📰 "With the 'Digital Omnibus', the #Commission claims to reduce burdens and simplify regulation for businesses. However, this premise rests on a misleading assumption: that Europe’s #innovation is being held back by excessive regulation." Read more 👉 epicenter.works/en/content/d...#Commission

A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights. But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Judgments from the @echr.coe.int have influenced policy in areas like mental health, reproductive rights and access to essential medical treatments. Leaving the #ECHR would be a blow for health, justice and accountability, writes @martinmckee.bsky.social👇 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/391/... via @bmj.com

Very true: “The UK rarely loses at the @echr.coe.int, and almost never on immigration-related issues”👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.news.com #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Also true: Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights ❌ Won’t solve the small boats problem ❗ Would weaken #HumanRights protections for EVERYONE in the UK ⁉️ May well damage the country’s international standing 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/haun... via @politico.eu #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

New post Prompted by an excellent conference at @biicl.bsky.social marking the ECHR's 75th anniversary, I reflect in this piece on key themes about the likely trajectory of the UK's human rights debate, given the current (and developing) political climate. publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/07/t...

“You forgot about the essence of the game. It's about the cones.”

No-one is going to switch to Labour because of this cruelty. Farage will be vindicated because the ECHR is back in the news & the economy will suffer. There was another way. We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

📍75 Years of the Convention: Landmark Cases 🗓 2021 📚 Right to respect for private and family life ⚖️ Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom ➡️ Secret surveillance (bulk interception – acquisition of communications data)

📍 Les 75 ans de la Convention : arrêts de principe 🗓 2021 📚 Droit au respect de la vie privée et familiale ⚖️ Big Brother Watch et autres c. Royaume Uni ➡️ Surveillance secrète (interception de masse – acquisition de données de communication)

Imagine if this happened in a workplace. You couldn’t do it outside of zero hour warehouse work and even then, you’d have caveats for disablity. This government and its ai obsession should have unions out in the streets

🚨 The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive GDPR reform. This could have significant impact on your fundamental right to privacy. noyb is doing everything it can to prevent this outcome. You can support us by becoming a Supporting Member!! Learn more 👉 noyb.eu/en/support-us

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

@seriousprivacy.eu we won! Thanks #PiccassoAwards judges!

I wrote about Europe maybe retreating from strong privacy protections in the name of AI competitiveness and why it may be making a mistake www.platformer.news/eu-ai-act-ch...

"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives." As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly. jrnl.ie/6864189

It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.

And it’s out. Some tech issues - but @seriousprivacy.eu is out there again telling you all the latest!

With a little bit of delay due to technical challenges, our latest episode is out now. This week, @heartofprivacy.bsky.social and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu discuss the Google settlement in Texas, and a lot more. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts. www.buzzsprout.com/840448/episo...

Is it time to kill the cookie consent popup nightmare? There's a chance! Leaked #GDPR modification would let web browsers send signal for consent. Ignoring it could cost up to €20,000,000 fine. My analysis. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/european-com... techletters.substack.com/p/techletter...

A day ahead of its 75th anniversary, nearly 300 UK-based organisations have spoken out in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights👇 🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... via @the-independent.com #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75

Your occasional reminder about the number of immigration-related defeats for the UK in the European Court of Human Rights. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong. "Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

OPINION Discuss. Midst the torrents of #AI slop sloshing, slushing through our information ecosystems (some examples are instantly self-revealing, others profoundly deceptive) videos of #wildlife, confected to look genuine, piss me off the most. They mislead & distort perceptions of #nature. Ugh.

Love your paper. Especially the quote "When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."

“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”

‘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/...

Relaxing cookie consent rules is unlikely to leverage change. There must be: ⚫ More effective and dissuasive action by the ICO to remove illegal advertising. ⚫ Enforce data protection. ⚫ Protect law-abiding market players from the unfair competition of adtech companies who violate our privacy.

❗ALERT TO ALL ACTIVE TROUBLESHOOTERS! Report to your nearest station on November 4th to receive news from the benevolent and infallible Computer!* *Failure to do so is punishable by summary execution. #paranoia

 Learn more in our explainer! (2/2)

The Council of Europe’s new Recommendation on Equal Rights for #IntersexPersons is a milestone for #HumanRights.    It sends a clear message: equality has no exceptions, and every person deserves to live free, safe, and seen.  (1/2)

🗨️ "The use of facial recognition technologies, in particular by police authorities, raises huge privacy questions, as well as raising the risk of the technology being misused for mass surveillance." Full article: www.euractiv.com/news/facial-...

📉 "Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes." 🖊️ @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analyses the fall in net migration to the UK and the potential political and economic consequences ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

I published my responses to the ICO’s complaint handling consultation, because even if they don’t pay any attention, it might just inform or inspire someone else to get serious about data protection. A girl can dream. Anyway: www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-res...

“Before the election it promised to ‘remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance.’ But in government it has lined up alongside the Tories and Reform UK at the cruelty Olympics.” – @goodlawproject.org https://bit.ly/43CpABH

#BBCNews - European rights body urges UK ministers to review protest laws www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Gaming consoles are ‘plug and play’... until you speed-run past the privacy settings. Good news: it’s not too late to lock down your personal data. Here’s how to tweak your privacy settings on PS5, Xbox, and Switch. #OptOutOctober eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Did you know that by default, Strava shows your exact starting and ending points to other users? You can hide up to a mile radius around your home and other sensitive locations to stay safe while staying active. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

And, like we are, he is calling for policies that make it clear how trans inclusion is possible, and for trans exclusion to remain the exception. Template MP letter here! actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

🏮 He's very concerned about measures which oblige trans people to out themselves publicly and significantly increase their vulnerability to harassment, abuse and even violence 🏮 And he asks for an evidence-based approach. This ought to be common sense but sadly none of this is evidence based.

🏮 He thinks the direction of travel in the UK will breach its human rights obligations in multiple respects - pushing trans people into an 'intermediate zone' and jeopardising their right to be treated with dignity and to be able to participate in all areas of everyday life...

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe. 🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations) 🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved... rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

Incredible admission from Meta: “People already expect us to be nefarious pricks, so nefarious prickery seems the way forward.”

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

This is an EU proposed policy with the benign-sounding name "Child Sexual Abuse Regulation" which proposes to screen private online communications using sketchy image-scanning algorithms. It is technically unworkable, and would be a privacy catastrophe, especially for those in authoritarian states

📢 10 years since #Schrems (C-362/14) – the landmark ruling that invalidated the Commission’s “Safe Harbour” decision, found US data protections inadequate, and reshaped #digitalprivacy in the EU and beyond 🔒 Learn 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/... #EUlaw #DataProtection

UK regulator Ofcom spent more than £1.1 million on communications related to the Online Safety Act, in the period from February 2024 to July 2025 www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r... + www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r... #FOI #govcomms #influencers

Rah. It’s a perfectly valid way to spell your name. T’was t’best way t’know you’re own selves’! Big hugs to all the O’Bros out there…