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Mike O'Neill

@mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social

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With minabird.bsky.social created very first website consent platform (which actually worked). From 2012 worked on DoNotTrack spec as invited expert in W3C TPWG www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection anti-authoritarian socialist internationalist. 🇺🇦🇪🇺🏴

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Interesting points if reading between the lines. "Salesforce is at an inflection point with AI" sounds more like the stationary point befiore the plummet. blossomstreetventures.medium.com/18-saas-earn...

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Information about Birmingham City Council and Oracle in Ed Zitron's post

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The current state of the AI ecosystem

Will Y Coyote realising the ground has disappeared

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The Co-Op CEO downplays the impact of the cyber incident but still admits that stolen data included email adresses, contact details and birth dates, & does not contradict reports that around 20 million people were affected.

Co-Op CEO downlplays Cyber Incident member data loss

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Google Executes An 180° Turn, To Keep On Tracking. baycloud.com/blog/PostDet...

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Time to re-evaluate UK online security? With US status as an ally in question, along with evidence of "reckless & dangerous" security breaches, why are our public sector websites, including even GCHQ, leaking UK citizens' online activity to US based big tech?

results of automatic cookie scans of public sector websites

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

updated

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just seen this example on the Euractiv.com site, ironically showing an article about the collapse of the EU-US Data Protection Framework.

Euractiv.com site showing cookies on first visit

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The European Commission admits to its failure to protect Europeans from massive online surveillance by intending to withdraw the ePrivacy Regulation, initially drafted by them & finally agreed by a large majority in the European Parliament in 2017.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Commission work programme 2025

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If fingerprinting cannot uniquely identify >80% of mobile browsers, while a 5 character length cookie or local storage item could identify the browser used by anyone on the planet, what would be the point?

Conclusion of Inria HAL paper "Hiding in the Crowd: an Analysis of the Effectiveness of
Browser Fingerprinting at Large Scale" by
Alejandro Gómez-Boix, Pierre Laperdrix, Benoit Baudry

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Fingerprinting as a cookie replacement is commercially useless for tracking, as I pointed out here: baycloud.com/blog/PostDet..., .

Image of paragraph titled "The Fingerprinting Myth"

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

How do Irish political parties compare as to their commitment to the rule of law, specifically their websites compliance with EU-wide privacy laws? Some better than others scanner.baycloud.com/trackerscope...

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Mike O'Neill @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This implies that Google can no longer process personal data if it is associated with search, e.g. individual queries. "Google is prohibited from using and retaining data to which access cannot be provided to Qualified Competitors on the basis of privacy or security concerns."

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