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Damien Charlotin’s database counts 2,184 court filings with citations invented by language models. Fifteen in Italy. The problem isn’t the tool. It’s that we stopped reading.

€824,990,000 against Uber for solely automated decisions. On the same day Italy wrote that the final decision at work belongs to a person. Two pieces of news saying the same thing, and leaving the same question open.

Since 30 September the Italian criminal code punishes failure to adopt safety and human-oversight measures for high-risk systems. A strong choice. The problem is who will end up in court.

California bans workplace tools that infer emotions or collect neural data. Canada treats them as sensitive. Europe already has the rules, but looks at the wrong thing.

Europe talks about simplification and the Digital Fairness Act has not yet arrived. But fewer rules do not mean clearer rules. Sometimes the opposite.

A man with ALS speaks again through a synthetic voice decoded from his cortex. Extraordinary news. And it asks law a question it has never had to face.

In the Digital Omnibus negotiation the Council deleted automated consent and objection signals. It was the only proposal trying to escape the liturgy of the banner.

With the Digital Omnibus, the AI Act’s literacy duty moves from a result to a process. It looks like a technical fix. It is a choice about what we want to measure.

Let's count the steps. How many clicks to sign up, how many to leave? Let's build the first public asymmetry index together.

Know-how is often a startup's most valuable asset. The law protects it only if you can prove you protected it first.

We built a law that protects the signature. But the signature comes at the end. It is the path before it that decides almost everything.

Every contract has a clause nobody understands on first reading. I am asking you to rewrite it in 60 words, without changing its effect, and send it to me.

Devices that read signals from the nervous system are leaving hospitals and entering offices. Some legal systems have started to respond. Europe, so far, has not.

A compliance document starts ageing the day it is approved. The AI Act makes it clear why rules need to live inside tools, not next to them.

We use eye-tracking, fNIRS and EEG to study how people read the law. Not to get inside their heads, but to understand what the text does to the reader.

The law presumes that if you were given information, you understood it. It used to be a useful fiction. Today it has become an alibi.