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Lilian Edwards

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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected]
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www.404media.co/show-how-3m-... Batshit case but like they say the really interesting but is how to recover the prompts in discovery. Surely this is easily avoidable by not logging in/ using alt logins? How could we do this in Eng courts? @cyberleagle.bsky.social

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit 404media.co
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  • The Harris County jury assigned 3M 30% liability and awarded $61.5 million, the third plaintiff-favorable verdict across four Watson Grinding trials, with nearly 2,000 additional plaintiffs and a next trial set for October 2026.
  • 350 pages of ChatGPT session logs became the primary evidence against the defense's own expert, establishing AI chat histories as discoverable work product in U.S. mass tort proceedings.
  • KnightHawk Engineering's formal public response called the coverage a 'selective and negative snapshot' and 'Fake News,' the first on-record denial from a defense engineering firm caught using AI-generated expert testimony.
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Despite my usual dislike of reactive unnecessary new law, i think there’s a strong case for criminalising deliberate removal of anti-surveillance features in consumer goods. Easily done too by a slight tweak of s 3A Computer Misuse Act 1990 www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? theguardian.com
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  • Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses use a small white LED to signal recording, but the Guardian says it is easy to miss in daylight.
  • The paper points to a grey market of modified glasses whose recording light has been disabled entirely.
  • A Swedish investigation cited by the Guardian found glasses footage, including intimate home recordings, was reviewed by contractors in Nairobi to train Meta's AI.
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social

If you build a tool that makes it easy to spy on and harass people, that's exactly what people will use it for. This is all by design. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools futurism.com
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  • Futurism found teen boys wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in middle and high schools to covertly film girls, then posting the clips to TikTok and Instagram.
  • One prolific poster amassed more than 64,000 combined followers across the two platforms, with dozens of videos of girls asking to be left alone.
  • Andy Liddell of the EdTech Law Center told Futurism that 'school is the last place that these glasses belong,' warning state recording laws can carry felony charges.
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Kudos to Beatriz B Arcila who anticipated this as a bit of a joke! Is it a Platform? Is it a Search Engine? It's Chat GPT! The European Liability Regime for Large Language Models by Beatriz Botero Arcila :: SSRN share.google/9EEgDOuYEVa7...

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Important paper on whether LLMs gives accurate info when seeking abortion advice. Location dependent! And changed with rephrase of question! #FaccT2026

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Frankly Nolan's Odyssey has been wholly worth it just to have something to talk about at parties other than Trump and AI 👍👍 The chattering classes should sponsor him in future!

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Eurovision genres 2026 ; Phantom of the Opera, gay bondage death metal, fake MarioCart video w added ai generated music. Inexplicable opera. Oh and note for note ripoffs Gangnam Style. Did i miss anything?

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Meanwhile about 2 days after Munich court declaring AI Overviews are the independent novel text of AI provider (Google Gemini), Berlin court has said EXACT OPPOSITE. well not quite exact as use of trade marks in AI summary somehow looks far more like like old fashioned adwords (see CJEU)than

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I watched a netflix show last night where the hugging face emoji was a plot point..I'm glad to finally be able to be GenX enough to admit I've never been quite sure of it either.. (Fyi Vladimir. VG fluff for senior female academics but I actually really enjoyed it - tho as usual end sucks).

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