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Khurram Wadee ✅<p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a> bill leaves room for <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/governmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governmental</span></a> abuse, campaigners warn | <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> | The Guardian</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/01/data-privacy-campaigners-warn-of-henry-viii-powers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/apr</span><span class="invisible">/01/data-privacy-campaigners-warn-of-henry-viii-powers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/OpenRightsGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRightsGroup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ORG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ORG</span></a></p>
RedGreenDevon<p>Michelle Donelan, MP (with the Home Office in addition to DSIT) "said further work to develop the technology was needed but added that government-funded research had shown it was possible. This, incidentally is entirely untrue: their researchers were at pains to explain that the technology is unfit for purpose:"</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/OnlineSafetyBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyBill</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/E2EE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>E2EE</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a></p><p>Join <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/OpenRightsGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRightsGroup</span></a> <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">openrightsgroup.org/join/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>FF <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@JamesBaker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JamesBaker</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>openrightsgroup</span></a></span></p>
Yvonne Aburrow 🌻<p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> wants to impose 1980s-style “Canadian content” rules on YouTube, TikTok and Netflix. This is not smart, and will actually disadvantage Canadian content creators.</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/BillC11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillC11</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/C11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C11</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/CanCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanCon</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/InternetFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternetFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/OpenRightsGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRightsGroup</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://action.openmedia.org/page/114150/petition/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">action.openmedia.org/page/1141</span><span class="invisible">50/petition/</span></a></p>
drkatedevlin<p>Hi, I’m Kate, I’m an academic at King’s College London <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/kcl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kcl</span></a> researching the impact of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> on people and societies. I am weirdly an expert on <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/sexrobots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sexrobots</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/sextech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sextech</span></a> (wrote a book called “Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots”). I'm a Patron of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HumanistsUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanistsUK</span></a> and I'm on the board of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OpenRightsGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenRightsGroup</span></a>. Born and raised in Co. Down; slowly learning <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Irish</span></a> so my bilingual nephews can't talk about me behind my back.</p>