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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

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💻 policy/regulation researcher (esp. #InfoSec #privacy #ML 🗳 #interoperability #DMA #GDPR). ⛷🚴🏻‍♂️🥾🗺🏳️‍🌈🌻 Visiting CyberBRICS Prof. at Centre for […] [bridged from eupolicy.social/@1br0wn on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025
“#AI is the ultimate distraction device for the C-suite, since it is now absorbing so much executive headspace & public airtime that there is less space to think about other issues, such as the uglier side of Trump’s policies. It gobbles up bandwidth, literally and metaphorically.” […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025
‘A #Meta spokesperson told the Financial Times that the EU’s Digital Markets Act was also a key point during the Trump-Zuckerberg meeting. “While digital taxes were discussed, much of the meeting focused on the #DMA”’ on.ft.com/47owSvJ
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025
‘xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple over allegations that they are engaging in anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas court on Monday, accuses the companies of “a conspiracy to monopolize the markets for smartphones and generative AI chatbots”’ […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025
‘Meta will license technology from artificial intelligence image and video generation start-up Midjourney, as the social media group shifts towards working with third parties as its struggle to keep pace with rivals.’ on.ft.com/4lFBmS0
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Meta to license AI technology from start-up as in-house models lag rivals
Partnership with Midjourney marks shift away from internal product development
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
‘Meta inflated a crucial advertising metric by nearly 20 per cent and deliberately bypassed privacy rules on Apple iPhones in a bid to boost revenues, a former staff member has told a 🇬🇧 employment tribunal.’ on.ft.com/4lyqvt1
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Meta inflated ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules, tribunal hears
Former product manager alleges social media platform misled marketers in push for revenues
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
“The minister charged with tackling violence against girls has called on smartphone makers to do more to embed child protection technology into their devices, as she defended the UK’s new requirements for online age verification.” on.ft.com/45YfgFJ
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Smartphone makers must do more to protect children, UK safeguarding minister says
Jess Phillips targets handset manufacturers after introduction of age verification rules to access adult websites
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025
“in an era dominated by a handful of technology companies it is important to distinguish between hiring talent and strategic market consolidation. Antitrust authorities must focus on a transaction’s competitive implications, regardless of the form it takes.” on.ft.com/3HCT36L
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Billion-dollar ‘acqui-hires’ are bad for competition
From Google to Microsoft to Meta, some of the biggest tech deals of the past few years have been staff moves
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025
Imagine “Terminator 7: Terms and Conditions, in which humanity’s downfall comes not from nuclear warfare but from everyone absent-mindedly agreeing to Skynet’s new privacy policy, triggering an army of leather-clad enforcers to collect on the fine print” 😂 […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025
‘Two EU officials said the US wanted to keep the door open for possible concessions on the bloc’s Digital Services Act, which forces Big Tech companies to police their platforms more aggressively. The commission has said that relaxing these rules is a red line.’ #DSA on.ft.com/4lwyEhS
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EU push to protect digital rules holds up trade statement with US
Document formalising last month’s deal delayed by squabbles over language on ‘non-tariff barriers’, the bloc’s officials say
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
‘Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/…
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Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says
Beate Gangås says attack in April by Norway’s ‘dangerous neighbour’ aimed to cause fear and chaos
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
‘Elon #Musk has accused #Apple of breaking antitrust rules and threatened to sue the US tech company over how his #X social media and #Grok artificial intelligence tool are ranked in the #iPhone maker’s influential App Store.’ on.ft.com/4lozXiH
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025
“The US has undoubtedly had an exceptional run over the past decade, but it has created wealth mainly at the very top. That is not necessarily a plus for society, particularly not in a time of growing anger against wealth inequality and oligopoly power.” on.ft.com/3V0y2WF
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America doesn’t have a monopoly on wealth creation
New research shows many other countries have a booming entrepreneurial culture generating serious wealth
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
‘Iranian-linked [hackers]…did not appear to have breached the defences of Israel’s military and biggest companies…but focused on smaller businesses in their supply chains that were softer targets. ‘These included logistics and fuel groups, as well as HR companies’ on.ft.com/3HtN5Fl
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
#PalestineAction www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/p…
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Ella Baron on the Palestine Action arrests – cartoon
More than 400 people were arrested at a protest in London in support of proscribed group Palestine Action
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025
Antwerp cathedral, towering over the main square 🥰
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025
‘nearly two-thirds of the world’s servers are estimated to run on open-source #Linux. That has still left a big market for #Windows, but it has greatly limited the overall size of the commercial software pie, while also preventing operating systems from being used as a chokepoint’ […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025
“We will bring the #Epic Games Store and Fortnite to Brazil & Japan later this year. We hope the #CMA will use its consultation process to re-examine these weak roadmap decisions and bring the benefits of genuine app store and payments competition to 🇬🇧 consumers.” […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025
‘Booking.com is facing a class-action lawsuit from more than 10,000 European hotels arguing that the accommodation mega-site used its muscle to distort the market to their detriment over a 20-year period.’ […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025
The curse of encryption export controls continues to strike, weakening critical infrastructure around the world… www.wired.com/story/encryption-made…
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Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked
Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025
Sam Altman, #OpenAI CEO: “young people are already using #AI chatbots as therapists and life coaches. So why not add friend and partner to the mix?” 🤮 on.ft.com/4moSNaq
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What unrestricted internet access did to Gen Z’s love life
A cautionary tale
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025
As well as overly-long speeches 😏, China’s president ‘last month issued an unusually blunt warning to local officials against over-investment in #AI and electric vehicles.’ on.ft.com/45EPKVV
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China beseeches officials to hold fewer meetings and write shorter reports
Directive suggests 5,000-character limit for documents as Beijing takes aim at bureaucracy
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025
“Argentina’s revived intelligence agency, the SIDE, has been monitoring more than a dozen opposition leaders, union representatives, trade syndicates, pensioner groups & disability organisations in an apparent violation of national law, according to the leaked] document.” [ […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025
“It is time we demand that the tech sector comply with the same laws as everyone else. Only when technology businesses compete on a level legal playing field will we see how inevitable their innovations really are.” on.ft.com/4oiBsBD
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Tech does not deserve special legal treatment
Pulling down regulatory barriers to aid innovation ignores the fact that they protect the public from harm
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025
‘OpenAI’s larger open-weights] model performed similarly to its closed o4-mini model, while its smaller version had results close to its o3-mini system. The small model required less memory to run, “making it ideal for on-device use cases”, such as phones or laptops, #OpenAI said’ [ […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025
“Palantir’s growth is the stuff of dreams; its valuation is the stuff of fantasy. The data analytics company reported a 48% increase in sales for Q2 2025, a blistering pace… But a share price that has increased sixfold in a year suggests common sense has left the building.” on.ft.com/3J0aE9h
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Palantir’s valuation is a triumph of ‘number go up’
The data analytics group is an example of how it’s possible to be a successful company at a nonsensical price
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025
“#Trump is ceding the great game in the global south to #China. The destruction of #USAID and Trump’s tariff war on the world’s poorest countries in #Africa and Latin America are pushing those continents closer to China.” on.ft.com/41mJDD6
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025
Londoner arrested by 3 police, who arrived in a riot van at her door at 4.45am and seized her phone and computer, after she posted about her ex-partner, a serving police officer, on Facebook 😱https://apple.news/AUA_XWa8mTjaL0N5I0idwxQ
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025
FT: “Digital IDs introduced by the UK government to access online public services are similarly approved as proof of age under its online act. Consumers may need some time to become comfortable that they are safe and secure.” on.ft.com/3GUL6d7
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How VPNs knocked a hole in online safety efforts
Savvy teens and wary adults are circumventing UK age-verification rules
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025
“tech bros touting people-light companies underestimate the complexity of business operations & corporate cultures that are built on very human relationships & interactions… there should be a new premium on the human — from creativity & emotional intelligence to complex judgment.” […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025
“I fear the 🇬🇧 courts have once again been hoodwinked by the application of the security services’ doctrine of #NCND (neither confirm nor deny). Created by the #CIA in the 1970s, NCND is enthusiastically applied by Whitehall to cloak its more embarrassing secrets.” […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025
“To almost everyone I know from the global south, the fact that the west seems only to pay only lip service to the suffering of Gazans, Ethiopians, South Sudanese and others comes across as distinctly racial.” -Ed Luce on.ft.com/4mfZuva
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The west’s complicity in Gaza
Trump’s acknowledgment of starvation could mark a belated turning point in his relationship with Netanyahu
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025
“The 🇬🇧 govt’s last integration and cohesion plan failed to recognise the different audiences in our society. How will it] engage with disenfranchised communities who may hold conspiratorial views, sympathise with extremism and violence and do not trust politicians?” [ […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025
“Like programming, translating is part skill, part art, and I didn’t get two university degrees in language and translation just to deliver barely passable trash. I took pride in my work, and I wasn’t going to let anyone put my name under a garbage product.” 💯 #AI #coding From: @thomholwerda […]
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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025
‘Strong growth in #Google & #Microsoft’s #cloud divisions and an uptick in #Meta’s ad margins were used to justify another massive increase in capital expenditure…with #Amazon…more than $350bn this year on data centres & other #AI infrastructure and >$400bn in 2026’ on.ft.com/4meBitT
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