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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

Antwerp cathedral, towering over the main square 🥰

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2025

My personal #Apple #ecosystem spans two continents 😂 (¡Hola Madrid!)

Screenshot of Apple Find My, showing devices in Newcastle, London, Madrid and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria!

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

@ignactro I spoke too soon about #London #weather ☔️ Thank goodness I'm flying south later!

Rain falls in a flooded Fitzroy Square (central London)

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Another 🌞😎 day in London, but tomorrow I’m going to the real Puerta del Sol in Madrid (for the #IETF meeting next week). And even have some flamenco booked with @ignactro.bsky.social 💃 ¡Vamanos!

Statue/artwork of a red lobster with a pink/yellow sunflower mask! On Tottenham Court Road in central London

Blue and white Victorian apartments, almost obscured by huge plants, gleaming in the sunshine

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

Always slightly eery talking to a quiet room when most of your audience is online, simultaneously or later! (Screenshot via @chrismarsden.bsky.social 🙏) Tremendous view from the #CMA 9th floor towards the City of London, which unlike #Ofcom's Thames-side panorama they do not obscure with blinds :)

Teams screenshot of CMA Hearing Room 11, with many online participants and a chat showing an article on digital antitrust

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

I could get used to this louche barrister lifestyle 😉 I knew I wouldn't be the only one not wearing a suit for a business lunch at Inner Temple and #4KBW re: #DMA

Ian in front of 4 King's Bench Walk, wearing a white sailing vest, green shorts, and rainbow flip-flops, carrying a beige cap and with yellow sunglasses perched on head, in the London heatwave

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

If the muppets running the two main political parties aren’t ejected soon, the 🇬🇧 really will see #Reform and the #Greens fighting it out over the next general election. And forever, as both support proportional voting reform!

Full page of Sunday Times on Reform and Green Party leaders

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

Despite the presence of Joseph Gordon-Levitt 😉 the security theatre at #IGF2025 was beyond disproportionate. It would put me off going again. (And did the final morning.)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a big screen in a dark blue suit and pink shirt, sitting, smiling and gripping a microphone up to his mouth

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

@1br0wn @1br0wn Thank you Adidas Outlet store, very obviously catering to people just like me here for conferences without Norwegian “summer” clothes 🤣

Ian wearing a thick insulated Adidas top

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

@1br0wn TBF I just came (by train and plane) from sailing in #Sicily. I managed to stay in my vest and linen shorts until I got on the plane in Milan 😂

Sun rises over a twinkling marina filled with small yachts

Man climbs the stairs out of the Mediterranean at a Catania lido

Dramatic classical statuary of horses and man, outside Catania Centrale train station

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

Good morning Lillestrøm! #IGF After literally shaking in the cold as I walked from the train station last night, I need to buy either a thick hoody, or a full-blown Arctic jacket on the way to the conference centre this morning 😂

View of skyscrapers of flats from a 9th floor balcony, with a sky blanketed with grey clouds

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Will next week's Internet Governance Forum in Oslo be the final #igf? Some at the #UN hope so… It would be quite a mistake to hand more power to the Member States at the expense of all the multistakeholders who have contributed so much over the years to the […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Ian's IGF passes from 2009 (4th) to 2024

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

#LSEFestivalOfIdeas mk 2! Good to see the 30C 🌞 today has not put off a substantial audience for the problems for society of the tech oligarchs, w/ @faizashaheen.bsky.social, @jackstilgoe.bsky.social and @hilarycottam.bsky.social 👏 […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

The LSE’s new Marshall Building is the star at this evening’s great #LSEFestival event on startup tech funding. Three really interesting speakers. Video and podcast to come!

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

Also fascinating to hear what the Brazilian government is doing on regulation of systemically-important digital #ecosystems

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

Tremendous presentation by Dr Cecilia Rikap on innovation and competition in the digital economy, with a whole lot more nuance than the standard economic or business school account! 👏

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Thanks Bernard for organising this great conference today at UCL Laws on the 🇬🇧 #OnlineSafetyAct 👀 Me and @neil will be live-posting all day!

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

All trains suspended at one of London’s busiest train stations. Good job I’m not in a hurry… like to catch a transatlantic flight… #Paddington #chaos

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

Tired: leaking, Rishi #Sunak #Sambas 🫣 Wired: largely waterproof #Pikolinos! 🥰

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

If a journal (with "computer" in the title) cannot configure basic variables in its review environment… why would I both doing anything but pressing the junk button? #CLSR

Manuscript Number: CLSR-D-25-00094

‘Co-Regulating Principles for System Safety: Agency by Design

Dear Prof. Brown,

I recently invited you to review the above referenced manuscript.

