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Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data. Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1h
Imagine how much coverage this would get if Gove were Green - or if she were Black
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Why oh why? @why0hy.bsky.social · 41m
Please, PLEASE, someone, ANYONE, tell me that this is a hoax
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 2h
EU Fundamental Rights Agency report on the Fundamental rights implications of Remote biometric identification for law enforcement purposes fra.europa.eu/en/publicati...
fra.europa.eu
Remote biometric identification for law enforcement purposes - Fundamental rights implications
Today, a single camera scan from a distance can identify one person in a crowd. Law enforcement authorities in a growing number of EU Member States use or are considering using this AI-driven techniqu...
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 2h
EU Fundamental Rights Agency report on the Fundamental rights implications of Remote biometric identification for law enforcement purposes fra.europa.eu/en/publicati...
fra.europa.eu
Remote biometric identification for law enforcement purposes - Fundamental rights implications
Today, a single camera scan from a distance can identify one person in a crowd. Law enforcement authorities in a growing number of EU Member States use or are considering using this AI-driven techniqu...
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 3h
EU foreign ministers have decried the Trump-Putin diesel deal, insisting that sanctions on Russia will continue. Kaja Kallas: "Russia has started this war. We should not forget about this." My story this morning.
euronews.com
EU decries Trump-Putin diesel deal, insists sanctions will continue
EU foreign ministers have decried the Trump-Putin diesel deal and stressed that sanctions against Russia will continue regardless. #EuropeNews
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 19h
I sincerely hope it’s true. VoterID was, and remains, an unnecessary and disproportionate requirement.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 15h
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
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Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad @finnmyrstad.bsky.social · 6h
⚖️ Based on the findings, we filed complaints, together with the data protection NGO noyb, to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority against Grindr and five adtech companies, including Xandr, for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 3/ www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/news...
datatilsynet.no
Microsoft company fined NOK 92 million
The advertising service Xandr processed and shared sensitive personal data in breach of data protection law.
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Ailo @airavn.eurosky.social · 2h
Another blow to the adtech industry. The decision confirms what we've been saying: It is practically impossible to operate in this industry without breaking the law.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 19h
I sincerely hope it’s true. VoterID was, and remains, an unnecessary and disproportionate requirement.
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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The PM should release the full facts that were uncovered in the UK report on Russian interference… www.csis.org/blogs/brexit...
csis.org
Did Russia Influence Brexit? | Brexit Bits, Bobs, and Blogs | CSIS
A long-awaited parliamentary report in the United Kingdom asserts Russia may have influenced the Brexit referendum; more importantly, the UK government did little to find out and prevent it.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 23h
“Christianity is increasingly being invoked as a marker of British identity amid wider anxieties about immigration, Islam and cultural change” <hate and bigotry www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Andy Burnham says UK authorities are “clear” there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum as @catneilan.bsky.social reports in today’s @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
THE FERRET: The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ah yes. should have said country … but yes, the state of US politics is so bad that it is possible to think it could happen in a US state
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The larger public in Europe may miss this. But every diplomat and international relations expert and pundit here sees this and will remember for a generation: after the US promised to protect Ukraine if it gave up its nuclear weapons, it is now openly supporting Russia. The great American betrayal.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Censorship. Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words & phrases, inc “regime”, “political prisoners”, “prisoners of conscience”, “oligarch”, “repressive laws” and “judicial clan” jam-news.net/georgias-com...
jam-news.net
Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words and phrases
Transparency International says regulatory mechanisms are being used to punish and weaken critical media outlets.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Each time when you think Trump has crossed the line, he redraws the line. The people of Ukraine must feel betrayed. What WILL it take for Trumpto go.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An artificial intelligence model operated by Anthropic submitted false information about an unsolved Philadelphia homicide to the police department’s public tip forum this summer, triggering a meeting with the company www.inquirer.com/crime/anthro...
inquirer.com
Anthropic’s artificial intelligence gave a false homicide tip to Philly police, triggering a meeting with the company
The incident happened on July 18 but was not discovered by the Silicon Valley company until September, authorities say.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and the property of other content creators
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How far the US has fallen
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Patrick Seurre @patrick.seurre.com · 09/10/2026
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Groucho Marx
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watson clearly isn’t the asset Palantir think he is.
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Kristen Bottema-Beutel @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This: “The environmental costs, labour exploitation, data extraction, concentration of power, and normalisation of surveillance underlying the technology make it difficult, if not impossible, to meaningfully operationalise and practice “ethical” and “responsible” use.”
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pillay is really well known to people who advocate for & study international human rights; she also couldn’t be more different in some ways than last year’s winner. Selecting Pillay, I imagine, is a way to underscore the value of defending human rights in an increasingly regressive, repressive world
bbc.com
Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'
Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I recall Tom Watson’s staff asking me for info/thoughts when Watson was challenging UK govt surveillance in the CJEU. How far Watson has fallen in my eyes. Money before principles.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Daughter Of Dead BBC & ‘Paddington’ Star Accuses Royal Mail Of Resurrecting Her Father’s Voice Using AI for a Royal Mail ad. Royal Mail chose to cut the human from the loop & use AI instead of paying humans deadline.com/2026/10/paul...
