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Daniel Leufer (Access Now)

@djleufer.bsky.social
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Emerging Tech @accessnow.org | creator aimyths.org | PhD in philosophy | pessimism for future offset by dismay at past | personal views only | free 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 in Brussels

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Can’t lie, I’m so tired of the consciousness conversation that even its rebuttals are exhausting
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Daniel Leufer (Access Now) @djleufer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Old news already, but I knew the signatories on that Future of Life Institute letter on Superintelligence were extremely weird and questionable (Steve Bannon most of all) but I have to say I was blindsided and downright impressed to see this name on it
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Where does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.
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It's Not Just X. It's Y.
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a...
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Daniel Leufer (Access Now) @djleufer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hands down the best thing I've read on AI and the attacks on Iran
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We at @brennancenter.org found that Palantir’s defense revenue surged over the last decade. 2025 was their most profitable year ever. Numbers can mislead. But sometimes they just don’t lie. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Palantir’s Growth in Perspective: Annual defense revenue for Palantir and the 20 defense contractors with the closest revenues in 2011
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 22/03/2026
How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.
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Kill Chain
On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children
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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is the Garda Siochana (Recording Devices) Amendment Bill 2025 We're told this is not the much talked about FRT bill as that is, as yet, unwritten. But it's unclear what this novel term "biometric analysis" actually means. It is not defined in the AI Act. data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachta...
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
1/ The dispute between Anthropic and DOD over the limits of using AI in warfare is escalating. I’ll have more to say on what these limits should be in a @brennancenter.org report out next month. But for now, here’s what you need to know, and what’s truly at stake 🧵: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...
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Defense Dept. and Anthropic Square Off in Dispute Over A.I. Safety
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Luis Barrueto @lebarrueto.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Amazing colleagues @djleufer.bsky.social and Vlad have just finished a triad of articles analizing LLMs and fleshing out the reasons why we should stop the push to make the much-hyped word-guessing machines ubiquitous. Check it out: www.accessnow.org/artificial-i... @accessnow.org
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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI - Access Now
In the third part of our blog series, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 19/02/2026
Have you ever asked a question ChatGPT refuses to answer? Or used an AI agent that deleted your data? Check out part 3 of our blog series on AI and Digital Security, where we explore how AI tools impact access to and availability of systems we rely on:
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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI - Access Now
In the third part of our blog series, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 19/02/2026
We’re back with a reminder: don’t forget to register for “The AI Cyber Nexus: a strategic dialogue on global security, trust, and governance,” where we’ll explore how AI governance and cybersecurity intersect and what it means for people’s rights. www.accessnow.org/event/access...
The AI-Cyber Nexus: a strategic dialogue on global security, trust, and governance. February 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM, Chanakya Auditorium, Sushma Swaraj Bhawan. Speakers: Raman Jit Singh Chima, Access Now, Global Cybersecurity Lead; Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard, Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark; Maria Paz Canales, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Global Partners Digital; Udbhav Tiwari, Vice President, Strategy and Global Affairs at Signal; Nikolas Schmidt, Policy Analyst, Division of AI and Emerging Tech at OECD. Moderator: Nirmal John, Senior Editor at Economic Times
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awo.agency @awo.agency · 04/02/2026
AWO’s Algorithm Governance Roundup is out! This month, we spoke to Daniel Leufer @djleufer.bsky.social about how the AI Omnibus could weaken fundamental rights safeguards in the AI Act.👇 eomail5.com/web-version?...
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Algorithm Governance Newsletter
Algorithm Governance Roundup is a new monthly newsletter to support and connect with organisations working on algorithm governance, with a special focus on the UK and EU. Every month we …
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esme harrington @esmeharrington.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Newsletter is out! Was great to speak to @djleufer.bsky.social about how the EU's AI Omnibus undermines key AI Act transparency requirements – which were a crucial step towards accountability & fundamental rights redress – and the broader context of simplification. Well worth a read here.👇
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 06/02/2026
Has your favorite chatbot spilled your gossip? Did an AI agent just expose your credit card details? Our new blog series on AI and digital security shows how AI tools threaten privacy and confidentiality, and why human rights safeguards are essential. www.accessnow.org/artificial-i...
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Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality - Access Now
In the first part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we unpack how LLMs can jeopardize the confidentiality of people’s data.
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Elisa Guillaume ✊️ @elisaguillaume.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Digital Rights Are on the Chopping Block in the European Commission’s Omnibus #DigitalOmnibus By @djleufer.bsky.social of @accessnow.org www.techpolicy.press/digital-righ...
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Digital Rights Are on the Chopping Block in the European Commission’s Omnibus | TechPolicy.Press
Changes proposed under the Digital Omnibus point to a shift away from empowering people and towards granting discretion to business, writes Daniel Leufer.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
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EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is bleak reading
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Daniel Leufer (Access Now) @djleufer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Looking forward to this vital discussion at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social next week
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Daniel Leufer (Access Now) @djleufer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Looking forward to this vital discussion at @cpdpconferences.bsky.social next week
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CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Technologies at war: The role of tech companies & the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza Organised by @accessnow.org with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, @docmattmoudi.bsky.social, @lydiadeleeuw.bsky.social More info: cpdp.be/1936 #TheWorldIsWatching #CPDP
"Technologies at war: The role of tech companies and the EU in facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza"

Israel has deployed digital technologies to fuel the atrocities committed in its war in Gaza. The report by the United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories highlights how digital technologies are facilitating human rights abuses in Gaza, including actions consistent with the crime of genocide. Israel's digital warfare in Gaza presents an unprecedented blueprint for the militarization of data and digital technologies, “AI-washing” gross violations of international law. It also forces the door wide-open for further collusion between Big Tech and the military posing grave risks to fundamental rights, peace, and security elsewhere. Gaza, and occupied Palestine at-large, have become open-air technology expositions; a live laboratory for the testing and marketing of unprecedented technologies of violence, at the expense of Palestinians.

Questions to be answered:
- How are tech companies facilitating war crimes and genocide in Gaza through cloud computing, content moderation, hardware provision etc?
- What role is the EU playing here, such as through funding or the export of technologies by EU companies?
- Which legal instruments are applicable to the role of technologies here, and what avenues can be taken to stop this facilitation of war crimes and genocide?
- What strategies or leverage points can be used to challenge and resist complicity in the tech-facilitated war on Gaza?
 
Organised by Access Now with Daniel Leufer (moderator), Marwa Fatafta, Sarah Chander, Matt Mahmoudi, Lydia De Leeuw
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Access Now @accessnow.org · 06/05/2025
A major win for privacy! Israeli spyware company NSO has been ordered to pay almost $168 million in damages for targeting WhatsApp with Pegasus spyware. Access Now and partners will continue to advocate for NSO to be held accountable for its actions. www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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NSO Fined $168 Million for Pegasus Spyware Attack on WhatsApp
In a landmark verdict, NSO Group must pay almost $168 million in damages for using Pegasus spyware to target WhatsApp.
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