The key question I had for Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who provides his powerful tech to ICE and Israeli military: at what point does misuse of your product make you end such relationships? Hear his answers on this and much more www.wired.com/story/alex-k...

"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly." Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...

Looking for recommendations for an external portable ssd drive for photos (including raw format), music, personal files …

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Just shameful.

Meant to attach this / hence the reference to the shires

Meant to attach this / hence the reference to the shires

1/ It's remembrance weekend. As Elon Musk continues to sow hate & division in the UK & support the far right, I'm reflecting not just on the sacrifices & bravery of men & women from the 'shires' in WWI & WW2, but also of the millions of men & women from the Indian subcontinent &

"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot

Special Musk ‘blue plaque’ put up at Tesla’s flagship London dealership after $1tn pay deal It reads: “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. “Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” 👏 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/everyon...

The Commission is set to introduce the Digital Omnibus on November 19. Here's the full text published by Dr. Daniela R: lnkd.in/dKT-bHHq. Here's text of the internal draft amendments on the GDPR and ePrivacy in the “Digital Omnibus by Max Schrems here: lnkd.in/d3JRKEpr.

The Narwhal, @thenarwhal.ca, has extended the deadline to apply for their new one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C. to Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. PT. Please help spread the word!

Threatening us with a good time

In January 2025 Djibouti in the Horn of Africa became the 174th country to enact a data privacy law: the Digital Code / Code Numerique covers data privacy as well as other e-commerce & cybersecurity topics www.journalofficiel.dj/texte-juridi... Thanks Dave Banisar @dbanisar.bsky.social

Which one is more English?

2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and have been Indexed in Have I Been Pwned www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...

New from @EmpirePodUK (Part 4) The concluding part of our Orwell miniseries: Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Wife linktr.ee/empirepoduk

@documental.ly fyi if you haven’t come across it. Hope life’s good!

Thank you so much @privacymatters.bsky.social @studuff.bsky.social, @mancunianmedic.bsky.social and @msalliance.me for all of your kindness & encouragement. This happened recently ♥️

What will be interesting to see is if / when it's bundled into trade / tariff negotiations, who is able to say no? www.theverge.com/politics/668...

A much needed bit of joy

Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

What a bully the US govt has become. ‘US pharma to abandon UK unless NHS pays more, says Trump’s ambassador’ www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

"A ten-billion-dollar contract with Palantir Technologies—one of the largest in the Department of Defense’s history—was framed as a move toward “efficiency.” It consolidated seventy-five procurement agreements into a single contract."

“The French equalities regulator has ruled that Facebook’s algorithm for placing job adverts is sexist, after an investigation found that adverts for mechanic roles skewed towards men while those for preschool teachers were targeted at women.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

COMMENTARY: Russian hackers have repeatedly attacked Liverpool City Council — and it's not because they harbor a particular dislike for England. The attacks are part of a broader strategy to hit cities, governments and businesses with heavy financial losses.

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ~ Charles Dickens

Getty Images v Stability: Long-awaited judgment rejects majority of Getty's claim - ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/gett... #ai

Whenever the Tories or Reform UK spout off about ‘leaving the ECHR’, I’m often asked about it. I explain how the ECHR provides fundamental rights & freedoms that have long been important to us …. & often send them Sir Patrick Stewart’s excellent spoof youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA?... beware those who

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

Yesterday Nigel Farage argued that the UK has failed to grasp Brexit opportunities to deregulate, which his 'pro-business' government would deliver. I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics. www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Academic teaching Dogwhistling 101

Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

I must have been in some sort of mood when I sent in this blurb for @profferguson.bsky.social's important new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance nyupress.org/978147983828...

In a speech during her rushed inauguration Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu claims that those participating in protests are “not Tanzanian”. Red flag.

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Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

Important reporting from Louise Callaghan Men think they’re watching sex-cam models. In fact they’re slaves www.thetimes.com/article/23c8...

Prediction: Future karaoke hit

To expand on why this is a ridiculous claim: the Netherlands uses all paper ballots marked with a red pencil. Voting and counting are decentralized and conducted by volunteers; anyone who wants to can come watch. Among the most trustworthy elections in the world. www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/...

Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Center of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Personal Use’. In a motion to dismiss filed earlier this week, Meta denied claims that employees had downloaded pornography from Strike 3 Holdings to train its artificial intelligence models archive.ph/mjlbZ

Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle a case that Texas brought against it for allegedly tracking and collecting user data and geolocation without proper consent. www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database, turning it into a national “voter verification” tool that appears to sidestep federal privacy protections and will make it easier to remove large numbers of voters from the rolls.

As I’m quoted in the article, I do not believe that disclosing the number of secret orders issued against communications providers will compromise national security as the govt claims. If the UK govt asserts it it will, then publish an assessment of the necessity & proportionality of the restriction

Yet another CCPA settlement announced today—the fifth of the year, by my count, and a second from the CA DOJ. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r... Details: $530K civil penalty and injunctive terms with SlingTV, mostly concerning insufficient and overly burdensome opt-out procedures.

Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.