ava's blog
ava's blog
Ava
I’m Ava and I'm writing about my thoughts on tech, data protection law, my health and little creative projects.
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I’ve been outgrowing my apartment and its location, but also its furniture and size in general. For some reason, it’s becoming really hard for me to have the same space for everything. I have an L-shaped desk in a corner that has another...
Whenever I see talk about artificial intelligence and consciousness, I am baffled about the assumption that any conscious being is just naturally predestined or even interested in serving us, and should serve us. It’s a symptom of a...
I’m going through an interesting time. I’ve been growing more uncomfortable with the way I’m always spoken over and interrupted at work. I started reacting to that and demanding they let me speak and finish my sentences. Also, it annoys...
img { image-rendering: pixelated; border-radius: 0!important; } As part of the Grizzly Gazette event, I thought I'd made some buttons, a forum signature, and a little joke graphic. Feel free to use. Click for flashing gif of silly...
Every now and then, I'll be exposed to a world I have otherwise nothing to do with: Child surveillance. What I see is infuriating. Not only are children nowadays pressured by their parents to turn location services on their devices on,...
It's been a while, but I finally have a blog title trade again! James gave me the blog title "What surprises me most studying law". You can read what title I gave him here. Starting off with some small surprises: Looking back on the...
I've been thinking about writing a post on the Discord age verification thing, but the entire situation is milked to death by content creators right now. Everyone feels the need to throw their conspiracy theories and misinformation into...
While browsing news websites, you may have seen a pop-up like this: That's one form of how "Pay or Okay" can look like. The model was first introduced by newspapers in Austria and Germany in 2018, but in 2023, Meta adopted it for...
I recently felt like I couldn't trust my own judgment anymore about how much time I put into things. I could sit on my desk for 8 hours, but did I really study that much? Work that much? Volunteer that much? Blog that much? What about my...
Nowadays, exercising really always saves me without fail. I realized that today, after again feeling absolutely terrible but then dragging myself out of bed to at least walk on my foldable treadmill. I started wondering when this change...
It’s already been over 2 years since you have left us. You still leave an incredible hole in our home and our hearts. Only toward the end of last year, I finally got rid of your old medication and your food. I haven’t taken down the sign...
As I said before, I’m a lazy listener. I don’t listen to a lot of music; I often just like one song of an artist, and I tend to listen to single songs and playlists instead of albums. But recently, I finally checked out the new album of...
In Mina Le's latest video, she quotes Adam Aleksic about quitting or severely reducing social media and phone use: "For one, it's the equivalent of sticking your head in the sand and pretending like the algorithm doesn't exist. Whether...
Welcome to a little series I'm starting, where I ask people working in the privacy field 7 questions about their work! This includes Data Protection Officers, Managers and Consultants, and other members of Privacy & Compliance teams. I...
Welcome to a little series I'm starting, where I ask people working in the privacy field 7 questions about their work! This includes Data Protection Officers, Managers and Consultants, and other members of Privacy & Compliance teams. I...