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“You’re taking me to Harrogate in the middle of the night for a tweet. Is this what you signed up to the police to do?”
My personal opinion is that the guy sounds like an utter troll, but the above is an epic quote: Man arrested over anti-Hamas social media post https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/26/man-arrested-hamas-social-media-post-gaza-israel/ and https://archive.ph/mtlOk
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Thought for the evening: if someone is banned from Google and/or Apple by breaking their EULA or similar, they will be unable to work in the United Kingdom, @Kier_Starmer?
It is entirely possible for people to be (for instance) “Banned from Google”; should that be able to prevent them from working in the United Kingdom? Can the UK government obligate people to have a relationship with one/other major technology company? Are Google & Apple prepared to be sued for denying service to British citizens?
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“Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes, Tony Blair’s think tank says” | The Independent | WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD??!?
We already have “the app”, it’s called FixMyStreet, it does not need an ID card to use: Three-quarters of those polled supported the use of such an app to track the progress of applications made to local authorities, while some 69 per cent said they wanted it for voting or receiving official notifications, the Tony
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“What’s the UK issue with ID cards?” | …the answer is as follows: Many Britons are terrible people, and we know it…
I keep being asked or seeing people asking “what is the UK problem with having ID cards? We in Europe have ID cards and it’s fine!” — so I thought I would answer this question from my perspective, once and for all. The answer is: Britons (mostly) have a kind of self-knowledge. There are two
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Farage “firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards” | …I hate it when I agree with him:
“It will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalise the rest of us. The state should never have this much power.” Though I suspect that he just wants to have his own (not “Starmer’s”) ID cards, instead. I wonder if this will be Labour’s “Poll Tax”?
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UK agency makes arrest in airport cybercrime probe | The Register | IT WAS A 40-SOMETHING YEAR OLD GUY IN A BASEMENT IN WEST SUSSEX
Your regular reminder that all of the threat intelligence and attribution and SOCs and IOCs in the entire world, will not stop a motivated nerd in a basement: Officers from the UK’s National Crime Agency, supported by a regional organized crime unit, arrested a man in his forties in West Sussex on Tuesday evening on
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Bluesky users discover that even “federated” & “distributed” platforms exhibit “lock-in” due to “network effects”; and “cognitive dissonance” ensues…
I’ve been saying for years that the argument — popular if oversimplified* in digital activism — that “network effects of mass adoption of popular platforms cause a form of lock-in monopoly” is bogus, not because it’s untrue but because it’s mundane and reflects some fundamental aspects of human communication. And here come Bluesky users with
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How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’ | WIRED
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, [Katie] talked to Whittaker, who also cofounded the AI Now Institute, about the aftermath of SignalGate, the trajectory of artificial intelligence, and the tech industry’s current relationship with politics. https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-meredith-whittaker-signal/ archived at https://archive.ph/FBj8J
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Open Rights Group: “The Online Safety Act is coming for Streamers”
Basically: ANYBODY WHO IS STREAMING will need to be age verified to make sure that they are not a child, otherwise they will be banned from receiving comments and audience interaction. Video:
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The Guardian uses — and then hides/recants — photos of schoolgirl in article targeting fearful parents; perhaps we need a better conversation?
If, like me, you’re a parent, there’s a good chance that you woke up on Saturday to outraged fellow parents on various group chats, sharing a story from the Guardian: Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says …with a very bait-like photograph immediately
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