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paulbernal.bsky.social
Professor of IT Law. Geek. Politics. Wolves.
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Harry Maguire needs to retire. Now.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Backdoors is a good analogy though - if you leave the backdoor of your house open anyone can come in and nick stuff.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s like saying ‘In the U.K. we only allow horses that can fly’ and then complaining that Apple have decided to withdraw their horses rather than attach wings to them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Can we stop pretending Apple’s refusing to ‘add backdoors’ as though backdoors that let the good guys in and keep the bad guys out was something real?

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Was it a week or two back that Yvette Cooper was talking about the dangers of paedophiles taking real kids photos and using AI to create child abuse images? She just made it easier for them to get access to those real photos. At a stroke.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

The evergreen argument annoying people like us digital rights activists have been making for decades to politicians is coming true: Imagine the power you just created being in the hands of the ‘bad guys’. What does it look like now?

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

David Cameron and Theresa May must be so upset that eventually a Labour government managed to undermine encryption in the UK.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Congratulations Yvette Cooper. The U.K. is now one of the least safe places to go online. www.theverge.com/news/617273/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

Finally watched - and really enjoyed - Conclave. So many gems of performances. Isabella Rossellini is terrific. Sergio Castellitto gloriously poisonous.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

At what point does NATO consider expelling the U.S.? (Obviously I’m joking. Or am I?)

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Your public service announcement that the incredible You Do Not Have Yo Say Anything - with the equally incredible @joannahs.bsky.social - continues today on BBC Radio 4 and iPlayer. It’s a wonderfully true and compassionate insight into the criminal justice system. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It’s just like Escape to Victory

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 Insane: The US state department has reportedly ordered its outposts around the world to cancel all subscriptions to news & media outlets that are supposedly “non-mission critical” in another extraordinary #Trump admin crackdown on normal info channels. 🚨 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Conversely, no it fucking doesn’t.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments