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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: Liberty Investigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations: - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Live facial recognition in a transport hub turns locals, tourists and commuters into lab rats trapped in a surveillance maze.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🧵NEW: For more than a decade, police in South West England have been quietly experimenting with algorithms to score thousands of people. Most of them didn't know anything about it. Over two years, me and Mark Wilding investigated the messy setup, multiple parts have now been scrapped

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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Sigh…. Privacy should not be a luxury but a right

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404 Media @404media.co · 08/06/2026

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Trump’s postponed AI executive order revealed more than internal disagreement over regulation. The real story is the now opaque system for governing frontier AI — shaped by secrecy, influence, and closed-door negotiations, argues James Görgen.

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Trump Abandons 'FDA for AI' Proposal

James Görgen argues that Trump's postponement of AI order reflects an approach shaped more by secrecy and influence than public accountability.

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 23/05/2026

New, by me at this.weekinsecurity.com: Health wearable giant Oura says it has received government demands for users' information (because Oura does not use end-to-end encryption). Will Oura say how often it gets demands for user data, and how often Oura hands over users' data to authorities?

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Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?

Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data?

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Eli Pariser @eli.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

15 years ago, I wrote a book called The Filter Bubble, warning that algorithmic personalization was going to fracture our shared reality. I’m sharing new research because we are about to do this again, but on a far bigger and faster scale. AI is coming for the info environment, and fast.

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New_ Public | After the Feed

What happens after the social media feed? A presentation on the future of conversation, community, and social connection, and how AI will affect the everyday lives of billions.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12/05/2026

i-Ready has quietly taken over America’s public schools, reaching nearly 14 million students each year. Now, a growing number of families and educators say they’re fed up with i-Ready’s personalized math and reading lessons, which feature repetitive cartoons and slow voice-overs. nbcnews.to/4wr8tjb

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is a shocking read. The burden of proof being placed on the victims is astonishing. This case is a warning. We are not responsible for the decisions algorithms make, we just have to live with the outcome. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives, says Charlotta Kronblad of the University of Gothenburg

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“We can't just give someone a self-help book,” says Plante. “We can't just give someone a block on a few apps, tell them to chain their iPhone to the wall, when really what they're looking for is to be propped up in a community of people." www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

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Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

I went to an underground phone-free party in Brooklyn, and it’s nothing like I expected.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

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Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work

We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

More than half of Gen Z-ers living in the United States use generative artificial intelligence regularly, but their feelings about the technology are souring, according to a new survey released on Thursday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm that works in education technology.
The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27. Young adults' excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry.

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

‘Met Police claims crime in Croydon has gone down by 12% since fixed FR cameras were installed. Our analysis found this is only true for certain crime types — & that crime increased in one of the immediate areas with cameras & in several neighbouring areas’ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

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The rise of facial recognition policing

The technology is being rolled out by forces across the country—and there are no obvious limits on how it can be used

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 30/03/2026

In this blog @jenitennison.com shares why we're winding up in 2027. "When I set up Connected by Data I also stated my intention that this organisation would have a maximum lifespan of 3-5 years. We are now at the end of our fourth year..." Read the full blog at: connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/03...

Photos of Jeni, Adam, Tim and Emily above the words Connected by Data. The photos are licensed to Paul Clarke by CC-BY.

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

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Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN

A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to befor...

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 17/03/2026

Meta wants to quietly roll out facial recognition technology in its smart glasses, hoping Americans won’t notice the potential risk to their privacy and civil rights. They’re mistaken. I have serious questions about the privacy risks and ethics of deploying this technology.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

NEW: Character.AI continues to host bots styled after prolific abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as roleplay "scenes" created to gamify Epstein's island. They aren't hidden. One roleplay is called "Epstein's Island Adventure." futurism.com/artificial-i...

A screenshot of an in-platform Character.AI search for "Epstein," which returned about a dozen roleplays based on the sex criminal and his island.

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Comedy Romance Adventure Kind Human Anime Mafia Pol >
EPSTEIN 8TH MARTH
epstein in little saint james and he is talking in bulgarian telling people happy march 8th come to my island to...
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Epstein's Island Adventure
The Island's Grip: A Descent into the Shadows Step into a high-stakes psychological thriller where the world's most...
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Epstein Adası
epstein adası
Select Character
BRR BRR PATA PIMA WITH EPSTEIN AND DIDDY
DIDDY DANCER
Nick eh 30
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A screenshot of an opening line from a chatbot in a Character.AI-hosted roleplay, in which the bot opens with "hey i'm evil jeffrey epstein."

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Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk · 11/03/2026

My college students are writing articles on AI and the future of the arts from a consumer perspective (they are electrical, motor vehicle and carpentry students resitting their GCSE English Language). When asked how they’d feel if they connected with a song or a story and were then told it was AI…

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Video: Chris (Simpsons artist) on phones... as narrated by Joe Lycett dlvr.it/TR7RlZ

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/02/2026

Last night, someone on this here website told me that no one is using AI agents yet and they're still way far in the future. But it's already happening. A friend last year told me that most people are distracted by the idea that AI is "chatbots." I didn't get that at the time, but now I think I do.

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Now this fella knows what’s what

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I would love to believe that BBCs Evan Davies was playing devils advocate just now when talking about Ring cameras and their ability to “find” lost dogs in the USA. But frankly he seemed completely unable to comprehend the privacy issues from this commercial mass surveillance. Depressing

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Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com · 11/02/2026

🚨NEW PODCAST🚨 Is the push for more AI and ed tech in classrooms a big opportunity or big risk? @catscutt.bsky.social and @renatesamson.bsky.social explore the three recent DfE announcements that could see technology given a greater role in schools and colleges. Listen here: insideyoured.com

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The NCSC has issued an alert to critical national infrastructure providers, urging them to act now to protect against “severe” cyber threats. It comes following cyber-attacks which targeted Poland’s energy infrastructure with malware in December. 👀 www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ncsc-wa...

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NCSC Issues Warning Over “Severe” Cyber-Attacks Targeting CNI

NCSC call firms to ‘act now’ following disruptive malware attacks targeting Polish energy providers

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/02/2026

“Not only is most of the chatter on Moltbook meaningless, but there’s also a lot more human involvement that it seems. Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots.”

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Moltbook was peak AI theater

The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

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Tatum Hunter @tatumhunter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Lost my job at the Washington Post today, along with many of the best in the business. I want to keep covering tech and the internet. If you have leads on jobs for me or my colleagues, please reach out. I’m so proud of our work.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Very much enjoying this discussion and the view that politicians want the responsibility of power but not the risk associated with it, proposed by Paul Ovenden.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/01/2026

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

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The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@matildamartin.bsky.social tonight set the agenda, reporting first that government was considering ditching mandatory digital ID "It's hard to find a backbench MP who'll advocate for mandatory digital ID in public, or a minister who will defend it in private," a Labour MP told her Her exc story 👇

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Government Considers Watering Down Mandatory Element Of Digital ID

Exclusive: There are discussions within government about introducing a key part of the digital ID scheme as optional, rather than as mandatory, Pol...

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Owen Bennett @owbennett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Following receipt of information from X on Friday, UK regulator Ofcom has decided on Monday to open a formal investigation into potential breaches of the Online Safety Act's risk assessment, illegal content, and protection of children duties. www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

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Investigation into X Internet Unlimited Company and its compliance with duties to protect its users from illegal content and child users from harmful content

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

As flagged by @fullfact.org, there's an ENTIRELY AI-GENERATED video of a fake UK politician in the House of Commons doing the rounds on TikTok It has more than 5 million views While the original video is flagged as AI, it has been reposted by many other accounts (where it is not labelled as AI)

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

ICYMI: The White House has laid out a plan to challenge any and all state AI regulations and Trump could sign the EO to do so as early as this week. More w/ @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order

The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.

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Renate Samson @renatesamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Great day in Cambridge discussing policy opportunities for AI in education. Great to speak to get to talk about my research on the topic www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/a-lea...

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A learning curve?

A Iandscape review of AI and education in the UK

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