The Cyber Solicitor

The Cyber Solicitor

Home
🛡️ Data Rights
👾 AI Governance
🛠️ Privacy Engineering
👀 State Surveillance
About
On data security and data breaches
What is required for data security under the GDPR
Aug 29 • 
Mahdi Assan
1
AI as leviathan
Hobbes and algorithms
Aug 22 • 
Mahdi Assan
3
3 thoughts on GPT-5
What next for AI
Aug 15 • 
Mahdi Assan
1
1
What is a legitimate interest under the GDPR?
Some thoughts on a recent CJEU case on this legal basis for data processing
Aug 8 • 
Mahdi Assan
1
What do LLMs actually understand?
Maybe not as much as some seem to think
Aug 1 • 
Mahdi Assan
1

July 2025

The European Commission's GPAI guidelines are out
And what they mean for AI engineers
Jul 25 • 
Mahdi Assan
1
The EU AI Act is coming
And what you can do now to prepare
Jul 18 • 
Mahdi Assan
3
My favourite books on AI #2
As of July 2025
Jul 11 • 
Mahdi Assan
3
LLMs are alien tech
And AI engineers still struggle to work with them in practice without effective governance
Jul 4 • 
Mahdi Assan
2

June 2025

A normie's guide to AI scaling laws
The philosophy that drives OpenAI and other model developers
Jun 27 • 
Mahdi Assan
The SCHUFA case explained
The legal implications of relying on algorithmic outputs
Jun 20 • 
Mahdi Assan
5
What's the trillion dollar opportunity for AI?
Some more thoughts on the state of AI in 2025 and why we need AI governance
Jun 13 • 
Mahdi Assan
© 2025 Mahdi Assan
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture