NEW VIDEO: How is AI helping advertisers skirt around EU law?
Dear friends and colleagues, Those interested in privacy/surveillance and targeted advertising may find this of interest.... I was honored to again address the European Parliament on Tuesday 3rd June, this time at the invitation of the Special committee on the European Democracy Shield, my talk was on 'Regulation of Political Advertising in the EU... or How to Avoid It?' and you can watch the video now here. <https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/20250603-1430-COMMITTEE-EUDS> (My contribution starts: 16:34:00 - panel begins 16:24:00). I talked about how ChatGPT is suggesting ways for advertisers to skirt around legal protections & target advertising on the basis of anxiety and other GDPR-protected categories in Europe. I again urged policymakers to close this loophole and properly enforce existing legislation, and regulate the influence industry. The panel also included excellent contributions from other distinguished colleagues: Arielle Garcia (Check My Ads) Alberto Fernandez Gibaja (International IDEA) The follow-up Q&A is also of interest. I hope you find this an interesting discussion and that it might be helpful in your teaching. Best wishes, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Visiting Associate Professor at Notre Dame University Fellow at Bard College, Human Rights Project Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Speaking agent: Chartwell Speakers <https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/emma-briant/> Book agent: Inkwell Management <https://inkwellmanagement.com/> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Support my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Sign up for my Newsletter! <https://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/> Follow me on Mastodon @emmalbriant@mastodon.online Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin “Women are like teabags . We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” - Unknown
Fifth International Conference on Digital Data Processing (DDP 2025) University of Bedfordshire. Luton. (Near London) UK. August 18-20, 2025 (www.socio.org.uk/ddp) (IEEE Publication) (Virtual Presentation/Physical) As technology advances in different sub-domains of computing, data-driven models are becoming increasingly important. The data-dependent world now faces many challenges in terms of data accuracy and data privacy. High-impact advancements include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning and many more. Data is growing exponentially in terms of diversity and complexity. One organization or industry processes over a few million transactions per hour and stores hundreds of billions of data. We live in a world with a great need for more efficient data analysis and processing. Data analytics can reveal hidden patterns, complex relationships, internal information relations, and even segmentation. Data applications have opened up new possibilities in every aspect of our lives. Studying data and its structure, dynamics, and modern data technologies is ongoing. There is a great deal of literature and research on data management, but it does not address the data processing needs. Many studies focus on developing models and systems for analysing large datasets. Data analysis leads to application domains that have a systematic impact on decisions. The knowledge gained from the data analysis enables the generation of critical information for multiple domains. In this conference, we review and discuss the latest trends in data management, the opportunities and challenges, and how they have affected organizations' ability to develop effective business and technology strategies and stay up-to-date in data technology. We also highlight current open research directions in data analytics that need further attention. The proposed conference will discuss topics not limited to Data applications in various domains and activities Data in cloud Real-world data processing Data inaccuracy and reliability issues Data Ecosystem Business Analytics New data analytics techniques Physical and management challenges Synthetic data Data synthesis Crowdsourcing and Sensing Data modelling Deep learning techniques Data fusion Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics Machine learning impact on data processing Network optimization Data in Biomedical Engineering Data in Materials science and mechanics Data handling and applications in domains Wireless Networking Data Management Data of Electronic & Embedded Systems Multi-media Systems Data Artificial Intelligence Models and Systems Data E-Computing Data Renewable Energies Data General Chair General Chair Ezendu Ariwa Warwick University, UK Program Chairs Youshan Zhang, Yeshiva University, USA Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Duong Van Hieu, Tien Giang University, Vietnam Program Co-chairs Martin Lopez Nores, University of Vigo, Spain Frankie Wilson, University of Oxford. UK Publicity Chair Mohsin Beniysa, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco Publications All accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and indexing. The DDP 2025 has co-located workshops. Modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. Journal of Digital Information Management International Journal of Computational Linguistics Performance Measurements and Metrics Important Dates Submission of Papers: June 30, 2025 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 20, 2025 Camera-ready: August 15, 2025 Registration: August 15, 2025 Conference Dates: August 18-20, 2025 Post-Conference Proceedings Release: November 30, 2025 Paper submission Papers should follow the IEEE template. Submissions at http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: ddp@socio.org.uk
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