This is not a "Meta problem": all services that rely on US-EU data transfers are at risk. EU privacy regulators are fixated on constraining US-EU data transfers, when more serious privacy risks come from domestic surveillance and from unfriendly powers.🧵
dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/… 1/ It may be true that the timing of this decision wasn't motivated by a desire to front-run the new EU-US privacy framework hopefully to be finalized in September - the timeframe/deadlines for proceedings like this one are set in the GDPR) - but...

What's the big data privacy/security problem with EU techlash legislative proposals (#DSA, #DMA)?
🧵 A quick big picture explainer... First, a general lesson on legal regulation. Law is not magic. Just because a law seems to require something (e.g. because it expressly says it does), it doesn't mean
(1) this thing will actually happen and
(2) the law actually requires it.

🚨 Now in @ModernLRev (open access): bad statistics led the government to conclude that 'Cart' immigration judicial reviews are ineffective. My computational answer shows how such research should be done and that the govt's conclusion was wrong.
🧵 TLDR in the thread below The government relied on two analyses. The first came from the Faulks (IRAL) report. In it, the authors made two very basic (and indefensible) errors:

(1) They looked for evidence of successful Cart JRs in a wrong database, which only included a small sample of relevant cases /1