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@michae.lv

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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 🏳️‍🌈

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@michae.lvAug 3, 2026, 11:50 AM Pinned

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page:

EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2
UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+

Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance

homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws

Varying digital legal instruments across jurisdictions, each able to be clicked on a section/article/paragraph basis to find the hard and soft law instruments that cite and interpret each specific part (or substantively very similar parts of previous/neighbouring laws.) Snippets provided for each citing source along with original links to that source. Typically thousands of citations for each. Citing documents can be ordered by date, citation numbers, or 'authority/influence' (PageRank algorithm).

Database of citing documents maintained and updated daily/weekly; the below documents intended to be updated weekly. Last update 3 August 2026.

Document coverage and national grammar for document detection is strongest and best tested for UK, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, EU and ECHR, but the database contains and attempts to link administrative decisions and guidance from other jurisdictions. Unlike Westlaw or other providers, this is not only free, with links to the originals, and incorporates a large amount of guidance and secondary material.

Documents generated from a dataset held and maintained by Michael Veale, Professor of Technology Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London. If you wish to study these instruments and the tech and practices that interact with them, consider learning about it at UCL Laws: on our LLM in Law and Technology, or our week-long executive education on AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation.
Mmichael veale@michae.lvJul 30, 2026, 3:56 PM

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

Image of the interface, featuring Article 5 with citation counts per article and per paragraph.Image of the interface, featuring Article 17(3) with citation counts per article and per paragraph, and sources.
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@michae.lvOct 3, 2026, 3:07 PM

be careful - your post implies regulatory evaluators are ‘thinking’

@benzevgreen.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 2:40 PMReposted by @michae.lv

The first copies of Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice have arrived! It's pretty surreal to hold a physical copy after years of staring at Word docs and PDFs. The book comes out next week, so get your preorders in now!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

A picture of Ben Green hold up a physical copy of the book Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice.
@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 3:28 PM

oh don't worry we have a social media ban entirely through secondary legislation with little parliamentary scrutiny!

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 3:21 PM

European Commission seeking feedback on this proposal here if anyone wants to submit their thoughts ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... thanks for the heads-up @joix.bsky.social

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 1:58 PM

It's happening all over, not just VPNs. Can't use it when tethering to a phone without running everything through my home network. Have experienced problems on university IPs too sporadically!

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 7:39 AM

‘hold my schooner’

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 7:16 AM

damn it

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 7:05 AM

is that a friend of dorothy style euphemism? always learning

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 6:51 AM

all cranks at the back of public lectures now have personal cheerleaders basically

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 6:48 AM

it feels like they’re doing agentic writing and there is a ‘find people to peer review your new theory of everything’ step that is just using their own email accounts

@michae.lvOct 2, 2026, 6:42 AM

i now get 2, sometimes 3, insane treatises a day from ‘independent researchers’ experiencing ai psychosis

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 7:16 PM

i also don't have linkedin (no law needed, i can deny myself an account at all ages) so anyone who wants to post this there is more than welcome to...

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 7:14 PM

it is correct

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 7:14 PM

yeah there's no actual rule about that it's just a normative diagram
@daphnek.bsky.social you can see many more issues here files.michae.lv/papers/veale...

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 7:06 PM

it's more that anyone can claim something is educational

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 7:00 PM

it also exempts any chatbots that claim to be educational, whether or not provided by a school

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 6:59 PM

thank you kirsten! happy to chat at any time. i don't have linkedin so would be grateful for any circulation people could help with so it makes it onto the right desks of the right people

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 6:44 PM

i will do a zero knowledge proof and show you

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 6:44 PM

no it is impossible i am the author and i have no hair left

@michae.lvOct 1, 2026, 6:26 PM

As a preview - loot boxes banned everywhere EXCEPT games - age estimation techs have impossible tech requirements - U-15s have 1 hour daily limit on strava & spotify - accidental age rating obligation for all kindle ebooks - 14 yos on work experience can only use slack through a parent's account

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