People-first Playbook

 MyData, here. 

Meta probed over whether it pushed AI tool onto WhatsApp users without consent

 Independent, here. 

[But the title is, well, wrong]. 

The Wrist-Slappers Strike Again

 D. Dayen, here. 

Décision DoctoLib

 ADLC, ici. 

Digital Commons on the EU’s Digital Sovereignty Agenda

 Open Future, here.

Towards a Digital Clearinghouse...: Seriously?

Fooled once...

 EDPS, here. 

Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - (as censored by the BBC)

 BBC, here. 

I have listened to the whole thing, and the Q&A was, I suspect, the part I appreciated most. The "straight out of Silicon Valley" comments about Europe, forever regulating, never producing, felt rather surprising  - if the world were that simple (that's why we need good historians with hindsight)! True, we do risk turning ourselves into a dusty, romantic museum, but only if we fail to make intelligent use *also* of our own heritage, including through digital tools that are not simply parachuted in from California but adapted to our needs. 

And happily, a young ‘populist left’  has already emerged with exemplary standard-bearers such as Lina Khan among them.

 

Rapport de l’Autorité de la concurrence au titre de la pratique d’autopréférence définie à l’article L. 442-12 du code de commerce

 Adlc, ici. 

Interim Measures re Meta AI in sight?

 

25/11/2025

ACGM, here.  [I wrote a blog post on this proceeding what feels like very long ago, here]

"Meta’s new conduct appears to constitute, already prima facie, a possible violation of Article 102 TFEU, consisting in Meta’s refusal to allow AI chatbot or AI assistant providers—its competitors—to access the WhatsApp platform in order to offer such services to users." 

It was such a low hanging fruit that I was puzzled that other Tech bros weren't openly complaining about it - which hinted to the fact that they might have been pursuing other, possibly murkier strategies. When (also?) small (EU?) ones complained, European CAs were listening...

Google is a near-$4tn monument to monopoly power [aka a monument to US/EU regulatory failure to rein it in]

 

Xmas present to Judge Mehta? For your desk?

FT, here. 

A Critique of Recent Remedies for Third-Party Pricing Algorithms and Why the Solution is not Restrictions on Data Sharing

 J.E. Harrington, here. 

Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions

 J. De Freitas et al., here. 

Trump Falls Short of His Populist Rhetoric

 NYT, here. 

EDPS TechSonar 2025-26

 Here. 

The Rent Is Too Damn High: Did Trump Just 'Bless' Using AI to Jack Up Rents?

 M. Stoller, here. 

UNESCO adopts first global ethical framework for neurotechnology

 DigWatch, here.