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1. Michael Veale (mikarv@someone.elses.computer)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 23:17:02 JST Michael Veale

   Standards organisations, which make and own copyright to proprietary texts which will be necessary to understand and enforce laws such as the EU's AI Act, which mandate them and refer to them directly, are making it even harder to access standards by instituting pretty nasty Adobe #DRM. Many of these document are considered part of EU law for the purposes of preliminary references. See this from the BSI now. #standards #AIAct

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   • Michael Veale (mikarv@someone.elses.computer)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 23:19:03 JST Michael Veale

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     To add insult to injury, if you use #Linux your seemingly only chance of opening this file is to use #Adobe Acrobat Reader 8, support for which ended *11 years ago*. In order to print a standard about cybersecurity!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 23:20:31 JST Aral Balkan

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     @mikarv I’d shake my head but it’s already at risk of falling off my shoulders.