michael veale

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prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️‍🌈

The explanatory notes at the start of the document dump explains that "on 31 March the [Cabinet Office] wrote to Peter Mandelson - via his solicitors - to request any information held on his personal phone. "Peter Mandelson declined to comply with this request. The government has no further recourse to search the personal devices of Peter Mandelson."
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Данная страница заблокирована в соответствии с действующим законодательством. Доступ к информационному ресурсу ограничен на основании Федерального закона от 27 июля 2006 г. № 149-ФЗ "Об информации, информационных технологиях и о защите информации". Если Вы считаете, что включение этой страницы нужного Вам интернет-ресурса в "Единый реестр..." или "Реестр доменных имен..." произошло по ошибке, или оно нарушает Ваши законные права, пожалуйста, обращайтесь непосредственно к уполномоченному органу по координатам на интернет-сайте реестра. Вернуться или Перейти на сайт Реестра информации, запрещенной законом 398-ФЗ
Данная страница заблокирована в соответствии с действующим законодательством. Доступ к информационному ресурсу ограничен на основании Федерального закона от 27 июля 2006 г. № 149-ФЗ "Об информации, информационных технологиях и о защите информации". Если Вы считаете, что включение этой страницы нужного Вам интернет-ресурса в "Единый реестр..." или "Реестр доменных имен..." произошло по ошибке, или оно нарушает Ваши законные права, пожалуйста, обращайтесь непосредственно к уполномоченному органу по координатам на интернет-сайте реестра. Вернуться или Перейти на сайт Реестра информации, запрещенной законом 398-ФЗ
world map titled “map of the global expansion of human trafficking for forced online financial fraud, june 2025,” showing victim countries of origin growing over three time points. in january 2023 (dark red), origins were concentrated in southeast and east asia (notably china and vietnam) plus brazil. by may 2023 (orange), the pattern expanded across south and central asia, much of eastern europe and russia, and parts of sub-saharan africa. by march 2025 (light peach), it spread further into latin america, western and southern europe, and additional african countries, indicating victims now originate from nearly every region. red-outlined circles mark potential emerging trafficking hubs in mexico/central america, west africa, the horn of africa, southern africa, and the balkans/eastern mediterranean — showing the criminal model is no longer confined to southeast asia but is replicating globally.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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LAWS0339 Internet Law and Policy Convenor: Professor Michael Veale, co-taught with Professor Orla Lynskey and Dr Tommaso Fia. Faculty of Laws, University College London. Academic Year 2025-6. Document Version December 2025. About the Module Seminar 1 Welcome to the Internet Seminar 2 How To Control the Internet Seminar 3 Blocking and Networked Rule-Making: the Domain Name System Seminar 4 Liability Shielding and Safe Harbours Seminar 5 Content Moderation Obligations Seminar 6 Fair Moderation and Takedown Abuse Seminar 7 Specific and General Monitoring Seminar 8 By-Design Platform Regulation Seminar 9 Verification: Ages, Names, Identities Seminar 10 Moderating Al: Models and Outputs Seminar 11 Privacy Online Seminar 12 Data Protection's Scope Seminar 13 Data Protection's Substance Seminar 14 Data Rights and Wrongs Seminar 15 Online Tracking: Cookies and Controllers Seminar 16 International Transfers of Personal Data Seminar 17 Emerging Models for Data Governance Seminar 18 Automated Decision-Making Seminar 19 Language Models & Personal Data Seminar 20 Can Law Change The Internet?
The successful candidate will have their research home in the Faculty of Laws, while their teaching duties will be split across Laws and EISPS. Their teaching will include core modules offered by the Faculty of Laws in EU and in Public International Law (as expertise permits) aimed at students on non-law programmes, as well as elective interdisciplinary modules offered primarily by the EISPS Department, shaped by their expertise and research interests. We are interested in candidates with experience in both law and politics (or a related humanities or social science field) which may substantively relate to a wide array of specialist areas in domestic, international or comparative law, such as international trade law, migration and refugee law, public international law, private international law, electoral law, technology law, maritime law, international commercial or financial law, regulatory law, environmental law, foreign relations law or administrative law. We particularly welcome applications from candidates who might contribute some teaching on the Faculty of Laws’ French, German or Spanish Law programmes. It is important that candidates applying with a research background in politics, or a related field, evidence how they would be able to teach law, for example through prior law qualifications or publication in legal venues. Candidates with a background in law should ideally be working clearly across disciplines, and in any case, should be able to demonstrate how their research-led teaching would fit within a programme such as the EISPS programme.
