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Will a new era for online advertising start today?
This is the outcome of the vote on a very important paragraph of the Parliament Report on the Political Ads Regulation, that happened moments ago.
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I am not sure what this sentence means.
Does Google believe that the development of privacy enhancing tech (#PETS) relies on Google's investment in #AI?
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WATCH: Jonathan Kanter, the DOJ’s AAG for Antitrust, explains why the United States is bringing a fresh antitrust case against Google.
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This matters because every cent that Google uses its position to divert is a cent that doesn't go to improving the Web, and this Web-wide loss of income has accumulated over the years.
In the same way that Europe underdeveloped Africa, Google underdevelops the Web. Same logic. twitter.com/jason_kint/sta
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What the US Department of Justice and several State AGs are asking the Court to do about Google: divestiture of Google’s RTB business. documentcloud.org/documents/2358
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Many people don't realize that the largest electronically traded markets in the world are online ad markets.
Today the DOJ filed suit against Google for illegally monopolizing them. This puts DOJ, half+ our States, and even Senators and Congressmen in alignment.
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has obtained documents related to CCTVs in operation at the .
A 2015 tender document shows that the Parliament requested for #CCTV cameras with facial recognition capability.
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I spoke to about the ongoing frustrations of GDPR enforcement in Europe, what to expect following the EPDB's watershed judgement on Facebook last week & how my #RighttoObject lawsuit takes on 's toxic business model from a new angle
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These documents raise a number of questions. has written a letter to raising our concerns:
1. How long has the European Parliament used CCTVs with facial recognition capability?
2. Does the European Parliament still use Hikvision equipment?
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Some of you might remember that the European Parliament installed and removed Hikvision thermal cameras in 2020-21.
However, it is unclear whether the Parliament uses other products from Hikvision.
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The Parliament's security systems relies on the software of a Dutch company that includes Hikvision among its technology partners.
Hikvision has been linked to human rights abuses in Xinjiang
ipvm.com/reports/hikvis
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This document also specifies image quality requirements to enable FRT.
We don't yet know the purpose, when and how often this capability has been used.
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After a year-long inquiry, the EU Ombudsman recommends that the European Commission should monitor the progress of every single Big Tech case that the Irish Data Protection Commission is responsible for.
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Nach einem guten Gespräch mit meiner Kollegin kann ich klar sagen: Die Bundesregierung ist sich einig, dass wir klar gegen die #Chatkontrolle sind. Eine anlasslose Überwachung privater Kommunikation hat im Rechtsstaat nichts zu suchen.
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Last month, made two recommendations to to better protect people harmed by AI systems:
1. hold companies liable regardless of the intent and fault
2. provide clarity on how immaterial harms and societal harms will be addressed.
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Together with we launch our policy brief & recommendations on behalf of the workers regarding the proposed EU Platform Work Directive ahead of next week's crucial vote by the European Parliament EMPL committee. Please share and comment.
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The quote is from the EU Commission's draft standardisation request to CEN/CENELEC yesterday: ec.europa.eu/docsroom/docum
The draft request in itself is disappointing. It gives the impression that technical standards will suffice to protect fundamental rights.
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The EU Commission seems to be redefining accuracy and correcting an error in its draft of the #AIAct. had pointed out in March 2022 that accuracy is an insufficient performance measure.
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... the narrower definition of statistical accuracy, which is one of several possible metrics for evaluating the performance of #AI systems."
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“Accuracy” should be understood as referring to the capability of the AI system to perform the task for which it has been designed. This should not be confused with ...
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European Central Bank:
"The current regulation of #cryptocurrencies is partly shaped by misconceptions. The belief that space must be given to #innovation at all costs stubbornly persists."
Does this belief persist in other #regulations?
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Newly unsealed court documents reveal data anarchy at .
We've just sent the European Commission + new material revealing Meta’s internal data systems
+how Meta infringes the new EU Digital Markets Act + GDPR
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EU lawmakers are calling for a full ban on biometric surveillance
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Die Bundesregierung wollte biometrische Erkennung in der EU verbieten, doch der #AIAct ist voller Schlupflöcher. In einem offenen Brief rufen 24 Organisationen , & auf, ihr Koalitionsversprechen in der KI-Verordnung umzusetzen.
➡️ algorithmwatch.org/de/offener-bri
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Those who are to be regulated by #AIAct get to decide the details of the rules. Conflict of interest anyone?
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Human rights activists are worried.
As the EU drafts up new legislation for potentially dangerous AI, corporations from outside the bloc are trying to influence the process and want to play a key role in deciding the details of the bloc’s planned rules.
bit.ly/3U4AF87
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Meta spent $15 billion spent on the metaverse in 2022.
Its oversight board has "$130 million in initial funding, expected to cover operational costs for over half a decade"
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Agree with the conclusion.
Some caveats:
- these results are for "Large Generative Models" no all large AI experiments
- Many papers include academia-industry collaboration (likely due to the computational resources available in industry)
- Depends on 1st-author affiliations
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Let that sink in: the share of academic research projects running large scale AI experiments (things like development of GPT3) has sunk to - yes: 0%
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2023 WP: ec.europa.eu/info/sites/def
2022 WP: ec.europa.eu/info/sites/def
2021 WP: ec.europa.eu/info/sites/def
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In its 2023 work programme, claims to "act decisively on #infringements"
Lets not raise our hope though
2022: COM "will not hesitate to uphold EU law through infringement proceedings".
2021: COM "will also step up efforts to improve ... #enforcement of EU law"
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Quite right! 
But @EU_Commission has to take action, investigate, launch infringement proceedings, propose legislation @EP_PegaInquiry twitter.com/VeraJourova/st…
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