Johnny Ryan

Johnny Ryan

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Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS. https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1

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Johnny Ryan
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recipe for a generational change and recovery from @davidakaye.bsky.social

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

slate.comAmerica Needs to Reckon With What Trump 2.0 Has Done. Planning Should Start Now. (Gift Article)Some people will beg off in the name of “bipartisanship.” That will not solve anything.

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Joe Noonan
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This is a a key battleground in a multi-front fight to the death. Rule of law or rule of the oligarchs.

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Joe Noonan
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H.E. Tomoko Akane President of the International Criminal Court outlined the effects of US sanctions on her and her colleagues to a meeting of judges and practitioners at the Four Courts, Dublin today in the presence of the Chief Justice of Ireland Donal O'Donnell.

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Meta hosted senior Irish Government officials & regulators at an event titled "Ireland as a Trusted Digital Regulatory Hub". Ireland's former regulator who sued all other EU data regulators to avoid investigating Meta was a speaker. (She now works for Meta's law firm.) lnkd.in/p/dYg9TPnk

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Important breakthrough in Europe's icebreaker Big Tech class action opens the path for class actions to hold Big Tech accountable using the GDPR. ICCL v Microsoft class action update... Full decision in link --> enforce.ie/digital-data...

enforce.ieICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - EnforceClass action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU
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Ten years after the GDPR was negotiated, Ireland's DPC has today finally completed its *first* ever inquiry into Google (aside from "amicable resolution" trivia). We are still waiting for any outcome from the Google RTB complaint to the DPC in 2018.

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This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.

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Erik is the CEO of a company that competes against Google in adtech

Erik Bugge@erik.eurosky.social

👇This is what will increase the competitiveness of European companies - not "deregulation" or "simplification"! Break up convicted, global monopolies and make sure that they have to play by the same rules.

Johnny Ryan
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What she should do is allow Teresa Ribera to take action. But if not, then European capitals need to push Dublin to enforce GDPR on Google to stop its illegally cascading data power.

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Google, proven illegal ad tech monopoly, gets to retain its RTB exchange. This puts it up to European enforcers who have already signalled they want to break Google up, but have waited for the US Court to move first to avoid Trump friction. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...

nytimes.comIn a Big Win, Google Won’t Have to Break Up Its Ad Tech Business, Court RulesIn a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.
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But in Brussels, DG Comp will have a hard time getting approval from von der Leyen for enforcement. The one chance for Europe's journalism & innovators is that EU governments push Dublin to enforce GDPR against Google's illegally cascaded data power. Ireland is the lever for the entire EEA market.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves
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Today the Government will have an emergency Dáil sitting over fuel excise duty. Later today the latest homelessness figures will be announced. A new record, no doubt, with over 7k children in emergency accommodation. But there’ll be no emergency sitting for them.

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Dave Keating
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If only we had leaders with this kind of nerve in Europe. Instead, we get continual surrender to Trump. Even though Europe is much more capable of defending itself from the US than Canada , which is much much more exposed. The difference is courage. Something Europe needs to find.

bbc.comCanada says it will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break downA new 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.

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Dave Keating
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I'm so tired of EU national leaders talking out of two sides of their mouths - saying the EU should do more and be stronger and then refusing to give it the money and resources necessary to do so. Because they lack the political courage to be honest with citizens about why it is needed.

davekeating.substack.comNorthern leaders want to cut an EU budget already on a shoestringEU national leaders keep saying they want a union that “does more.” Then they show up in Brussels asking it to spend less.
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On 16 July Chinese LLMs reached near parity with top US LLMs. This indicates 3 things: 1. China’s heavy AI regulation (it has at least as much AI law as the EU) did not stop AI innovation. 2. Revoking Biden’s AI Executive Order did not protect US lead. ...

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Johnny Ryan
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On 16 July Chinese LLMs reached near parity with top US LLMs. This indicates 3 things: 1. China’s heavy AI regulation (it has at least as much AI law as the EU) did not stop AI innovation. 2. Revoking Biden’s AI Executive Order did not protect US lead. ...

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As I wrote in my The Economist letter in March, China's heavily regulated LLM industry is catching up on US largely unregulated industry (Kimi 3 has near parity with Claude Opus 5). Safety standards didn't stop Chinese innovation. The EU must reconsider its assumption that deregulation = innovation.