Lecturer in Law and Politics Ref Number B03-02945 Professional Expertise Academic Department UCL SLASH (B03) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £54,931-£64,644 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid Available for Secondment No Closing Date 23-Mar-2026
FOI request: Dear Greater London Authority, Please provide income details from any sponsorship or commercial arrangements in relation to the “Wicked” film franchise in relation to visial placement during the broadcast of the London NYE fireworks 2025-6. This includes deals between Universal Studios, Marc Platt Productions or Universal Pictures. Please provide income details and all agreements and conditions of any sponsorship. Yours faithfully, Michael Veale
Social media company means any information service [cont.]… The term does not include any information service, system, Internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex as defined in s. 509.013.
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The Obligations of Providers of General-Purpose AI Models Michael Veale1,2 and João Pedro Quintais 2 1Faculty of Laws, University College London 2Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam To appear in Zanfir Fortuna, Malgieri, González Fuster and Mantelero (eds.) The Artificial Intelligence Act — A Thematic Commentary (Hart forthcoming 2026). This version: November 2025. During the legislative process, the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was amended to include provisions related to general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. These broadly relate to transparency towards downstream users and relevant regulators, in addition to obligations connected to intellectual property. In this paper, we provide detailed analysis of these new provisions in the context of current technological applications and emerging trajectories, connecting them to computing literature and practice, and the broader context of connected and adjacent legal regimes, in particular copyright and relevant emerging case law. We find that there are a significant number of inclarities, tensions and contradictions both within the text, between the text and other legal regimes, and between the text and guideline documents, such as the Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI and recent guidelines by the European Commission. We identify a range of issues with the scoping of the provisions which may undermine its policy goals and create loopholes for regulatory avoidance, such as those relating to non-commercial models, open-source models, and model finetuning along the value chain. We find that the Code of Practice contains significant omissions and misstatements, some of which may present a compliance risk for an entity choosing to rely on the Code. We do not consider the provisions on GPAI models which present a systemic risk, which are dealt with elsewhere in the volume which this work will form a part of.
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[41] It follows from all the foregoing considerations that (..) Article 2(b) and (d) of Directive 95/46 are to be interpreted as meaning that, first, the activity of a search engine consisting in finding information published or placed on the internet by third parties, indexing it automatically, storing it temporarily and, finally, making it available to internet users according to a particular order of preference must be classified as ‘processing of personal data’ within the meaning of Article 2(b) when that information contains personal data and, second, the operator of the search engine must be regarded as the ‘controller’ in respect of that processing, within the meaning of Article 2(d). Data protection sees a search engine as a controller, determining the means and purposes of the processing of personal data, while intermediary liability law sees a search engine as a passive host, without knowledge of illegal content and not liable for it. Are these regimes in conflict? If so, how, and if not, why not? END OF PAPER
“The first dose is free,” said Hal Varian, a professor of information management at UC Berkeley, facetiously comparing Microsoft’s anti-piracy policy to street-corner marketing of illicit drugs. “Once you start using a product, you keep using it.”
Free flow of non-personal data: Parliament approves EU’s fifth freedom Press Releases PLENARY SESSION IMCO 04-10-2018 - 12:16 New rules aimed at removing obstacles to the free movement of non-personal data within the EU for companies and public authorities were adopted by MEPs.
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We’re excited to share our brand-new AI Study Assistant, developed in collaboration with Law lecturers and students to improve efficiency for students using Law Trove, enabling them to access quality, peer reviewed textbooks quicker than ever before: Input a query and the AI Study Assistant will rapidly navigate to content within Law Trove, connecting students quickly to our expert authors' authoritative research Students can ask the tool to formulate a quiz; it will then generate questions on a specific topic to consolidate their understanding The AI Study Assistant is included in all subscriptions to Law Trove; it will generate answers or quizzes based on the content to which a user has access. Everything entered into the tool is anonymous, and because only our trusted content is included, you can have confidence that your students are accessing reliable source material.
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video ‘a venentian delight with chef aldo zilli’ with picture of sardines, 335 views, subtitle on video ‘thank you to the university of warwick for bringing me here’.
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real cases of such behavior identified by Clio. In all of these cases, when a suspicious cluster was discovered, it was reviewed by a small number of designated members of our Trust and Safety team who are authorized to manually review conversations—in a secure environment, and under strict privacy controls—that have been flagged for violating our Usage Policy.6 1. Using automated accounts for search engine optimization. Clio identified a large cluster of conversations in which Claude was asked to generate keywords for search engine optimization about the same topic across many different accounts. While none of the individual conversations violated our Usage Policy, after investigating the accounts further, we determined that they were engaged in coordinated abuse (which is against our Usage Policy) and we removed them from our systems. 2. Using automated accounts for explicit content generation. Clio identified a large cluster of conversations from many different accounts that used an identical complex prompt structure to engage Claude in sexually explicit role-play. After investigating the accounts further, we determined that they were coordinated and systematically violating our Usage Policy, and we removed them from our systems.7 3. Reselling access to Claude in violation of our terms and policies. Clio revealed that a large amount of traffic from several accounts suggested violations of certain policies. On further investigation, we determined that these accounts were reselling unauthorized access to Claude in violation of our Usage Policy, and so we removed the violative accounts from our systems.
Screenshot of https://cdn.openai.com/trust-and-transparency/report-2024h1-government-requests-for-user-data.pdf showing Jan-June 2024 figures.
Dear University of Warwick, I would like to request 1) all email correspondence relating to, and 2) the price to the University of Warwick of, the placement of the following article in Vogue Singapore: Ajay Teli on how cultural storytelling is shaping the future of education at the University of Warwick (Vogue Singapore, 6 June 2025) https://vogue.sg/university-of-warwick-a... If you are considering to use an exemption relating to commercial information, please consider that prices are available here publicly in the Vogue Singapore 2025 media kit and so little commercially sensitive information is likely to be present on which to ground the exemption: https://web.archive.org/web/202503151454... Yours faithfully, Michael Veale
Universities aren’t often spoken of as ‘brands,’ but Warwick leans into that idea. What does thinking of a university as a brand unlock—and what can it achieve when done well? Seeing a university as a brand unlocks coherence and confidence. A brand is about more than design, it’s about identity and consistency. When you align your values, your story and your impact, you become more than a place, you become a movement. At Warwick, brand isn’t just a communications tool, it’s a strategic asset. It helps us attract brilliant minds, forge global partnerships and create a distinctive space in a competitive world. When done well, a brand doesn’t limit, it liberates.
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a post from @grok on x saying We are aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts. Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved.
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letter annoucing promotion to professor of technology law and policy
You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-06 Current date: 2025-05-14 Image input capabilities: Enabled Personality: v2 Over the course of the conversation, you adapt to the user’s tone and preference. Try to match the user’s vibe, tone, and generally how they are speaking. You want the conversation to feel natural. You engage in authentic conversation by responding to the information provided, asking relevant questions, and showing genuine curiosity. If natural, continue the conversation with casual conversation. Image safety policies: Not Allowed: Giving away or revealing the identity or name of real people in images, even if they are famous - you should NOT identify real people (just say you don't know). Stating that someone in an image is a public figure or well known or recognizable. Saying what someone in a photo is known for or what work they've done. Classifying human-like images as animals. Making inappropriate statements about people in images. Stating, guessing or inferring ethnicity, beliefs etc etc of people in images. Allowed: OCR transcription of sensitive PII (e.g. IDs, credit cards etc) is ALLOWED. Identifying animated characters. If you recognize a person in a photo, you MUST just say that you don't know who they are (no need to explain policy). Your image capabilities: You cannot recognize people. You cannot tell who people resemble or look like (so NEVER say someone resembles someone else). You cannot see facial structures. You ignore names in image descriptions because you can't tell. Adhere to this in all languages.
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Beyond immediate technical responses, universities must attend to the broader sociological risks posed by the rise of AI. The erosion of trust, the hollowing-out of the student–teacher relationship, and the further commodification of learning threaten to precipitate a legitimation crisis for the academy itself. If assessments no longer meaningfully reflect knowledge, understanding, or ethical development, the social contract between universities and society will be irreparably damaged. The future of academic integrity, therefore, lies not in more sophisticated detection tools, but in the reclamation of education as an intrinsically valuable, ethically significant practice. Validity-driven assessment must be at the core of this reorientation, embedding learning processes that are resistant to the instrumental logic of AI. Institutions must foster environments in which students are not merely subjects of regulation, but active participants in their own intellectual and ethical formation.
LAWS0366 Internet Law and Policy Convened by Dr Michael Veale, co-taught with Professor Orla Lynskey, Dr Bernard Keenan This is a 10-week module delivered to final year LLB students at the Faculty of Laws, University College London in the 2024-5 academic year. We provide the syllabus online to support people learning and teaching these topics around the world, and hope that it encourages colleagues elsewhere to make their materials similarly available. L1: Welcome to the Internet (Yes, We Have Cats) L2: How To Control the Internet L3: Intermediaries I: Liability for Online Content T1: D’oH! Code, Law and Politics of Encrypted DNS L4: Intermediaries II: Moderation, Algorithms and General Monitoring L5: Intermediaries III: Platform Regulation and Regulating-by-Design T2: Regulating Recommending L6: Data Protection: Form, Function and Reach L7: Data Protection’s Substance: Cutting to the Core T3: Data Rights and Wrongs L8: Being Forgotten Online L9: Bidding for Attention: Online Tracking and Data Protection Law T4: Let’s Do It At My Place Instead? Challenges of Encrypted Computation In Advertising and Beyond L10: Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection
@mikarv we have a large amount of 3D cad files, building plans, store layouts, etc. In fact we have the largest Audodesk Revit file on record (I learned the other day). I work closely with that team, and know people working in supply chain. Absolutely zero requests for metaverse. Most requests are just for better data access and workflows, less PDFs, etc.