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My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning: America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight.

the Guardian

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Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Ir...

Update: the European Commission has written to tell me it is starting "pre-infringement dialogue" with Ireland about our complaint against Ireland's process to appoint the new Data Protection Commissioner These "EU Pilot" dialogues occur where the Commission suspects a Member State has broken EU law. See

Pre-infringement dialogue

Pre-infringement dialogues is a tool that can be used where it is likely to lead to swifter compliance than a formal infringement procedure. This p...

See the full text of our complaint v Ireland to the European Commission here https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/complaint-v-ireland-to-european-commission-re-process-appointing-ex-meta-lobbyist-as-data-protection-commissioner/

Leaked docs indicate the European Commission will publish a plan tomorrow to gut the GDPR and amend the AI Act. This will hurt European competitiveness and further advantage US and Chinese tech firms that dominate Europe’s digital market by breaking our law. Gutting GDPR would also undermine national security, children’s mental health, and everyone’s privacy.