Being a "digital native" doesn't excuse failing to fact check. I'm not shocked the claim went so viral. Cronyism ( corruption) is hardly unheard of in UK government procurement, making the claim believable. Similar claim will probably be made about infosys getting the contract at some point.

"During a trip to India this week, Sir Keir praised the country's Aadhaar digital ID system, which is far more extensive than the plans initially announced for the UK and involves the storing of biometric data, as a "massive success"." *facepalm* Aadhaar has had a massive number of problems

All my comics have happy endings!

A woman who has struggled against authoritarianism wins the Nobel Peace prize Such a good choice news.sky.com/story/nobel-...

No reason for 13-year olds to have digital ID unless the government is planning to: Send 13-year olds to work. Seems unlikely but maybe the children yearn for the mines in the name of economic growth. Or fully age-gating the internet in name of "protecting the children". Seems far more likely.

IWF's anti-encryption talking points are getting ridiculously. First example used to try justifying their renamed mass surveillance isn't even "upload prevention" but a feature designed to improve the user experience. And the second is for malware detection. Neither are mandated by law.

Since the #OnlineSafetyAct age verification took effect in July, I've gone out of my way to avoid it and this is why.

Hey, @ofcom.bsky.social now do you get that age verification is a catastrophic stupid idea?

But “won’t ya think of the children” …. Many did and that’s why many objected to age verification & the processing of identity documents

As the clock counts down to the deadline the Qantas hackers have threatened to publish their data on, how much will the court injunction actually help the breach victims (which includes me)? www.troyhunt.com/court-injunc...

"evidence is clear" says the essay. Cites no evidence. web.archive.org/web/20251009...

Over the months, we gathered material and analysis before working with colleagues @srfnews.bsky.social, @972mag.com, and @theferret.scot to bring the investigation together for their respective audiences. SRF International podcast (via Susanne Brunner) www.srf.ch/audio/intern...

NEW: Germany opposes mass scanning of private messages. "must be taboo in a constitutional state" "even the worst crimes don't justify giving up basic civil rights" Well said Minister Stefanie Hubig! Leadership we need from Europe's democracies. www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

[Citation needed] Could a politician for just ones not rely on emotional charged language to try and justify restricting teens freedom of expression.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Now he will win. Because that's how it is here. It's simply too funny not to do, so that's what will happen. I don't make the rules.

"The majority of those killed by Israel’s offensive in the strip have been civilians, and the overall total now exceeds 67,000. Entire families have been wiped out in a single airstrike. Sometimes, only a single individual, frequently a child, is left alive." It must end.

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Explosive device left at Sinn Féin office in Newry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel has attacked and stormed several British-flagged flotilla vessels over the last few months. Our government hasn't publicly responded to any of these illegal acts, so this is hardly a surprising development.

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

Isn't the PSNI 100s of officers under strength?

Translation: No anonymity and no freedom of expression for teens and young people in the name of democracy. Macron has repeatedly demonstrated that his idea of dealing with social media is one based on censorship and control. No very democratic.

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

UK government's solution to every problem, whether real and imagined, is to restrict or ban it.

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We must retake our economic freedoms from organizations with french names!

Oi mate you got a license for that freedom of speech

Inevitable that the government would use Thursday's horrendous attack in Manchester to justify let more restrictions on civil liberties and here it is.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated #protests, says Home Office - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #starmer does exactly the wrong thing; time for him to go

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

After the Mumbai attacks in 2008, British police started re-arming with 5.56 carbines replacing 9mm MP5s. The greater stopping power of 5.56 increases the chance of over penetration which may have been the case here. Not the first time UK police have shot bystanders when responding to an attack.

Calling Reform racist isn’t slander. It’s maths. 20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

“Advanced Data Protection continues to be available everywhere else in the world.” To put it gently, this is a very odd position for Britain to be in. support.apple.com/en-gb/122234

This is a good case study of 1) how vague the teen social ban policy is, and 2) how eager the govt is to handball off responsibility. The laws *could* apply to Wikipedia, so its they asked for confirmation. The govt won't confirm bc it's leaving enforcement up to the eSafety commissioner.

It's October, so that means it's Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Please be aware of cybersecurity. Thank you.

Home office wants to break encryption. NCSC is pushing for the adaption of post-quantum cryptography by 2035. And MI6 launched a tor site to recruit agents. Government's position on encryption continues to be world-beating in its inconsistency and stupidity.

At a time when new cyberattacks debilitate British businesses seemingly daily, the UK government is demanding that security is made worse for UK users.

'Trapped in the Sky', the first episode of Thunderbirds, was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1965.

Been genuinely f*cking bizarre watching politicians over the last year call for their country to follow Australia's lead and ban teens from social media despite it's not yet being in force or fully detailed. All board the bandwagon, policy details optional.

The data paradox protection: Websites must minimise data collected from children under the Children's code but need to identify which users are children to implement the code. Collect more data so you can collect less. Makes total sense, right?

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long… paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Just gonna leave this here