Guido Noto La Diega

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Join us and @bonavero.bsky.social this Human Rights Day, we’ll be discussing how food, fuel and housing are all human rights issues, and how we can create a more equal and fair society

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Great to see this covered by the Guardian, proud to be one of the signatories!

Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach

The final straw – the Information Commissioner's Office has decided NOT to investigate the Afghan data leak. It's time to investigate them!

Over 70 organisations and experts back ORG's call for an inquiry into the regulator's chronic failure to enforce data law.

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Tecnologia e democrazia: un dialogo necessario - Istituto di formazione politica pedro arrupe Prosegue il ciclo di incontri Ridisegnare la democrazia, promosso dall’Istituto Arrupe.Venerdì 21 novembre, dalle 18.00 alle 20.00, discuteremo delle relazioni — tutt’altro che neutrali — tra tecnolog...

Sicilianə! Questo Venerdì discuteremo di tecnologia e democrazia all'Istituto Arrupe, non mancate! Totò Gaglio (Professore di IA) e io ne parleremo con Nino La Spina, autore del nuovo libro "Ridisegnare la Democrazia" (Armando Editore). Incontro aperto a tuttə!
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2025 10 OPEN FOR SIGNATURES afghan data breach.odt Nextcloud - a safe home for all your data

Data/privacy experts, please sign this open letter to ask for an inquiry into why the Information Commissioner's Office didn't investigate the Ministry of Defence about the 'Afghan leak' cloud.openrightsgroup.org/nextcloud/s/...

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

Over 10,000 people have added their name to keep Hampstead women's pond inclusive.

It only takes 1 minute. Will you join them?
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

Shout out for the fab Strathclyde Law School and all the other departments/institutes in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences!

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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There's still time to join the LLM/MSc Law, Technology and Innovation at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow! Check out our experiential learning opportunities and scholarships www.strath.ac.uk/courses/post...

A fantastic scholarship opportunity for mature students at @lawstrath.bsky.social 👇 When choosing your course, please consider our LLM/MSc Law, Technology and Innovation

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Hi Bluesky folks, I've been away for 8 months (I'm a dad now!), what did I miss in the law, technology and innovation space? Not much I'm sure😂

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Keep our Apple data encrypted It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

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I have stopped being active on X/Twitter for a while, but what a joy I feel now that I have finally deactivated it and deleted all data. I don't want in any way contribute to the empire a Fascist transphobic elitist billionaire. How are folks finding Bluesky? Current plan is to use this + LinkedIn.

But by all means, let's add an "AI summary" that's often useless rubbish to every Google search result at a huge emissions cost. Seems worth it. Killing the world for the dumbest possible bullshit: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Now what is the most essential for doing a PhD is to find a good bitching partner.

Someone who is at the same level of meanness and gossip, cause if the other is too mean, or too soft, it will not work. Absolutely critical for survival

#phdsky #academicsky

An infographic about Responsible AI Means Decomputing hybrid seminar on Wednesday 23rd October with a profile image of the speaker Dan McQuillan at the bottom right corner

Join our next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar where Dan McQuillan will present the talk, ‘Responsible AI Means Decomputing’.

📅 Wed 23rd Oct 2024
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍 @inspacegallery.bsky.social / Zoom
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After a day talking about This Kind Of Thing, another reason for students not to use ChatGPT etc - copyright law.

Copyright, Education, and Generative AI: Getting with the programme? - Kluwer Copyright Blog Generative AI (GenAI) is promising to revolutionise higher education. Whether it concerns legal scholars using ChatGPT to write their essays, computer science majors relying on GitHub Copilot to gener...

Can students claim AI-generated output as their own intellectual creation? Do students expose themselves to liability for copyright infringement when using GenAI output? Check out our computational analysis of the AI policies of UK universities copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/09/19/c...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #588,736! #achievements #success #cosechipampine #cosedicapriccio #semuricchienudduusapi

Can there be responsible AI without AI liability? Incentivizing generative AI safety through ex-post tort liability under the EU AI liability directive Abstract. In Europe, the governance discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has been predominantly centred on the AI Act, with a proliferation o

The EU AI Act has left out the most important area of law for responsible AI to become a reality. Check out "Can there be responsible AI without AI liability? Incentivizing generative AI safety through ex-post tort liability under the EU AI liability directive" (w L Bezerra) doi.org/10.1093/ijli...

Write to your MP: Stop e-Visas becoming the next Windrush scandal What's the problem? Until recently, migrants from outside the EU had physical documents to prove that they and their families could live, work or study in the UK. These could be physical cards or

Can you help stop a potential digital Windrush scandal?

The Home Office's new e-Visa system might prevent people who have the right to be in the UK from proving their status
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Announcement of the launch of the Legal Design Journal

It's here - the Legal Design Journal. Volume 1: Issue 1.

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Had a great time in Helsinki, where I got to speak at the launch of the book "Promoting Sustainable Innovation and the Circular Economy Legal and Economic Aspects" edited By Ole-Andreas Rognstad, Taina Pihlajarinne, Jukka Mähönen for Routledge ♥️🇫🇮kiitos🙏 www.routledge.com/Promoting-Su...

1 week to go! Some places remaing, we promise food for throught, food, wine, and your non-alcoholic beverage of choice! Register at the link below (free registration)

SSCL: AI credit scoring/consumer protection in Euro Law Framework FinTech uses alternative data and AI to assess creditworthiness, promising inclusivity but risks data misuse, bias and challenges regulation

Join us on 2nd September for a talk on "AI credit scoring and consumer protection in credit markets within the European law framework" by Dr Giuseppe Marino (University of Palermo) hosted by Strathclyde Law School & Scottish Society for Computers and Law www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sscl-ai-cr...

Marxism and the Law in a ‘Smart’ World Guido Noto La Diega, Professor in IP Law and Technology Law, Stirling University At the end of 2022, I published the book Internet of Things and the Law for Routledge (let’s get the shameless plug ou...

Happy to share "Marxism and the Law in a ‘Smart’ World", written for the ALTI Forum. A Marxist approach to tech demands that we all join in the fight & create/sustain alliances for a more just cyber-physical world ✊
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Developed through discussions with a range of international stakeholders, this programme is understood to be globally unique in teaching technological skills, technology law, innovation and leadership. It does not require prior knowledge of coding or law.

#MeetTheLecturer continues. A key elective module of the new LLM/MSc Law, Technology and Innovation will be "IP, Commerce and Innovation" and it will be taught by Quentin B. Schäfer, an expert in the IP-Competition interface and the regulation of AI www.strath.ac.uk/courses/post...

#MeetTheLecturer Dr Birgit Schippers is a pillar of the new LLM/MSc Law Tech & Innovation. An expert in the impact of AI on human rights, democracy & rule of law, she'll teach the core module ‘Regulating Technology’ & elective '‘Human Rights and Digital Technologies’ www.strath.ac.uk/courses/post...