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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 07/09/2026

Well, now I have to add it to the tbr stack too.

Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 07/09/2026

Last week the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Recommendation CM/Rec(2026)12 on artificial intelligence #AI literacy. Read more at jenpersson.com/council-of-e... Full text search.coe.int/cm/eng?i=091... Infographic to download: rm.coe.int/48802d37d3

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Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“This was the plan all along” in Australia's Minimum Age #SocialMediaBan defenddigitalme.org/2026/07/12/t... Expanding on Haidt's 11 July tweet: -making #AV market over 10+ years; -mandatory AV via govt-issued #DigitalID is undemocratic; -starting softly is deliberate towards the final destination

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“This was the plan all along.” Social Media Minimum Age Restrictions #SocialMediaBan — Defend Digital Me

On July 11, 2026, shortly after midnight in the UK early hours of Saturday morning, Jonathan Haidt, the world leading champion of minimum age restrictions to social media, said all the quiet parts out...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Glad to see this from the FT, but many have been raising this for a long time and it's been disregarded as a sort of digital nimbyism or patronised as pearl-clutching panic. Labour needs a decent tech strategy and Blair and Mandelson's influence on policy needs to end with the change in leadership

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"Dr Alexia Maddox,,said three factors were..driving Australians to download.. These include..following US users..as content creators shift, a..move to secure user names & establish a presence.. – and, possibly, the incoming social media ban for under-16s." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Chinese app RedNote is rocketing up download charts – in Australia the sudden uptake is not just about TikTok

Experts say the flood of users to the Chinese app highlights flaws in the Albanese government’s social media ban

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 07/06/2026

Girlguiding March 2026: "Just over half (56%) said they think a #SocialMediaBan would be ineffective" "only 15% said they thought a ban would make them feel safer online". girlguiding.org.uk/about-us/press… #OnlineSafety #AVisNotSafety #SafetyNotSurveillancejenpersson.com/social-media...n/

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 29/05/2026

Despite what the media is reporting on a UK #SocialMediaBan the evidence does not all point in one direction. Many in a wide range of expert organisations do not support an u16s ban but advocate for addressing the underlying causes of harm. jenpersson.com/social-media... #OnlineSafety #ChildRights

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Social Media Bans: Evidence Does Not all Point in One Direction

According to reporting by ITV and Sky News, Alan Milburn said that “the evidence points in one direction” on a social media ban for under-16s. ITV reported it saying he was backing Lord…

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 07/06/2026

The article speaks powerfully to the need for the role of parents, trustworthy relationships and building safe teen practices online — teaching them all that they must perform for the camera to do biometric age verification and ‘liveness’ checks, is the polar opposite of safe.

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 29/05/2026

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Social Media Bans: Evidence Does Not all Point in One Direction

According to reporting by ITV and Sky News, Alan Milburn said that “the evidence points in one direction” on a social media ban for under-16s. ITV reported it saying he was backing Lord…

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 14/05/2026

Wearing my heart on my sleeve in this podcast. An impromptu broad discussion of #publicpolicy on #education #data and #children in England today, emerging legislation, and direction of travel. actnowtraining.blog/tag/guardian... #dataprotection #FOI #privacy #schools #OnlineSafety #AI #SchoolsBill

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Guardians of Data – Your Front Page For Information Governance News

Posts about Guardians of Data written by actnowtraining

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 05/03/2026

“There is no such thing as the Digital Age of Consent.” My post on part of the ‘Growing up in the Online World: a national consultation’, interpreting the proposals, and ‘emergency style’ DfE govt powers. jenpersson.com/there-is-no-... #onlineSafety #AV #DigitalID #SocialMediaBan #AgeVerification

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 03/03/2026

At our Annual Conference, Antonio Weiss will join a panel discussion exploring AI & Public Services—including how to balance operational efficiency with the imperative of public trust & social values. 📅 Thursday 26 March 2026 🕛 12:00—13:15 📍Cambridge & online 🎟️ www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/conference

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 03/03/2026

Congratulations to @jenitennison.com on her appointment as Chair, and @antonioweiss.bsky.social on becoming a member of the Responsible AI Advisory Panel, established by the Government Digital Service (GDS). Hear them speaking at two of our forthcoming events ⬇️

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 03/03/2026

Wrt HITL / automated decision making as part of AdTech RTB. Do you know if Real-time bidding has been accepted or rejected as “automated decision making with significant effect” anywhere formally yet?

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I had the pleasure of being a witness at the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence of the @oireachtasnews.bsky.social this morning, to talk about AI, truth and democracy: www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen...

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The Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence to continue discussion on AI: truth and democracy

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 02/03/2026

Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today. The warning comes as countries around the world move to bar children from social media.

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Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn

Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...

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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 14/01/2026

Booking is now open for the Bennett School of Public Policy Annual Conference Speakers inc. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, & keynote João Vale de Almeida, former senior EU Ambassador 🗓️26 March 2026 🕙10:00-18:30 📍Churchill College, Cambridge & Online 🎟️ bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/conference

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Missed last Thursday’s LSE lecture? #EdTech at the Crossroads: #Pedagogy vs. Profit" is now available. Our panel tackled the digital shift in #schools and how commercial models impact children’s privacy. 📺 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=HNG7... 🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player/e...

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EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit | LSE Event

YouTube video by LSE

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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

👨‍🏫 EdTech is transforming education. Join us next Thursday 6.30pm as Sandra El Gemayel, #BaronessKidron, Julian Sefton-Green & Rhys Spence discuss what a #childrights-respecting, pedagogically-sound vision for #EdTech looks like. See more 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/edtech @sonialivingstone.bsky.social

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EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit | A discussion

6.30pm Thurs 20 Nov |Sandra El Gemayel Baroness Kidron Julian Sefton-Green Rhys Spence| Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Denmark. The Data Inspectorate expresses serious criticism and warns municipalities about their use of Google's products in primary schools, including the use of sub-data processors outside the EU. www.datatilsynet.dk/presse-og-ny...? FYI @jenpersson.com @risu.bsky.social

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Datatilsynet giver 51 kommuner alvorlig kritik i Chromebook-sag

Datatilsynet udtaler alvorlig kritik og advarer samtidig kommunerne i forhold til, hvordan de gør brug af Googles produkter i folkeskolen.

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"This is the final stage of corporatization: public education transformed into a delivery system for private capital." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I keep saying that when the first deep fake is made of a child and the image comes from a school site,,, we might see change

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 10/06/2025

Part 1: The Trouble with the (UK) #DataBill and Children’s Data A growing expectation to treat children’s data differently from adults’ brings with it new challenges in #DataProtection law. Among other things. jenpersson.com/the-trouble-...

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The Trouble with the Data Bill and Children’s Data

Part 1: The Trouble with the Data Bill and Children’s Data Will the Data Use and Access Bill fall at the final hurdle? The popular consensus on ping-pong is no, but the government’s int…

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 20/05/2025

Looking forward to contributing and participating in this tomorrow, #CILIPData25 in a talk on "Children as (copy)rights holders: canaries in the coalmine?" and panel with really interesting questions to challenge us in the afternoon.

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 13/05/2025

Hard agree defenddigitalme.org/2024/01/28/c... When I reviewed via spawning.ai/have-i-been-... there are lots of school pupils' photos. Was told recently a school is being held to ransom for pupil photos. Work by Dr Claire Bessant @ Northumbria is still ongoing www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A clip from the introduction to a 2024 press release about academic research on school children's photos on social media, by Dr Claire Bessant

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Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This weekend, we've a little Easter egg for dystopian fiction fans. Or is it? "You are a Year 10 pupil at Horizon Academy. You didn’t sign up for the new system. No one asked for your permission. But your school bought it anyway. What do you do?" Choose wisely in our Twine. #HappyEaster2025 1/8🧵

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Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of #ID and Local Authorities’ survey defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/05/s... #Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 03/02/2025

"...because you don't need to reinvent the wheel." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUww... Very good. And quite right that these matters are non-partisan. Thanks for sharing the pointer.

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Politics Chat: January 26, 2025

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 02/02/2025

Those who wish to read, can find and read it.

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 02/02/2025

I'm not familiar but if it's already being done, all the better.

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 02/02/2025

You seem to have all the experience needed to map and document the actions and effects. Evidence will be required. Use your network for crowdsourced verifiable content. eg reporting of what was shutdown, funds cut, programmes ended etc. Immediate effects. Media. Long term expectations. Archive links

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 02/02/2025

In the 900 page Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, Five Eyes is p217. (Broadly all of Section 2, Ch.7).

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 21/01/2025

Ignoring the role of time in Data Governance. A blogpost on why we must ensure any public policy or #AI creating inferences of meaning are built only on data that are correct, used within the context in which the meaning intended at source is valid over time. jenpersson.com/ignoring-the... #DUABill

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Ignoring the role of time in Data Governance

The words we use to define data In the 2021 Defend Digital Me report, The Words We Use in Data Policy: Putting People Back in the Picture, we examined why public conversations about personal data o…

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 19/01/2025

Something missing from your bio, sir?

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Can't stop won't stop (making yip yip hanging baskets)

Photo of a bright blue knitted basket with eyeballs hanging on a doorknob; it looks exactly like a yip yip muppet

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 16/12/2024

Side note: The government might instead sign the UK up to the Convention 108+ as an assurance and commitment in good faith, instead of making mistaken claims about its reasons for not doing so; and driving laws that are on a path to inadequacy and incompatibility. #DUABill #DataProtection #Privacy

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Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"AI providers may struggle to demonstrate their compliance" is about as strong as it gets.

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Jen Persson @TheABB @jenpersson.com · 13/12/2024

That is a good bit. Where's the part that says, "Dear thieving toerags, give us our data back and we're going to fine you out of existence unless you destroy the ill-gotten gains produced from the breaches of law to date". I missed that part.

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Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca · 25/11/2024

I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024

As mentioned by @jenpersson.com at today's "Scrambling for Safety" event. 👍 We can't go on letting "safety tech" advocates lobby on the basis of *one* of a child's rights to the exclusion of the rest of their rights.

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