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Starlink may collect not just account/billing/performance data but also ‘communication information’ and ‘inferences.’” What govts should do (if they don’t want “connectivity sovereignty” to be a joke)

Starlink may collect not just account/billing/performance data but also ‘communication information’ and ‘inferences.’” What govts should do (if they don’t want “connectivity sovereignty” to be a joke)

Treat satellite ISPs as critical infrastructure, Mandate true consent for AI training, Hard limits on “third-party AI training” transfers, Sovereign fallback options, Conflict-of-interest firewalls.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
The International AI Safety Report 2026 reads like a progress report from a world sprinting into a technology it can’t yet reliably test—let alone govern.

The International AI Safety Report 2026 reads like a progress report from a world sprinting into a technology it can’t yet reliably test—let alone govern.

Society is being asked to make high-stakes decisions while the evidence base arrives late, partial, and easy to game.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
AI is already reshaping the information environment in ways that benefit violent extremists, yet the counter-extremism sector remains under-prepared to deploy AI responsibly...

AI is already reshaping the information environment in ways that benefit violent extremists, yet the counter-extremism sector remains under-prepared to deploy AI responsibly...

...and could easily cause harm, lose legitimacy, or inadvertently intensify the very grievances that drive radicalization if it rushes in.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
The complaint is trying to turn a messy cultural argument (“training vs theft”) into a narrower systems argument: “you weren’t allowed to take the files, and you had to bypass controls to do it.”

The complaint is trying to turn a messy cultural argument (“training vs theft”) into a narrower systems argument: “you weren’t allowed to take the files, and you had to bypass controls to do it.”

Whether that move succeeds will depend on what discovery uncovers—and on how willing the court is to treat modern streaming architecture as a legally protected access regime under §1201.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
Administrative subpoenas can be legitimate tools, but when pointed at lawful dissent they start to resemble a state “unmasking” capability—one that can chill speech without winning a case in court.

Administrative subpoenas can be legitimate tools, but when pointed at lawful dissent they start to resemble a state “unmasking” capability—one that can chill speech without winning a case in court.

For users abroad, the core risk is asymmetry: U.S. process can reach your data through U.S. platforms, while your practical ability to contest or remedy the harm may be limited.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
If the EU’s top court embraces an accessibility standard for “communication to the public,” copyright enforcement becomes less dependent on proving that a service “targeted” a country...

If the EU’s top court embraces an accessibility standard for “communication to the public,” copyright enforcement becomes less dependent on proving that a service “targeted” a country...

...and this could be especially consequential for AI models made available in the EU. If accessibility is the rule, then EU availability becomes the anchor—not the location of the training cluster.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
The New Tech Right & Trump. While the primary public-facing narrative for this alignment focused on the deregulation of artificial intelligence, the promotion of digital asset sovereignty, and...

The New Tech Right & Trump. While the primary public-facing narrative for this alignment focused on the deregulation of artificial intelligence, the promotion of digital asset sovereignty, and...

...the dismantling of the “censorship industrial complex,” a parallel and increasingly documented motivation involves the strategic management of the “Epstein files”.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
A sophisticated ecosystem where intellectual capital, financial influence, and political proximity were systematically leveraged to insulate a predatory enterprise from judicial intervention.

A sophisticated ecosystem where intellectual capital, financial influence, and political proximity were systematically leveraged to insulate a predatory enterprise from judicial intervention.

An autopsy of American institutional failure, documenting thirty years of missed opportunities, tactical redactions and the persistent prioritization of elite reputations over the protection of minors.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
Palantir's ELITE design choices collide with three hard constraints: (a) necessity/proportionality and fundamental-rights standards, (b) data minimisation, purpose limitation, and security, and...

Palantir's ELITE design choices collide with three hard constraints: (a) necessity/proportionality and fundamental-rights standards, (b) data minimisation, purpose limitation, and security, and...

...(c) the accelerating fusion of state surveillance with Big Tech/data-broker ecosystems. It fuses many government and commercial data sources into individual dossiers.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
Wixen v. Meta: Wixen alleges Meta sought to slash license rates to a “small fraction” of historic payments, and—“on information and belief”—the reason is...

Wixen v. Meta: Wixen alleges Meta sought to slash license rates to a “small fraction” of historic payments, and—“on information and belief”—the reason is...

...to replace royalty-bearing human music with royalty-free AI-generated music, pointing to Meta’s AI infrastructure investments and its music-generation tool “AudioCraft.”

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
The absence of senior technologists within the government’s strategic apex creates a profound “negotiation gap.” This gap prevents regulators from properly unbundling and valuing the propositions...

The absence of senior technologists within the government’s strategic apex creates a profound “negotiation gap.” This gap prevents regulators from properly unbundling and valuing the propositions...

...presented by Big Tech. Because leadership lacks the technical depth to challenge the underlying assumptions of these propositions, the state frequently defaults to a position of “dependency.”

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
Concord Music v. Anthropic (II): Anthropic and leadership allegedly chose BitTorrent because it’s fast and free, and used it to build a “vast central library” they intended to keep “forever”.

Concord Music v. Anthropic (II): Anthropic and leadership allegedly chose BitTorrent because it’s fast and free, and used it to build a “vast central library” they intended to keep “forever”.

A company branding itself as “AI safety and research” allegedly relied on pirate libraries and a protocol “synonymous with copyright infringement.”

Pascal Hetzscholdt
Pascal Hetzscholdt
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