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“The UK’s proposed measures for court orders to suspend IP addresses and domain names” | …the UK wants to globally censor or take down IP addresses & DNS domains
Excellent little blog post from Neil: https://decoded.legal/blog/2025/04/the-uks-proposed-measures-for-court-orders-to-suspend-ip-addresses-and-domain-names/
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Abdelhakim Belhaj | Wikipedia | …the UK Gov’t have a history of dropping cases which compromise security
In … 2013, a high court judge struck out Belhadj’s case against the British government, on the grounds that if it were allowed to proceed it could potentially damage British national interests. At [a] Tribunal in January 2014, his lawyers said they had reason to suspect that GCHQ had been intercepting their phone calls with
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Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules | BBC News
Elbows up! (Edit: my guess is there is a better than 50% chance the home office will drop the entire matter in order to prevent a precedent being set, but what do I know?) A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations – including the BBC – and ruled
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“Academic accused of bias for opposing smartphone ban in schools” | Times | …that most feared by fearmongers is popular rejection of simplistic narrative
“Given the misinformation around smartphones and social media these days it’s easy to forget our approach to young people and technologies must have a firm foundation grounded in scientific evidence and human rights. It’s great that Dr Orben is using her platform to stand up for the truth and remind decision makers of the facts.”
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European Commission: to protect Ukraine we must prevent their ability to have end-to-end secure communication
“Going Dark” is the new name for “Chat Control” the Commission will prioritise an assessment of the impact of data retention rules at EU level and the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption, to identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding
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Some subtle advertising here from Element/Matrix
I wonder what inspired them? Need to manage group chats? Use our identity management and group access controls to synchronise with sources such as Microsoft Active Directory. Element gives governments a consumer-style messaging app, but with enterprise-grade control.
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So let me get this straight: Trump’s tariff formula (a) was the result of an AI query which (b) was misunderstood by a human and (c) misapplied to (d) incomplete data on the basis of (e) bad economic thinking to (f) crash the world economy
This is, of course, an AI problem. Probably Mark Zuckerberg is to blame. Therefore the USA should invade Iraq. In Britain we can prevent it happening by issuing Digital Identity Cards.
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“Dutch computer scientist and intelligence expert Bert Hubert explains why European governments should urgently exit the American clouds and how to do this fastest” | republik.ch
The problem is: administrations, governments and parliaments do not want to change anything, certainly not to migrate anything. They are not only technophobic, they hate new technologies. Our public servants are traumatized by printers that don’t work or by poor Wi-Fi, so they just want to keep what they know. Our officials are putting European
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Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world | POLITICO
Whoda thunk? National security adviser Mike Waltz’s team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work … according to four people who have been personally added to Signal chats … Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at least 20 such chats. All four said they saw
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European Commission takes aim at end-to-end encryption and proposes Europol become an EU FBI | The Record | …here we go again
The aim is to “identify and assess technological solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights,” said the Commission. The identification of such solutions has been the subject of much controversy when attempted elsewhere. https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal
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Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought | Ars Technica
An excellent and very worthwhile read for any of who have been in the position of turning things off and on again: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/
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