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minazummers · 4 months

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The EU is poised to effectively become the world’s AI police, creating binding rules on transparency, ethics, and more.

By Melissa Heikkilä, December 11, 2023

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This is not going to be perfect but it is at least a start. And it is worth to remember this if someone tells you not to vote in the 2024 European Parliament election because "the EU only cares about the curves of banana" or similar BS.

Only just over 50% of the people who were eligable to vote voted in 2019. If you don't show up to vote, the right certainly will.

#ai #Eu #eu law #eu politics #eu parliament #Yes i will keep bringing the election up this year

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ginnyw-potter · 8 months

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The European Union is rolling out a law that forces websites like Facebook and Tiktok to give users the choice to switch the algorithm off. This will eventually apply to all websites.

Additionally it has stricter rules on the personalisation of advertisements (restriction on the use of sensitive information) and tries to combat misinformation (though there were concerns about free speech and censorship)

But overall this is pretty good news as it allows us to escape the algorithms and gives some power back to the internet users!

#digital services act #dsa #eu law #algorithm #not looking at anyone in particular about the chronological order 👀#tumblr

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head-post · 5 months

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EU secured agreement to stop sending waste to countries incapable of recycling it

EU member states and lawmakers have reviewed bloc’s rules on transporting waste and halting exports of certain types of waste to third countries that cannot properly treat it, Reuters reports.

“Exports of certain non-hazardous wastes and mixtures of non-hazardous wastes (…) will be allowed only to those non-OECD countries that consent and fulfil the criteria to treat such waste in an environmentally sound manner.”

The Parliament added that respect for international workers’ rights would also be taken into account. The European Commission proposed in 2021 to overhaul EU rules on waste disposal to make it harder for member states to offload rubbish to more impoverished countries.

The EU will finally assume responsibility for its plastic waste by banning its export to non-OECD countries.

EU countries must stop sending plastic waste to poorer countries within two and a half years after legislation comes into force, parliament has said.

Read more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #europe #european news #european union #eu politics #eu news #eu foreign policy #eu law #eu economy #waste management #waste removal #recycling #oecd

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smallfrenchstudyblr · 2 years

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#lawblr #postgrad #postgradblr #gradblr #grad school #research #eu law #phdblr #phd #adventures in academia #brought to you my the last round of revision I got on a chapter

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orbitbrain · 2 years

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Privacy Activists Target Google Over French 'Spam' Emails

Privacy Activists Target Google Over French ‘Spam’ Emails

Home › Privacy Privacy Activists Target Google Over French ‘Spam’ Emails By AFP on August 25, 2022 Tweet Google is breaking EU law by sending users of its email service Gmail direct advertising messages, activists said in a complaint sent to French regulators on Wednesday. It is the latest in a long line of complaints filed by the activist group NOYB (None of Your Business), which has fought the…

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#ads #emails #EU law #France #Google #privacy #spam

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froggie-studytime · 3 months

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🌱 Back at university 🌱

come back for my second term of uni

Studying -

- human rights

- EU law and the UK

- land law

Excited to be back at uni these modules are really interesting and extremely detailed and will be updating study sessions etc as I progress through the term

I’ve managed to create my reading lists, and started making some notes for my introductory sessions and have added some extra videos to study playlist ☺️

🌱currently reading - “The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch”

Tasks for this week

- make notes for week 2 of classes

- do chapter reading

- prepare for seminars

- complete certificate for land law portfolio

#law student #study #booklr #law #university #books #study blog #human rights #study playlist #eu law #academic assignments

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chaoticconnoisseurgiver · 6 months

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#eu law #tw: rape #tw: r*pe

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archaalen · 6 months

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Does Schengen allow them to do this? I'm not familiar enough with EU laws to know if this is a significant act on Italy's part.

#ap news #italy #slovenia #schengen #eu law

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firespirited · 1 year

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Hey Twitter keep up the 2016-2017 8chan vibes while Macron is in the USA so something unimaginably illegal for him and his colleagues to hear happens everyday and ends up on the news. It'll be really funny to watch Musk beg to get unbanned from the EU because he's built an algorithm that deletes racial slurs and bans the account (getting 30% of spanish speaking twitter and anti-racism activists banned in the process, meanwhile z*g and w*g and 14 are trending).

#Twitter #Eu law #Sure let's replace 4k+ moderation crew with pattern recognition #What could possibly go unalive

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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the environmental crimes that European countries are struggling to stop. The lack of accountability for these acts stems in part from the European Union’s legal code, which experts say is riddled with vague definitions and gaps in enforcement. That’s about to change.

Last week, EU lawmakers voted in a new directive that criminalizes cases of environmental damage “comparable to ecocide,” a term broadly defined as the severe, widespread, and long-term destruction of the natural world. Advocates called the move “revolutionary,” both because it sets strict penalties for violators, including up to a decade in jail, and because it marks the first time that an international body has created a legal pathway for the prosecution of ecocide.

“This decision marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals and could usher in a new age of environmental litigation in Europe,” wrote Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and EU parliamentarian for the Greens/European Free Alliance group, on X...

The new directive uses the term “ecocide” in its preamble, but does not criminalize the act by laying out a legal definition (the most widely accepted definition of ecocide was developed by an international panel of experts in 2021). Instead, it works by providing a list of “qualified offenses,” or crimes that fall within its purview. These include pollution from ships, the introduction of invasive species, and ozone depletion...

The new law holds people liable for environmental destruction if they acted with knowledge of the damage their actions would cause. This aspect of the law is important, experts said, because it means that a permit is no longer enough for a company to avoid culpability.

“If new information shows that behavior is causing irreversible damage to health and nature – you will have to stop,” a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, Antonius Manders, told Euronews.

Advocates like Mehta hope that the EU’s move will have influence beyond Europe’s borders. The principal goal of the Stop Ecocide campaign is for the International Criminal Court to designate ecocide as the fifth international crime that it prosecutes, after crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes of aggression, and genocide. At the moment, environmental destruction can only be prosecuted as a war crime at the ICC, and limitations in the law make this extremely difficult to do...

Kate Mackintosh, the executive director of the Netherlands-based UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe, told Grist that the ICC is unlikely to adopt an ecocide law if other countries do not do so first.

“It’s not something you can just pull out of thin air,” she said, adding that any international legal doctrine has to have a precedent on the national level. “That’s the way states are going to accept it.”

The EU’s 27 member states will have two years to adapt the new legislation into their penal codes. Afterwards, their implementation must be reviewed and updated at least once every five years using a “risk-analysis based approach,” to account for advancements in experts’ understanding of what might constitute an environmental crime. Mehta said that despite its omission of some important offenses, the law sets an important example for other countries. Several days before the EU vote, Belgium adapted its criminal code to include the directive, making it the first country in Europe to recognize ecocide as a crime.

The ruling “shows leadership and compassion,” Mehta said. “It will establish a clear moral as well as legal ‘red line’, creating an essential steer for European industry leaders and policy-makers going forward.”

-via Grist, March 6, 2024

#climate change #climate crisis #climate catastrophe #climate action #eu #european union #icc #international criminal court #belgium #europe #environment #environmental law #environmental news #ecocide #good news #hope #hope posting

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the-final-sif · 2 months

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Breaking my silence for 1 (one) moment to say that I am in awe that a law student doing shady labor practices would have the shady company they're running sign contracts out of California of all places. California labor laws are some of the tightest in the country, and that's the place you'll get sued in if people want to bring suit. Like, for the love of god at least put your shady labor exploitation business in a place where there are no laws. Idaho is right there! Or Delaware! Why would you pick California????

#sif speaks #this is my only post on all of this I'm just shaking my head #qsmp #quackity #discourse #also I know that labor laws for the place the workers actually live will be what generally applies #which also leaves me in awe that he would hire people in the eu at all under those circumstances #but cali is where the company they signed ndas with is registered #and that leaves cali as a veune for suing that's particularly attractive given that the courts tend to favor labor

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not-poignant · 6 months

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Is it just me or is censorship all across social media getting really bad lately? Pinterest just removed a whole bunch of my pins for sexual content - they were all fully clothed queer men and women showing vague intimacy, nothing overtly sexual at all. Like one they removed was literally just two men's heads leaning on each other. That's wacko right??? Have I missed something big going on?

Tbh it's been getting increasingly terrible for a long time, anon, it's not a lately thing, it's been since before the Tumblr purge, and it is at least in some part due to the SESTA/FOSTA law that got passed in the USA, and the increasing passing of laws in many countries that are specifically concerned with removing net neutrality and treating all of us like 3 year olds.

It will get worse, not better. And you've probably been missing a few big things! It sounds like you were most directly impacted by what happened with Pinterest, so you've just noticed it. Many of us noticed it around 2018 with the Tumblr purge. Some of us have been impacted by elements of it way earlier, due to Livejournal's Strikethrough which necessitated the invention of Dreamwidth and helped to really get AO3 off the ground. And this was back even before we now have many laws that scare a lot of big companies into removing adult content.

Steve Jobs famously hated / loathed pornography and was on a mission to literally try and remove it from the internet, and part of that mission was to - as much as possible - make it nearly impossible for apps that have it to get listed in the Apple store. This is partly why AO3 doesn't have an app. This is why Dreamwidth doesn't have an app. This is why the Tumblr Purge happened - so they could continue to have an app. And while some sites don't get targeted, as soon as you do get targeted by the Apple store, it's either 'provide your legal identity to prove that you're the age you say you are' to access adult content or it's 'goodbye adult content.'

We've also had an increasing rise of morally panicked, puritanical TERF-informed anti-shippers who believe that their emotional reactions to fictional content they find troubling are firstly valid moral judgements, and secondly, a valid reason to abuse, bully and send death threats to real people. And these people basically work hand-in-hand (often without realising) with extremely powerful Evangelical Christians who have government influence and a lot of money in the USA and literally work to change laws to make it reflect an extremely puritanical vision they have of the future. You know, the homphobic, transphobic, misogynistic, racist, kinkphobic, bigoted, antisemitic etc. etc. etc. one. (It's highly ironic and tragic that most antis are young and queer and just extremely uneducated).

I'd say people notice based on what impacted them directly. So some of us realised in 2007. Some of us realised again in 2018. And since then there's been a lot of blows from a lot of sites. In a way, Pinterest is joining an already very bloated bandwagon of sites cornered in the manner. The reason why people say 'unalive' these days instead of suicide, or 'r@pe' these days instead of rape is because of Tiktok censors. The reason so many folks moved their adult fanart and art accounts off Instagram, or they've gone dead, is because of Instagram censors. The reason so many adult writers on Patreon are very careful about what explicit words they write directly onto the site is because of Patreon censorship.

After all this, it's possible that Pinterest has a bug and are implementing a new AI algorithm for detecting adult content, and it's just broken. In those cases, reporting and appealing actually often does help. When Tumblr first implemented their algorithm, it wasn't very well trained yet, and like, pictures of fruit etc. were being banned because the AI algorithm was still figuring out what to do. Tumblr was in a rush in order to keep the app in the Apple store (over 70% of their income is from app users, the site would have literally died if they didn't act quickly), and so they ended up with an extremely overzealous and initially broken (and still sometimes broken x.x) algorithm.

If Pinterest is going through something similar, either with the app store or with having to address a sudden legal change, they may be having algo problems, and reporting will help them train the algorithm better.

Trust me, there will be people behind the scenes - staff at all of these websites - who hate the changes as much as you do, even if they can't say so for professional reasons. But even the new owner of Tumblr got pretty close to saying 'it fucking sucks but we have to do it if you want the site to exist' (which honestly made it a lot more...possible to handle the change, because it's not usually the sites you have to hate/resent, but the laws getting changed around you. Also if anyone here is an adult and can do so - please vote!!!)

#asks and answers #personal #i'm missing a lot of history #since i'm talking primarily based on the changes that have impacted me directly #so i know i'm only looking at one slice of the pie #SESTA-FOSTA was one of the most devastating things to ever happen to the internet #and it set precedent #for so many more broken laws like this to come out #they look like they have good intentions on the surface #but they are incredibly fucked / broken #and we are getting more and more #there's some really awful ones on the table in both the EU and the US again right now #please vote if you don't like that this keeps happening folks #it's the only way forward

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dostoyevsky-official · 9 months

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a piece of advice to any younger freelancers: always demand part of the payment before finishing the commission, or, better yet, if both you and the client are american, get their name and address. you need this information to file a small claims lawsuit when, inevitably, someone doesn't pay up

#currently dealing with a Client from Hell #if you're in a common law county or the EU look up the equivalent because the law may be on your side #what qualifies as a 'contract' is very generous in US small claims law #an email with terms does the trick

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head-post · 4 months

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EU imposes 12th package of sanctions against Russia

The European Union countries have collectively approved the introduction of the 12th package of sanctions against Russia, which includes a number of measures, in particular a ban on imports of Russian diamonds.

The EU decision came into force on 1 January. The official announcement, highlighting the unity of EU nations in implementing these restrictive measures, stated:

“The European Council welcomes the adoption of the twelfth package of sanctions.”

At the same summit, the EU decided to allocate 10bn euros to Hungary, which had earlier blocked the signing of the official start of Ukraine’s accession talks with the EU.

The EU executive branch is still committed to Ukraine’s early accession to the Union, as well as to providing additional assistance to the state. European Council President Charles Michel announced the landmark decision to start the EU accession process, while emphasising the bloc’s readiness to negotiate accession with both Ukraine and Moldova, which will also start accession talks.