First-ever spacewalk in this new SpaceX suit. Dragon has no airlock, so the whole ship depressurizes & all 4 crewmembers will be at vacuum. Boldly go, Polaris - launch Tuesday.

Interesting news via Daniel J. Solove that GWU law is hiring a dean for #privacy and #technoloyg law. Here's the job posting: gwu.jobs/postings/114218

This is now one of my favorite ways to think about generative AI: it’s an inherently unreliable technology, which explains why it’s so unintuitively difficult to learn how to get good results from it - and why so many people are rejecting it as useless or over-hyped

The Sixth Circuit will be hearing oral argument on #netneutrality on Halloween - scary!

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things: 1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big win for free speech.

📢 Hosted by Freshfields, Brick Court Chambers & MLex, the Competition Litigation Conference will return to London 20 Sept, with keynotes from Michael Green J and Jessica Radke of the Competition & Markets Authority, plus deep-dive panels with prominent practitioners. Book now​​​​ ⬇ lnkd.in/dggCezrk

Although Google has been excoriated by multiple federal judges for similar conduct here in Bay Area #privacy and #antitrust litigation, and the consequences don't seem to have been all that significant from what I can tell. Guess we'll see what happens in this case.

📢 MLex is a media partner to Forum Global on the 6th Annual Data Privacy Conference USA, to take place in Washington DC on 17 Sept, with Maddie Hughes set to moderate a panel on privacy-preserving innovation. Book a spot now: lnkd.in/e6tqQXQJ #DataUSA24 Forum Europe

Literally decades of law and it's come to this enshittification of online privacy 'we and our 923 partners use cookies or similar technologies' Choices. More info. Decline & accept. Accept Agencia Española de Protección de Datos

If you're attending the Data Privacy Conference USA in DC next month, be sure to check out the panel moderated by my MLex colleague Maddie Hughes on #privacy tech!

Here's our piece on why 9th Circuit's #privacy reversal of Google lower-court win over its data collection in #Chrome is significant for company that collects #personaldata: The court was crystal clear disclosures must be understandable to regular users, not just lawyers.

Pretty sure Im set for life now that I'm entered in the Nenana Ice Classic, an Alaska institution since 1917, where you bet on when the spring break up sends this thing through the Tanana River icepack.

“Europe must leverage the complementarities between industrial and competition policy”: my comments to ⁦MLex ⁩ content.mlex.com/#/content/1594…

Some big songbirds around here.