My name is Matteo Flora. I’m a serial entrepreneur, university lecturer, and a keynote panelist and public speaker. I work on changing people’s behavior using data.
You can find information about me on my personal website, including links to all my social media. Meanwhile, here I’ve been collecting my scattered thoughts for over two decades.
Happy reading.
The debate on how to legally frame DeepFake is now at the centre of attention of governments, institutions and businesses. This essay explores the possibility that these technologies cannot be...
Our capacity for discernment, immersed in an incessant flow of information, is under unprecedented pressure. The proliferation of disinformation is not the result of a collective inability to think...
In the journalism of the digital age, objective truth is increasingly elusive. Whether it is assessing the civilian death toll in Gaza with hard data, determining who is prevailing in the Russian...
The Italian Data Protection Authority has imposed a temporary restriction on data processing for Italian users of ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. As a result, OpenAI is now subject to an official...
On a Friday evening, and shortly before the deal between Musk and Twitter fell, Musk shared a few tweets. One of them, the latest, was a comment on a post by an Italian data analyst, Andrea Stroppa...
Come avrete potuto vedere dalla mole di mail arrivatavi negli ultimi giorni (non so voi, ma c’è stato un fiume di mail con scritto Privacy ovunque), il GDPR è entrato a tutti gli effetti in vigore il...
**NOTE: Before reading this please be aware English is not my first language. And please be aware I’m writing this while working pro-bono for a client[^1]** Dealing with “leaked”...
A nice thread on Reddit: Someday Artificial Intelligence will question whether organic humans were ever “fully” conscious. In reality what you are debating is the core of all Buddhist...
**TL;DR; I confronted a loudmouthed cretin insulting a gay couple using same tactics in him. I posted on Facebook. Post got 6000+ like and 2000+ shares. Post was removed for “Violating Facebook...
As many of you may know there has been lots of turmoil in the infosec world about the [allegations of sexual assault][1] against [Jacob Appelbaum][3] surfaced last week. Jacob has provided a...
My name is Matteo Flora. I am a serial entrepreneur, a university lecturer, and a keynote panelist and communicator. I specialise in changing people's behaviour by leveraging data.
You can find more information about me and my contact details on my personal website, including links to all my social channels. Here, I have been sharing my scattered thoughts for over two decades.
Enjoy your reading!