Author: Heather Burns
Why Generation X will save the web
Tech prediction for 2021: it’s getting a bit “Children of Men” around here
Facebook Derangement Syndrome
Announcement: I’m joining Open Rights Group
Wired UK: MPs slam UK data regulator for failing to protect people’s rights
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
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.
Brexit: where are we now?
I updated my Brexit side blog, so I did.