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michael veale @michae.lv · 01/10/2026

The proposed social media ban, the EU KIDS Act, is perhaps the most chaotic law I have ever read! New paper: Are EU Kidding Me? Notes from a Poorly Drafted Social Media Ban. files.michae.lv/papers/veale_areEUkiddingme.pdf In the spirit of the proposal I have stayed offline and read no takes.

In September 2026, the European Commission published a proposed EU KIDS Act, responding to the demand for restrictions and further design obligations applying to digital services accessible to children, including social media. This Article argues that regardless of what one believes about the merits of this policy direction, the EU KIDS Act is not the legislative text we need. The scope and drafting are little short of chaotic, full of holes, enormous ambiguities, and unintended consequences. Recitals contradict articles. The use of scope borrowed from other pieces of legislation not designed for this purpose brings services into scope that should not be subject to the relevant provisions, like book-recommendation websites, music services, or exercise trackers. The infrastructural requirement for assurance of age and parental responsibility attestation simply omits enormous issues of complex families and childhoods. Complex design obligations are written in ways that can be plausibly interpreted as implicitly prohibiting entire swathes of products, such as voice assistants. This Article outlines these issues, and many more. The Commission should withdraw this proposal and reissue a workable and realistic text.

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Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning @satml.org · 09/09/2026

The submission server for #SaTML2027 is now open! There are also some changes to the Call for Papers, diffs are indicated on the website. Dates: Mandatory abstract deadline: Sep 22 Paper deadline: Sep 29 satml.org

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There are big problems with social media, but age verification and social media bans are not the answer. They'd be a cure that's worse than the disease, but they're not even a cure. This article by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social points out the privacy nightmares. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech | Taylor Lorenz

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

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strufe @strufe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Also: annonymized data is not anonymous.

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carmelatroncoso.bsky.social @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Governments worldwide turn to age-based access control to Internet services to protect children. More than 370 scientists call for a moratorium until there is a good understanding of their feasibility, effectiveness, and societal impact: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...

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carmelatroncoso.bsky.social @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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.

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carmelatroncoso.bsky.social @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It is already starting... barries in the internet rippling into prohibiting privacy technologies

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michael veale @michae.lv · 18/11/2025

New from @jpquintais.bsky.social & me: a critical and wide analysis of the Obligations of all General-Purpose AI Model providers under the EU AI Act. We give a deep ~50 page, 300 footnote treatment and find so many tensions, loopholes, inconsistencies and more. Link: files.michae.lv/papers/Veale...

The Obligations of Providers of
General-Purpose AI Models
Michael Veale1,2 and João Pedro Quintais 2
1Faculty of Laws, University College London
2Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
To appear in Zanfir Fortuna, Malgieri, González Fuster and Mantelero (eds.) The Artificial Intelligence
Act — A Thematic Commentary (Hart forthcoming 2026). This version: November 2025.
During the legislative process, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was
amended to include provisions related to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models.
These broadly relate to transparency towards downstream users and relevant
regulators, in addition to obligations connected to intellectual property. In this
paper, we provide detailed analysis of these new provisions in the context of
current technological applications and emerging trajectories, connecting them
to computing literature and practice, and the broader context of connected
and adjacent legal regimes, in particular copyright and relevant emerging case
law. We find that there are a significant number of inclarities, tensions and
contradictions both within the text, between the text and other legal regimes,
and between the text and guideline documents, such as the Code of Practice
on General-Purpose AI and recent guidelines by the European Commission.
We identify a range of issues with the scoping of the provisions which may
undermine its policy goals and create loopholes for regulatory avoidance, such
as those relating to non-commercial models, open-source models, and model
finetuning along the value chain. We find that the Code of Practice contains
significant omissions and misstatements, some of which may present a compliance
risk for an entity choosing to rely on the Code. We do not consider the provisions
on GPAI models which present a systemic risk, which are dealt with elsewhere
in the volume which this work will form a part of.

A table of contents for the paper - 47 pages long, covering legislative background, definitions, information/documentation requirements, copyright, demonstration of compliance, exclusions and concluding remarks.

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

What is chat control? Good video explainer developed by @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social and team at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy #chatcontrol www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2O...

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What is Chat Control?

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

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Marcus Brinkmann @lambdafu.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

This is a friendly reminder that the call for contributed talks to Real World Crypto in Taipei 2026 is open until October 10. We are looking for interesting talks bridging cryptography and its real-world use! Also it’s a great way to meet new people! rwc.iacr.org/2026/contrib...

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RWC 2026 call for papers

Real World Crypto Symposium

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PET Symposium @pet-symposium.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Thank you all for attending PETS 2025! Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv.bsky.social for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and @ikben-robjansen.bsky.social , and stellar volunteers for making it a success. See you next time ✨ 📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Let’s please not develop extremely complex anonymous credentials based on ECDSA. Let’s just use a different signature scheme.

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Daniel Hugenroth @lambda.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We launched CoverDrop 🎉 providing sources with a secure and anonymous way to talk to journalists. Having started five years ago as a PhD research project, this now ships within the Guardian app to millions of users—all of which provide cover traffic. Paper, code, and more info: www.coverdrop.org

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CoverDrop: Blowing the Whistle Through A News App

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Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️ @xotoxot.eurosky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm one of the signers of this open letter to the Commission asking to ensure that civil society, human rights lawyerd and academics get properly involved in the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption. edri.org/our-work/tec...

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Technical experts call on Commissioner Virkkunen for a seat on the table of the European Commission’s Technology Roadmap on encryption - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

EDRi, in a group of 39 organisations and 43 experts, published an open letter today to call for a scientific evidence-based approach to encryption.

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PET Symposium @pet-symposium.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 PET Symposium! 🎉 Lock in early bird pricing before rates go up on June 15th. petsymposium.org/2025/registr...

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2025

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I am excited to co-organise #Dagstuhl seminar next month on #privacywashing through #PETs and the need for a privacy evaluation framework to prevent #privacywashing. www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/...

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Dagstuhl Seminar 25112: PETs and AI: Privacy Washing and the Need for a PETs Evaluation Framework

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 18/02/2025

I *am* pursuing an advanced degree in human-computer interaction and we have research that shows that LLMs have a homogenizing effect on human creativity, can reduce critical thinking skills, and are particularly dangerous when their operator lacks the expertise to catch their hallucinations.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Legislators in the US are now starting to push back against the UK’s demand for backdoors in Apple encryption. archive.is/2025.02.13-1...

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Nicolas Papernot @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

If you work at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning, or more broadly how to trust ML, SaTML is a small-scale conference with highly-relevant work where you'll be able to have high-quality conversations with colleagues working in your area.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits." "AGI is when I have heaps of money," is one hell of a position. techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/m...

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report | TechCrunch

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

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Bogdan Kulynych @bogdankulynych.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is joint work with Felipe Gomez, Georgios Kaissis, @fcalmon.bsky.social, and @carmelatroncoso.bsky.social Happy to chat about it online, and in 🇨🇦+🇺🇸 next two weeks: - At the #NeurIPS2024 Friday Dec. 13 evening poster session. - Will also present in more detail on Tuesday Dec. 17 at Harvard.

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