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.
Author: Heather Burns
Why Generation X will save the web
Politicians want to regulate the internet as if a handful of companies are the open web. Why? Because for their young policy staffers, that's the only web they've ever known.
Tech prediction for 2021: it’s getting a bit “Children of Men” around here
What's ahead for UK internet regulation in 2021? It ain't good.
Facebook Derangement Syndrome
A status update from the front lines of tech policy.
Announcement: I’m joining Open Rights Group
Some personal news: I'm absolutely delighted to be joining Open Rights Group, the UK's fearless digital rights organisation, as their Policy Manager.
Wired UK: MPs slam UK data regulator for failing to protect people’s rights
I spoke with Wired about the domestic and international policy implications of the UK's data protection regulator being physically absent and structurally passive.
The world’s most dangerous tech project
It might be yours.
An imagined tech policy conversation in an English farmyard
A musing on the Piglet's Code and the Online Farms Framework.
How to create a world as age appropriate as apple pie
One of the many problems I have with the UK government’s determination to build an “age appropriate” internet that will be the “safest place in the world to be online” is that this goal is entirely subjective and inachievable. It attempts to create internet regulation through undefined emotive rhetoric. A tweet conversation this morning has spurred me to pour a cup of tea and share this story about what happens when “age appropriate” is allowed […]
The Recovery Roadmap
I was honoured to be asked to write this report on the UK Tech Cluster Group’s Recovery Roadmap summit, ably supported by the UKTCG leadership team, showcasing their policy recommendations to support the tech sector’s role in the post-COVID recovery.
UX Podcast: Privacy privilege
Per and James discussed my article on privacy privilege on this week’s UX Podcast.
What the Schrems II ruling means for Brexit
I wrote in my Brexit blog about Schrems II, data protection adequacy, and pots calling kettles black. I was also quoted in Techcrunch, the Telegraph, and Digital Privacy News.
Quoted in Digital Privacy News
I spoke with Digital Privacy News about the German antitrust case which ruled that Facebook must allow users to opt-out of data sharing across its platforms.
Check your privacy privilege.
If you are a full time privacy professional in law or academia, understand that one of your fundamental beliefs about online privacy is wrong.
Brexit: where are we now?
I updated my Brexit side blog, so I did.