Executive Director, @OpenRightsGroup Follow me on Mastodon @jim@social.openrightsgroup.org
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18 Dec 2022
To be clear I will not be removing information about “other social networks” from my profile. If Twitter suspend my profile, so be it.
What they are suggesting is obviously anti-competitive and bullying; competition authorities need to start taking note.
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11 Dec 2025
A few comments on the Open Rights submission on the Online Safety Act: openrightsgroup.org/app/uplo… .../1
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
5 Aug 2025
We must get online safety right! Lord Clement Jones and I have written a letter to the Secretary of State regarding our concerns about the implementation of the Online Safety Act, calling for a cross-party committee, from both Houses, to ensure effective implementation.
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
29 Jul 2025
Just went to some adult websites and looked into the first two age verification platforms I came across;
- The first is incorporated in Seychelles
- The second is incorporated in Cyprus
Neither have a presence on companies house, both have fake UK forwarding addresses only.
This is who you are being asked to entrust with your;
- porn habits (potentially)
- biometric data / selfie
- personal Identification
They promise to delete all data.
OK - how will they be held to account if they don't?
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5 Mar 2025
Everyone Hates Elon activists have stuck an ad on a London bus stop reading "Elon Musk is a bellend, signed, the UK."
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
13 Aug 2024
Who knew?! ICO post-#Leveson #journalism & #dataprotection review was published in March 2024 without announcement. Report could come to no conclusion as to general #GDPR compliance, yet @iconews made no use of investigatory powers Sch 17 DPA gave it ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/wha…
ALT Data protection and journalism graphic Credit: ICO
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2 Apr 2024
Recordings and slides from CIPIL's #dataprotection reform conference from a week ago are now online: cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars…. Thank you to everyone for some really great discussions on UK & EU #gdpr including @Nadya_Purtova, @winfriedveil, @johnnyryan @jimkillock & @FusterGloria
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
12 Feb 2024
Chase away the winter blues❄️by booking now for our exciting Friday 22 March conference on #GDPR #dataprotection reform, featuring @mikarv, @GavinFreeguard, @jimkillock, @winfriedveil,
@johnnyryan, @lynskeyo,@FusterGloria & more! x.com/UCamCIPIL/status/17570…
12 Feb 2024
Book now for our Friday 22 March Spring Conference 🌻on UK & EU #dataprotection reform, featuring a fab line-up of speakers from civil society, regulation & academia including Profs Purtova, Koops &
Fuster, @ICOnews' Claudia Berg and ICCL's Johnny Ryan cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars…
ALT Data Protection Reform Conference Booking Banner
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
8 Sep 2023
The government has admitted that it cannot proceed with scanning private messages safely.
So why are ministers telling the media that they still believe they can? Time to come clean and stop promoting magical theories. #onlinesafetybill #encryption #osb
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
11 Jul 2023
🔥IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
The head of the Government-appointed think-tank that was chartered to review "client side scanning" child safety filters for encrypted messengers, just threw all those technologies under the bus.
#OnlineSafetyBill
#ClientSideScanning
#EndToEndEncryption
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
6 Jul 2023
Threads launches today with the promise of working with other services like Mastodon.
Will Meta's new platform live up to the potential of a federated network, or end up just being the Threadiverse?
Our Exec Director @jimkillock explores what could be ⤵️ openrightsgroup.org/blog/met…
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
5 Jul 2023
🔴 Give a little, they'll take a lot.
Powers in the Online Safety Bill can and will be stretched by the government to scan our messages for whatever they want.
Our Exec Director @jimkillock explains why the Lords must stop the spy clause.
🟢 TAKE ACTION action.openrightsgroup.org/d…
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3 Jul 2023
"No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through."
Signal President Meredith Whittaker says the Online Safety Bill will cause "unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance" - in a discussion with @cathynewman and former UK Tech minister Damian Collins.
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15 Jun 2023
Agile look from @jimkillock at where harm to democracy still flows strong, after the Johnson disaster
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
25 May 2023
@DamianCollins up for a debate? @BBCNews you in? I know tech, I know the tech business model, & I'm happy to lay out the basics, go into detail in a more spacious forum. This could be helpful, because right now I'm seeing a lot of confusion and some flatly untrue statements.
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org retweeted
25 May 2023
NEW: We’ve published a statement in response to @OpenRightsGroup's report. We dispute their views of the ICO’s work during the pandemic. Full statement below ⬇️
Read more about our work during the pandemic: ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/med…
ALT “The ICO does not share the views in the Open Rights Group report. The ICO’s priority during the pandemic was to ensure organisations understood how data protection law could facilitate action at a time of emergency. The ICO achieved this by mobilising a dedicated task force and publishing prompt advice for organisations who were faced with using data in new ways. "The ICO’s focus is always on how it can protect people's rights and support organisations. All of the ICO’s work, from advice offered to fines issued, has this as its goal."
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24 May 2023
This is great to hear! It's rare to be on the same side as the former head of GCHQ tech on matters of surveillance. But terrible legislation forges rare coalitions.
I don't know if it could be any clearer: the OSB needs to be revised to remove the mass surveillance provisions.
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28 Apr 2023
RT @glynmoody@mastodon.social
"The Kremlin has said Russian military units that have fought in Ukraine will be represented in a parade in Moscow on 9 May to mark the anniversary of the Soviet victory in the second world war," - theguardian.com/world/live/2… nice day for a (1/2)
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