Sergio Maldonado

Mark Webber: So many “AI Committees” end up diluting responsibility and are not effective for AI governance. Someone must actually be in charge. There are thousands of use cases throughout the company - documenting it all is not so simple. (#PrivacySummit - California Lawyers Association)

Legal AI vs. AI-native law firms (You are reading a GenAI-free article, solely relying on auto-correct for some expressions and typos - and for a more readable version of my original 2x2 sketch. I published a first iteration of these...

Some wild ideas on the future of legal services, from legacy firms supercharging Microsoft Word with Legoras and Harveys to Legal Quants building #Claude Skills and deploying local models. www.linkedin.com/pulse/legal-... #law

Browser-Supported Signals as a replacement for Consent Management Platforms Can you even remember the days when the internet was clutter-free?

Dreaming of a world in which opt-out signals and user-defined terms rule over consent banners… open.substack.com/pub/masterso... #ePrivacy

Masters of Privacy LIVE NYC 2026 Privacy meets MarTech & AdTech (January 14, 2026).

In NYC on January 14? Join us for dinner and a live recording session on the impact of GPC and other opt-out signals across various jurisdictions www.mastersofprivacy.com/p/masters-of... #ePrivacy #AdTech #MarTech

Just wait Coping with the pace of agentic tools, bias, AI judges, Empowerment Tech, MyTerms, AI Ethics and the environment.

I had a lot of fun recording this one with Gam Dias for #AfterTheMagic, and hopefully some of you will enjoy listening to it. We covered a lot of ground, from the pace of #AI (and agentic building blocks) to automating litigation and Empowerment Tech.
www.afterthemagic.com/p/just-wait

Thanks for sharing it!!

I just hope that the focus can be set on that (separate data controller - Meta, etc.) rather than the use of analytics, AB testing, or less intrusive data processors. Adding consent banners for those alone is an overkill - and just creates the illusion of privacy

What to do then about predatory lawsuits and extortion?

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about.

Absolutely brilliant - it is not about how much #AI can do but about how limited we always were. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #AI #thought #language by James Somers

Accountability and third-party vetting in the age of wild automation Cutting through the noise of third-party vendor credentials

More ideas on third party audits open.substack.com/pub/privacyc...

How about law firms becoming software providers (instead of being replaced by them)? (Part I) An investment in external tools could hamper a firm's ability to compete

A few thoughts on the future of legal services. Buying pre-packaged #AI solutions may be the wrong way to go. Also, I would avoid #OpenAI et al open.substack.com/pub/privacyc...

Tony Fish: Navigating a constant state of transition What vehicle do we need to enable us to start working with AI?

Tony Fish, always inspiring. Fantastic conversation. On #AfterTheMagic

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Well, consent can be the most unethical of all legal bases, as it allows a company to run counter to the nature of a particular context by simply tricking people into accepting what they do not understand. Medical research owes a lot to legitimate interest and data repurposing (with guarantees).

YouTube video by After The Magic Angel Maldonado: How Agentic AI reshapes Ecommerce

How will #AI Agents affect #Ecommerce? Have LLMs reshaped keyword-based product search? How can leading retailers ensure proper governance of their AI stack while maintaining their competitive advantage? We have asked my brother Angel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BJ0... #afterthemagic (limited series)

Masters of Privacy Hoping to better understand a human-centric, demand-led future, we have spent a few months interviewing entrepreneurs and pioneers at the intersection of Marketing, Data, Privacy, and Technology. This...

[EN] Can we move beyond “dark patterns” to define Manipulative Design or Interface Interference? How could we expand website and mobile app monitoring to a company’s ad stack? We asked Christine Desrosiers (Boltive) in the 5th installment of our #PrivacyTech series.
www.youtube.com/@MastersofPr...

WeTransfer ToS adding 'machine learning' caused freakout Analysis: WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably

[EN] Here goes another ToS change to make room for #AI training (user content/files), followed by the predictable backlash. This time it is #WeTransfer ’s turn - Solicitor Neil Brown argues in favor of an “implied copyright license” in the UK. In TheRegister www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/l...

OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues Artificial intelligence start-up has shown brands a prototype of its new checkout feature

This gets really interesting. A particular kind of query would incorporate “intent” and beat the opposite flow (a conversation/search that starts on Shopify), and whoever owns the query can commoditize everyone else. “OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues” - on FT #retail

Julian Wilson: Self-Sovereign Data meets Open Banking - Masters Of Privacy Julian Wilson began his career at Apple in the late 80s. Here he worked on projects such as the world’s first set top box, hybrid CD / internet games console and as part of the...

In 2021 I interviewed the great Julian Wilson, who sadly has just passed away. We covered the interplay between Self-Sovereign Data and Open Banking. His ideas remain as relevant as ever mastersofprivacy.com/julian-wilso... May he rest in peace.

Well, hard to avoid the boxes if you live in the US, but I also wonder why they still exist.

Buenísimo:) que sea leve

I’ve had it with useless chatbots. The FTC should ban them under unfair/deceptive practices. Ok, one exception, against all odds: the NC DMV’s, maybe because their website was hopeless to begin with

Bold move. I hear some EU companies are even switching to Alibaba’s cloud, which sounds wild - but I am surely missing a lot

Y todavía no sabía la que se nos venía soportando a Pedro Sánchez y su séquito, solo insultando categóricamente a quien se atreve a cuestionar sus motivos o principios. No ha habido mayor servilismo.

I really enjoyed this one.

Great point, really well articulated.

Yet again. Expecting a probabilistic system to produce an accurate output #AI

Depth of reasoning can now be determined on the fly, rather than responding to an on-off switch. #AIAgents

Two Paths for A.I. The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control.

Researchers have wildly variable views about what the future of A.I. will bring. “Which is it: business as usual or the end of the world?” Joshua Rothman writes.