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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. ssd.eff.org/en/playlist...

Want a security starter pack?

Start from the beginning with a selection of simple steps. Surveillance impacts all of us, no matter where we live or what we do. While some of us might be directly affected, others may simply want to know what measures they can take to protect their communications and data from...

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David Wells @davidwellsct.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with the CoE exploring how and how quickly terrorists adopt new technologies. It identifies factors inhibiting or encouraging new tech adoption - with two case studies on virtual assets and drones - and analyses the impact of new tech on terrorism in Europe rm.coe.int/report-on-th...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Reason we had 60,000 people in hotels in mid-2024 was the combination of
* ban asylum claims & stop processing from Spring 2023
* promise rapid removals of everyone who arrived from March 7th 2033, but suspend most returns deals by ceasing processing
* have no way to remove 99% beyond Rwanda bluff

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 3d

Kuenssberg: “Where would the 150,000 people you plan to deport each year actually go?”
Badenoch: “I’m tired of irrelevant questions.”
The Tories have an idiot in charge, one who doesn’t know NI voted Remain or why deportation deals even matter. #ukpolitics

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.

Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

Until someone, and Greens are probably doing the best at attempting this right now, breaks the cycle and says "hang on, maybe we could implement something positive and make the case for it instead" we are going to end up with policies based purely on what "flagpatriot1234" likes on social media.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4d

Apple must continue to refuse the demand to create a backdoor into iCloud. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users

The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the

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Katy Vaughan @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social · 12d

Such an important and timely project!

#HillsboroughLaw #CentreForPeoplesJustice #CFPJ

Centre for Peoples Justice @cfpjustice.bsky.social · 12d

Do you trust that the new Hillsborough Law can stop public officials from lying to the public?

See our new video on the Hillsborough Law in Parliament and follow for real-time updates:
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#HillsboroughLaw #CentreForPeoplesJustice #CFPJ

Hillsborough Law in Parliament - The journey begins

YouTube video by Centre for Peoples Justice

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 18d

It’s vital that we don’t allow the transphobic far-right to hijack the important issue of mass shootings by falsely accusing a marginalized group, accelerating the spread of hate and targeted violence, while doing nothing to resolve the actual issue at hand.

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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 18d

The Gun Violence Archive, which tracks this, lists five mass shootings by transgender or nonbinary people since January 2013. That’s less than 0.1% of the mass shootings in that period.

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 20d

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, President Trump says he intends to designate Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organisation".

We've tried to explain Antifa's views and activism, and examine if Trump has the legal power to designate the group.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What is Antifa and why is Donald Trump targeting it?

President Trump says he will designate Antifa as a terror group, but legal experts have questioned whether this is possible.

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 22d

A United Nations commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · Sep 8

This government would not abuse such powers, they (no doubt rightly) tell us - but the supply of "good chaps" may not be endless. Now more than ever, it is Parliament's job to ensure that oppressive powers are no broader than they need to be, and subject to proper safeguards. /5

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Sep 8

My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome!

folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...

Invitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and Empire

For some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research…

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Metropolitan Police have released updated figures for yesterday's protest by people holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

857 people were arrested "for showing support for Palestine Action" and 33 for other offences, including 17 for assaults on police officers

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · Sep 6

More than 400 people have been arrested at the Defend Our Juries protest against the ban of Palestine Action in Westminster

Police said the majority of arrests were for "supporting a proscribed organisation" but more than 25 people were arrested for assaulting police
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/w...

At Least 300 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Arrested in London on Terrorism Charges

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 5

The resignation was probably inevitable. It's been done very efficiently and sensibly. She'll be back I hope.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 5

She showed that a single mum from a council estate can become deputy prime minister, while vaping and going clubbing. She's a threat to their narrow-minded buttoned-up classist bullshit.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Sep 4

It is a mistake to think that online comments and offline violence are separate issues. Spoke to the New York Times about how online threats against trans and non-binary individuals need to be taken more seriously as attacks against us increase

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/w...

Daniel Sohege, director of Stand for All, a human rights group, said there had been a “significant increase” in hate speech and threats, both online and in person, toward transgender and nonbinary people in Britain.

“It is too easy for online hate to be brushed off as ‘just something someone posted,’ but we continue to see that it has real implications on the welfare of those individuals being targeted, and should be taken seriously as a threat against them,” they said.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Supreme Court made it clear that non-refoulement of refugees and asylum seekers doesn't just flow from the ECHR and so leaving the ECHR wouldn't change this.

But that doesn't matter because it's not actually about the law. It's never about the law.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · Aug 29

Anyone arguing that the Epping asylum hotel Court of Appeal case relates to the European Convention on Human Rights is wrong

The judgment mentions the ECHR once, to make clear it wasn't considered at all by the judges and that they wouldn't countenance a "hierarchy of rights"

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 27

It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this.

Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Aug 27

With Reform UK saying it would be reasonable to pay the Taliban to return migrants to Afghanistan, how many Britons this would be acceptable?

Acceptable: 17%
Unacceptable: 61%

% acceptable by party
Reform: 35%
Con: 23%
Lab/Lib Dem: 7-13%

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Aug 27

Breaking from 404 Media/Court Watch: notorious troll forums 4chan and Kiwi Farms are suing the UK over its age verification law

"American citizens do not surrender our constitutional rights just because Ofcom sends us an e-mail."

www.404media.co/4chan-and-ki...

4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Aug 22

Refugee charities receiving death threats from far right
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats

Exclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls

www.theguardian.com

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