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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him)

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U.K Tech Reporter at POLITICO, covering civic tech, online safety and data politics

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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The Home Office insists the transition to a digital-only system of immigration status is going smoothly. For @politico.eu I ask: if the department is so confident, why won't it publish evidence to back that up? www.politico.eu/article/home...
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UK stonewalls questions on how often its post-Brexit eVisa system malfunctions
One immigration lawyer said the Home Office’s “continued denial that there are problems” amounted to “gaslighting.”
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
NEW: Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, who led a bipartisan "free speech" delegation to Brussels, London, and Dublin this week, says he's returning to Washington unconvinced that Europe's new online safety laws won't violate Americans' free speech. www.politico.eu/article/trum...
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Trump ally hits out at ‘chilling’ online safety rules
Republican Congressman Jim Jordan was speaking in London as part of a delegation to discuss European legisaltion.
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Petition to repeal the OSA now racking up signatures after months of zero traction. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... Organiser Alex Baynham told me it had 92 signatures 1 July but had seen "exponential growth" since, with another spike over the weekend after Children's Codes came into force.
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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
SCOOP: Campaigners are threatening to refer Meta to the ICO if it doesn't state a formal intention to allow users to opt-out of targeted ads after allegedly "stalling" on more than 10,000 requests. This morning they're doorstepping Meta's London office bearing these...
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A good old-fashioned fact check in today's @politico.eu MTUK, and apologies where apologies are due
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
SCOOP for @politico.eu: GP leaders are drafting a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner alleging that NHS England broke the law by training generative AI model Foresight on patient records. www.politico.eu/article/doct...
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Doctors to refer NHS to data watchdog over feeding patient data to AI
Patient data that was only supposed to be used for Covid-19 research got plugged into an all-purpose AI model, doctors say.
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Hamilbug @hamilbug.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
From @mizyjudah.bsky.social: the methodology the UK gov used to calculate how much civil service work can be done by AI assumes that 62% of the work done by the most junior civil servants is "routine" (i.e. AI can do it) www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...
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The UK government thinks AI can do 62 percent of the most junior civil servants’ work
Meanwhile, the most senior civil servants perform zero routine (i.e. automatable) work.
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
SCOOP for @politico.eu this morn: The gov's claim (still doing the rounds) that digital overhaul of the public sector could yield £45bn in productivity savings assumes that the least senior civil servants spend 62% of their time on routine, and thus automatable, tasks
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Ewan Kirk @ewan.thekirks.co.uk · 21/05/2025
Thanks to @mizyjudah.bsky.social and @politico.eu for writing up my thoughts on the governments recent immigration announcements and the effects they will have on our world leading university sector and the tech ecosystem more generally.
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Technologists, digital rights activists, legal experts & founders sound the alarm over Britain's "unchecked dependence" on US Big Tech in a letter to Starmer shared with @politico.eu this morn:
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
NEW: @openrightsgroup.bsky.social intervenes in Online Safety Act debate with report out this morning, for @politico.eu
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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 14/05/2025
eg + risks to users (like skills fade), + unsafe use (eg under-trust of AI outputs, something that can be seen in the evaluation), + & new failure modes (hey, could Scottish govt end up relying on AI tools built by UK govt to do policy work? can't see how that could go wrong...)
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
By me for today's @politico.eu U.K Morning Tech: DSIT reveals its Consult AI tool was used to parse a live public consultation for the first time. Claims Consult could save civil servants some 75,000 days of analysis every year.
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📢 Today is my last day at @semafor.com after a year of learning from some of the best in the biz. I’ll be joining @politico.eu as a tech reporter from May 12. Inbox is open so if you’re in/into tech politics (both big and small “p”) and policy, please say hello - always up for coffee.
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Mizy Judah Clifton (he/him) @mizyjudah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
latest on @semafor.com Boston Consulting Group analysis finds minimizing damage from climate change requires investments in mitigation and adaptation equivalent to around 1-2% of cumulative global GDP, paling in comparison to costs of inaction. www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
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