Iacob Gammeltoft

Policy Manager at @newsmediaEU #digital #antitrust #media - what could possibly go wrong? Views are mine 🇪🇺

[News Media Europe @newsmediaEU]

European publishers are deeply concerned about the third draft of the AI Act code of practice, which has gone from bad to worse. The latest draft confirms our fears that no code is better than this code (full statement below).
https://t.co/rBD55Lsq1L

[Luca Bertuzzi @BertuzLuca]

NEW: The European Commission's guidelines on the definition of AI system are out at last. "Well established optimisation methods, such as linear or logistic regression methods, fall outside the scope of the AI system definition."
https://t.co/U1VmLeE6Se

[IMCO Committee Press @EP_SingleMarket]

Today the Working group on the implementation of the DMA, together w/ IMCO Chair & other MEPs sent an urgent request for action to @Teresaribera & @HennaVirkkunen.
They express their concerns on potential risk of delay & urge to expedite investigations before 25 March deadline↘️

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 BREAKING: I told you the EDPB opinion was GAME-CHANGING: only 2 days after it was published, The Italian Data Protection Authority imposed a 15 million euro fine on OpenAI based on it. THIS WAS FAST! What you need to know:

"The provision, which ascertains the violations previously contested to the Californian company, comes at the end of an investigation started in March 2023 and after the EDPB published the opinion with which it identifies a common approach to some of the most relevant issues relating to the processing of personal data in the context of the design, development and distribution of services based on AI.

According to the Garante [Italian DPA], the US company, which created and manages the generative AI chatbot, in addition to not having notified the Authority of the data breach suffered in March 2023, processed users' personal data to train ChatGPT without first identifying an adequate legal basis and violated the principle of transparency and the related information obligations towards users. Furthermore, OpenAI has not provided mechanisms for age verification, with the consequent risk of exposing minors under 13 to responses that are unsuitable for their level of development and self-awareness.

The Authority, with the aim of ensuring, first and foremost, effective transparency in the processing of personal data, has ordered OpenAI (...) to carry out a 6-month institutional communication campaign on radio, television, newspapers and the Internet.

The contents, to be agreed with the Authority, will have to promote public understanding and awareness of the functioning of ChatGPT, in particular on the collection of data from users and non-users for the training of generative AI and the rights exercisable by the interested parties, including those of opposition, rectification and cancellation.

Thanks to this communication campaign, ChatGPT users and non-users should be made aware of how to oppose the training of generative artificial intelligence with their personal data and, therefore, be effectively placed in the position to exercise their rights under the GDPR.

The Garante has imposed a fine of fifteen million euros on OpenAI, also calculated taking into account the company's collaborative attitude.

Finally, given that the company, during the investigation, established its European headquarters in Ireland, the Garante, in compliance with the so-called one-stop shop rule, transmitted the documents of the procedure to the Irish DPC, which has become the lead supervisory authority pursuant to the GDPR, so that it can continue the investigation in relation to any violations of a continuing nature that did not end before the opening of the European establishment."

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👉 Read my deep dive into the EDPB Opinion (and join 43,000+ subscribers of my newsletter) below.

[Arba Kokalari @ArbaKokalari]

Tiktok did not give us any answers to their non-compliance with the DSA and the Commission can't reveal publicly the information they received from Tiktok. That's why I have requested to convene a DSA Working Group meeting on this as soon as possible.

[Berlaymonster @Berlaymonster]

Looks like Santa is going to be missing one of his Reynders this Christmas

[Gerardo Fortuna @gerardofortuna]

The Ursula von der Leyen's Commission got the final go-ahead from MEPs with 370 votes in favour, the lowest majority in history
417 votes for Santer in 1995
510 for Prodi in 1999
478 for Barroso I in 2004
488 for Barroso II in 2010
423 for Juncker in 2014
461 for vdL I in 2019

[Luca Bertuzzi @BertuzLuca]

Spain opened a new front for rights holders in #AI model training with a draft royal decree that would introduce an extended collective licensing regime. The regime might set an influential precedent for EU countries interested in building national LLMs.
https://t.co/ytgDwg5ayv

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Ancient Greek thinkers like Socrates and Plato hated democratic elections.

They saw democracy as part of an endless cycle of regimes — destined to slip into mob rule.

But Polybius knew how to break the cycle... (thread) 🧵

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🇪🇺 EU Policy Brief: "Harmonised Standards for the European AI Act" (7 pages) is the document every legal team should be reading, clarifying the role of standards in the EU AI Act. Download it below👇

[EFJ @efjeurope]

#Belgium: @mediafreedomEU partners expressed serious concerns over cases of preventive censorship involving four media outlets in 🇧🇪

Read our joint statement 👇 @ajpjournalistes @vvjournalisten
https://t.co/qoJws4g7iH #mfrr

[Iacob Gammeltoft @iacob_gam]

"News for the rich and lies for the rest is no way to run a public square" https://t.co/T42SdOA2jR

[Jacob Parry @jcbcp]

Keep a breakup of #Google on the table in the @EU_commission ad tech case, say a group of civil society groups in a letter to @vestager and @Teresaribera. "Lesser tools [...] will fail here," they write, asking DG COMP to work with 🇺🇸 @JusticeATR in designing a divestment.

[Mina Andreeva @Mina_Andreeva]

.@Europarl_EN final schedule for vetting Commissioners-designate for the new @EU_Commission.

https://t.co/Gg7JfAeLoK

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[EDPB @EU_EDPB]

🟢📝Guidelines on processing of personal data based on legitimate interest are available on the EDPB website for public consultation: https://t.co/R7S79lDLQx
🗓️ Deadline: 20 Nov 2024

[Jack Parrock @jackeparrock]

You heard it here first.

When the Commissioner hearings are taking place in November.🧵

MON 04 NOV:
14:30 – 17:30: Sefcovic INTA/AFCO (afet, imco, peti, deve, juri)
14:30 – 17:30: Micaleff CULT (empl, libe, juri)
18:30 – 21:30: Hansen AGRI (envi, pech)
18:30 – 21:30: Tzitzikostas TRAN (envi)

[EU Court of Justice @EUCourtPress]

#ECJ: An online social network such as @Facebook cannot use all of the #PersonalData obtained for the purposes of targeted advertising, without restriction as to time and without distinction as to type of data 👉 https://t.co/ATb3CgbPxg

[EU Consumer Affairs @EU_Consumer]

The @EU_Commission released the findings of the Digital Fairness Fitness Check of key 🇪🇺 consumer protection laws.

It evaluates if the current rules are fit for purpose to ensure a high level of consumer protection in the digital environment 📱.

Read more ↓

[Luca Bertuzzi @BertuzLuca]

The European Commission has published the chairs and vice-chairs of the #GPAI Code of Practice, who will have a critical role in the drafting. Congrats to all of those appointed for this delicate task.
https://t.co/qRpmnf13cz

[Stanley Pignal @spignal]

Three large "office removal" trucks this morning in front of the European Commission HQ. One for documents, one for furniture, one for Thierry Breton's bruised ego.