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Daniel Leufer

Daniel Leufer

Senior Policy Analyst and Emerging Technologies Policy Lead

Daniel is a Senior Policy Analyst at Access Now’s Brussels office and Emerging Technologies Policy Lead. His work focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on digital rights, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, and biometrics. While he was a Mozilla Fellow, he developed aimyths.org, a website that gathers resources to tackle myths and misconceptions about AI. He has a PhD in Philosophy from KU Leuven in Belgium and is a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures.

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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI

19 Feb 2026

In the third part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we look at how the availability of systems is impacted by the proliferation of large language models.

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Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI
19 Feb 2026
Artificial Insecurity: access and availability in the age of AI
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Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity

12 Feb 2026

In the second part of our series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we examine how LLMs threaten information integrity.

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Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity
12 Feb 2026
Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity
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A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act

10 Feb 2026

We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the deletion of the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems that is proposed in the AI Omnibus. This transparency safeguard ensures that providers of AI systems cannot circumvent the core obligations of the AI Act.

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A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
10 Feb 2026
A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
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Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality

5 Feb 2026

In the first part of our blog series on the dodgy digital security practices underlying advanced AI tools, we unpack how LLMs can jeopardize the confidentiality of people’s data.

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Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality
5 Feb 2026
Artificial Insecurity: how AI tools compromise confidentiality
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CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine

22 May 2025

Human rights NGOs and academics condemn efforts to muzzle discussion of the genocide in Gaza at the 2025 CPDP conference in Brussels.

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CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine
22 May 2025
CPDP must resist pressure to muzzle discussions on Palestine
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Six years of the GDPR: Priced out of privacy

18 Nov 2024
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Six years of the GDPR: Priced out of privacy
18 Nov 2024
Six years of the GDPR: Priced out of privacy
UN Global Digital Compact

Why human rights must be at the core of AI governance

24 Sep 2024

Human rights are being sidelined in conversations around AI governance. Here’s how to re-center them.

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Why human rights must be at the core of AI governance
24 Sep 2024
Why human rights must be at the core of AI governance
2024 Joint civil society statement on cyber and human security

Open letter to European Commission: the dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online

16 Sep 2024
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Open letter to European Commission: the dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online
16 Sep 2024
Open letter to European Commission: the dangers of age verification proposals to fundamental rights online
AI Action Summit

Generative AI and election disinformation: much ado about nothing? 

4 Jul 2024

In this bumper “year of elections,” alarm bells are being raised about the potential impact of generative AI in worsening election disinformation. But is this really the democratic disaster many are making it out to be, or is it a lot of fuss over nothing?

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Generative AI and election disinformation: much ado about nothing? 
4 Jul 2024
Generative AI and election disinformation: much ado about nothing? 
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Artificial Genocidal Intelligence: how Israel is automating human rights abuses and war crimes 

9 May 2024

Israel’s war on Gaza has revealed how mundane, unsophisticated AI surveillance systems are being used to unleash the most dystopian, tech-driven horrors on Palestinians.

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Artificial Genocidal Intelligence: how Israel is automating human rights abuses and war crimes 
9 May 2024
Artificial Genocidal Intelligence: how Israel is automating human rights abuses and war crimes 
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