instigator of 0PN: Standard Open Public Transparency Infrastructure Champion of Transparency & Consent Receipt Digital Trust for Humans, ISO/IEC 27560 Champion
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Amendments to a Canadian surveillance bill shortened the length of time providers would have to store your conversational metadata. That's still a no-go for Signal.
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Around the world, tech is increasingly being used to stifle dissent, assert control and diminish human rights.
Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents how states are deploying surveillance technologies.
privacyinternational.org/rep…
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We are deeply concerned by news that Preston City Council has more than 100 CCTV cameras with facial recognition technology enabled. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwm2…
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December has arrived!
Can third-party providers be held liable for cookies used without consent? The German Federal Court of Justice is set to issue a groundbreaking decision on December 17.
Please read Tilman Herbrich's post about last week's hearing: linkedin.com/posts/tilman-he….
Everyone is recorded all the time by the Data Barons, with cookies and pixel tracking etc. but is black-box - back door digital id and AI. Not front door, glassboxed - and fair.
Same issue as robber-barons and land-barons before them.
Trump is obv desperate, he is going to use all resources he has to try and stay in power. Including war if the American ppl let him. He knows he is has committed serious crimes he is going to have to pay for if he looses power. His, is not a winning game.
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🚨NEW: HACKERS EXPOSE AGE-VERIFICATION SOFTWARE POWERING SURVEILLANCE WEB
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, bundling financial reporting with facial recognition tech.
For the first time, they lay bare what is really behind a software serving age-verification laws – and why such technology is far from harmless.
We spoke with the researchers that exposed the software, who hope that their findings will serve as a wakeup call.
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A headhunter from a firm I've never dealt with just called with an offer — and, when asked how she got to me, said her employer scrapes @LinkedIn and elsewhere on the internet for resumes
Should I tell her about the BC Appeal Court's decision on ClearviewAI scraping the web?
Twitter was run like a public digital infrastructure, X is governed like a private network. its just not trustworthy, or beneficial - is there really 10-15x people, and can twitter be used to communicate with them? algorithms - and upgrades required to edit or 'boost' SCAM
There are a projected 10-15x greater number of active daily users on X than Bluesky. I believe we as scientists have a duty to be responsive to the public - thus active where we are most visible & accessible, even if it’s less beneficial to us personally.
If that means the environment is less forgiving of our work, we ought not shy away.
Perhaps naive, but I believe the public is more willing to be trusting of us when we are of them.
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The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said
nytimes.com/2026/02/13/techn…
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Same “social media danger” speech that is also being delivered in Europe. It is all the same playbook. Failing societies will become authoritarian.
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The case of the year in Canada
Facebook v. @PrivacyPrivee
Subject Matter: Cambridge Analytica
Hearing scheduled: 2026-03-19
Here's the respondent OPC: lnkd.in/eUQTkcFg.
Here's the intervention from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia:
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We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.
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Palantir is trying to shut down the Swiss news magazine Republik for exposing the security flaws in its spyware.
netzpolitik.org/2026/david-g… – at City of London, London
The CUSMA moment: Canada can take digital sovereignty back
lab.0pn.org/the-cusma-moment…
I recommend a break, its good to reflect on the context and state of current digital democracy. Where this attention and the messages we contribute are focused, Happy Digital Privacy Week. (Flipping the switch, Inverting the Context) #TbD. #TransparencybyDefault
During my PostGrad research in London, we successfully were able to require proportionate transparency - the same needs to be done now. hammersmithtoday.co.uk/#!pag… - Digital transparency over who is doing the face recognition is required.
👁️Today, police are using live facial recognition in #Croydon
Also today...our director @silkiecarlo walked into High Court to challenge the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition alongside Shaun Thompson who was misidentified by this technology.
![Two Met Police officers in the foreground, a cut-out of facial recognition cameras and a 'police live facial recognition in operation' sign in the background. The text [Stop Facial Recognition] in black against orange background frames the image.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_w_1LQXgAAr-o6.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Two Met Police officers in the foreground, a cut-out of facial recognition cameras and a 'police live facial recognition in operation' sign in the background. The text [Stop Facial Recognition] in black against orange background frames the image.
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👁️Today, police are using live facial recognition in #Croydon
Also today...our director @silkiecarlo walked into High Court to challenge the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition alongside Shaun Thompson who was misidentified by this technology.
ALT Two Met Police officers in the foreground, a cut-out of facial recognition cameras and a 'police live facial recognition in operation' sign in the background. The text [Stop Facial Recognition] in black against orange background frames the image.
On 28th January 2026, we are deploying Live Facial Recognition Technology to crime hotspots in #Croydon borough.
Find out how we are using Live Facial Recognition: youtu.be/oRGu_aK9TEo
The people we are seeking to locate are set out in our policy ⬇️
met.police.uk/police-forces/…
