worldwide.
September 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
August 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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orlakelleher.bsky.social
Short op-ed by me explaining the importance of ambitious 2031-2040 carbon budgets and EU 2040 targets for intergenerational climate justice. These are critical moments to level with the public about the scale of the emission reduction challenge.

@maynoothlaw.bsky.social @ejni.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM