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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Aug 12

Few days ago I spoke with Brian O'Donovan @rte.ie on #AIAct implementation

"There needs to be an urgency from the Government not only to set up the required governance mechanism for the regulators, but also to provide the resources so that regulators can do their jobs"

www.rte.ie/news/busines...

'What is real and what is not' - AI rules come into force

The latest phase of the EU's AI Act means the Government must put structures in place to police the companies providing AI tools, with those involved in the sector urging for preparations to govern th...

www.rte.ie

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jul 23

we at @aial.ie, are investigating amplification/censorship on X/twitter in EU. what are major EU:
-politicians & regulators
-journalists
-influencers & public intellectuals, with high visibility/influence on X, across both left & right political ideologies

we're interested in existing datasets too

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 23

Trinity College Dublin informed us: "The systems installed on the estate have the capabilities of processing and carrying out facial recognition plus tracking people's movements. These are disabled on the system ... [due to] University’s CCTV Code of Practice."

Why buy #FRT? @abeba.bsky.social

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 23

@trishdevlin.bsky.social‬ at the @thejournal.ie has a complementary investigative piece out as well. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

Thousands of controversial Chinese surveillance cameras installed in public places across Ireland

The Journal Investigates reveals Hikvision is used by councils, hospitals and universities despite bans in other countries.

www.thejournal.ie

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our new investigation: Ireland's own goal

Almost every department of the Irish Government and local authorities have installed Chinese surveillance systems.

It is hard to travel in Ireland without being tracked by China’s Hikvision surveillance system.

www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

Ireland's own goal

ICCL Enforce investigation finds Hikvision surveillance equipment procured and installed across Irish bodies. The Irish State pays for China's surveillance in Ireland.

www.iccl.ie

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 18

The relevant part of the law Article 53 (4)

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 18

EU does not need Meta's signature.

Companies that don't sign the Code of Practice still have to comply with the GPAI provisions in the AI Act from 2 Aug with the additional responsibility to show the AI Office how they comply

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Why oh why? @why0hy.bsky.social · Jul 18

EU tech legislation is simultaneously not complicated and too complicated
Not complicated because the texts are mostly clear and comprehensible.
Very complicated because some, much or all of each law is not implemented in 28 different and unpredictable ways. (27+COM)

Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 17

None of the nine bodies in #Ireland which will receive additional powers through the #EU #AIAct to protect fundamental rights have received additional resources from the Irish government.

Without #AI knowledge (technical and legal), they can't use these powers.

www.iccl.ie/news/ireland...

Ireland Unprepared for AI Act Implementation

None of the nine bodies in Ireland which will receive additional powers through the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act to protect fundamental rights have received additional resources from the Iris...

www.iccl.ie

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 17

@iccl.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social @claredotc0m.bsky.social

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 17

None of the nine bodies in #Ireland which will receive additional powers through the #EU #AIAct to protect fundamental rights have received additional resources from the Irish government.

Without #AI knowledge (technical and legal), they can't use these powers.

www.iccl.ie/news/ireland...

Ireland Unprepared for AI Act Implementation

None of the nine bodies in Ireland which will receive additional powers through the EU’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act to protect fundamental rights have received additional resources from the Iris...

www.iccl.ie

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jul 16

Also @abeba.bsky.social and McGann, large models of what? doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Redirecting

doi.org

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Jul 16

Oh, also this:

arxiv.org/abs/2107.14042

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 14

In less than 3 weeks, #Ireland should begin enforcement of prohibitions under the #AIAct. But the State admits that it does not know who the regulators will be.

Ireland’s poor tech enforcement record is likely to continue with AI unless the State takes immediate action

www.iccl.ie/news/who-is-...

Who is Responsible to Enforce AI Act Prohibitions in Ireland? The State Does Not Know

In less than three weeks, Ireland is required to inform the European Commission of the names of the responsible regulators for the EU AI Act. But the State still does not know who the regulators will ...

www.iccl.ie

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · Jul 14

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott

Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · Jul 14

what book(s) come to mind that are like this?

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Jul 4

@iccl.bsky.social urges the Irish government to urgently designate the regulators to enforce AI Act prohibitions.

EU AI Act prohibitions, applied since 2 Feb, will be enforceable in less than a month. But there is still no clarity on who the regulators will be.

www.iccl.ie/news/ireland...

Ireland Should Urgently Designate Regulators To Enforce EU AI Act Prohibitions

ICCL Enforce has written to the Irish Government to emphasise the urgency to clarify and name the specific regulators in Ireland responsible to enforce prohibitions under the EU AI Act.

www.iccl.ie

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · May 22

Fantastic from @signal.org to block Microsoft from taking screenshots of Signal messages in Windows 11.

This addresses an issue I had raised last month in the BBC news article.

signal.org/blog/signal-...

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Graham Fraser @grahamjfraser.bsky.social · Apr 23

Have you noticed the small blue circle?

WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that can't be turned off

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off

While Meta says the AI chatbot is a

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 24

Quoted in @grahamjfraser.bsky.social's article in BBC News yesterday on WhatsApp forcing people to use GenAI.

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 17

A gem of a piece from @pboehler.net

"The hardest lesson I've learned is that journalism doesn't matter just because we say it does."

I think this lesson applies to many other professions.

www.pboehler.net/theory-of-se...

Stop pretending journalism matters on its own

Learning to measure journalism by its human value.

www.pboehler.net

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Even as they were depressing gdp by wasting time playing with their kids, the denizens of Europe also managed to keep inequality relatively low while it ballooned elsewhere in the past 20 years."

Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Europeans enjoy August off, retire in their prime and spend more time eating and socialising with their families than inhabitants of any other region... people in countries both rich and poor value such leisure time; somehow Europeans managed to squeeze their employers into giving them more of it."

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 17

This piece from @spignal.bsky.social is brilliant.

www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

"It [Europe] is a place blessed with walkable cities, long life expectancies and vaccinated kids who do not need to be trained to dodge school shooters."

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · Apr 15

My piece in The Guardian this morning: EU race to rearm is pointless if hostile foreign powers can still use online algorithms to boost authoritarians to power across Europe.

Europe’s new “Democracy Shield” should immediately shut them down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 15

To understand how bad the @ec.europa.eu delays are, here is a comparison from my slides comparing Commission's delay to respond to FOI requests with @deutschebahn.com .

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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · Apr 15

If you are not sure why this is an important problem, check the talk I gave last year at 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) in Hamburg: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-trans...

Transparency? Not from the European Commission

The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union with the duty to uphold the law. The transparency of the Commission...

media.ccc.de

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