privacymatters.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

🧵 AI copyright and AI slop

submitted 21 minutes ago • 0 comments

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has elected Hugh Mercer as the UK’s next judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇 🔗 pace.coe.int/en/news/9943... #Democracy #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #ECHR @coe.int @pace.coe.int @echr.coe.int

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Does anyone here use a pay-per-minute consultancy service? I want something where someone can book a (video) call with me and be charged €x/minute. I'm getting tired of sending quotes and chasing invoices for ad-hoc consulting work. What do you use?

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

Good to meet you today @documental.ly Apologies that I couldn’t stay longer.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

if media and pols and think tanks could just appreciate this truth, the reporting and discourse would be much more rooted in reality. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Orwell is buried in a village nearby. 25 June is the birthday of Eric Arthur Blair I decided to go along & pay my respects - reflecting on the unprecedented surveillance eroding privacy & other fundamental human rights .. of the increasingly authoritarian & fascist nature of the current US admin

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Data flows and digital repression: Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status edri.org/our-work/dat...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Millions of Afghan refugees in Iran now face uncertain future

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Activist demands compensation from Europol for illegal surveillance - via @statewatch.bsky.social www.statewatch.org/news/2025/ju...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Regulators around the world are tackling mobile platform monopolies. But every time new laws like the EU’s DMA or the UK’s DMCC emerge to allow more competition, Apple and Google raise one predictable objection: “Security” Let’s unpack why that doesn’t hold up. 👇 1/19

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 411 comments

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the Islamic Republic.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

If, like me, you have been a bit mystified as to why free speech champion Kemi Badenoch has been calling for Glastonbury to drop Kneecap from this year's lineup, this might help - the band took her to court last year, and she was found to have acted illegally: www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’ Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

PUBLISHED: New open issue of Surveillance & Society with articles on #desire, student tracking, #Tesla data collection, #surveillance #art, workplace surveillance, and urban “data walks.” The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: tinyurl.com/9c473scz

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🥺

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Charlie Chaplin. The Great Dictator. 1940

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Government’s plan to genome sequence every baby at birth from 2035 medconfidential.org/2025/governm...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 Be Aware: The idea of enrolling your child in Jiu-Jitsu / mixed martial arts class might seem appealing, but a White Supremacy movement has been using the combat sport to recruit young boys into their neo-Nazi ranks...most recently in Tennessee. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Tiberius— "There has never been a better time to watch this video"

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Seems like almost no one has noticed that Council Regulation (EU) 2025/1208, on mandatory biometrics on some national ID documents, has been passed and published on the OJ. Now adopted under a new legal basis (hence Council Regulation) after the previous Regulation 2019/1157 was annulled in C‑61/22.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

22 June 1900 | Italian Jewish woman, Elena Spizzichino, was born in Velletri. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. Together with her daughter Franca she was among 839 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

"It would see the U.S. and EU enter a dialogue on how to implement Europe’s Digital Markets Act—a tech-competition law that has drawn complaints from large American firms—and exempt U.S. companies from enforcement during those talks" WTF www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

WW2 shooting of black US soldier in Lancashire taught in school www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Oh fgs we're back to the 'hiring super smart people for government' garbage? A soundbite in place of a strategy? www.ft.com/content/0b10...

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Is the EU really going to give the US a say in how it implements the Digital Markets Act? The WSJ reports that Brussels & Washington could enter a dialogue on how to implement the DMA and US companies would be exempted from enforcement while those talks took place. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

🍿Getty vs Stability and now this .. rubs hands.. www.ft.com/content/b743...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If the UK political battle is over who can bring back the factories then you might as well vote for anyone because it isn't going to happen. Might equally well debate who's going to generate more fairies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

The UK High Court has ruled that Shell plc + its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for historic oil pollution which has devastated the environments of the Bille + Ogale communities in Nigeria. There’s a long way to go in the case, but congrats today @leigh-day.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit. Do join us…

submitted 4 days ago • 100 comments

For information on the UK government’s powers to ban terrorist groups and cases where the legal definition of terrorism has been stretched to its limits, read from p.232 onwards of my book 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1805...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 has now been published. NB that most of the operative data protection provisions still need secondary legislation to commence them www.linkedin.com/posts/jon-ba...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Open letter to European Commission President @vonderleyen on the skewed selection process for head of European Data Protection Supervisor @EU_EDPS crookedtimber.org/2025/06/20/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It is a serious failing on Apple's part that they haven't required apps to separate out service notifications from promotional ones. I want Uber to notify me when a delivery or car is nearby, not to suggest I should get takeout tonight. I don't need my robot hoover to show ads. Etc.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

I went back out at 9am :) too beautiful and full of hope bsky.app/profile/yuto...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Here are the key events on day 1,212 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Leaning into Yutori at 6am … I also had the wonderful ‘retired office assistant’ with me before the day gets too hot for him .. bsky.app/profile/yuto...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Beware this scam from +44 7355 588757 “Hi dad this is my new number my phone broke. Can you text me back when you see this I have a new phone now. Hope everythings going okay”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

France's age-verification law appears to have been suspended, after the European Commission ruled it violated EU law on the free movement of goods. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments