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Nicholas Gervassis
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Assistant Professor in Law, father, part-time music builder, missing the seaside
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The final straw – the Information Commissioner's Office has decided NOT to investigate the Afghan data leak. It's time to investigate them!

Over 70 organisations and experts back ORG's call for an inquiry into the regulator's chronic failure to enforce data law.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog
Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Technical capability notices (TCNs) under the Investigatory Powers Act have sprung into the news. This is my (slightly updated) explainer, including a discussion of whether they could be used to require removal of end to end encryption, from 2017. www.cyberleagle.com/2017/05/back...
Back doors, black boxes and #IPAct technical capability regulations
The Home Office has launched an under-the-radar consultation on a critical step in the implementation of the Investigatory Powers Act (IPAc...
www.cyberleagle.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Nicholas Gervassis
No one really knows how the game is played
The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in
The room where it happens.

🤫 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

#Apple #encryption #e2ee #ukpolitics

www.reuters.com/technology/u...
UK, US hold private talks to resolve Apple encryption order, Bloomberg News reports
British officials held private talks with their U.S. counterparts to resolve concerns that UK is trying to force Apple to build a backdoor into Americans' encrypted data, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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btw in case you missed it the CJEU solved the right to explanation of automated decision-making thing in the GDPR, the true recital 71 was article 15 all along, specified to the data subject's situation ex post and both sufficiently detailed but not too detailed.
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Two exes, one big news story & nonstop laughs—HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) is comedy gold! It's Public Domain Movie Night on Friday, with an intro by teen author Simone Elias.

📅 Feb. 28
🕢️ 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315939

#PublicDomain #InternetArchive
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
So, should it be renamed to "Gulf of America", what about renaming New Mexico then?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
Trump rule change paves way for immigrations raids on churches and schools - live updates
So-called
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"And this is how Skynet started!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
Trump rule change paves way for immigrations raids on churches and schools - live updates
So-called
www.bbc.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM