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noyb's latest victory may sound like a technicality - who is responsible for complying with the GDPR - but it is actually very important, because if no one knows who is responsible, no one really is responsible. All the more important that the ruling clearly holds Microsoft U.S. as the company actually selling the product accountable and not permitting it to shift it's responsibilities to schools and authorities ill equipped to deal with that question.

Companies are beginning to incorporate AI agents into their workstreams, even as they play catch up (or are falling behind, depending on how you look at it) to articulate frameworks to assign accountability for AI-driven decisions and weigh the trade-off between human oversight and explainability. This article nicely summarizes the findings of a survey of industry leaders from around the world, unpacking how they are thinking about AI governance and the challenges ahead.

Having witnessed the suspense and uncertainties of last Sunday's voting on the Swiss eID law, and since then, the threat to cancel the result due to the alleged interference of Swisscom, I am left pondering what is specifically controversial about the eID. If we compare the eID to other services that have moved from analogue to digital, like e-banking or e-mail, we see that they share many of the same feared risks, but that they have been widely adopted, and with less outcry. Perhaps it is that, with the eID, people have "the vote", which was not the case for the other services, which came from the private sector. I wonder if e-banking and e-mail would have been rejected if they had been put to the vote.