Ian Brown / is on Nostr

💻 policy/regulation researcher (esp. #InfoSec #privacy #ML 🗳 #interoperability #DMA #GDPR). ⛷🚴🏻‍♂️🥾🗺. Visiting Prof at Centre for Technology & Society, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, Rio de Janeiro 👨‍🏫 Formerly 🇬🇧 gov’t Principal Scientific Officer 👨‍🔬 and Prof @oiioxford Estoy aprendiendo español :v8rified:

Last Notes

2025-04-03 12:15:42

Must-read and subscribe!
“Like most journalists, I like to start with the bad news first: the fight against unfair monopolies and unchecked corporate power is being lost.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecounterbalance/p/the-state-of-play-in-the-fight-against?r=epded&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2025-02-23 05:17:51

🇬🇧 ambassador Peter ‘Mandelson is understood to be mapping out a plan for the UK to become America’s main foreign hub for #AI and critical technologies...proposing a new economic partnership or “Mega deal”, short for “Make our Economies Great Again”’
https://www.thetimes.com/article/07bbd3c9-2a51-481e-b6e5-67e0d6986339?shareToken=852252139689b12296aa38bf3bba2320

2025-02-12 08:15:06

Good to talk to @nprofile…s7xc about M*sk’s sweeping 🇺🇸 federal IT system takeover via #DOGE, and its catastrophic long-term impact on Americans’ security and privacy https://www.fastcompany.com/91276537/doge-has-disregarded-data-protection-and-privacy-norms-the-consequences-will-be-felt-years-down-the-line

2025-01-16 08:40:45

‘Under Project Liberty’s ownership, McCourt says the #TikTok experience would remain “very similar”, but users “would own and control their identity, their data, their relationships”. Those who download the app would have to give permission for the use of their data, and companies would be able to offer to pay users for it.’
https://www.thetimes.com/article/35e82287-797f-4a90-ba83-020f4aee3989?shareToken=56ab0661ab6ebb1a8ada46e5770eba95

2024-02-13 20:11:12

“Everything in computing is now branded as #AI, just as a few years ago everything was #cloud, and a few years before that everything was #mobile. But the returns from the move to mobile or the cloud were not evenly distributed. The returns from the move to AI will be uneven, too. Some stocks will be lifted by the tide; some will be at the crest of the wave.” https://on.ft.com/4bxOll5

2024-02-12 06:47:15

‘The 🇬🇧 policing chief for retail crime has called on #Meta to force users of its #Facebook #Marketplace platform to verify their identity and location to thwart an epidemic of shoplifting.’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/25f0462b-6fe3-4531-aa5e-ad9df5501805?shareToken=40c959579d0de7869f1a953436aab1eb

2023-11-26 09:52:25

“The problem we face is not that machines may one day exercise power over humans. That is speculation unwarranted by current developments. It is rather that we already live in societies in which power is exercised by a few to the detriment of the majority, and that technology provides a means of consolidating that power.” 💯 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/26/artificial-intelligence-harm-worry-about-people-control-openai?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2023-09-15 17:38:06

‘🇬🇧 officials have been exploring the option of inviting China to only one of the two days, as intelligence experts ramp up their warnings that the country is carrying out extensive spying in the UK and elsewhere.’ #AISafetySummit https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/15/rishi-sunak-considers-banning-chinese-officials-from-half-of-ai-summit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other