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Heather Burns

@WebDevLaw

Gigging UK tech policy wonk + author, Understanding Privacy (pinned tweet!) + 2022 Internet Society Mid-Career Fellow. Personal tweets. IANAL.

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The new DSIT Tech Minister has put an AMA on LinkedIn, and on cue, software vendors trying to hawk their wares are hustling on him like flies on shit. linkedin.com/posts/saqib-bh…

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Good day folks. Today, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill ( ) is back to the UK House of Commons for its remaining stages. I will be live tweeting on the debate of one of the least noticed but most concerning Bills this Government have tabled

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With the on the Commons slate for today, here's a post I wrote last year on how the UK has adopted a nauseating Americanism to reshape its approach to privacy. It's the c-word. webdevlaw.uk/2022/06/13/uk-…

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There are 156 pages of amendments at today’s report stage. That’s a lot

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…

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A conference lists fake (invented) Coinbase & Meta engineers as speakers on 4 conferences in 2021, 2022, and 2023. All are conferences where Uncle Bob also speaking. People found out & upset that confirmed speakers were just AI images, nothing more.

Uncle Bob: 'cancel culture!'

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New from us: Thanks to the new election spending limits, 2024 is going to be a *really* digital election.
fulldisclosure.whotargets.me/p/ge2024-is-go…

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Senior management liability laws are also called hostage-taking laws for a reason. Bad governments use them to take actual hostages as punishment for failing to censor public discourse to their whims.

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I retired from conference speaking after putting too much time into too many events where I came to talk about what I actually work on for a living, and got too many project leads dragging me into their staged psychodramas instead. At least now they just invent the speakers.

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A far-right Hungarian politician is targeting Ireland with a sponsored tweet, following the rioting in Dublin earlier this week. Cross-border political advertising is often extremely problematic, as there's little chance of holding them to account. Is this ok Safety?

A far-right Hungarian politician is targeting Ireland with a sponsored tweet, following the rioting in Dublin earlier this week. Cross-border political advertising is often extremely problematic, as there's little chance of holding them to account. Is this ok @Safety?
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There’s customer service and then there’s Maia in the Glasgow Apple store, who went above and beyond when my daughter took ill in the shop. (She’s fine.) You’ve got a customer for life, Maia.

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Heather Burns My blog was preceded by this article 👇🏼

And the comments under my blog then intrigued Financial Times and indeed the board who hired a private detective to investigate the people who commented. Mark Garratt FCIM 🇺🇦

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5…

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