Unlock door. Open door. Go outside.
The lock meant to keep a child safe might be the very thing keeping them unsafe.
Author: Heather Burns
Greatest hits, b-sides, and unfinished demo tracks: or, all my blogging on the Online Safety Bill
All my public-facing writing on the Online Safety Bill, 2019-2023, in one place.
On Snowballs, Napoleons, and sharks
A new podcast series has reminded me how open source community meetups saved so many people, including me, from business networking hell.
All data is health data.
In a world where people are targeted for who they are, any data you collect can and will be used against them.
Freaking out about TikTok on your work phone? You should look closer to home.
If you're worried about foreign state surveillance of your devices, or intrusive tracking of your teams, start in your living room.
The age-appropriate rubber dinghies of the sunlit uplands
An amendment to the Online Safety Bill uses its age verification requirements to censor subjective legal content determined by government policy. Just like we warned you years ago.
Can you help me teach privacy to those who need it most?
Let's get my book where it's most needed: into classrooms, whether physical or virtual.
The disinformation about the disinformation
If you want to tackle a problem, first you have to overcome the social taboos around talking about the problem. And that's hard when politics constrain the inquiry.
You wise up.
Two prominent think tanks have walked away from the UK's Online Safety Bill. There's no shame in that. Because the shame would have been in staying.
The sky is falling
Twenty years ago today, seven souls fell to earth. The management culture that caused it is alive and well.
2022’s best reads
The year's best books, articles, podcasts, and leisure reading too.
I did a thing
From this past June until December, I took a much-needed pause from side projects and advocacy work to go back to school. Sort of.