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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨 at the Criminal Justice Centre QM @qmul.bsky.social @crimjusticecentre.bsky.social

Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30
📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313
Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py

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Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment...

Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 18h

"Digital rights activists and online speech experts have long warned about this exact scenario: the privacy risks involved in handing over one’s ID to a platform—specifically taking companies at their word that they’re capable of safeguarding users’ data—outweigh any supposed benefits they promise"

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters @privacymatters.bsky.social · 1d

Germany. Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection opposes the EU #ChatControl proposal for the indiscriminate scanning of all private messaging to combat CSAM.

“Private communication should never be under general suspicion.”

www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Z...

Zitat

Anlasslose Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein. Private Kommunikation darf nie unter Generalverdacht stehen.“

www.bmjv.de

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 2d

The Pirate Party is calling it. Germany has stayed solid on blocking an EU Council majority for "Chat control"?! Fantastic news if so!

H/T @privacymatters.bsky.social

Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation today after facing massive public pressure. This block...

www.patrick-breyer.de

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Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely not a you problem

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 3d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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BILETA @bileta.bsky.social · 3d

We are now accepting abstracts for our Annual Conference at @aberuni.bsky.social 15-17 Apr. 2026. Join us for critical talks on law, tech & education (and generally a good time!) The theme is: 'Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.' More info: www.bileta.org.uk/news/bileta-...

BILETA conference 2026 – call for papers – BILETA

www.bileta.org.uk

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 3d

Quite amusing that the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 is listed in the Appendix to the Wolfson Report as a domestic statute covering human rights ground. It wouldn't exist at all but for a series of Strasbourg judgments and the ECHR.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 5d

Might try an experiment in criminal law this year where for my public order offences lecture I just read through all the current and proposed protest offences and the students can place bets over whether I can cover them all in 2 hours or if I run out of time.

Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 5d

The Home Secretary is now planning to find a way to criminalise the "cumulative effect" of protest.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social · 8d

Best guess is that UK wants Apple to enable access to all data held in iCloud including this and to prevent them from reinstating ADP. Big questions I have are (1) who is a British user and (2) how is Apple supposed to enable access just for this accounts?

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 8d

As to question (1), the article isn’t super clear. But it’s worth pointing out that Apple doesn’t just provide end-to-end encryption for backups through their ADP feature. They also provide end-to-end encrypted backup for health data, web history and passwords, even without ADP.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 8d

What’s worrying here is that the UK government seems absolutely determined to access user private data, no matter the bad press and the consequences. And they’re now willing to do it overtly. Between this and recent moves against encryption in the EU, we’re going to a bad place.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 8d

The UK is demanding another backdoor in Apple’s encryption. www.ft.com/content/d101...

UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data

Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption

www.ft.com

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Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social · 10d

I hate this timeline.

techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

techcrunch.com

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Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social · 10d

At this point, if I can just pay £4700 in 2 years for ILR and citizenship, I'll feel lucky. The shifting goal posts are making me nostalgic for the last government. At least all they ever did was increase the fees.

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 10d

Cyberflashing is an existing offence, *already* illegal online. Making it a priority offence under the #OnlineSafetyAct is about what platforms have to do to police it. Awful framing from the responsible government minister.

Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO @dailyherald.bsky.social · 10d

Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology:

"I am making cyberflashing a priority offence. Because what is illegal offline, must be illegal online."

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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 11d

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC.
I recently got offered millions of pounds to give cyber criminals from the Medusa gang my BBC login. I played along to learn about how these 'insider threat' deals work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC

Reporter Joe Tidy was offered money if he would help cyber criminals access BBC systems.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social · 11d

www.ft.com/content/27e5...

‘Moral hazard’ warning after £1.5bn government loan guarantee for JLR

Carmaker receives official backing after cyber attack that has halted production

www.ft.com

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 14d

Hackers compromised Cisco firewall devices within the US federal government, hundreds of such devices in USG networks, they are still trying to understand the full extent of the breach. Incident investigation has been ongoing since May. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hacking Campaign Has Breached Cisco Devices in US Government

Hackers compromised firewall devices within the US federal government, according to a senior federal official.

www.bloomberg.com

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May Bulman @maybulman.bsky.social · 14d

The idea that digital ID cards will stop people working in the shadow economy and thus reduce small boat crossings is baffling

The very nature of the shadow economy (the only way asylum seekers can find work) is employers don’t check documents.. That would obviously continue with ID cards

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Alex Parsons @alexparsons.bsky.social · 15d

Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Public backs ‘super ID card’ which could be used to report potholes

Ministers have recently said they are considering introducing a form of digital ID for adults in Britain

www.independent.co.uk

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Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social · 15d

I mean I think the real answer is “because they’re all so far up their own asses”

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16d

My article “Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges Have Guidelines Too?” is now out in the Journal of Judicial Administration!

Short answer: yes.

Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.

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