Postdoc at Amsterdam Law School (ACIL and IViR) | law and technology; human rights; feminism
Plixavra Vogiatzoglou
Looking forward to discussing my book with the amazing Delphine Dogot, Kristina Irion, and Maša Galič on 15 December. Join us in person or online through the link below!
Journalists and rights defenders in Europe are under spyware surveillance.
We join civil society in calling on the EU to act. Now.
Spyware like Graphite is too invasive to comply with human rights.
www.ecpmf.eu/civil-societ...
Google, the world’s largest search engine operating three in four smartphones, has played Brussels like a fiddle – shaping laws, silencing rivals, and calling it "innovation". The chart shows how Big Tech bankrolls Brussels’ top think tanks.
Read our latest story here: www.ftm.eu/articles/goo...
The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...
“The goal [is] to concentrate the entire Gazan population into the remaining 25% of the territory and to debilitate them to the extent that they either flee, are permitted to leave or simply wither away. And western govts and big tech are happy to facilitate it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Greatly enjoyed the political philosophy of @jamespatton.bsky.social ‘s Duskpunk. Drawing from Mbembe’s Necropolitics, in this blogpost I explain why the game’s resource of plasm is such a great narrative mechanic. Check out the game on steam! codedmass.com/2026/04/04/d...
Cross-border investigation: @lemonde.fr, @elpais.com, and @netzpolitik.org reveal how, between 2016 and 2023, @frontex.bsky.social illegally transferred the personal data of over 13,000 people to Europol.
Published by @wearesolomon.bsky.social 👇
wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
Suspending the right to asylum and cutting food rations is not "getting tough" but a blatant breach of EU law. The @ec.europa.eu should of course intervene, but @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu will not bother an ally with infringement proceedings. www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2025/07/10/g...
On behalf of the Spyware Coordination Group, a coalition of civil society and journalist organisations advocating for transparency, accountability, and the protection of fundamental rights in relation...
The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the strip
www.theguardian.com
In his 2003 essay “Necropolitics”, the Cameroonian historian and political theorist Achille Mbembe posits that the “ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, …
Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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Illan wall
Greece is determine to shut the doors to migrants and asylum seekers coming from North Africa and Migration Minister Thanos Plevris on Thur
Can AI predict future criminality based on everyone’s data, and should it?
Dr @plixavra.bsky.social’s new book explores the challenges posed by pre-crime practices, inc. their questionable effectiveness and ambiguous application of human rights.
Join us 15 December.
acil.uva.nl/content/even...
Dr Abeba Birhane
On 15 December, join us for the book launch of Dr Plixavra Vogiatzoglou's timely new book, which critically assesses how mass data surveillance frameworks intersect with predictive policing technologi...
Keep an eye this: Greece gets tough on migrants from Libya after EU diplomatic blow-up www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
Amsterdam Center for International Law
my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
Athens suspends asylum requests from North Africa amid rising migrant arrivals and tensions with Libyan authorities following EU delegation’s rejected visit to Benghazi.
i have been hesitant to participate in the “AI for Good” Summit, that takes place in Geneva annually. but this year, i have been given a keynote (not a panel or similar participation) so, i said yes. here’s the first draft of my talk