deadline.com
Did Royal Mail Revive BBC & 'Paddington' Voiceover Star With AI?
Daughter of Paul Vaughan, an acclaimed BBC and 'Paddington' voiceover artist, accuses Royal Mail Christmas ad of resurrecting her father using AI.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“This is not conservation – it’s a cartel.” Unique Indigenous gathering issues hard-hitting landmark declaration www.survivalinternational.org/news/14565
survivalinternational.org
“This is not conservation – it’s a cartel.” Unique Indigenous gathering issues hard-hitting landmark declaration
A unique gathering of Indigenous people impacted by conservation has demanded that “our ancestral lands, including those grabbed for parks and wildlife sanctuaries, be returned.”
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“An AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests…” The idea that synthetic text generating “AI” can be a useful aid in determining refugee status is ridiculous. We should challenge the automation of decision-making and erosion of our rights.
independent.co.uk
AI tool used in thousands of asylum claims failing basic accuracy tests
Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Records" from the civil registration system. gbhackers.com/denmark-conf...
gbhackers.com
Denmark Confirms Major Security Incident Exposing 8.8 Million Citizen Records
Denmark has confirmed a serious cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to personal information in its Central Person Register (CPR), affecting about 8.8 million registered individuals.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Civil registration systems play a crucial role in society. There are many pressures to digitise 'analogue' systems as per Cameroon www.biometricupdate.com/202610/camer... However, consider "Denmark Confirms Major Security Incident Exposing 8.8 Million Citizen
gbhackers.com
Denmark Confirms Major Security Incident Exposing 8.8 Million Citizen Records
Denmark has confirmed a serious cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to personal information in its Central Person Register (CPR), affecting about 8.8 million registered individuals.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke about hate crime figures with Henry Bonsu on @timesradio for broadcast later 146,825 hate crimes recorded - Over 100k racially motivated hate crimes +9% - Religiously motivated hate crimes up to 11,419 (+13%) Over 5k against Muslims, over 3k against Jews www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Hate crime figures rise after more offences motivated by religion and race, figures show
Figures supplied by police forces suggest nearly 150,000 hate crimes were recorded between April 2025 and March 2026
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I learned this week that there are *so* many class action lawsuits against X.AI over Grok making CSAM of children that there's a pending MDL for it! It's MDL No. 3205. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72495...
courtlistener.com
Stay – #70 in Doe 1 v. X.AI Corp. (N.D. Cal., 5:26-cv-02246) – CourtListener.com
MOTION to Stay (Defendants' Motion for Temporary Stay Pending JPML Ruling on Transfer Motion) filed by SpaceXAI Corp, SpaceXAI LLC, X.AI Holdings LLC. Motion Hearing set for 12/3/2026 10:00 AM in San ...
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reading to our son and making up stories was such great fun 🤩 ❤️
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pathetic behaviour of those who withdrew, given the US admin campaigns such as supporting the far right in Europe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... & ‘US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – & use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – and use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’
Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This online conference looks refreshing in approach and interesting from a content & speaker perspective. www.fieldtalk.eu No big tech sponsorship. Covering different regions. “Vendor-free. Practitioner-led. Your voice matters.” “Pragmatism, not pontification.” Free to attend.
fieldtalk.eu
Field Talk
A free, online data protection and privacy conference. Sponsor-free. Practitioner-led. Your voice matters. 17–19 November 2026.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NGOs & activists. Here’s @coe.int Civil Society Consultation Survey on the future role of the Council of Europe forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... Given that the @coe.int develops international instruments that non-member countries may ratify, it would also be a positive move to reflect that
forms.cloud.microsoft
Microsoft Forms
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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"A landmark ruling in the High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider the emissions caused by burning fossil fuels overseas when approving projects. 3 out of 5 judges found in favour of a Hunter Valley residents' group" coal mining on Mt Pleasant www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
NSW coalmine climate ruling a massive shake-up to Australia's oil and gas
Australia's High Court rules in favour of a Hunter Valley community group in a landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this number has now increased to 733 lobby actors from the digital industry” corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
corporateeurope.org
Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
EU. “The digital industry’s lobby spending has grown from a 2023 spend of €113 million to €151 million annually today – an increase of 33.6 per cent in just two years.” “While 565 digital companies & associations influenced EU decision-makers two years ago ../2
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Why oh why? @why0hy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What the far right is groundlessly accusing others of today is what they will be doing tomorrow. Today’s edition: The establishment is paying doctors to manipulate public opinion about vaccines
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SafeToNet are in @privateeyenews.bsky.social, with the magazine reporting on Paul Moore's investigation into child safety software. This brief story only scratches the surface of what Paul found - like a 20% false negative rate on identifying and blocking pornographic pictures.
CULTURE secretary Lisa

gov.uk site.

Nandy reiterated the government's commitment to introducing "nudity-blocking technology" on children's smartphones, telling the Labour conference: "We will be the first in world to introduce legislation to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images."

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Information security consultant Paul Moore tested the HMD Fuse, a handset protected by SafeToNet's HarmBlock+ technology the product cited by ministers as evidence that device-level blocking of explicit imagery is achievable (see Eye 1678). Among a lengthy list of problems, Moore found that in 70 percent of cases, blocked images could often be viewed

simply by rotating the phone into landscape mode While Moore has stressed that some security flaws he found related to HMD's implementation of the tech rather than Safe ToNet's underlying AI, there may still be a few wrinkles to iron out.
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It would appear not arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08509
arxiv.org
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