Assistant Professor at University of Groningen | Previously at the DSG Group at TU Wien, and KTH | Posts mostly about #technology and #politics, in EN/SQ/TR/MK/DE/HR | Previously worked on social computing, currently focused on #largescale #network analysis | Interests: #networkscience #provenance #adaptivesystems #complexsystems #humancenteredAI #AI #privacy #ethics From Ohrid 🌊
💪🙌💥Public pressure works! #meta delays implementing their AI training of users personal data.
@noybeu@mastodon.social.eu filed legal complaints in 11 European countries we joined up with them in Norway.
In Norway, the public outcry has also been deafening at times.
We will follow closely and our arguments still stand: Meta does not have a legal basis for such processing.
#privacy #gdpr #ai #GenAI #MetaAI
https://noyb.eu/en/preliminary-noyb-win-meta-stops-ai-plans-eu
Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you’ve likely never heard of.
Over 1,000 years before the internet and smartphone apps, Persian scientist and polymath Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī invented the concept of algorithms.
By Debbie Passey. via @ConversationUK
🇬🇧🚨Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. France is considerung to give up its resistance.
The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share&receive pictures/videos and links!
Read all about it: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/
Waiting for my flight to Amsterdam before a train ride to Groningen to present the Small Web at my colloquium on computer science at the University of Groningen tomorrow.
#SmallWeb #groningen #netherlands #universityOfGroningen #talks
@aral its a pleasure Aral, we are very much looking forward to your talk!
Looking forward to presenting my computer science colloquium on Small Web at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, on 11th of June, 2024 at 4PM.
There might be space for a few people from outside the university to attend so if you want to drop by, make some noise and I’ll have a chat with the university.
Thanking @mirela for organising this and looking forward to hopefully meeting some of you in the Netherlands soon.
"Just like Apple, Meta is behaving as though the #DMA permits it to carry on its worst behavior, with minor cosmetic tweaks around the margins. Just like #Apple, #Meta is daring the #EU to enforce its democratically enacted laws, implicitly promising to pit its billions against #Europe’s institutions to preserve its right to spy on us."
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" | #ElectronicFrontierFoundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead
European Parliament today supported extending the indiscriminate, error-prone #Chatcontrol 1.0 searching of ALL private messages sent via US big tech platforms.
Read why #Pirates are opposing this: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/pirates-vote-against-chatcontrol-1-0-extension/
How did your MEPs vote? https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=164216&country=
My video explains why the official justification is a tall tale: https://twitter.com/echo_pbreyer/status/1753055216969076745
The election year focus on 'deep fakes' is a distraction, conveniently ignoring the documented role of surveillance ads--or, the ability to target specific segments to shape opinion. This's a boon to Meta/Google, who've rolled back restrictions on political ads in recent years.
Put another way, a deep fake is neither here nor there unless you have a platform + tools to disseminate it strategically.
"The virus is rampant. We’re still in a pandemic. There’s a lot of complacency at the individual level, and more concerning to me is that at the government level.
"Using masks for respiratory pathogens that transmit through the air is a no-brainer—plus vaccination, plus distancing, plus improving ventilation."
We don’t know everything about this virus. Even in year five, there’s still a lot of research that needs to be done."
- Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO
🇬🇧Important, scathing criticism of the planned #AIAct now from the entire Reclaim Your Face alliance including EDRi, AccessNOW, La Quadrature, Amnesty:
"Under this new law, ... the EU will have rubber-stamped #biometricmasssurveillance." https://reclaimyourface.eu/eu-ai-act-will-fail-commitment-to-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/ #Pirates
We just released version 2.0.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress (WordPress.com release is planned for tomorrow).
Main feature: Full bidirectional/threaded comment federation 🎉
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.0.0
Thanks #Automattic @mattwiebe @kanru @linos @mediaformat @mat @webrocker @sentynel and @janboddez for your contributions
Just in case you're wondering if the people from Twitter who show up out of nowhere, reply to your posts to call you a bunch of names, and then scream at you to leave them alone when you respond politely have migrated to Mastodon: yes, they have.
In our new #DigitalPublicSpace Primer, @paulk and Zuzanna Warso define and explain the need for digital public spaces and why funding the infrastructure that supports them is the way to secure #DigitalRights #DemocraticInfrastructure https://openfuture.eu/publication/digital-public-space-primer/ 🧶1/6
If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with #Threads, you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.
What’s in the New EU Artificial Intelligence Act, and What Will It Mean for Global #Privacy? - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/whats-in-the-new-eu-artificial-intelligence-act/ exciting times... #AI #EU
@Vwb @academicchatter sorry wanted to repost with an addition and deleted it by mistake:)
