Our latest episode is out now, featuring a conversation of our host trio with @daraghobrien.bsky.social @castlebridgechief.bsky.social on data governance and DSARs. Listen now, wherever you get your #podcasts. www.buzzsprout.com/840448/episo...

EFF sees through the thin veil of internet censorship bills that claim to "protect the kids." Age-gating the internet is not the answer, and we're fighting back. eff.org/spring

A great episode of @seriousprivacy.eu with @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social today! A great view of data governance from the perspective of a master! @heartofprivacy.bsky.social and @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu and I had a great time! #PoweredByTrustArc seriousprivacy.buzzsprout.com/840448/episo...

Yes that fits, watching since 2009, it’s not exactly been uphill Well except maybe for their insane budget compared to other supervisory authorities 🙊🙉🙈

Our Director @evangreer.bsky.social explains what we aim to accomplish with our Massachusetts social media bill. We want your feedback! Read the working draft of our bill here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

“[P]olicies to prevent children from accessing pornography have been grown to the extent that we could need to provide ID in order to access social media, games and apps or use everyday features such as livestreams or feeds." 🗣️ ORG's James Baker on the call for a change in tack over online safety.

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@fightforthefuture.org has been screaming from the roof-tops about the dangers of online ID checks alongside privacy experts and other digital rights activists- now computer scientists are joining the fray 👏 👏 👏 www.politico.eu/article/age-... @politico.com

A little thread on age verification/ID verification. A few years ago, I was one of a group of people invited by the government (the predecessors to DSIT) to help them investigate digital identity. I was wary, because UK governments' records in this area have been very bad. I mean, *very* bad. 1/6

The playtest is on! #PlayTheDataGame #SeriousPrivacy

A.B. 1709 weaponizes legitimate parental concerns and uses them to hand even more censorship and surveillance power over to the government and tech companies. We need to stop it. Tell your lawmaker to vote NO on A.B. 1709: act.eff.org/action/stop...

California lawmakers are fast-tracking AB 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“Ironically, what I’ve gained from AI is a deeper appreciation for human communication, in all its messy imperfection. The point of a code review is not simply for good code to make it into a codebase, but to build institutional knowledge as people debate and iterate and compromise…Friction is good”

Sex Matters are demanding biological sex on Digital ID. Below are suggestions for when one should have to use their ID to "verify" their sex. For the avoidance of doubt – this is a call for the effective repeal of the Gender Recognition Act, in breach of our human rights obligations & EU Law.

#Transparency is the most important right. Sadly without it, data subjects won’t even know what processing is taking place or what to ask for - that’s why I fall back on “all processed data that relates to me” #DataProtection

Alt text: You watched ‘The Hunger Games’ and sided with the resistance You watched ‘Star Wars’ and sided with the resistance You watched ‘The Matrix’ and sided with the resistance When it’s fiction you understand tyranny, oppression and despotism. But you refuse to see it in the reality you live in

Latest @seriousprivacy.eu now available at seriousprivacy.buzzsprout.com! Today we Talk with Dr Alex DB from the Isle of Man!

The French DPA has approved recommendations on the use of tracking pixels in emails. I’ve attached an unofficial translation for your reference. Here are the recommendations: www.linkedin.com/posts/luisal.... Below's the decision:

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

So much fun this week! @seriousprivacy.eu talks humour in #DataProtection and #Privacy with Simon Pillinger!

Or alternatively, stop tracking people around the internet…

Worth clicking the link, a really good evaluation of #ChatControl in the EU and yet more govt surveillance and interference outsourced to big tech. With all the age gating “think of the children!” has sadly become a the rallying dog whistle cry for #DisproportionateSurveillance.

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

More than 60 civil society groups have written to Congress to oppose Meta’s plans to integrate facial rec into its glasses. “The groups say that adding the technology to Meta Ray-Bans would harm both users and the public, calling it a ‘creepy and unacceptable escalation of surveillance.’”

As part of CDT’s new polling showing Americans’ worries about the data the government holds on them – across partisan, racial, and regional lines – a must-read privacy explainer focuses on breaking down why it matters. cdt.org/insights/six...

Do not. Under any circumstance. Download the new White House App. You’d have be one of the most stupid people in the world to do so. www.cnet.com/tech/service...

@that-privacy-guy.bsky.social welcome to @bsky.app ! Look forwards to reconnecting!

REINBO Consulting Ltd rebrands as Serious Privacy Ltd and announces brand partnership with the Serious Privacy Podcast @seriousprivacy.eu #DataProtection #Privacy www.seriousprivacy.co.uk

REINBO Consulting Ltd rebrands as Serious Privacy Ltd and announces brand partnership with the Serious Privacy Podcast @seriousprivacy.eu #DataProtection #Privacy www.seriousprivacy.co.uk

Which begs the question - why do this research to begin with if humans don't even interest you?? 🙄🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

What happens at Data Protection and Privacy conferences stays private? What’s happens at records management conferences gets logged, printed in triplicate and filed for later… (Actually in both it now gets broadcast over the internet and is permanently available)

The destruction of spaces to play, the emphasis on protection from physical harm over freedom, the domination of the car, the capitalist approach to almost all activities, pricing out most kids from sports, arts, music etc. all make much more difference than phones, social media etc.

Always a pleasure to work alongside the magnificent @missiggeek.bsky.social Come and join us :)

No bullshit, just me and the magnificent @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu sorting myth from fact and explaining the geeky stuff about the latest changes to ePrivacy law in the UK. (Did I mention it’s a free webinar for anyone to join? There’s that too!) www.dataprivacyadvisory.com/cookies-cons...

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

On March 18, 2026, the full text of the new Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan has been published on the website of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper, Qazinform News Agency reports.

Never understood the point of OpenAI’s social video generation app Sora in terms of the company’s mission, nor its market fit. Who wants to watch other people’s fake AI videos? It’s what most people are trying to avoid right now. Well, it’s shutting down.

On delegating your writing to LLMs. Excellent thread.

Oh boy “Legitimate interests can apply for direct marketing but only where the Privacy and Electronic Communication Regulations (PECR) don’t require consent”

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Friends, romans, countrymen lend me your ears… …for something new is coming…

Looking at the proofs of my forthcoming book. I like this little declaration at the start. "Without limiting the author’s and publisher’s exclusive rights, any unauthorised use of this publication to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited."

Outliers. Dissidents. Protesters. Resistance. How much civil disobedience is necessary to effect change? Without it we are not truly free, and authoritarianism wins. Surveillance tech to incentivise compliance is the enemy of progress.