A you will appreciate, timely reviews are of utmost importance to authors. We understand that we may have contacted you at an inconvenient time when you may be away from your office and unable to respond. Therefore, on this occasion, we wil be seeking alternative reviewers to assist us with the eview of this paper.

However, we very much hope that we may be able 10 reach out o you for the privilege of using your expertse again in the future,

Kind regards,

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

I am getting to the point where I am simply using #macOS, signed into my #iCloud account, to make my 2011 #MacBook #Air a second screen for my #MacMini. Is there any #Linux code available yet to support that? If #Apple is blocking it, the European Commission […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Dialogue box: What do you want to show on "Ian's MacBook Air"?

Entire screen / Window or App / Extended Display

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

I now have an extremely minimal Dock 😂 and have switched off all iCloud services. I am still logged in to my Apple account, but cannot extend the screen to my Mac Mini, even though everything looks like that should work. Any ideas? 🙈

macOS Dock with four icons: Finder, Brave, Settings, and Terminal

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

Step 2: change default browser to Brave and install the #iCloud #Passwords Chrome extension, so I can (for now) access all my passwords and verification codes from iCloud. Just used that to authorise Mastodon macOS/iPadOS app to run on my refurbished Mac Mini M2, and write this post!

Settings option to choose default web browser in macOS

Screenshot of iCloud Passwords Chrome extension (which also runs in brave)

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025

Good morning, #Brussels! I see the Palais de Justice glinting in the distance 😍

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

NICE! @ivory now showing proper previews of Bluesky links, looking just like a quote-post of a native Fediverse post! #Interoperability for the win! /cc @wavesblog

Preview of Bluesky post rendered properly, with initial text of the post and a photo of a gurning Mark Zuckerberg talking to one of the European Commission executive vice presidents about god knows what

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

Receipts if deleted (I have of course reported the trolls to my and their server administrators)

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

This comment by my former Oxford colleague Vili Lehdonvirta is too good to lock away on LinkedIn. Original […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Vili Lehdonvirta / Tech policy professor at Oxford and Aalto.

To those who say we should simply rely on European funding to build Europe's digital infrastructures and forget about US Big Tech, consider these figures:
- "Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services": €1.2Bn in public investment, €1.4Bn in private investment over several years
- "Lidl Cloud" Schwarz Digits: <€108n private investment
- "The European Chips Act": €43Bn total public and private investment over several years - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft: total estimated 2025 investments in Al and datacenter buildouts $320Bn *in just one year*

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

I am SO impressed by the latest version of #Beeper! So user-friendly (although Meta threw up a few security alerts while connecting my multiple accounts on its services). This really demonstrates what good #interoperability for secure messengers can do — […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

The image displays a layout of various messaging and social media platforms organized into three sections: "Messaging," "Social DM's," and "Community Chat." Each platform is represented by a gray box with an icon and corresponding status indicator (green or red).

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

WTAF #Apple? I blocked that Tory rag for a reason… And you want me to pay £10/month for this #News+ service?

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025

Question for fellow #DMA super-nerds: could Art. 6(7) be used to force Apple to enable third party developers to: 1) Create their own network account server, 2) Create their own iCloud-compatible account server, and 2) Use either to enable multiple user […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Screenshot user "Users & Groups" settings page in macOS Sequoia

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

All aboard #Samsung’s #Apple-trolling bus! 😂 Seen parked outside London’s King’s Cross Station last night #AwesomeIntelligence

Bus front branding:

Blue->aquamarine text: Awesome Intelligence
Black text: Experience the Galaxy A Series on board

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

Fascinating indeed to spend this morning discussing the #Apple #TCN backdoor order from the 🇬🇧 government, with some of the UK’s top legal and technology experts, at @ucllaws.bsky.social

Roundtable of experts smiling, with remote participants on screen

Old friend and comrade Duncan Campbell and me

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025

The #EULogin system is just a textbook example of how not to do user-centred authentication 🤯 I barely use it, so now of course when I need to — I’ve forgotten the (entirely unnecessary) PIN I assigned 😵‍💫 Why not enable a passkey, locked with Face ID?!

Screenshot: please authenticate — enter PIN

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025

Love this, as I hate bloody voice notes! #E2EE and on-device. Question: are they are used anyway to train WA model? 🧐 #WhatsApp #VoiceNote #transcripts

WhatsApp screenshot: Read your voice notes with transcripts?

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025

De verdad, señores… Adiós a Caracas y Venezuela!

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