An early look at next week’s cover: "Remote Control,” by Barry Blitt. nyer.cm/6ApBXER

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife plan to provide “scientific” evidence to prove that France’s first lady is not a transgender woman after suing far-right influencer Candace Owens for defamation.

26 police officers harmed with 50 arrests pending. Yet, the Metropolitan police maintain there was no “intelligence basis” to use live facial recognition at the London protest last week. Is this the Met admitting that their intelligence was wrong? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Begs the question - what is a peaceful protest?

Led by Donkeys protests "Orwellian" arrests for projecting Trump/Epstein photos www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Oxford University Press is introducing an AI summarisation & quizzing asst. into their law textbook ‘trove’: it took considerable effort from our Fac+Library to have them engineer in a license-level off switch (they initially refused!). They did not clock how important the skill of summarisation is.

An ode to eating dinner as early as possible.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

this article is quite misleading. wikipedia retains the ability to bring a challenge when they are actually designated in which case many of the issues the court procedurally refused to consider here will be possible to consider on the merits of eg human rights law.

Tesla collects massive voice, location & behaviour data—& Musk has intervened in access requests. Data rights = power. Who holds your users’ data? Can it be deleted? Aus laws are evolving too. AWO helps orgs answer these questions.

There is, in fact, loads of evidence to support this. But let’s just start with this classic study. www.nature.com/articles/nat...

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

We welcome the launch of a new G20 experts taskforce on global wealth inequality, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa and led by Joseph Stiglitz. This is a vital step toward addressing the impact of wealth inequality on growth, poverty, and multilateralism.

We are pleased to announce a new event - 'Better Regulation’ of Data Retention and Human Rights? EU Data Privacy Law, Serious Crime, and National Security 🗓️ 15 October 2025, 5:30pm-6:30pm, in-person at IALS Book your place now! 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/events/bette... @nniloideain.bsky.social

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The UK has pulled its order to put a backdoor into Apple's encrypted services. BUT "powers to attack encryption are still on the law books, and pose a serious risk to user security and protection against criminal abuse of our data." 🗣️ Jim Killock, ORG Exec Director. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Newsmax reaches $67M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in defamation case.

Dominic Grieve. 👏👏👏

Cyber-attack on MoD-linked contractor exposes data of Afghans in resettlement scheme

Weaponized drones for school shootings are moronic. The question I still have not heard answered? How do they fly through the classroom doors? www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... I could say more. I will in the book I've begun to write on public safety.

A consultation on specific legal safeguards for use of facial recognition in England & Wales is promised but an expansion of its use comes first. Unsurprisingly, another legal challenge to its use is forthcoming. This time concerning the MET police: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo

A poignant reminder that tech will tell you it can save the world… until “limitations in detection algorithms” means it can’t www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ICO is taking action against the Cabinet Office because of lengthy and unexplained FOI delays. In a new practice recommendation the ICO is highly critical of the Cabinet Office approach to FOI, telling it to supply quarterly updates for monitoring of its future performance.

A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you.

The inspector’s report ‘criticised the Home Office's use of "generic physical characteristics" and "failing to take into account the young person's individual circumstances".’ It will take more than facial recognition systems to properly assess the age of migrants.

Have now made a Freedom of Information Request, so let's see if we find out how much the University of Warwick paid Vogue Singapore to advertise one of their senior leadership team with photos of his wardrobe ('talent's own'). www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost...

Lawful access nerds may remember the US Justice Dept report a few months ago on implementation of the US-UK Cloud Agreement. One of the things they were not happy about was UK telecoms operators making case by case UK GDPR assessments. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 1/2

The work Ofcom does on EPG prominence for PSBs is hugely important for the UK's media ecosystem. Great to see it being updated to reflect more people's digital reality.

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

New from 404 Media: a startup is selling data hacked from peoples' computers to debt collectors, divorce lawyers, more. People already hacked, now being re-vicitmized by startup. I used the tool, found peoples' personal addresses. “This is so gross and predatory.” www.404media.co/a-startup-is...

this is the very technology orgs like the UN is adopting to "solve" gender inequity

Again - the reason the Irish government/nationalists in Northern Ireland wanted a reference to the ECHR in the Good Friday Agreement is that the European Court of Human Rights had held the UK accountable for human rights abuses in NI - whereas "domestic UK and common law principles" had not

Legislators should never accept government assurances about the use of what seems like an overly-broad statutory power in lieu of proper legal safeguards, because one day the power will be used, the assurances won't be justiciable, and the words in the statute will be taken as justification enough.

UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption

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We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing. 🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

Fabulous looking opportunity for people interested in digital and governance solutions to environmental problems, ofc including gen AI.. wccl2026.com/en/workshops... And in Bogota!!!

The thing about age verification is that interfamily device security is generally a mess. Everyone knows everyone's passwords, people share devices. The main thing age verification will do is make lots of money for age verification vendors www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘News first broke in 2014 after Catherine Corless, who was working on a history project, tracked down death certificates for nearly 800 children for whom there were almost no burial records … Little was done until she went to the media.’

I’ve written up my thoughts for the @mishcondereya.bsky.social website, on the baffling decision by the ICO to take no action in response to the most catastrophic data breach in UK history, which exposed many thousands of people to immediate risk to their lives. www.mishcon.com/news/data-pr...

14 years, I think you'll find! Some of them even pretty good ones. Srsly, it's a tremendous place and a great opportunity.

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

on.ft.com/46dUS46 A costly shambles for the British state