Europe
"Pay or Okay" not here to stay
Europe is likely to say "non" to the idea of "Pay or Okay". As regulators set the bar for consent higher when the social cost of opting out is also high, are the ideas of privacy and consent merging?
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3 Things to Watch Out For in the Local & European Election Campaigns
It is nine weeks today to the local and European Parliament elections. A lot has changed in the 4+ years since we last had a chance to pick any of our representatives; Covid, war in Europe, Brexit, the riots, etc. etc. etc. So what should we be looking out for,
A.I.
Here's how our MEPs voted on Europe's new A.I. rules
I’m in Brussels this week, and our 13 MEPs are up the road in Strasbourg voting on Europe’s first substantive piece of regulation on Artificial Intelligence, the A.I. Act. The regulation passed in a landslide - 523 of Europe’s elected reps voted for the regulation, or
One party is spending as much as all the others combined on political ads
Welcome to Issue One of The Briefing! I said I'd be brief, so I'm diving right in. We are voting in 2 referendums next week, so let's kick off with a snapshot of Irish online political ads. Energy for the referendum both off and
Welcome, and Elon's "feud" with the Irish state
Thank you for signing up! The Briefing will formally launch next week; right now I am planning out the first few posts, starting to rope in a few friends to help, and getting some design work done. BUT - while you are here, one thing that is on my mind
What is The Briefing?
Thank you for asking! This is a newsletter about technology and politics, through an Irish lens. It is about two big theses of how tech and politics come together on this beautiful island of ours: 1. That technology is having a profound effect on our democracy, and this is worth