• Thought for the day: if there is a UK under-16 social media ban, the party which most appeals to 16-year-olds “out of the starting gate” will win the next election

  2026/02/16

• UK Government Press Release: “the same people who demanded & shaped the online safety act now want to do it all over again”

  2026/02/16

• UK Government: “children deserve social isolation and pervasive surveillance to prepare them for their future lives”

  2026/02/16

• UK Government: “platforms must retain activity data pertinent to dead children, unless it’s not pertinent to their death” | …but how will they know beforehand?

  2026/02/16

• Checkpoint Britain: the dangers of digital ID and why privacy must be protected | Big Brother Watch

  2025/09/11

• Age verification has set up “child online safety” as a challenge to be broken, a problem to be evaded, rather than a goal to be pursued by all. Tone deaf approach by Govt, Industry, & safety activists has set back the cause by a generation

  2025/07/27

• Bluesky’s UK age assurance sucks, here’s how to work around it | GitHub

  2025/07/27

• VPN companies reporting spikes in UK signups, part 2/n

  2025/07/26

• VPN companies reporting spikes in UK signups, part 1/n

  2025/07/26

• Britain: Police may grab your {phone, laptop} and legally use on-device credentials to go trawl Facebook, GMail, iCloud, Dropbox (etc) — WITHOUT WARRANT

  2025/06/24

• Investigatory Powers Act 2016 | how it started vs: how it’s going

  2025/02/09

• “Tech companies brace after UK demands back door access to Apple cloud” | …what the @ukhomeoffice seek casts a dark shadow over potential growth of the UK Tech Industry

  2025/02/08