Ben Collier
@susansegfault.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
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These tactics – which mirror the anti-trans politics of the Trump administration – is about changing something within trans people rather than changing the signage on toilets and changing rooms.
Read here (open access): doi.org/10.1080/0958...
#data #trans #gender #queer #research #LGBTQ #UK
Read here (open access): doi.org/10.1080/0958...
#data #trans #gender #queer #research #LGBTQ #UK
Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK
In the UK, the design and management of sex and gender categories in data – including census questions, police and health records, and digital ID – has become a key focus of trans-exclusionary acti...
doi.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Open Access link:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks
A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.It may not be Big Brother (yet), but
direct.mit.edu
May 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Open Access link:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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Striking for me as a physicist who also does social science work is the way these physicists were suddenly totally ok with autoethnography as data because they personally enjoyed using GPT-5. A case study in how values orient our empirical practices if there ever was one lol
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Striking for me as a physicist who also does social science work is the way these physicists were suddenly totally ok with autoethnography as data because they personally enjoyed using GPT-5. A case study in how values orient our empirical practices if there ever was one lol
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More technical report www.volexity.com/blog/2025/10... via the excellent @fipr-policy.bsky.social
APT Meets GPT: Targeted Operations with Untamed LLMs
Starting in June 2025, Volexity detected a series of spear phishing campaigns targeting several customers and their users in North America, Asia, and Europe. The initially observed campaigns were tail...
www.volexity.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
More technical report www.volexity.com/blog/2025/10... via the excellent @fipr-policy.bsky.social
Thanks so much Wendy, I really enjoyed the chat :)
October 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Thanks so much Wendy, I really enjoyed the chat :)
Thanks Martin :) really appreciate it!
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Thanks Martin :) really appreciate it!
And thanks as ever to the @torproject.org and the wider community - the research I do is totally independent from them but they've always been lovely and open and supportive.
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
And thanks as ever to the @torproject.org and the wider community - the research I do is totally independent from them but they've always been lovely and open and supportive.
Early tetrapod gaining overwhelming evolutionary advantage by being weird about Ferrante
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Early tetrapod gaining overwhelming evolutionary advantage by being weird about Ferrante
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While they’re at it, they could pay more attention to the human rights problems with their Additional Measures proactive technology proposals. @douwekorff.bsky.social’s consultation submission here, referencing my blogpost as ‘typical British understatement’ 😀. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Fully-automated free speech-killing robots are incompatible with European and UK fundamental rights
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In the UK, the communications services regulator, Ofcom, has issued for consultation proposed guidance to user-to-user (U2U) platforms and search engines
papers.ssrn.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
While they’re at it, they could pay more attention to the human rights problems with their Additional Measures proactive technology proposals. @douwekorff.bsky.social’s consultation submission here, referencing my blogpost as ‘typical British understatement’ 😀. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....