instigator of 0PN: Standard Open Public Transparency Infrastructure Champion of Transparency & Consent Receipt Digital Trust for Humans, ISO/IEC 27560 Champion
Joined May 2007
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Feb 21
Everyone is recorded all the time by the Data Barons, with cookies and pixel tracking etc. but is black-box - back door digital id and AI. Not front door, glassboxed - and fair.
Same issue as robber-barons and land-barons before them.
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Feb 21
Trump is obv desperate, he is going to use all resources he has to try and stay in power. Including war if the American ppl let him. He knows he is has committed serious crimes he is going to have to pay for if he looses power. His, is not a winning game.
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Feb 19
🚨NEW: HACKERS EXPOSE AGE-VERIFICATION SOFTWARE POWERING SURVEILLANCE WEB
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, bundling financial reporting with facial recognition tech.
For the first time, they lay bare what is really behind a software serving age-verification laws – and why such technology is far from harmless.
We spoke with the researchers that exposed the software, who hope that their findings will serve as a wakeup call.
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A headhunter from a firm I've never dealt with just called with an offer — and, when asked how she got to me, said her employer scrapes @LinkedIn and elsewhere on the internet for resumes
Should I tell her about the BC Appeal Court's decision on ClearviewAI scraping the web?
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Feb 14
Twitter was run like a public digital infrastructure, X is governed like a private network. its just not trustworthy, or beneficial - is there really 10-15x people, and can twitter be used to communicate with them? algorithms - and upgrades required to edit or 'boost' SCAM
There are a projected 10-15x greater number of active daily users on X than Bluesky. I believe we as scientists have a duty to be responsive to the public - thus active where we are most visible & accessible, even if it’s less beneficial to us personally.
If that means the environment is less forgiving of our work, we ought not shy away.
Perhaps naive, but I believe the public is more willing to be trusting of us when we are of them.
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Feb 14
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said
nytimes.com/2026/02/13/techn…
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Same “social media danger” speech that is also being delivered in Europe. It is all the same playbook. Failing societies will become authoritarian.
Canadian PM Mark Carney: "Large American online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, antisemitism, islamophobia and hate in all its forms...My government will act."
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The case of the year in Canada
Facebook v. @PrivacyPrivee
Subject Matter: Cambridge Analytica
Hearing scheduled: 2026-03-19
Here's the respondent OPC: lnkd.in/eUQTkcFg.
Here's the intervention from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia:
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Feb 14
We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.
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Palantir is trying to shut down the Swiss news magazine Republik for exposing the security flaws in its spyware.
netzpolitik.org/2026/david-g…
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Jan 31
I recommend a break, its good to reflect on the context and state of current digital democracy. Where this attention and the messages we contribute are focused, Happy Digital Privacy Week. (Flipping the switch, Inverting the Context) #TbD. #TransparencybyDefault
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Jan 31
Am happy to say Hi - lots of people and many commenters I have missed.
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Jan 31
During my PostGrad research in London, we successfully were able to require proportionate transparency - the same needs to be done now. hammersmithtoday.co.uk/#!pag… - Digital transparency over who is doing the face recognition is required.
👁️Today, police are using live facial recognition in #Croydon
Also today...our director @silkiecarlo walked into High Court to challenge the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition alongside Shaun Thompson who was misidentified by this technology.
![Two Met Police officers in the foreground, a cut-out of facial recognition cameras and a 'police live facial recognition in operation' sign in the background. The text [Stop Facial Recognition] in black against orange background frames the image.](https://venexa.site/media/G_w_1LQXgAAr-o6.jpg)
ALT Two Met Police officers in the foreground, a cut-out of facial recognition cameras and a 'police live facial recognition in operation' sign in the background. The text [Stop Facial Recognition] in black against orange background frames the image.
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👁️Today, police are using live facial recognition in #Croydon
Also today...our director @silkiecarlo walked into High Court to challenge the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition alongside Shaun Thompson who was misidentified by this technology.
ALT Two Met Police officers in the foreground, a cut-out of facial recognition cameras and a 'police live facial recognition in operation' sign in the background. The text [Stop Facial Recognition] in black against orange background frames the image.
On 28th January 2026, we are deploying Live Facial Recognition Technology to crime hotspots in #Croydon borough.
Find out how we are using Live Facial Recognition: youtu.be/oRGu_aK9TEo
The people we are seeking to locate are set out in our policy ⬇️
met.police.uk/police-forces/…
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Jan 31
Has the Palantir Flavour - the company that gets makes the rules --
Keir Starmer has doubled down on plans to curb our precious right to trial by jury — while in China.
This is the most authoritarian move the government has taken to date — and that is a very high bar.
The Prime Minister claims this radical step is needed to clear the Crown Court backlog and deliver swift justice for victims. Nobody agrees with him.
All four bar associations across Britain and Ireland have warned that these plans would undermine public trust in the criminal justice system.
Last week, the @instituteforgov Government published a report showing the proposals would save just 2 per cent of Crown Court time.
There is cross-party opposition to this sinister plan, as well as growing disquiet on the Labour backbenches.
Former Shadow Attorney General @KarlTurnerMP has threatened to quit Parliament and trigger a by-election over it. It’s even reported that two ministers are willing to resign if the government presses ahead.
We know that if the government gets its way, more people will be locked up simply for exercising their free speech.
Keir may be talking tough now — but we’re looking forward to the inevitable U-turn.
Read more below 👇
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Keir Starmer has doubled down on plans to curb our precious right to trial by jury — while in China.
This is the most authoritarian move the government has taken to date — and that is a very high bar.
The Prime Minister claims this radical step is needed to clear the Crown Court backlog and deliver swift justice for victims. Nobody agrees with him.
All four bar associations across Britain and Ireland have warned that these plans would undermine public trust in the criminal justice system.
Last week, the @instituteforgov Government published a report showing the proposals would save just 2 per cent of Crown Court time.
There is cross-party opposition to this sinister plan, as well as growing disquiet on the Labour backbenches.
Former Shadow Attorney General @KarlTurnerMP has threatened to quit Parliament and trigger a by-election over it. It’s even reported that two ministers are willing to resign if the government presses ahead.
We know that if the government gets its way, more people will be locked up simply for exercising their free speech.
Keir may be talking tough now — but we’re looking forward to the inevitable U-turn.
Read more below 👇
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Jan 31
Very True Mr. Eich(hat tip) But the first 0PNLab post re- last week was our submission to EU Omnibus wrt cookie consent.
lab.0pn.org/eu-omnibus-submi…
Jan 31
The post you quoted has nothing to do with Brave or cookie consents!
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Jan 31
Sounds like a basic notice and (real) consent receipt flow. Brave should update from - the bad-cookie 'digital-receipt' model, to the - universal notice receipt model - its a dual model thats defined by standard. 10x better
Jan 30
MoltBot with Control Flow Integrity using Dual LLM approach sequrity.ai/api/moltbot-inte….
Previously.
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France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams politico.eu/article/france-b…
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