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Tommaso Fia

@tomfia.bsky.social
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“look mummy! there’s an airplane up in the sky” lecturer in data law and governance @ UCL data law and governance, (eu) private law, commons 🏳️‍🌈

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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 20/07/2026
new preprint with @barriesander.bsky.social ✨ building on work of the Enabled Emissions campaign, we show how tech cos widely develop AI for fossil fuel extraction (while going on about 'AI for sustainability'...) & explore how it could be contested under EU law papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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AI for fossil fuel production: Can 'enabled emissions' be contested under EU law?
Legal and policy discussions on the environmental impacts of AI have drawn attention to the industry's climate impacts, pollution and resource consumption. In c
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michael veale @michae.lv · 01/06/2026
Peter Mandelson was asked for his Whatsapp messages on his phone but refused to hand them over. A legal minefield: @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and I have written about it here in 'Bring Your Own Device — Now Hand It Over!' digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cllpj/vol45/...
The explanatory notes at the start of the document dump explains that "on 31 March the [Cabinet Office] wrote to Peter Mandelson - via his solicitors - to request any information held on his personal phone.

"Peter Mandelson declined to comply with this request. The government has no further recourse to search the personal devices of Peter Mandelson."
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michael veale @michae.lv · 06/05/2026
really useful primer on data, ai and trade law from @streinz.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... especially good if the issue comes up in teaching
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Conceptualising Data and Artificial Intelligence in World Trade Law (Chapter 22) - The Cambridge Companion to World Trade Law
The Cambridge Companion to World Trade Law - May 2026
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michael veale @michae.lv · 09/04/2026
I’ve posted online our 2025-6 20 week Internet Law and Policy syllabus on our LLB programme, run by Orla Lynskey, Tommaso Fia and me. We hope it’s useful for other tech law educators! michae.lv/updated-inte...
LAWS0339 Internet Law and Policy
Convenor: Professor Michael Veale, co-taught with Professor Orla Lynskey and Dr Tommaso Fia.
Faculty of Laws, University College London.
Academic Year 2025-6. Document Version December 2025.
About the Module
Seminar 1 Welcome to the Internet
Seminar 2 How To Control the Internet
Seminar 3 Blocking and Networked Rule-Making: the Domain Name System
Seminar 4 Liability Shielding and Safe Harbours
Seminar 5 Content Moderation Obligations
Seminar 6 Fair Moderation and Takedown Abuse
Seminar 7 Specific and General Monitoring
Seminar 8 By-Design Platform Regulation
Seminar 9 Verification: Ages, Names, Identities Seminar 10 Moderating Al: Models and Outputs Seminar 11 Privacy Online
Seminar 12 Data Protection's Scope
Seminar 13 Data Protection's Substance
Seminar 14 Data Rights and Wrongs
Seminar 15 Online Tracking: Cookies and Controllers
Seminar 16 International Transfers of Personal Data
Seminar 17 Emerging Models for Data Governance
Seminar 18 Automated Decision-Making
Seminar 19 Language Models & Personal Data
Seminar 20 Can Law Change The Internet?
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European Law Open @europeanlawopen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Be afraid, be very afraid. @tomfia.bsky.social and Deirdre Curtin try and tame some beasts on First View. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cracking AI secrecy: (beyond) EU migration law and governance | European Law Open | Cambridge Core
Cracking AI secrecy: (beyond) EU migration law and governance
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Tommaso Fia @tomfia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🆕 NEW PAPER OUT! @gijsvanmaanen.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share our latest article "Through thick and thin: data commons, community and the struggle for collective data governance", published in Technology and Regulation. 🔗 Check it out at doi.org/10.71265/tk2... #datacommons #governance
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