Legal4Tech - The podcast

In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast we sit down with Michael Kolain, digital rights expert and former Policy Advisor at the German Parliament, to discuss the critical gap between enacting digital regulations and actually enforcing them.

We explore topics such as:
The role of enforcement in the DSA and AI Act and why it's lagging
The Grok scandal
Big tech's sophisticated lobbying and its impact on EU regulation
The US-EU relationship and its chilling effect on digital rights enforcement
The digital urgent priorities
A timely conversation on why regulation alone isn't enough, enforcement is everything. Listen now to understand the future of digital rights in Europe.

Shownotes:
Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie

In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we sit down with Guido Noto La Diega, a leading expert in technology law, to explore the pressing legal challenges of the Internet of Things and smart devices.
We dive deep into:
Liability in complex human-machine ecosystems
Data-driven personalization, manipulation & discrimination
The rise of "Things as Service" and subscription models
How consumer law can keep pace with rapidly advancing technology
Steering emerging technologies toward a more just future
Join us for an insightful conversation on safeguarding consumer rights in the age of smart homes, wearables and connected cars.

Shownotes:
Smart Technologies and the Ends of Law by Mireille Hildebrandt
CREATE Research Center
Copyright Evidence Wiki - Open Platform collecting empirical studies on copyright
World Intermediary Liability Map
GDPR Hub - Comprehensive GDPR case law and data protection resources
Techno Lama - blog by Andreas Quitz
Tech workers coalition
Alliance for Universal Digital Rights (AUDRi)
Digital Mushrooms

In this special New Year episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we sit down with Mateusz Kupiec, data privacy Lawyer at Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners and researcher at the Institute of Law Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, to draft the 2026 New Year's resolutions of the GDPR.

If you want to know what these Resolutions are, tune in for a forward-looking discussion on making GDPR work in practice.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with Digibeetle. Digibeetle helps privacy professionals to stay up to date with the most important European documents in the AI, data and digital space everyday. You can check it out here.

In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we talk with Elyas Meguellati, a PhD research in NLP and generative AI, about how LLM are transforming targeted advertising and persuasion.
Together we unpack:
His latest studies on AI-generated ads, personality-based targeting and why today's models can already match human and designers
Ethical risks from Cambridge Analytica to Meta's generative ad models
Whether users can still "see through" hyper-personalized content in their feeds
Tune in to learn how regulation, transparency labels and even browser tools might help keep persuasive AI in check while you scroll and shop online.

Shownotes:
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This episode was brought to you in partnership with Digibeetle. Digibeetle helps privacy professionals to stay up to date with the most important European documents in the AI, data and digital space everyday. You can check it out here.

In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast we talk with former Volt MEP Sophie in 't Veld about how Europea can defend democracy and civil liberties in our digital world.
We dive into:
The roots of European data protection tradition beyond the GDPR
The myth that regulation kills innovation and why fragmented national rules are holding back homegrown tech champions
The risks of weakening concepts like "personal data"
The political push to dilute the GDPR, DSA, DMA and AI Act and how US and Chinese tech giants exploit Europe's internal barriers
A call for more activist European public to protect rule of law, digital rights and "European sovereignty" in the age of Trump, Musk and Palantir
Listen now to know what is really at stake in Europe's digital future and why the next generation can't afford to stay on the sidelines.

Shownotes:
The Owned Continent, Dave Keating

This episode was brought to you in partnership with Digibeetle. Digibeetle helps privacy professionals to stay up to date with the most important European documents in the AI, data and digital space everyday. You can check it out here.