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.
Heather Burns
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.
One perfect shot
Only a fellow Glaswegian, being Clicky Steve, could have composed this photo. It’s me nailing my conference talk in Paris three years ago today.
The three tests of internet regulation
Several years of watching Parliamentary hearings, participating in the shaping of legislation, and observing the politicisation of the fundamental rules of the open web have proven the old axiom: if you regulate the web as if only Facebook and Google exist, the end result will be that only Facebook and Google exist.
Book excerpt: Developing for privacy in the pandemic
The following is a draft of a postscript I’ve written for my upcoming book which probably shouldn’t wait until publication. It’s what you should know about developing to safeguard user privacy in the age of coronavirus.
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Table layout: or, how not to shape internet regulation in 2020
Let’s talk about democracy, and technology, and how sausages are made.
Read moreTable layout: or, how not to shape internet regulation in 2020
Safeguarding children’s privacy – the right way
When I retired from open source projects in February, I did so with more than a little curiosity about what new opportunities would come up to fill the void. That’s how life works, after all. Here is the first one.
Tech policy reading suggestions for bored wonks
As long as you’re going to be out of the game for a while, here are some tech/policy/tech policy reading suggestions off my shelves.
The biggest threat to children’s privacy
Yesterday I had the misfortune of discovering an appalling violation of children’s privacy rights: a piece of keylogging stalkerware being sold as a “safeguarding” tool for parents, packaged in a hysterical scare story about sexting.
Press coverage: Google Brexits
I spoke with Business Insider about the political context behind Google’s decision to move UK accounts out of the EU’s jurisdiction. I also spoke with TechCrunch about the issue from … Read more
Conference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web
I delivered the following talk this morning at WordCamp Vienna 2020. Entitled “WordPress’s role in a changing web”, I wanted to explain how fragile the open web is becoming, share a case study in how to keep it open, and spell out why the time for the WordPress project to act is now.
Read moreConference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web
Euractiv: AdequacyLOL
I’m quoted in Euractiv today on Boris Johnson’s unilateral declaration that the UK is taking its ball and going home where data protection adequacy is concerned. The article is also … Read more
We’re out. What now?
As I’ve written on my side blog, https://afterbrexit.tech: With the UK now out of the European Union, it is clear beyond any doubt that Brexit is being used as a … Read more
The Startup Manifesto
I was delighted to contribute to The Entrepreneurs Network and Coadec’s joint 2019 General Election manifesto, where we set forth our policy ideas for the next government. My contributions, as always, were around internet regulation.