🤖 The power of the tech industry lies in infrastructure: AWS is investing almost 16M EUR in Aragón (Spain) to expand 3 data centres and build a fourth one. At the same time, they say that these projects will help address water scarcity in the region. elpais.com/economia/2024-…

For those who will be attending the CPDP Conferences this Friday, join me and Rocco Bellanova @[email protected] for the Artist Key Note: Francis Hunger. A panel organised by DATAUNION project on "Making the Invisible Visible: #Data, #Databases, and #AI Metaphors". Friday, 24th May, 11.50 (CEST).

That's a wrap! Many thanks to the participants that joined me, Francis Hunger and Rocco Bellanova @[email protected] earlier today at CPDP Conferences for an experimental talk on how to make the #invisible #visible by creating encounters between #art practice and #STS.

“Our online spaces are not ecosystems (...) they’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming or battery chicken farms”. EDPS Wojtek Wiewiorowski

'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech' - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

The images have been scraped from content posted as recently as 2023 and as far back as the mid-1990s, according to the report, long before any internet user might anticipate that their content might be used to train AI wired.com/story/ai-tools…

Insightful two days of Industry Roundtable organized by eu-LISA Among the topics: #data #sovereignty #infrastructures I have many takeaways from the various discussions, main one being that academic #research is vital in a business-centred, tech-driven approach to policy.

“[I]f bestowed with control over their data, people will willingly cede it to the large entities that are collecting and using their data. And they will do so even when it harms them.” - Solove & Woodrow Hartzog, Kafka in the Age of AI, ssrn.com/abstract=46855…

See policyreview.info/concepts/smart…

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 What does interoperability mean in the context of public admin and governance? How will it be impacted by AI applications? And what are societal benefits and drawbacks? Part of the Handbook on Public Policy and AI: t.ly/O1FZw

Encryption promises that only you and your recipients can read your messages. The EU scanning bill would expose all messages to surveillance at the upload point. You cannot have both. We EFF are available to explain the details.

It’s difficult to reckon with the physical harms of AI, says D&S Policy Director Brian Chen, because “tech companies invisibilize the consequences of these systems, most people don’t have to think about it.” jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-dat…

This deep insight into collaborative attempts of seeking justice in the context of obfuscation has been truely inspiring for the entire conference. Many thanks to the lawyers, border forensics and solidarian activists contributing to this pre-event!

#AI-related power demand is tanking platform #netzero ambitions. #climatecrisis theguardian.com/technology/art…

Dr. Pinkeee👩‍💻@[email protected] Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected] Jean-Christophe Plantin Devika Narayan Our panels on tinkering and unboxing security on Thursday morning too;-) #EASST4S2024

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

Today is a day to bring back brilliant Anthropology of Infrastructure scholar Susan Leigh Star: "The normally invisible quality of working infrastructure become visible when it breaks".

Publication alert: "Assess in Advance, Control Where Required: Risk, Privatisation and Data in EU Customs Security" European Security tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Honorary panel on "Thinking Transversally” with Didier Bigo didierbigo Full house is evidence of how much he and his intellectual labour and service mean to the discipline and our community. Thanks to all who joined us this evening! #EISAPEC24 International Political Sociology

#Frontex has launched a new intelligence division. "Rest assured, this is meant only to provide the member states, some third countries, European institutions and our operations, information that can be used," says its executive director.