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Hi, I’m Heather Burns

— at home in the world.

HeroPress: Going back to my roots

15 March 2017
by Heather Burns
Musings

And that’s how I got here. https://heropress.com/essays/going-back-roots/

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Apr 20, 21

Your cut-and-keep guide to the “unregulated wild west internet”

The next time a policymaker tells you that the internet is an "unregulated wild west", point them here to take the shine off their sheriff star.

Giving a privacy talk to a code academy, summer 2018
Mar 21, 21

What would a privacy curriculum for future developers look like?

A professor of software engineering got in touch to ask me a question: if I had an hour to speak to a room full of undergraduates about privacy, what - in my view - are the points they would be most likely to absorb?

Feb 17, 21

Techdirt Podcast: Intermediary liability law is not a social safety net

I went on the Techdirt podcast to discuss the recent push, by governments and media alike, to scapegoat intermediary liability law where social safety nets have failed.

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