iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...

gpb.org

Analysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock cameras

Inappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Monsters

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/08/2026

"Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale spout in a hurricane. And hit a nickel-sized moving target in open water in one steel stroke. But all those 'biggee' tattoos? Tell me they don’t scream 'diversity hire.'"

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I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for These DEI Hires

“Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale spout in a hurricane. And hit a nickel-sized moving target in open water in...

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Norwegian Embassy in Washington @norwayinusa.norway.no · 22/07/2026

Today we remember the 77 lives lost in the terrorist attacks of July 22, 2011. A far-right extremist targeted Norwegian democracy, first with a car bomb in Oslo's Government Quarter that killed 8 people, and later on Utøya, where 69 people were murdered. #22juli

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Oh, not because of the stated policy direction of ignoring people’s rights to deliver maximum corporate advantage then?

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This isn’t some niche geek-interest thing, it’s an issue that affects everyone deeply - reckless, negligent and outright unlawful use of YOUR data is rife, and the supposed authority has been enabling rather than regulating. Discrimination, exploitation, addiction, polarisation are the effects

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hot take: sociologists that want to do good public work should actively develop their ability to shit post

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Today marks the end of the 40-day Parliamentary stage of the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice, with the government refusing a debate or vote. It is now due to pass automatically, despite widespread opposition. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/07...

Text: 'The 40 days for the draft EHRC Code of Practice to be laid at parliament are up. Read our joint statement on our website.'

Below the text are the logos for Scottish Trans, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance and TransActual.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 02/07/2026

The UK must ditch the failed path of technological dependency on the US. With this knock-out blow for US data transfers, having US Big Tech companies like Palantir running our critical infrastructure will fast become unworkable. The need for UK Digital Sovereignty is clear. Sign the petition ⬇️

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Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.

From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 02/07/2026

UK data transfers with the US come under an extension of the EU-US framework. The UK's new data protection law allows personal data transfers to countries without independent or judicial oversight of data protection rules. But this would likely screw the EU-UK adequacy agreement, costing billions.

neweconomics.org

UK companies could face new costs up to £1.6bn if the EU doesn’t deem the UK’s post-Brexit data protection standards…

Without an ‘adequacy decision’ from the EU, smaller businesses will bear the brunt of the costs of new data transfer restrictions, according to new research

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 02/07/2026

Trouble ahead for US data transfers 🧨 The US Supreme Court has overturned precedent that Presidents can't remove heads of independent agencies at will. They've taken a sledgehammer to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework on which the UK also depends. Read how it makes the free flow of data unlawful ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org

The end is nigh for US data transfers

The Supreme Court held that President of the United States can remove members of public offices at will.

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Trans Rights are Human Rights @transgender-rights.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Phobes do not belong in medicine. #transmemes

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tell the climate deniers "It is hotter today, the end." via Extinction Rebellion

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Citizen Paul Templeman @paultempleman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Undiscovered Hemingway classic. #WritingCommunity #SkyBooks

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Anyway, my theory - FWIW - is that lots of the experienced and senior people who are hooked on LLMs are actually having a midlife crisis, and that spending money on Claude is cheaper than buying a Lambo buttondown.com/justenoughin...

buttondown.com

The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption

If LLMs make decision makers feel stupid, maybe they'll stop using them?

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Rowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It’s great that the ICO has been looking into edtech, but the mealy-mouthed tone of the report raises my hackles. Failure to identify Controller and Processor roles in processing, gaps in impact assessments, incomplete data flow maps are not just “compliance gaps”, they are significant hazards

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Alina @eled-nil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Per chi si lamenta della tranquillità su BS, sono stata un attimo negli altri social (non X):

Struttura dell'inferno di Dante Alighieri

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LostUruk @losturuk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Consent or pay was the reason I deleted my Facebook account.

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Tamar but spooky @heartinamber.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

'Everyone in the British state has quiet quit their job' latest

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

See also this thread: bsky.app/profile/mari...

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Overnight, Andy Burnham won and John Edwards (the ICO) resigned, and that’s a pretty efficient few hours in my book.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

There's a fashion for data protection regulators to step back from enforcing the law to "working with" organisations that break it In the UK, the regulator <signed an MoU> with the government, which it's supposed to oversee, to say they were about helping not punishing Thread below is the result:

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Gavin Chait; @gavin.whyqd.com · 19/06/2026

Hmm, let's see, ICO accepting City of London & Westminster's evidence-free claim my FOI requests for commercial vacancy data cause terrorism, opening the flood-gates for public data owners to refuse FOI requests for any made-up reason. informationrights.decisions.tribunals.gov.uk/DBFiles/Deci...

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A damning list of failures – really though, would he have been appointed if there was any risk he was going to do the job properly?

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This man is cooking. Hold his negroni.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

Via @heatherburnstech.bsky.social a thread on the biggest government data protection failures on the most recent regulator's watch (he's just resigned for misconduct) Afghan people have been killed because of a series of UK government data breaches the ICO did essentially nothing about.

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Erik Bugge @erik.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

After ICO's adtech report back in 2019 I actually thought they would clean up the mess we're in. But it turned out the ICO was just as messy. 🙄

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 19/06/2026

Don't forget this: just a slap on the wrist for the person who stole the Princess of Wales' health records with the aim of selling them. The ICO response to this was appalling, and they don't seem to have probed what this meant for the London Clinic's data governance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Ex-health worker tried sell Catherine, Princess of Wales' medical notes

The individual tried to access the princess' records while she was having abdominal surgery.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

9. Have a look at my previous blog, to know more about why the ICO became so bad, and what we at @openrightsgroup.org are doing to fix this. Or tell us: what is, in your opinion, the biggest ICO EPIC FAIL you can think of? www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-ico...

openrightsgroup.org

The ICO isn’t doing its job – why the data watchdog needs to be reset

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is currently missing its Commissioner, after unspecified HR complaints about John Edwards.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

8. Institutions can feel like an abstract concept, but they do shape norms and standards we have to deal with in our everyday life. Under John Edwards' leadership, the ICO turned against the interst of the public, and protected the interests of the government and bad technology companies instead.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

7. NUMBER 5: Consent or pay. Were you ever asked to give away your privacy or your money? Consent or pay is illegal, but the ICO gave the green light to Facebook and, because of their curtesy, those annoying pop-ups have now flooded the Internet. www.openrightsgroup.org/publications...

openrightsgroup.org

ORG Response to the ICO “consent or pay” consultation

Open Rights Group welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Information Commissioner’s Office consultation on the “consent or pay” model, which is or could be relied upon for processing personal data...

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

6. NUMBER 4: the Horizon Scandal. To add insult to injury, the Post Office disclosed victims' identities due to poor document redaction. To reward them for their impeccable conduct, the ICO issued a reprimand, i.e. an hangry letter devoid of legal effects www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

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The ICO Fails to Take Action over the Post Office Horizon Scandal

The ICO has just applied its public sector approach and issued a reprimand to the Post Office for their Horizon IT scandal data breach.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

5.3 Against the evidence that the NHS trust may have infringed the UK GDPR, and that staff may be liable of criminal conduct, the ICO has “not opted to carry out its own independent investigation”. A strong signal that will instill fear in any perspective criminal and law-breaker.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

5.2 It is worth noting, this does not only raises questions about the Trust's obligation to notify the victims of a data breach, and if this obligation was infringed upon. Under UK data protection law, obtaining personal data without the consent of the controller constitues a criminal offence.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

5.1 NUMBER 3: Southport attack victims data breach. Recently, it has emerged that 48 “Hospital staff inappropriately accessed the medical records” of the victims of the Southport stabbing. The NHS trust did not inform the patients “as it risked retraumatising them”. www.hsj.co.uk/liverpool-un...

hsj.co.uk

Exclusive: Southport attack victim accuses trust of ‘cover up’ over care records breach

Hospital staff inappropriately accessed the medical records of victims of the 2024 mass stabbing at a dance class in Southport, HSJ can reveal.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

4.3 Once again, what was the Commissioner's take about all this? Literally, nothing to see here: ICO staff reviewed the pilot scheme, as a member of the DEA Oversight Board, and gave their green light to the HMRC-Home Office data matching scheme. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

questions-statements.parliament.uk

Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

4.2 Once again, the human cost of this “debacle was pretty high”. 15.000 families were unjustly accused of fraud. A mother with an autistic child, and another whose child had an epiletic seizure before travelling, also saw their benefits withdrawn. committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

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1 Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group is a UK-based digital rights organisation working to protect individuals’ rights to privacy and free speech online.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

4.1 NUMBER TWO: The HMRC child benefits scandal. HMRC had the great idea of withrawing child benefits payments on the basis of passengers' records, assuming that if you took a flight you surely must have left the country. What could possibly go wrong? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

HMRC scheme that stopped child benefits had 71% error rate

On Tuesday a Westminster committee heard that 17,048 of the 23,794 people caught up in the crackdown were mistakenly targeted.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

3.3 And what did the Commissioner do about this? Nothing really, but saying that the investigation would have been too difficult and they couldn't be bothered. This triggered 70+ data protection experts to call for a formal Parliamentary inquiry into the ICO www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

openrightsgroup.org

70+ organisations and experts demand action over failing ICO

Over 70 civil society organisations, academics and data protection experts have urged the Chair of the Select Committee for Science Information and Technology to open an inquiry into the collapse in e...

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

3.2 If you think this is bad, rest assured that it was worse. The Afghan data breach was a row of 49 leaks that could (and should) have been easily avoided, but were not. As a result, people lost their lives, while others are still living under threath www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

theguardian.com

At least 49 relatives and colleagues of Afghans in data leak have been killed, study suggests

Research also finds 200 of 231 people notified by MoD of breach reported threats to themselves or families

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

3.1 But back to the ICO failures. FIRST PLACE: the Afghan data breach. This was both a farcical and extremely dramatic breach that exposed the identities of thousdands of Afghans fleeing the Talibans, and their families. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Afghans express fear for relatives' safety after UK data leak

Relatives worry the Taliban may intensify its search for those who worked with the UK in Afghanistan.

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

2. For those who may be wondering what this is all about, the Information Commissioner's Office is the UK data protection authority, which is supposed to protect the right to data protection of the British public. Also, here's some exclusive footage of John Edwards' resignation youtu.be/l8IkbCeZ9to

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Brave Sir Robin Ran Away

YouTube video by Anthropocon

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Mariano delli Santi @marianods.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away. To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate. Thread below 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

ICO boss John Edwards announces resignation following investigation

Edwards has been the boss of the data watchdog since January 2022, and said he had made inappropriate attempts at humour.

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