Legal4Tech - The podcast

In this episode of Legal4Tech - The Podcast, we sit down with Daniel Mügge to unpack the hidden politics behind artificial intelligence and Europe's role in a multipolar digital world.
We explore topics such as:
The Political Economy of AI: power, profits and geopolitical competition
US-China AI dominance and what it means for European sovereignty
Why generative AI hype masks real implementation challenges
The difference between useful AI applications and empty corporate narratives
Europe's path to digital autonomy without copying American or Chinese strategies
The role of AI in manufacturing vs data centers and social media
How to balance technological progress with societal wellbeing
Join us for a deep dive into how political choices shape AI develoment and whether Europe should embrace its own vision of technology rather than chase an endless digital race.

Shownotes:
The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics

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.